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Titles to help you be a better friend, more interesting, less agitated, a successful giver.

Her new book, subtitled 'Overcoming the Fear of Death,' encourages us to talk about dying.

Check out a preview of his new series.

Three outstanding books collect profiles written by journalists before the celebrity-industrial complex was fully formed.    

The Obama adviser's book is due in 2014, plus Margaret Thatcher's death has sparked a publishing flurry.

"I just go to different theaters and do 90 minutes of questions and answers," says comedian.

So glad we had this time together, as she used to sing on her TV show.

Architect and author recommends buying what you need, not what you should buy.

It's cats online vs. dogs in print in today's book news. Plus, Pablo Neruda is being exhumed.

New thriller from Lisa Scottoline, about an Army doctor in Afghanistan, goes on sale April 9.

In “The Golden Egg,” Donna Leon’s latest Venetian mystery, Commissario Guido Brunetti looks into the suspicious death of the deaf and mentally disabled man who worked for his neighborhood dry cleaner.    

Mike Piazza recalls his career: his achievements, his feuds.    

This book presents the life of Muhammad for Western readers.    

Tamas Dobozy’s stories unfold between war-torn Hungary and the émigré circles of present-day North America.    

In “The Girls of Atomic City” — at No. 14 on the hardcover nonfiction list — Denise Kiernan explains the prominent role young women played in the Manhattan Project.    

Paperback books of particular interest.    

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.    

Marie Arana’s biography assesses the man who led Latin America’s independence movement against Spanish rule.    

A new biography of Hugo Chávez can serve as a political obituary.    

Part of what made the discovery of gorillas so sensational in the Victorian era was that they were “too similar to humans for comfort.”