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The record-breaking box office of 'Avengers: Endgame,' by the numbers

The record-breaking box office of 'Avengers: Endgame,' by the numbers

Just how big was opening weekend, domestically? Well, Thursday night previews earned $60 million, which is more money than all but 11 2019 films have made in their entire runs.
by Linda Holmes

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Whatever your feelings on football, 'Fumbled' scores big

Whatever your feelings on football, 'Fumbled' scores big

Alexa Martin is married to a former NFL player, and she puts that experience to good use in her latest football romance -- a witty, sexy story about a determined single mom rediscovering an old love.
by Denny S. Bryce

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A family road trip story unlike any you've read

A family road trip story unlike any you've read

Bookseller Matt Keliher recommends a new novel that has one of his favorite scenes in fiction this year.
by Tracy Mumford

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'Parable of the Sower' blooms into an opera

'Parable of the Sower' blooms into an opera

The book by Octavia Butler at first frightened off the musician Toshi Reagon, and then drew her in.
by Marianne Combs

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An album from Prince's vault, and his memoir, are coming

The Prince estate has announced plans to release Originals, another album of previously unreleased tracks -- many of which were hits for other artists -- he recorded between 1981 and 1991.
by Robin Hilton

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Real photos inspire a fictional life in 'Feast Your Eyes'

Real photos inspire a fictional life in 'Feast Your Eyes'

Myla Goldberg's new novel is written as an exhibition catalogue for photographer Lillian Preston, who's fictional -- but her story of ambition and controversy in 1950s New York is real and relatable.
by Ari Shapiro

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