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Check out the secret literary life of actor Ken Baumann.

Robert Edsel, a former Texas oilman, wrote 'Saving Italy' about rescue of art from Nazis.

From Bradbury to Mantel, author Helene Wecker shares her favorite magical realist books.

You should be slapped if you let your kids cry at movie or put them on reality TV, he says.

Actor has a new comic book about raising daughters, taken mostly from his own experience.

On sale May 7: Rick Yancey's 'The 5th Wave,' the next 'Hunger Games'?

Paperback books of particular interest.    

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.    

In early-20th-century America, two powerful men were engaged in a contest to possess the world’s most remarkable watch.    

A mysterious Fabergé egg encodes secrets at the heart of Danielle Trussoni’s second tale of evil fallen angels..    

Peter Dimock’s narrator, haunted by the treatment of political detainees, writes to a former Bush administration official.    

Anne Perry’s novel “Midnight at Marble Arch” is a sweeping and scandalous exposé of sexual brutality amid the upper classes.    

New books by Chip Walter, Jesse J. Prinz, Torkel Klingberg and Ray Kurzweil.    

The theoretical physicist Lee Smolin examines the role of time in the universe.    

In André Aciman’s novel, an alienated immigrant grad student befriends a volatile immigrant hack.    

The Polish singer Vera Gran survived World War II, but at a heavy price.    

Fiction meets history in Ismail Kadare’s novel.    

David Sedaris, the humor essayist who calls his work “realish,” is at No. 1 on the hardcover nonfiction list this week, with “Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls.”    

Helen Oyeyemi can’t remember when she started writing.    

Ramona Ausubel’s fantastical story collection traces a cycle of transformation: from love to conception to gestation to birth.