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In the 1960s, a hospital in London held a ward full of women who suffered from a range of mental disorders.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List) 1. An Inside Job by Daniel Silva (Harper) 2. The Idaho Four by James Patterson & Vicky Ward (Little, Brown and Company) 3. Edge of Honor by Brad Thor (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) 4.

Yuri is a 16-year-old orphan who lives simply with her religious aunt in a big, old house in Communist Cuba in the years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

“Mendell Station” is Korean American writer J.B. Hwang’s first novel. And it is all about death — its horror, finality and mystery, and, most of all, how those who knew and loved that person must cope.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani is adding author to his list of accomplishments. The Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar has co-written a children's book starring his beloved dog, Decoy.

John Hersey was a 32-year-old reporter who returned from Japan with in 1946 with a groundbreaking story that challenged U.S.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Romance novels have always spiced up quiet nights.

NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn has a book coming out next year that reveals how she has been shaped by the power of words.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List) 1. Edge of Honor by Brad Thor (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) 2. The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware (Gallery/Scout Press) 3. These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean (Random House Publishing Group) 4.

The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in this powerful account of the Central Intelligence Agency actions since the 9/11 attacks.