With a melding of historical fiction, social commentary, fairy tale and science fiction, Anthony Doerr delivers a deft and intricately woven tale that makes “Cloud Cuckoo Land” one of the most memorable books of the year. The novel challenges the reader with five characters spanning five centuries.

Latah Books and the Community Building team will host a party celebrating the release of “One-Block Revolution: 20 Years of Community Building,” an anthology chronicling more than 20 years of community building history. Contributors to the anthology include Breann Beggs and Jim Sheehan.

Do you ever feel that a book should be an essay, an essay a paragraph, a paragraph a sentence? That's not quite the case with Harry Freedman's "Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius," a guided tour of the singer-songwriter's various spiritual influences.

Born in Colfax in March 1940, veteran and author Steve Yedinak grew up just off the campus of Gonzaga University where, after finishing high school at Gonzaga Prep, he would go on to earn a bachelor’s degree. Yedinak's college studies centered on psychology. But, in the end, he chose to join the Army.

In 1996, days after "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" ended and shortly before "Independence Day" almost destroyed the Earth, Will Smith went to the opening of Planet Hollywood in Sydney to seek the advice of Arnold Schwarzenegger. What was the key to his pharaonic success?

Drawn Together Arts is presenting small staged readings and cabaret shows at Art Spirit Gallery, and the first will be Steve Martin’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile.” Set in 1904, this Off-Broadway absurdist play introduces audiences to Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein as they run into each other in Paris.

LONDON — The Duchess of Sussex has apologized for misleading a British court about the extent of her cooperation with the authors of a sympathetic book about her and Prince Harry. The former Meghan Markle, 40, is embroiled in a court battle in London over a British newspaper’s publication of portions of a letter.

Two Washington Post reporters are working on a biography of George Floyd, from his family history in the tobacco fields of North Carolina to his murder last year in Minneapolis by a white police officer. Viking announced Wednesday that the book by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa will drop next May.

Most of Victorya Rouse’s students have endured hardships that many American-born students could not comprehend. Bosnian students have smiled at Rouse and said, “’Hey, no one’s shooting at me,’” Rouse said. For almost 30 years, Rouse has taught English at Ferris High School to teenage immigrants.

Claire Tomalin's latest biography, "The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World," is plainly written, packed with incident and justly admiring without being uncritical. In comparison with, say, the prizewinning "Samuel Pepys: The Unequaled Self," her new book is also quite openly personal.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown remembers a time where he took public gatherings and community events for granted, before the pandemic snatched away poetry seminars, readings and other in-person events. “I didn’t know how much I needed it until it was gone,” Brown said Tuesday.

In the past couple years, there has been a special focus on multicultural and anti-racism literature. Sundee Frazier brings us an incredible novel that you can add to your collection.

Chris Kopczynski – a mountaineer who has braved the highest peaks on all seven continents over the course of his life – said he was “scared to death” when he printed the first 50 copies of his memoir. “I thought they would sit down in the garage,” he said. They didn’t.

Family history, personal experiences and a universal coming-of-age theme paint a stunning, realistic picture of racial relations in Spokane in award-winning author Sundee Frazier’s new book “Mighty Inside.”

For five days last month, Chris Kopczynski and his wife, Michelle Mullin, hiked and boated 46 miles of Oregon’s Rogue River. “That was wild,” the 73-year-old said. And Kopczynski knows wild. As a young man, Kopczynski – known as Kop to many – was one of the world’s preeminent mountaineers.

Chris Kopczynski wanted to be an astronaut but decided to keep his feet firmly beneath him. Instead, he reached as high as he could for the stars, his head above the clouds, without ever leaving the earth. As a child, he climbed higher than any adult would deem safe.

Students in Pennsylvania scored a victory last week in a battle to allow books about diversity and racism to be used in schools. The Central York School Board last fall "froze" teachers' and students' access to books about Rosa Parks, Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai and more.

One great way to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month is to learn a bit of Spanish. Here are a few books you can read together as a family that include text in both English and in Spanish.

Picking out a fresh outfit for the first day of school, skateboarding, baking a peach cobbler – these are just some of the fun things that kids do in the 17 short stories of "Black Boy Joy." "Every story moves toward a place of joy," said Kwame Mbalia.