NEW YORK (AP) — The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Portland, Maine, author has won a National Book Award for his book about a civil rights pioneer whose refusal to give up her seat on an Alabama bus to a white woman helped set the stage for desegregation of public...

"U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth" (The University of North Carolina Press, 383 pages, $30), by Joan Waugh: Anybody remember that gag question Groucho Marx used on his quiz show? Who's buried in Grant's tomb?

HONG KONG (AP) — The story of a Chinese Communist Party official who moves to a community of boat people after his revolutionary lineage is refuted has won the Man Asian Literary Prize, organizers said.

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) — A local pediatrician's office is promoting reading as part of its primary care for children.

"Lincoln for President: An Unlikely Candidate, An Audacious Strategy, and The Victory No One Saw Coming" (Sourcebooks Inc., 416 pages, $24.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana woman who survived nine months at a Nazi concentration camp has written a new book for teenagers about her childhood experience.

HOLCOMB, Kan. (AP) — It's one of America's most haunting crime stories: four members of a Kansas family brutally murdered on Nov. 15, 1959, at their rural farmhouse.

"Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War" (Crown Publishing, 448 pages, $30), by Terry Brighton: During a dinner in Saigon with some news correspondents in 1971, Gen. Creighton Abrams, the U.S.

"Sweet Thunder" (Knopf, 464 pages, $27.95), by Wil Haygood: The boxer Sugar Ray Robinson was a man of glittering skill and deep complexity.

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NEW YORK (AP) — A celebrated chronicler of rural life, E. Annie Proulx, has found a literary home in the big city.

"SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance" (William Morrow, 320 pages. $29.99) by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: In their 2005 book "Freakonomics," economist Steven D.

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — It's been more than four years since an out-of-control dump truck plowed through an Avon intesection during morning rush hour, shattering dozens of lives around northwest Connecticut.

NEW YORK (AP) — It's hard to sell a book of short stories. But not if you're John Grisham.

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — A Caldwell mother says she wants a book shelved in the juvenile section of the Nampa Public Library banned from the stacks.

NEW YORK (AP) — The book price wars are no longer just for pre-orders.

NEW YORK (AP) — No posters or photographs of Orson Welles hang in the living room of his eldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder.

"The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism" (Knopf, 544 pages, $40.

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Comic book collectors are excited over an upcoming auction in St. Charles — an auction involving more than 3,000 well-preserved old comic books found in the basement of a suburban St. Louis home.

You can learn how the rich really live, how one renowned football coach approached leadership and some new strategies to put to use when searching for a job with three new books that explore these diverse themes.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin reported that she has received at least $1.25 million for her hugely anticipated upcoming memoir "Going Rogue."

NEW YORK (AP) — Andre Agassi's upcoming autobiography contains an admission that he used crystal meth in 1997 and lied to tennis authorities when he failed a drug test — a result that was thrown out after he said he "unwittingly" took...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The University of Tennessee is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of writer James Agee with a series of events beginning Friday.

NEW YORK (AP) — A trade organization wants the government to look into the price war among online booksellers.