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The American Library Association’s 11 Most Challenged Books of 2025

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What Draws People Into Cults? A New Book Tracks Two Followers

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Step Inside Someone Else’s World With These 11 New Books for April

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Julia Wertz Graphically Shares the Joys of New Motherhood

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‘London Falling’: A Teen Imposter, an Aging Gangster and a Body in the River

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‘Stay Alive,’ About Life in Nazi Berlin, Shows How Easy it Is to Just Go Along

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Her Mother Infamously Murdered Her Father. Now, She’s Telling Her Own Story

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There’s Room for Everyone in ‘Now I Surrender,’ an Epic American Western

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Ticket Alert: Liza Minnelli Is Coming to San Francisco

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