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“Sidle Creek,” by Jolene McIlwain (Melville House) Lately, the news out of rural Appalachia has not been good: a train derailment, toxic chemicals, the opioid epidemic, deaths of despair.

“Blue Skies” by T.C. Boyle (Liveright) There have been entire shelves of non-fiction books written about climate change. I’ve reviewed quite a few. They’re packed with truly frightening scenarios based on science.

“Banana Ball: The Unbelievably True Story of the Savannah Bananas” by Jesse Cole with Don Yaeger (Dutton) Jesse Cole's father shared the following wisdom with his baseball-obsessed 5-year-old son: “Swing hard in case you hit it.

NEW YORK (AP) — Combat veteran and Fox Nation host Johnny Joey Jones has a book coming out in June about serving with the Marines Corps in Iraq and Afghanistan and the friendships he formed.

NEW YORK (AP) — The guessing game began a few days ago, when an anonymous, untitled book scheduled for July 9 —— “4C Untitled Flatiron Nonfiction Summer 2023” — had Taylor Swift fans so convinced she had written a memoir that they made it a bestselle

NEW YORK (AP) — Charles E. Stanley's “Lost Airmen,” an author's account of his father's harrowing World War II experiences, is this year's winner of the William E. Colby Military Writers’ Award.

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of rare photos and other images from the archives of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will be featured in “Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine,” coming out this fall.

OTTAWA — A hope-filled book about mitigating climate change has won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

Candice Bergen hatched the idea for a sequel to “Book Club” before the first had even come out.

NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction from such prize-winning authors as Jonathan Lethem, Lauren Groff, and Sigrid Nunez and a biography of the late Rep. John Lewis are among the upcoming works excerpted in a free e-book compilation published Wednesday.