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MIAMI (AP) — The separation of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border has always caused Isabel Allende pain: When she saw it during the Trump administration, her first impulse was to help reunify children and parents through her foundation.

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Caro's fifth volume on Lyndon Johnson, one of the book world's most long-awaited publications, is unlikely to be delayed by the death of his longtime editor, publishing luminary Robert Gottlieb. “Mr.

“You Were Always Mine” by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza (Simon & Schuster) I don't know who introduced writers Christine Pride and Jo Piazza but I'd like to thank their literary matchmaker.

“A Crown of Ivy and Glass” by Claire Legrand (Sourcebooks Casablanca) Lady Imogen Ashbourne is rich, spoiled and obsessed with looks. She's also tremendously weighted with guilt both earned and unearned.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Near Miss by Brett Battles & Stuart Woods - 9780593540077 - (Penguin Publishing Group) 2. Cross Down by Brendan DuBois & James Patterson - 9780316404693 - (Little, Brown and Company) 3.

“Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America” by Audrey Clare Farley (Grand Central) When Sadie Morlok gave birth to quadruplets in 1930, it made the papers in their town of Lansing, Michigan.

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A judge has ruled that a Utah mother of three who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s death, and was later accused of fatally poisoning him, will remain in jail throughout her trial after her sis

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday signed into law a bill that he says will make Illinois the first state in the nation to outlaw book bans.

NEW YORK (AP) — Author Elizabeth Gilbert is delaying publication of a novel she had set in Russia, saying she had received an outpouring of “anger, sorrow, disappointment and pain” from Ukrainian readers.

NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar-winning director-producer Ed Zwick is working on a memoir, with all the highs and the lows and in-betweens. Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc.