Smith’s students wrote in journals, read the “The Freedom Writers Diary” and discussed deep ... a line in the book struck her. “I came to this phrase that simply read, ‘I feel like ...

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, May 4, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (Berkley: $29) Two writers compete ... by Miranda July (Riverhead Books: $29) An L.A. artist pursues creative and sexual freedom after having an ...

Gandhi: The End of Non-Violence By Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee Vintage Books, 528 pages, Rs 699 The last years of Mahatma ...

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee’s profound history of Gandhi’s final fifteen months is unlikely to be bettered anytime soon. While Gandhi: The End of Non-Violence’s accomplished author is a poet ...

I am happy Ruth is getting the credit she most certainly deserves. There are so many people still around that loved her, and ...

In the Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary (Viking, $32), Cahalan exposes the woman’s story through archives, diary entries, and interviews with ...

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (Berkley: $29) Two writers ... Books: $33) An insider's account of working at Facebook. 10. Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton (Pantheon: $27) A meditation on ...

Named after French feminist writer and activist Françoise Sagan, the dark grey Nissan Micra is her sanctuary on wheels, a ...

Find out what Zed's bibliophiles are reading and loving, from Stephen Graham Jones' chilling historical horror to a new kitchen confidential by Anthony Bourdain's former assistant Laurie Woolever ...

In this one, Ruth shares how she’s just getting back to running after a long hiatus, one that has included raising three ...

Entrepreneur Julie Mitchell shares a reading list as varied as her business ventures and tells us why she'd like to have dinner with acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates.