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NEW YORK (AP) — Savannah Miller, 26 years old and a “Hunger Games” reader for half of her life, has only grown in admiration for Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novels.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is postponing several scheduled events this week to promote his new book, “ Antisemitism in America: A Warning ,” after some liberal groups had planned to stage protests.

VANCOUVER — Former student Robert Murray says he has a good excuse for returning a book to the University of B.C. Library 64 years late — the 83-year-old reckons it might have saved his and his son's life.

So you read “The Fault in Our Stars” or watched John Green on YouTube, and, if you’re like me, you probably thought, “I would read or watch anything this mind produced for public consumption.

Sometimes reading poetry can feel exhilarating, like you are finally seeing and being seen. Other times it’s a slog that leaves you desperate for a nap to process what you just read.

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs.

Japan’s three historic nuclear events — the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II and the 2011 nuclear plant meltdowns in Fukushima — form a key backdrop for “Wildcat Dome,” a novel by Yuko Tsushima.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Madison Booker was a tall, long-armed, sweet-shooting seventh grader in Mississippi when she started getting recruiting attention from college coaches. Among them, then-Mississippi State coach Vic Schaefer.

Guide and tasting events bring the world of spirits to a new level

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Blood Moon by Sandra Brown (Grand Central Publishing) 2. Broken Country (Reese’s Book Club) by Clare Leslie Hall (Simon & Schuster) 3. Battle Mountain by C. J. Box (Penguin Publishing Group) 4.