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The French president’s decision brought relief to the sellers who have long operated near the Seine, and avoided a standoff.

A collection of Quino’s translated works will provide new audiences a taste of the satirical comic compared to “Charlie Brown with socialism.”

A collection of Quino’s translated works will provide new audiences a taste of the satirical comic compared to “Charlie Brown with socialism.”

Roz, the beloved protagonist of Peter Brown’s popular children’s book, gets a glow-up for the big-screen adaptation.

Playing the professional Irishman, he returned from Limerick to New York where he tended bar and appeared in soap operas and, with his family, scattered “Angela’s Ashes.”

Her best-known book, “Het Bittere Kruid” (“Bitter Herbs”), described her experiences as a young woman after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.

“Carrie” was published in 1974. Margaret Atwood explains its enduring appeal.

In her most recent book, “The Comfort of Crows,” Renkl puts her admirable powers of perception to use, offering readers respite, and reason for hope, in a turbulent world.

“There is the danger of being Dan Browned,” said the comedian and author of “Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult.” Debtors Anonymous, coffee-shop chitchat and a well-timed pool gag help her stay afloat.

The book on which she collaborated with two fellow feminists drew global attention to the repression of women under their country’s dictatorship.