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Seeking the Giant Panda, and Daddy’s Love
In “The Beast in the Clouds,” Nathalia Holt tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s eldest sons, and their doomed attempt to ...
Poway Unified middle school teachers close the book on their careers
When the school year ended at Poway Unified School District last month, several middle school teachers closed the book on ...
What Reading 5,000 Pages About a Single Family Taught Me About America
When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?
How does a legendary coach move to the college game? Before Bill Belichick, there was Bill Walsh
More than three decades later, Belichick, 73, made the stunning move to coach North Carolina. His 24-year reign overseeing ...
'Typewriter Beach' explores McCarthyism in tale of Hollywood screenwriter
The latest work of historical non-fiction from Meg Waite Clayton, 'Typewriter Beach,' looks at the hurdles women face in ...
In Gary Shteyngart’s latest, a wise child trying to survive a near-future New York
His delightfully bittersweet new novel, “Vera, or Faith,” looks at growing up in a country born out of the past decade’s political and psychological turmoil.