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Top books to heat up your summer reading

NEW YORK –– The William Morrow Group of HarperCollins Publishers announced captivating books perfect for reading all summer long, with some of their hottest and most anticipated titles of the season. As people look to pack their beach bags and find their next great escape, this diverse lineup offers something for everyone, from sweeping historical fiction and thrilling mysteries to lush romances. With some titles already on sale and others coming in June, July and August, there’s no drought of new reads to pick up all summer long! - “Sweet Heat” by Bolu Babalola: The ...

Author plans visits

Lynn A. Haller of Duncansville, a trauma informed therapist, author and educator, has several book readings and events planned this summer. Haller writes warm, affirming stories that help kids understand big feelings. Her picture book, “The Hallway of Doorknobs,” invites young readers to open a series of doors and meet emotions as friendly characters, blending simple social-emotional learning with imaginative play. Vivid, inclusive art and clear, gentle language make it a useful read for families and classrooms. She will be at the Claysburg Area Public Library at 10 a.m. ...

Book talk set for June 10

William R. Huber, author of “Charlie Schwab: President of Carnegie Steel, U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel,” will present a book talk for the Cambria County Historical Society at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 10, at the Ebensburg Borough Building. Several Cambria County residents were recognized for their contributions to the biography about the industrial titan Charles Schwab written by the North Carolina author. Huber’s biography offers a more personal insight into the Williamsburg-born Schwab, whose family moved to Loretto, the place he considered his hometown and where he spent his ...

Rachel Maddow takes on DOJ’s 150-year saga in her new book

NEW YORK — After writing bestsellers about the military, the oil and gas industry and the state of democracy, Rachel Maddow is now working on a history of the Justice Department. Crown, a division of Penguin Random House, announced Monday that “Department of Fate” will be published Nov. 10, one week after this year’s midterm elections, and offer “both a diagnosis and a prescription for the American institution.” “As goes DOJ, so goes the republic,” the liberal author, podcaster and MS Now host said in a statement issued through Crown. According to Crown, Maddow ...

Independent bookstores multiplying

NEW YORK — Allison Hill, CEO of the American Booksellers Association, is used to strangers expressing sympathy when they learn what she does for a living. “It’s all so funny,” she says. “When I tell them I run the trade association for independent stores, they’ll say, ‘It’s just so sad that they’re disappearing.’ I don’t think they’re really keeping track, or they just know about a store that closed or heard about one closing.” The decline of physical bookstores remains so embedded in popular culture that the man dating Anne Hathaway’s character in “ The ...

Publisher’s Weekly US Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction 1. “The Ballad of Falling Dragons” by Sarah A. Parker (Avon) 2. “Ironwood” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) 3. “Yesteryear” by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf) 4. “A Parade of Horribles” by Matt Dinniman (Ace) 5. “Our Perfect Storm” by Carley Fortune (Berkley) 6. “The Calamity Club” by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau) 7. “26 Beauties” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 8. “Starside (deluxe ed.)” by Alex Aster (Avon) 9. “Broken Dove” by Dani Francis (Del Rey) 10. “The Kings’ List” by Jade Presley (Red ...