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Adding to the discussion about whether children need to work harder to achieve the standards set by the Common Core curriculum is a renewal of the controversy over innate ability vs. practice.

With six books and countless appearances to her name, Doris Kearns Goodwin is usually not at a loss for words.

Dueling movie producers. Super agents joining the fray. A drunken driving arrest.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission , Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Bureau of Investigation and New York attorney general are investigating the industry.

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY ISN'T NEW. But this spring it became trendy, especially after Pope Francis dropped the tweet heard 'round the world in April: "Inequality is the root of social evil."

Author Gillian Flynn is no stranger to the film and entertainment world. The writer of New York Film Festival opening-night film Gone Girl worked as a film journalist at Entertainment Weekly for 10 years, even as she wrote her debut novel, Sharp Objects , which came out in 2006.

The couple last appeared together on the big screen in Mr And Mrs Smith, the film where they met and fell in love.

Mississippi's past looms large in Greg Iles' best-selling thrillers. His latest book, Natchez Burning, is the first in a trilogy that takes readers back 50 years to chilling civil rights-era murders and conspiracies all set in Iles' hometown - the antebellum river city of Natchez, Miss.

Amazon's Kindle Unlimited users pay $9.99 per month to access as many books as they want.

Fiery late night talk show host Chelsea Handler is bringing her stand-up-show-slash-book-tour to New Zealand.

I heard a little about inequality at Netroots Nation, but there was a depressing sameness to it.

Back in 2010, and amid some of the worst economic times of Barack Obama's failed presidency, I lunched with an entrepreneur whose signage business was booming both domestically and globally.

A teenager in a suburb of Houston is the only member of her family to survive an attack.

Angry Birds creator Rovio became an overnight success, after 51 less successful games, 8 years of hard work and almost going bankrupt.

2."The Goldfinch," by Donna Tartt A young man clings to a painting years after surviving an explosion at a museum that killed his mother.

2."Hard Choices," by Hillary Rodham Clinton A detailed chronicle of Clinton's time as secretary of State.

AUTHOR JK Rowling has revealed plans to pen many more crime thrillers and create "a series" that will run for longer than her hugely successful seven Harry Potter books.

Just as Tracy Chevalier pilfered Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and Proust purloined the artist's 'View of Delft', so Donna Tartt appropriated Fabritius's 'The Goldfinch' - set to be Booker-longlisted this week - as her inspiration.

Part of the cast of the popular U.S. television series "Orange Is the New Black" is visiting Mexico to promote the second season of this comedy-drama about a group of female inmates' life together and the reasons they ended up in jail.

There was a small shuffle this week in book sales but two big names were able to have a good week.