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He even wrote a kid's book about Trump called The Plot Against the King.

Patel even wrote a children's book about how Trump was investigated for potential ties to Russia, calling it, The Plot Against the King, starring King Donald.

the founder has an office with bookshelves filled with philosophy texts, but also Mein Kampf was on the shelf.

21yearold Peyton Rollins ... started promoting an antiSemitic trope and Confederate imagery and used the typeface from the original cover of Hitler's Mein Kampf.

a public library system in Washington state wanted a copy of Fahrenheit 451. That would cost them $51.99 for the license. The e-book could then only be checked out by one patron at a time, and it would expire after two years.

his turn as a crusading journalist in ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, the grifter in The Sting, the CIA agent caught in the cat-and-mouse game in Three Days of the Condor.

Henry David Thoreau used brain rot in 1854 in his classic Walden.

Basically, if you think about how many American kitchens have a copy of Joy of Cooking in there, same thing.

inspiring the bestselling children's book, And Tango Makes Three.

It's The Tokyo Suite by Giovanna Madaloso. This is a novel about two women. The first is a maid. Her name is Maju. And the second is her boss, Fernanda, who is a hotshot TV producer. And Maju, the maid, has kidnapped Fernanda's daughter.

And we don't know why she's kidnapping her, but they're on the run. And we get both of their perspectives. We get their internal lives, their histories, their motivations.

And it's just a fascinating look at so many themes. Motherhood, class, just a great sensitive portrait, but also very, very funny. And it moves. It moves very quickly. I really love that book.

I went into an English class where the students were reading Oedipus Rex, the Sophocles play, and that's about free will.

New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani urged people to use yesterday's snowstorm as a chance to stay home, nap, or... Take advantage of our public library's offer of free access to heated rivalry on ebook or audio book for anyone with a library card.

He pointed people to heated rivalry, the love story about professional hockey players that, thanks to a very steamy TV adaptation, has become a global phenomenon. According to the New York Public Library, thousands of people took him up on his suggestion. It's currently the most popular romance novel in the country, according to the library.

Donald Trump may have authored the art of the deal, but he perfected the art of the steel.

It's a cookbook packed with more than 2,000 recipes titled The Talisman of Happiness. ... it hadn't been available in English, other than a watered-down, abridged version from 1950.

the novel Rose in Chains, which is adapted from a Jermione story originally published online, debuted at number one on the Times Fiction bestseller list.

The first is called King of Ashes. This is by S.A. Cosby, a crime writer who's written four crime novels set in the South, in Virginia. And in this new one, a finance manager named Roman has to come back to his small town after his father is in a terrible accident, discovers that his brother, who's sort of a screw-up, has gotten them all involved with the local crime gang, and he has to figure out how to extract his family from this very dicey situation. As with all of Cosby's books, it has a gripping plot, it's pretty violent, it's very dark, and if these are the kind of things that you're into, I can attest that it is very, very entertaining.

The next one is a nonfiction book, the conceit of which has obsessed me. It's called A Marriage at Sea. It's by Sophie Elmhurst, and it's about a married couple who, in the 1970s, they say, we've been together for quite a while, let's do something crazy. Let's sail around the world. And they start to do that, and then when they are in the great expanse of the ocean, a whale bumps into their boat. They have to jump into a life raft where they have to survive for 117 days or something like that. So it's about their journey, it's about their attempt to survive, and I just want to know how a married couple does it in a life raft for 117 days.

In her book, Careless People, which came out this week, she describes the company's executives, including Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, as statusobsessed and selfabsorbed.

For Sandberg, the book claims she and her assistant would take turns sleeping in each other's laps and stroking each other's hair. The book also details how Facebook struggled to wield its growing power, especially when it came to content moderation.

The Times' review of the book called the whole thing, genuinely shocking, an ugly, detailed portrait of one of the most powerful companies in the world.

The book Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yaros has become the fastest selling novel for adults in 20 years. It's sold more than 2.7 million copies in its first week. And the top three slots on the Times hardcover bestseller list right now are all Yaros. Onyx Storm is her third novel in a series about dragon riders trained at a military academy. Fans were so hungry for the new book, they lined up at midnight release parties late last month,

Onyx Storm's bestseller status cements the fact that the romance fantasy genre, a.k.a. romanticy, with spicy sex scenes and supernatural elements, is not a fleeting trend. It also speaks to the power of book talk, reviews that are posted on TikTok and help some books go viral. Videos on Yaros and her books have been viewed more than a billion times.

Arthur Fromer ... has died at 95. A trip to Europe has always been a luxury, but it used to be the exclusive domain of the super wealthy, until Fromer put out his guidebook in 1957, titled, Europe on $5 a Day. In it, he insisted that you didn't have to own an oil well to see London, Paris, and Rome.

The book sold out nearly overnight, and Fromer's travel guides became the standard for budgetconscious tourism.

For example, one post from DHS included a link to join ICE, along with the phrase, Which Way, American Man? That slogan is nearly identical to the title of an antiSemitic book from the 70s titled, Which Way, Western Man? Which is a key text for white supremacist groups.