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Modiano wins Nobel for works about Nazi occupation

STOCKHOLM – Patrick Modiano of France, who has made a lifelong study of the Nazi occupation and its effects on his country, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what one acade...

Bets are on for literature Nobel winner

STOCKHOLM – Betting on French novelist Patrick Modiano to win the Nobel Prize in literature has surged before the award’s announcement on Thursday. Modiano, author of Missing Per...

10 life-changing powers and a path to peace

Local author pens uplifting new book

Book review: Wry humor permeates A Demon Summer

A Demon Summer (Minotaur), by G.M. Malliet G.M. Malliet continues to update the traditional British village mystery in her highly entertaining A Demon Summer. While the village of...

Lena Dunham sticks to candid style with new book

NEW YORK – In the pilot episode of “Girls,” Lena Dunham’s character, Hannah, tells her parents that she believes she’s meant to share her writing talent with others. “I think I ma...

Book offers exhaustive look at local outlaws

“Porter and Ike Stockton: Colorado and New Mexico Border Outlaws,” a nonfiction book by debut author Michael Maddox, displays his meticulous research into the colorful history of two of the ...

Author delivers ‘Star Wars’ tour de force

How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise (Basic Books), by Chris Taylor Chris Taylor, deputy editor of the social med...

Review: Mosley creates Hearst-like case in new book

Rose Gold (Doubleday), by Walter Mosley Walter Mosley evokes the curious turns of the Patty Hearst kidnapping saga and the fractured culture of that era in Rose Gold, his latest E...

Lahr pens brilliant new biography of Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (W.W. Norton & Co.), by John Lahr When “The Glass Menagerie” opened on Broadway in March 1945, the actress cast as Southern matria...

Review: Bezmozgis novel explores loyalty, betrayal

The Betrayers (Little, Brown and Co.), by David Bezmozgis The betrayals come thick and fast in David Bezmozgis’ aptly titled and beautifully written second novel, The Betrayers. T...

Books: New and noteworthy

USA TODAY’s Jocelyn McClurg scopes out the hottest books on sale each week. 1. Killing Patton by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (Henry Holt, non-fiction, on sale Sept. 23) ...

Three Cups of Tea author plans reluctant return

BOZEMAN, Mont. – Greg Mortenson doesn’t want to talk about his best-selling Three Cups of Tea book, but everybody else does – including his own charity. Three years ago, “60 Minut...
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