You just need a certain willingness to be swiftly transported. If a book is not in a rank since the previous week, it will not have an arrow. The last few titles on the list known as the extended ...

Old North Sacramento has a rich history of ranching, commerce and transportation, but the neighborhood has also faced decades of disinvestment after becoming part of Sacramento in 1964. However ...

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Mark Whitaker’s new book is about the many ways Americans have embraced the minister in the 60 years since his assassination. In the new book “Murder in the Dollhouse,” Rich Cohen delves ...

Wilkins previously won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for his first book, The Miserables (1993), when the Ockhams were known as the New Zealand Book Awards. Tom Rose is an Auckland ...

The truly unique trait of Sapiens is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals ... I write history books, get paid for it, and buy 99 percent of what I need from strangers.

More Than Just Historical Fiction While her stories are set in the past or in places with histories of conflict, Hashimi’s writing doesn’t just recreate history. It examines how history lives on in ...

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A battle over Prop 35 Medi-Cal funding in the governor’s May budget revision. Also, a CalMatters investigation finds that Covered CA released private health data to LinkedIn and Google.

May 21, 2025 • We asked some of our trusted critics which upcoming books they are most looking forward to. Here are the fiction and nonfiction titles they picked.

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