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“Tell Me Everything” by Minka Kelly (Henry Holt and Company) To most of us, Minka Kelly is cheerleader Lyla Garrity from the much-loved high school football series “Friday Night Lights.

“Honeybees and Distant Thunder” by Riku Onda (Pegasus Books) The Yoshigae music competition will never be the same after this year’s pianists push the boundaries of the art form, leaving judges to wonder if a particular contestant is a gift from the

“Don’t Call Me Home,” by Alexandra Auder (Viking) It takes guts and a sense of humor to kick off your debut memoir with an insult from Andy Warhol. “Seeing Alexandra was sad — a big rug-rat hanging off Viva — she’ll probably turn out a mess.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's governor replaced a Cabinet member who oversaw the state's award-winning prekindergarten program because of a teacher training book with language about inclusion and combatting structural racism, she said Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Call him the Cedric the Novelist. Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Wednesday that it will publish a novel in September by Cedric the Entertainer.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — When she was a teenager, Miranda Lambert listened at the dinner table while her grandmother, her mother and their friends swapped gossip, life lessons and stories from East Texas.

It’s hard to imagine Anita, Rose Alvarez and Velma Kelly without Chita Rivera, who first breathed life into these beloved Broadway characters.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1.Simply Lies by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing) 2.The Wager by David Grann (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 3.The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave (S&S Marysue Rucci Books) 4.

“The Home for Wayward Girls” (Harper) by Marcia Bradley There have been a number of recent accounts of young people, particularly young women, who were sent to schools for so-called “troubled” or “bad" kids.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding),” by Laura Dern and Diane Ladd (Grand Central Publishing) When actor Diane Ladd was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and given six month