Twelve-year-old Saily Bah of Urbandale says her goal for the book, called “Rise Above,” is to do exactly as the title says.

Some of the energy and the sheer gusto in Lynn’s voice comes from the novelty of her frankness, her eagerness to explore matters on which generations of novelists have been evasive or silent or merely ...

Penny’s 19th installment in the beloved Gamache series is a particularly haunting and relevant mystery novel. Yael van der Wouden’s novel, shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, is about ...

HSBC Holdings posted a 10 percent rise in third-quarter profit on Tuesday, beating analyst estimates, as its wealth and wholesale banking benefited from slower-than-expected rate cuts while it ...

HONG KONG: HSBC Holdings posted a 10 per cent rise in third-quarter profit on Tuesday (Oct 29), beating analyst estimates, as its wealth and wholesale banking benefited from slower-than-expected ...

Happily, there are a host of witty, satirical and downright hilarious books out there, waiting to put a smile back on our faces. From comic novels and memoirs, to essays and poetry, humour has filled ...

MANILA, Philippines — Rescuers in the Philippines were diving into a lake and scouring isolated villages on Sunday to locate dozens of missing people as the death toll from Tropical Storm ...

Yuma Hampejs and Marcel Schulze, authors of a new book, Eletronic Body Music, present a playlist that embodies the visceral, ...

The rise of Kamala Harris ... she would direct staffers to collect that person’s business card, retain it in a book and later find a pretext for following up with him or her.

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This spike coincides with new censorship laws enacted in Republican-led states. During the 2023-2024 academic year, nearly 10,000 books were banned in US public schools-a threefold increase from ...

Apple’s newest iPhone 16 smartphones saw a stronger launch in China compared to 2023 models, a positive sign for the tech giant after months of concerns about ceding ground to local rivals in ...