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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.
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Melissa Ludtke writes that the Dodgers supported giving her the same clubhouse access as male reporters in the 1970s, prompting a backlash from the MLB commissioner.
‘It Ends With Us’ and ‘Marcel the Shell With Shoes On’ actor Jenny Slate chats with The Times about her book ‘Lifeform,’ motherhood and why she’s one Hollywood actor who does not want to direct.
Bruce Eric Kaplan has turned his struggles getting a dream TV project off the ground during the pandemic into a comic primer about Hollywood called ‘They Went Another Way’
In denial no longer, ‘One Tree Hill’ star Bethany Joy Lenz wrote ‘Dinner for Vampires,’ her memoir about her cult past
The Van Halen drummer writes an elegy to modern guitar god Eddie about a brotherhood tested by drug abuse, power trips and all the other common traps that befall megastars who once shared the same bedroom.
Glory Edim’s ‘Gather Me’ traces the dramatic arc of her life as well as her discovery of Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and other Black writers.
In a work of fiction titled ‘Looking Forward,’ Liam Payne’s ex-girlfriend, Maya Henry, includes a scene of a boyfriend jumping off a balcony during a drug-fueled breakdown.
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.
Han Kang’s Nobel Prize was a surprise to many in South Korea. Here’s what you need to know about ‘her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’
Taylor Swift marks the end of the Eras tour with the release of her first book, as well as two new formats for her ‘Tortured Poets Department’ album.
The author of ‘The Message’ insists on moral clarity about Israeli oppression, but the threat from Hamas and others is clearer than anything else in the conflict.
Wright Thompson’s new nonfiction book, ‘The Barn,’ examines the murder of Emmett Till from multiple perspectives – cultural, geographical and personal.
Weekly hardcover fiction and nonfiction lists.