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In ‘We Can Do Hard Things,’ Glennon Doyle and her co-authors chart a road map to navigate the many difficulties of life.
Author Gill Hornby and executive producer Christine Langan spoke about adapting Hornby’s novel for television and why readers and viewers continue to gravitate to Jane Austen.
Bill Belichick says he appeared on ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ to promote his new book, not talk about how the 73-year-old met his girlfriend, 24-year-old Jordon Hudson.
Promising books for your May reading list include Alison Bechdel’s ‘Spent,’ Ocean Vuong’s ‘The Emperor of Gladness’ and a new Mark Twain biography from Ron Chernow.
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, May 4, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.
Actor Diego Boneta has written his first novel, ‘The Undoing of Alejandro Velasco,’ which he’s adapting into a limited series for Amazon MGM Studios.
In her memoir ‘Uptown Girl,’ Christie Brinkley writes about the scary incident that led her to divorce Billy Joel.
In his debut novel, Milo Todd tells the story of a trans man in Berlin who must adjust to a life of secrecy after Hitler ascends to power.
The tension between James Gandolfini, the actor, and Tony Soprano, the character, was often hard for the star to live with, Jason Bailey writes in his biography on the ‘Sopranos’ actor.
Gretchen Whitmer discusses her potential presidential run, along with the young adult edition of her book ‘True Gretch,’ at the 2025 Festival of Books.
Speaking at the L.A. Times Festival of Books, ‘Wicked’ director Jon M. Chu said the entertainment industry moved on too quickly from generative AI’s ‘original sin’ of gathering training data.
Amy Tintera’s thriller is in development at Universal with Rachel Shukert attached to write, the studio announced at the L.A. Times Festival of Books on Sunday.
Weekly hardcover fiction and nonfiction lists.