Barney Saltzberg’s many picture books for children include “Arlo Needs Glasses,” about his giant goldendoodle who couldn’t ...

On Sunday, the American Library Association announced that Everett's “James” was this year's winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, which includes a $5,000 cash award. Kevin Fedarko's ...

On Sunday, the American Library Association announced that Everett's “James” was this year's winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction ... figures from George Washington to ...

Since then, she’s written essays, a memoir and a children’s book ... Chernow’s biographies of George Washington, John D. Rockefeller, Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton (which inspired ...

A new biography of Charles W. Chesnutt, by Tess Chakkalakal, explains the friendships and tensions he had with his white ...

Lovers of vinyl records and romance get the best of both worlds at Byrdland Records in Northeast D.C. with the site-specific performance, “Love & Vinyl.” ...

The 1980s was a decade known for the birth of the last of Generation X and big-hair bands. It also produced some of the best ...

Looking for the best books of 2024? We have you covered here ... Rockefeller, Ulysses S. Grant, and George Washington (the latter of which made our list of the fifty best biographies of all ...

"Long Bright River," "The Housemaid," and more books that will be TV shows and ... “Eleven-year-old George Washington Black — or Wash — a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is ...

Steffi’s career is taking off and she doesn’t want children but feels judged by the others. Fireworks ensue. This is a fantastic portrait of a character, George, whom we meet when he’s 12 ...

A representative from the first Golden Age of children’s fiction ... books, through Enid Blyton right up to JK Rowling. And, of course, the bully Flashman, without whom we wouldn’t have George ...

But for those who like to indulge in books that are grounded in real-world figures and history, the historical fiction genre is ... to death alongside her children. But she did not die; she ...