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Best-selling author James Patterson takes a break from his Alex Cross novels to open the cold case of King Tut. Working with nonfiction author Martin Dugard, the two men investigate the death of the ...

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Two eminent Black psychologists have recently passed. Their pioneering contributions helped transform psychological research ...

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But after his fall, beginning in his first days in the hospital, Kureishi started to write furiously. A flurry of ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family line, and he takes readers along on the journey.