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Philippa Langley devoted years to the search for Richard III’s remains. Now, she’s trying to crack a 15th-century cold case: Did he really assassinate his nephews?

Espousing his ideas in best sellers, he insisted that religion was an illusion, free will was a fantasy and evolution could only be explained by natural selection.

Creators will spotlight Blondie in the comic strip, as she brings someone on board for her catering business.

Minimalist landscapes, maximalist extraterrestrials and schlock movie stars populate this month’s diverse offerings.

Feldman, who wrote in “Unorthodox” about leaving her Hasidic community in New York, has been touching a nerve in Germany, where she is now a citizen.

“City in Ruins” is the third novel in Winslow’s Danny Ryan trilogy and, he says, his last book. He’s retiring in part to invest more time into political activism.

He was prolific and acclaimed, producing novels, journalism, essays, criticism, screenplays and, in a memoir, an account of his path from faith to atheism and back again.

The best-selling British writer has an eye for bit players, including ones who nudge, nag, gripe and blurt inconvenient truths.

Women, sex and Jewish mothers were just some of the targets of his popular satirical writing in books, essays, screenplays and more.

Her solution? A packaging business that sells ideas for commercial genre fiction featuring characters from broadly diverse backgrounds.