As Christmas nears, British TV screens are filled with heart-warming tales of lonely penguins, family reunions and homesick soldiers in an attempt to get customers to part with their cash.
So far playing a recast character has worked to Billy Miller's advantage.
As earthlings broadcast signals to other planets in hopes of contacting extraterrestrial life, Chinese science-fiction writer Liu Cixin has made first contact with the English-speaking world with his Three-Body trilogy - and the response has been positive.
Mark Owen, a pseudonym for former US Navy SEAL team member Matt Bissonnette, caused a stir with No Easy Day, his firsthand account of a mission in Pakistan in 2011 that resulted in Osama bin Laden's death. Owen didn't get the book cleared by the Defense Department before publication.
The deathbed of a rural funeral singer serves as the stage of Jia Pingwa's newest novel.
Pan Jianbing, a school teacher from Quanzhou in eastern China's Fujian province, is the author of a rare book on interracial relationships from the country's past.
Brooke Shields, the iconic model-actress-Princeton graduate, entered the literary scene in 2005 with her memoir about postpartum depression. This time, she sheds light on the relationship she shared with her mother, and it's a well-crafted and insightful read from beginning to end.
A memoir when you're still a teenager may seem premature, but not for Mo'ne Davis, the first female pitcher to win a Little League World Series game. Mo'ne Davis: Remember My Name will be released in March by HarperCollins Children's Books, the publisher said on Monday.
As self-purchases, coffee-table books may seem like pricey indulgences, but as gifts they're an easy way to please a connoisseur, hobbyist or wannabe. Usually image-driven, often encyclopedic, these are some delectable titles to consider:
Chinese music lovers are shifting from buying physical records to watching live music shows, a new report indicates.
The Billboard chart, the benchmark for US music sales, will next week start to include streaming in its measurements to reflect the rapid growth of services such as Spotify.
A charity in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, recently made national headlines with its video dictionary of Chinese sign language, which is reported to be the first of its kind.
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