The big books. The ambitious books, the life-changing books, the long books, the time-consuming books, the dense books. Not ...

As a child and teenager, Leeanne would read anything. “As a teen I adored JD Sallinger and Dickins, and I read Anna Karenina ...

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The star-crossed lovers captured in these Gothic romance books will give you a new reason to hate Valentine’s Day.

A new installment of the Amos Parisman mysteries is out. In this book, L.A.’s “oldest and most unconventional Jewish gumshoe” Parisman has to track down the fate of a historic Torah scroll that’s been ...

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The “Anna Karenina principle” was popularized by Jared Diamond in his 1997 book Guns, Germs, and Steel. Diamond uses this principle to explain why so few wild animals have been successfully ...

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