The historian

In The Historian, a young woman discovers an ancient book of letters. She plummets into a world of family secrets and unimaginable evils. Will she take up the

The Diary of a Historian

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Stephen King's new novel, Mr. Mercedes, comes out this month, as does Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoir, Hard Choices. But this is called 'Five to Watch for

The Lady in the Tower by Alison Weir reassesses all available evidence and examines popular myths and misconceptions about Anne Boleyn's demise.

For Humbert Humbert, there was Lolita (aka Lo, Lola, Lo-Lee-Ta), but for Tampa's Celeste Price, there's Jack Patrick — eighth-grade boy, object of his teacher's lust and obsession, and victim of her pointed and sociopathic plot to seduce him. Price is despicable, but her story is at once ugly, tenacious, and completely enthralling.

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Born in San Francisco, Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) worked as a staff photographer for Harper's Bazaar from 1936 through 1958. She introduc...