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ViacomCBS announced Wednesday that it would sell publishing company Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House in a deal worth nearly $2.18 billion.

In late October, NYC’s most iconic bookstore posted a plea online for people to save The Strand. Book lovers listened. Owner Nancy Bass Wyden joined LX News to talk about the choices she has had to make during the pandemic to save the 93-year-old business.

During the 2018 season of “The Bachelor,” contestant Kendall Long brought her notebook of first date questions along, and it quickly became a viral sensation. Long joined NBCLX to discuss turning her collection of questions into a book, “Just Curious: A Notebook of Questions” and whether she wants another shot of finding love in “Bachelor Nation.”

Sports analyst and former NFL linebacker Emmanuel Acho’s video series “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man” has helped to bridge the divide between the way white and Black people communicate about race and racism. Now Acho has a new book with the same title that’s taking those “uncomfortable conversations” to a new audience.

Meena Jain of Cary Memorial Library joins Susan Tran to talk about books for different levels of readers that honor Indigenous People.

With Election Day approaching and the pandemic ongoing, Oprah Winfrey is setting aside her usual book club recommendations.

Chelsea Clinton latest book, ‘She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game” features inspiring female athletes who overcame obstacles to achieve their Olympic dreams, including Simone Biles and Serena and Venus Williams.

Growing up in a mostly white suburb of Philadelphia, author Cole Brown didn’t see people who looked like him in his neighborhood or in the media. He wrote his book “Greyboy” about his journey to find a Black identity in a white world.

American daredevil Nik Wallenda recently risked his life while walking across an active volcano. But it was a human pyramid stunt that made him experience fear for the first. Now he’s releasing a book to help others cope with their fear too.

Storyteller and podcaster Jay Shetty discusses his new book “Think Like a Monk,” which offers beneficial tools on how to deal with stress and combat anxiety.

Michael Cohen’s tell-all memoir makes the case that President Donald Trump is “guilty of the same crimes” that landed his former fixer in federal prison

India Winslow of Cary Memorial Library suggests more terrific books to read over the long weekend.

49ers Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel Hannah Gordon discusses her new book and the need for more diversity and inclusion in sports.

Best-selling author and global faith leader Chad Veach is teaching readers how to be modern leaders in 2020 in his new book “Help! I Work with People,” which emphasizes kindness and the importance of mental health.

Mikaila Ulmer, former “Shark Tank” contestant and one of Time Magazine’s Top 30 Most Influential Teens, discusses her new book, “Bee Fearless: Dream Like a Kid,” which is filled with life advice for young entrepreneurs.

A pandemic. A social justice movement. A nationwide call for change. Small businesses in America are operating during unprecedented times – but they aren’t letting COVID-19 stop them. How are they doing it?

Author and photographer Kate T. Parker calls her latest book “Play Like a Girl: Life Lessons from the Soccer Field” a “love letter to the game,” and hopes it will inspire young girls to stand up for themselves and speak their minds.

Best-selling thriller writers Jeffery Deaver and Ruth Ware break down the suspense stories they contributed to Amazon’s original collection “Hush.” They include Deaver’s “Buried” and Ware’s “Snowflakes.”

Author Joanna Cole, whose “Magic School Bus” books transported millions of young people on extraordinary and educational adventures, has died at age 75.

After becoming obsessed with stories about people who vanish in the American wilderness, Jon Billman wrote a book about the mysteries behind those disappearances: “The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America’s Wildlands”