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Bill Ackman and Tim Cook endorse 'The 5 Types of Wealth' by Sahil Bloom, a book that challenges traditional views on success. It explores time, social, mental, physical, and financial wealth as key to ...

A new book by the historian Linda Gordon considers seven social movements that transformed the country — not all of them for the better. In her first novel since “Americanah,” she draws on a ...

A California law making book bans illegal went into effect Jan. 1. The bill, authored by Al Muratsuchi who represents California’s 66th Assembly District, requires state-funded public libraries ...

Rhode Island has seen an increase in attempts to ban books from school libraries ... This year's effort to push the bill over the finish line began Thursday with an old-fashioned State House ...

SB25-063 would require school districts to write a policy in regards to how books could be removed from libraries, and the policy must follow anti-discrimination law concerning protected classes ...

Iconic comedian Bill Murray joked that famed Watergate reporter Bob Woodward could have "framed" former President Richard Nixon because his book about John Belushi was "completely inaccurate." ...

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