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In his latest nonfiction book The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America , George Packer - author and New Yorker staff writer - presents the story of the American economic decline as no one else has.

In front of city council members on Monday night, residents called for more oversight at the Urbana Free Library after a "weeding" controversy drew the ire of patrons in what the library director has called a "misstep."

Barbara Santich, a food historian and writer, has been named on the shortlist for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards for , a history of food in Australia.

Author Gilbert King spoke at The Villages in April. King was awarded a Pulitzer prize for general nonfiction for "Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America."

The Spy Who Got Away, a 1988 nonfiction book about a former CIA agent, whose problem with alcohol use apparently led to many problems and who eventually fled to a Soviet bloc country while sought by the CIA as a spy, was more frightening for its revealing weaknesses in the U.S. counter intelligence system than for Edward Howard's reportedly being a ... (more)

Every summer, millions of Americans repeat again and again a word that has its roots in Taino, the Caribbean language spoken by the people Christopher Columbus met when he first landed in the Americas.

A shipment of books removed from the shelves of the Urbana Free Library only a week earlier is making its way back to the library.

For some Americans, our revolution consists of foggy recollections of what we learned in high school - a montage of George Washington, Paul Revere announcing the red coats, the battles of Lexington and Concord, the Boston Tea Party and all the Adams men.

Plot summary in 50 words or less: After a spring storm ravages their sanctuary, the Palmetto Church of the Brethren relocates to a warehouse outside of town where they're forced to share a parking lot with an unlikely neighbor -- the Pink Alligator Strip Club.

"Homegoings," a documentary film about the traditions of black funerals, will be screened at 5 p.m. Thursday at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.

The Beach House could be a tiny cottage, a grand mansion, or maybe just a jumping off place for a story; at least that's what Nancy Sakaduski hopes.

HACKETTSTOWN, NJ -- Olivia Fiumara from Chatham graduated from Centenary College with a Bachelor of Arts degree at its 138th May Commencement at the John M. Reeves Student Recreation Center recently.

Every summer, millions of Americans repeat again and again a word that has its roots in Taino, the Caribbean language spoken by the people Christopher Columbus met when he first landed in the Americas.

Matt is one of the drivers behind the Korsakow system , and has a long history of project based research across design, interactive media, and digital documentary.

Karla K. Morton was selected as a 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist in four categories for her Denton-centric book.

In the acknowledgements section at the end of his book, The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City , author Alan Ehrenhalt demurred he is "no Jane Jacobs" but says he followed her advice for researching cities, namely to study them through close personal observation using a minimum of preconceptions.

Out of more than 1.1 million items that were checked out of the Marathon County Public Library system last year, Matt Hilton's "No Going Back" is the king.

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Terry Frei, a resident of Denver, has written several nonfiction sports books, including "Horns, Hogs and Nixon's Coming" an account of the 1969 Texas-Arkansas football game.

In this May 2, 2013 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is seen in Denver.