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HOLCOMB, Kansas -- It's one of America's most haunting crime stories: four members of a Kansas family brutally murdered on November 15, 1959, at their rural farmhouse.

Sales of this year's top 10 non-fiction books in October were down 52% year on year, while sales of hardback fiction titles have soared by 90%. Figures for the most recent week to 31st October showed non-fiction continuing to underperform.

In the 1940s and '50s, Los Angeles was home to a remarkably high-profile mob presence.

In this absorbing blend of bright-eyed reportage and hands-on participation, journalist Milgrom demystifies the creepy art of bringing dead creatures back to life and dispels the myth that taxidermists merely "stuff animals." The author's quest to understand the compulsion of obsessed hobbyists and exacting scientists alike to duplicate what nature ...

The search is on for a new Mrs. West Virginia to represent the Mountain State in the 2010 Mrs.

Some writers are masters of self-promotion, thoroughly convinced and convincing in their roles as artist-shamans. Others seem driven to self-effacement, shrugging off as quickly as possible the writer's prophetic mantel.

For whatever reason, the military always has provided fertile ground for black comedy.

When browsing online or in a bookstore, one might easily conclude that every third person in the country is actively engaged in writing or reading a memoir.

David Wroblewski reads a passage from his first novel, 'The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,' during his segment in the state Senate chamber on the final day of the Texas Book Festival.

Novelist Hustvedt has been puzzling for years over the cause of her physical distress, from migraines to convulsions, and in this wide-ranging hodgepodge of technical jargon, research, memory and narrative, she tries to get at the root of what ails her.

NONFICTION For students of 20th-century history, the title of this book is shorthand for tragedy and disaster.

Anytime a movie comes out about a particular historical figure, we like to get our hands on a biography to find out the real story first.

John Freeman, the author of The Tyranny of E-Mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox on why "any email correspondence is always a few exchanges away from a fight" John Freeman, 34, is the American editor of the eminent British literary magazine Granta , a job he took on in May after 10 years as a book critic, regularly writing for 200 ...

Title: A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease Author: Jonathan Safran Foer Foer uses punctuation to describe his relationship with his father and brother.

Nonfiction children's writing covers a very broad category. I was not aware just how broad nonfiction children's writing can be though, until I read Anastasia Suen's book, Picture Writing: A New Approach to Writing for Kids and Teens .So, here is a list of information I have gleaned from Suen about writing nonfiction for children: Board books: Most ...

This sprawling text reconstructs the history of civilization in order to illuminate the importance of water in human development from the first civilizations of the Fertile Crescent and the Indus River Valley to the present.

The man who gave his name to the magnificent Douglas fir was in the second wave of white adventurers in the great Pacific Northwest, and you get the feeling, reading Jack Nisbet's fascinating new biography, "The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest," that he regretted his tardiness.

A preview of the Oregon Book Awards category for general nonfiction shows four books with a strong Oregon basis and one about an author with no connection to Oregon by a multiple Oregon Book Award winner.

SO IS IT wrong that we're totally underwhelmed by the repackaged box set for " Homicide: Life on the Street "? David Simon fans, don't get offended - that's not any kind of slight on the man now best known for " The Wire " and whose nonfiction 1991 book, " Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets ," inspired "Homicide," one of the best cop shows of ...

American writers with roots in Ireland, Pakistan and Uganda have been named as fiction finalists for the National Book Awards, announced Wednesday.