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Durangoan’s book takes readers behind lines of Nazi-occupied France

‘Scholars of Mayhem’ explores Jean Claude Guiet’s clandestine work

DATE: May 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Vonnegut museum raises $1.5 million for new home

INDIANAPOLIS – The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library in Indianapolis has reached its goal of raising $1.5 million to acquire and begin renovations on a building to serve as its permanent home...

DATE: May 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Neon Future: DJ Steve Aoki’s comic book sees techno-optimism

MIAMI – Forget the dystopian future of science fiction stories, where Skynet endoskeletons stomp on dry human bones or people slumbering in fluid-filled pods serve as living batteries. ...

DATE: May 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

‘The Mueller Report’ is officially a best-seller

NEW YORK – “The Mueller Report” is now officially a best-seller. A published edition of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged ties between Russian officials ...

DATE: May 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Poet Joy Harjo wins Jackson Prize

NEW YORK – Poet Joy Harjo has won a $65,000 prize for writers deemed worthy of greater recognition. Poets & Writers announced Thursday that Harjo had received the Jackson Prize, a...

DATE: Apr 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Prince memoir ‘The Beautiful Ones’ to come out in the fall

NEW YORK – The memoir Prince was working on at the time of his death will be released Oct. 29. Random House confirmed Monday to The Associated Press that “The Beautiful Ones” will...

DATE: Apr 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

C.J. Box’s ‘Wolf Pack’ a fast-paced thriller

“Wolf Pack” by C. J. Box is the 19th novel featuring intrepid Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. One of the best things about a Pickett adventure is that there will always be a mix of domestic...

DATE: Apr 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Publishers hurry to release book editions of Mueller Report

NEW YORK – With the Mueller Report finally out Thursday, at least in redacted form, publishers are hurrying to release book editions. Two Mueller Report books already are in the top 100 on A...

DATE: Apr 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Carly Simon writing memoir about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

NEW YORK – Carly Simon is writing an “intimate, vulnerable” memoir about a very famous friend, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Farrar, Straus and Giroux announced Monday that Simon’s ...

DATE: Apr 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Tom Selleck, star of television and films, is writing memoir

NEW YORK – Tom Selleck is working on a memoir, and it won’t just be about acting. The “Magnum P.I.” star has a deal with Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. ...

DATE: Apr 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Durango Public Library to host Literary Festival

Durango Public Library will host the 2019 Literary Festival, beginning Monday and continuing Tuesday and Thursday, at Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave. The keynote spe...

DATE: Apr 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

New book recounts how daring divers saved 12 boys in a flooded cave

Do you remember last summer’s big news story about 12 boys who were trapped with their soccer coach deep inside a cave in Thailand? As each day passed, and more and more rain flooded the cav...

DATE: Mar 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books