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- Reader recommendation: While Still We LiveMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Bestselling books the week of 5/15/14, according to IndieBound* What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
- 'Harry Potter' spin-off film gets a release date, Universal ride details revealedA release date for the 'Harry Potter' spin-off film, 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,' has been announced and new details have been revealed about the upcoming roller coaster that will debut at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park.Â
- Trio of authors recall how they investigated dark family secretsThree writers – Emma Brockes, author of 'She Left Me the Gun'; David Berg, author of 'Run Brother Run'; and Michael Hainey, author of 'After Visiting Friends' – all investigated dark areas from their families' pasts.
- 5 basketball books for NBA fans Here are excerpts from five recent books about professional basketball and its players, ranging from a mega-biography of Michael Jordan to a behind-the-scenes look at the Magic Johnson-era "Showtime" Los Angeles Lakers.
- 'The Red Tent' will reportedly become a Lifetime miniseries'The Red Tent' by Anita Diamant is a novel based on the Old Testament figures of Leah and Jacob.
- 'Wild' movie adaptation gets a release date, more cast membersThe film based on Cheryl Strayed's bestselling memoir is scheduled for release on Dec. 5.
- 'No Place to Hide' by Glenn Greenwald portrays Edward Snowden as a 'whistleblower in shining armor'Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who broke the Edward Snowden story, offers further details on his contacts with Snowden and the US government's surveillance system.
- Reader recommendation: The Monuments MenMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Clouds of GloryBestselling biographer Michael Korda examines the life of legendary general Robert E. Lee who, despite being the subject of many books, remains an enigma.
- Reader recommendation: BonhoefferMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Is Hillary Clinton hinting at her future in memoir excerpt?The section of Clinton's memoir, which was released on Mother's Day, discusses her relationship with her own mother, Dorothy Howell Rodham, and may offer a rationale for a 2016 presidential run.
- 'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day' movie gets a trailer'Alexander' stars Ed Oxenbould, Steve Carell, and Jennifer Garner.
- BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Tudor novels will include Damian Lewis, Mark RylanceThe BBC adaptation of Mantel's novels 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies' will reportedly air sometime next year.
- American RomanticWard Just's excellent novel about a foreign service officer posted to Indochina in the 1960s may be his finest work to date.
- Reader recommendation: The GoldfinchMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Graduation gifts: One is still making a difference in the life of a journalistOne writer is still encouraged by the handsome deluxe edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novels he received as a graduation present.
- Hachette Book Group says Amazon is deliberately delaying shipments of their titlesNew titles that Hachette says should be available are listed as taking as long as five weeks to be delivered to customers by Amazon. Amazon declined to comment.
- Hemingway biopic 'Papa' brings Hollywood back to Cuba'Papa' is reportedly the first full-length feature Hollywood movie to film in Cuba since 1959.
- New York Public Library cancels renovation plansIn a move that was called 'remarkable,' the NYPL decided against its planned revamp, which would have sent 1.5 million books to a storage facility in New Jersey.