James Patterson

From impromptu jazz flugelhorn stylings to El Centro Mayor Efrain Silva dressed as an Egyptian pharaoh, everyone was in the spirit of Mardi Gras on Saturday night in downtown El Centro. The city’s fourth annual Mardi Gras parade featured about 33...

Name: Peter Olsen Occupation: Vice President, OfficeTECH, Inc. (family Xerox Sales Dealership business) Website: www.peter-olsen.com Registered Political Party: Democrat Last book you read: Tick Tock by James Patterson Favorite movie: Gran...

Tiger's Curse A Novel Colleen Houck Splinter: 416 pp., $17.95 Inter-species romance has become routine in young adult lit lately, especially between nubile young women who like their guys muscular and wolfen, at least for part of the day. In the...

Originally released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the publication of Lee's enduringly popular novel, this documentary compiles comments by many notables about the impact they felt from the story of Southern lawyer Atticus Finch and his handling...

Now that you've read Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, what's next? "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and the two books in the series that followed were worldwide blockbusters that left readers craving more books just like them. These three books,...

The Franklin County Art Alliance presented more than $1,000 in awards at its 40th annual exhibition on Sunday, June 5, at Calvary United Methodist Church in Fayetteville, Pa. More than 300 works by 86 artists were judged by Jennifer Chapman Smith and...

You have four unpublished novels in boxes under your bed, and you're pretty sure that one of them is a bestseller. Thankfully, your ego is pretty healthy, so all of those rejection letters from publishers are just grist for your......

John Locke tops the Kindle bestseller list with his 99-cent novels. Is this a good thing?...

Act of Passion A Novel Georges Simenon New York Review Books: $14.95 paper Though successful at his work and family life, a doctor grows dissatisfied and restless and thinks a casual affair is the perfect answer—until the consequences are far...

Mona Simpson's "My Hollywood," a layered, literary take on motherhood and nannyhood, enters the L.A. Times bestseller list this week at No. 11. Simpson, who lives in Santa Monica, told Susan Salter Reynolds about what inspired her to create Lola,......