NEW YORK — Romantasy favorite Sarah J. Maas has given her millions of fans a plot twist they had long been waiting for — two more books over the next 11 months in her blockbuster “A Court of Thorns and Roses” series. Bloomsbury announced this week that Book 6 will come out Oct. 27, ...

NEW YORK — Award-winning chef Patrick O’Connell has a book scheduled for September about how he converted an old garage into an international destination for food lovers. O’Connell’s “Main, Middle & Gay” is a memoir by the founder of the Michelin-starred restaurant, The Inn at ...

Under the pen name of Milico Mathers, Nancy E. Head, of Altoona, has released her second middle-grade historical novel. Set in Ireland during World War II, 12-year-old Brian McGrath and his older brother Patrick are celebrating with their family, despite wartime shortages, when Irish police ...

Hardcover Fiction 1. “The Correspondent” by Virginia Evans (Crown) 2. “Dire Bound” by Sable Sorensen (Requited) 3. “Felicia’s Favorites” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) 4. “My Husband’s Wife” by Alice Feeney (Pine & Cedar) 5. “Between Two Fires” by ...

Former Altoona resident Tom Catalano has pulled amusing anecdotes from his own life and put them together in his 15th published book, “Believe me…You Should Have Been There!’” “What didn’t seem funny at the time, certainly makes me laugh today,” Catalano said. “The experiences ...

— Publisher’s Weekly (week ending Feb. 28) Hardcover Fiction 1. “The Crossroads” by C.J. Box (Putnam) 2. “The Correspondent” by Virginia Evans (Crown) 3. “Kin” by Tayari Jones (Knopf) 4. “Cross and Sampson” by Patterson/Sitts (Little, Brown) 5. “Alchemised” ...