Serena Williams has a new kids book coming out. So does Jennifer Lopez. And Reese Witherspoon. And a few others. Big celebrities keep writing (or lending their names — who knows?) to children's picture books. Here are just some of the ones coming out soon and a few from the past.
Here are the national and local bestselling books for last week.
Never judge a book by its TV adaptation.
Sarah Kendzior, author of "They Knew," would like to destigmatize the word "conspiracy."
Here are the national and local bestselling books for last week.
Expansive and unhurried, "Lessons" explores how one man's life is shaped by the unpredictable sweep of history.
Vivian Gibson recently was named author of the year by the Missouri Library Association. She also has won a Missouri Humanities Literary Achievement Award.
Among writers promoting books this fall in St. Louis are Andrew Sean Greer, Taylor Jenkins Reid, George Saunders and U.S. Rep. Cori Bush.
Forty books for the fall season range from literary giants to political pundits.
A young duchess fears her husband plans to murder her in this gorgeous novel set during the Italian Renaissance.
Here are the national and local bestselling books for last week.
Early in "Fairy Tale," Stephen King points out that the original "Jack and the Beanstalk" was much darker and more violent than the version that's popular these days.
"They Knew" is a volume of improbable and seemingly impossible tales of hidden connections in the worlds of politics, government and public affairs.
Program by Ron “Johnny Rabbitt” Elz, at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Missouri History Museum, also will feature talks about “Automobile Row” and Missouri, Sun theaters
Here are the national and local bestselling books for last week.
Two books I read in August are from authors who have benefited from TikTok — Madeline Miller and Colleen Hoover. Two other books — “Remarkably Bright Creatures” and “Lessons in Chemistry” — are ones I'd emotionally pitch myself could make an emotional pitch of my own for if I were a person who created such videos.
"The House of Fortune" is a sequel to the author's first book, "The Miniaturist," but it can also be enjoyed as a standalone novel.
The St. Louis Public Library is adding 8,000 hotspots and 1,500 Chromebooks for city patrons who don't have internet or computer access at home.
A companion to her prize-winning "Dopesick," Beth Macy's new book explores the fallout of the opioid crisis — and those who try to stem the tide.
Here are the national and local bestselling books for last week.
Collection shines a sharp, harsh light on the history of racial strife in the St. Louis area, uncovering truths that are often difficult to face.
Anthony Marra's sweeping new novel, "Mercury Pictures Presents," follows an eclectic group of European immigrants in California during the war who are forced to contend with their government's changing views of their loyalty and their utility.
A horse will be featured at a storybook reading, and live music will complement a history of Irish immigrants in Missouri.
In “Bellevue,” Wm. Bruce McCoy tells the tale of two families that set out in 1857 in a wagon train that began rolling along in Louisville, Kentucky, bound for Oregon.
“Chevy in the Hole,” a novel written by a Flint native, shows that controversy and crisis have been no stranger to Flint, Michigan, for decades.
St. Louis Jewish Book Festival officially begins with keynote speaker Marie Yovanovitch, former ambassador to Ukraine.
Juggling motherhood and activism has been part of Cynthia Changyit Levin's family life for 15 years.
Emi Yagi’s “Diary of a Void” is an acerbic, melancholy story of a Tokyo woman who fakes a pregnancy to fight back against gender inequality in the workplace.
"The Family Remains" follows up on "The Family Upstairs," though author Lisa Jewell had long held firm against sequels.
Here are the national and local bestselling books for last week.
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