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After the preschool years, kids still like cartoons, but they want something more complex than straightforward messages about friendship and sharing. They like a bit of conflict, some bad guys (who ...

From picture books to graphic novels, fantasy to family fun, these must-read books have the power to hook kids of any gender. Some are cultural touchstones that belong in every kid's library. Others ...

A Hamptons vacation and a prank gone wrong anchor Burke’s new book, “The Note.” It started with real life. The travel writer and essayist discusses his new book, “Aflame,” about his ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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On every shelf in every room ... her hermetic side—the monkishness of the night-life circuit girl. The author surveys school book reports and some fan mail, from M. Night Shyamalan, in her ...

Drifting nearer, he finds a dark-skinned girl clinging to a barrel. For a moment, he forgets his own nightmare and drags her into his tiny boat. Burn book review: Patrick Ness’ epic set in ...

As time wore on, the messages started to include pictures of Bella — sometimes with her hands bound by shoelaces to the spindles on the staircase, or forced to stand under a shelf in the closet ...

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Police say this woman punched a 16-year-old girl in the face in an unprovoked attack. NYPD Though standing at only 5-feet-5-inches tall — the diminutive assailant struck the teenage girl so hard ...