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Characters Luke, Landro, Rey, Rose, Dorothy and Blanch populate this week's best sellers list

The hunt is on for legendary yet reclusive magician Violet Volk, who vanishes mid-act in Margarita Montimore's new novel "Acts of Violet."

In this eminently readable book about his first and best movie, Ron Shelton gives the inside scoop on the making of an unlikely American classic.

In Bruce Holsinger's cinematic new novel, one privileged family in the U.S. copes with the life-changing aftermath of the first Category 6 storm.

The Colorado Book Awards were announced last week by Colorado Humanities.
The winners are:
Anthology: “Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas,” ed. by Carina Bissett, et. al. (Hex)
Biography: “Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy Seals,” by David Philipps (Penguin Random House)
Children’s Literature: “Read Island,” by Nicole Magistro (Read Island LLC)

"When the Emperor Was Divine" by Julie Otsuka, about incarcerated WWII Japanese Americans, has been blocked by a Wisconsin school board.

Bruce Holsinger's climate disaster novel "The Displacements" promises to be a blockbuster, while Katherine J. Chen reimagines the life of Joan of Arc.

Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" is a post-Roe bestseller, while Jenny Han's "Summer I Turned Pretty" rules summer book sales.

A book ban matters because it restricts access to books, and the ideas within, based on someone's ideological or political objection.

In his new book "Radical Love," Zachary Levi pulls back the curtain on his Hollywood lifestyle for a candid look at mental health.