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"What makes a good life and what would make a good death?" YA author Elizabeth Acevedo aims to answer that in her first adult novel, "Family Lore."

In the age of smart phones, it can be hard to muster the attention span to finish a book. These titles will keep you reading to the last page.

Oscar-nominated Richard E. Grant shares it all, from ugly details of terminal decline to beautiful devotion that comes with love, in his memoir.

'Mexican Gothic' author Silvia Moreno-Garcia is back with a new novel, 'Silver Nitrate.' Snag your copy today.

Oscar-nominated actor Richard E. Grant ("Can You Ever Forgive Me") writes about his 35-year marriage in a way that will make you believe in love.

Federal investigators from Delaware closed the books on a decades-old international mystery this month at a ceremony in Rome.

Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour looks are striking - as are these book covers.

Few incidents in American history have been as meticulously analyzed as the 1969 Manson murders, also known as the Tate-LaBianca murders. And few people know that better than journalist Tom O’Neill, who spent two decades obsessing over the details of Charles Manson and his infamous group of followers known as The Family in hopes of unearthing the true motivations behind the slayings of actress Sharon Tate and others.

Ren Hopper is a Yellowstone National Park enforcement ranger whose view of humans is just a little bit jaded. When a mother and father encourage their daughter to feed an apple to a gangly moose calf, Ren risks his life to save the child from the animal’s wrathful mother, then all but wishes the moose would turn on the parents. “What the hell has gotten into you?” Ren asks himself during a similar reverie. “Do you think you’re the last ranger that puts the animals first?”

The Digital Public Library of America has launched a new program aimed at fighting back against the increasing number of book bans in America.