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A treatise on immigration, an undocumented immigrant torn away from her son and a teenager’s treacherous journey to reunite with his mother.

Former President Obama is out of office but he’s keeping up on politics and social issues with the books he’s reading. Obama shared a list of books he's been reading on Facebook on Saturday. The list is long on intellectual nonfiction and short on anything that could be described as a beach read.

In his new book 'Once Upon a Farm,' country musician Rory Feek reminisces about life with late wife Joey, raising daughter Indiana, and haircuts.        

Lively narrators, rich context make these middle-grade books shine

We live in an age of the overwhelming: social media, societal schisms and activism, Charlottesville, North Korea, and Donald Trump, just to name a few.

Welcome to the Books newsletter from the L. A. Times! I’m Carolyn Kellogg, Books editor, with the latest. THE BIG STORY Bestselling novelist Megan Abbott, known for her psychological thrillers like “Dare Me,” explores the allure of true crime, books like Michelle McNamara’s “I”ll Be Gone in the

Seymour Hersh recounts breaking My Lai massacre and getting duped by forged documents.

Roland Philipps explores the ideology that prompted Donald Maclean’s traitorous actions.

Building buzz and raising cash — the publishing social circuit is good for more than free booze.

“The Great Revolt,” by Salena Zito and Brad Todd, allows Trump backers to speak in their own voices.

Jackie Chan will share more stories about his amazing life and career with a memoir coming out in November.        

Michael Ondaatje, whose most recent novel is “Warlight,” loves characters “on the periphery”: “Convicts, abandoned lovers, the dog that pulled someone out of quicksand.”

Books to inspire dads — or make them feel woefully inadequate.

James and Deborah Fallows, flying around in a small propeller airplane, embarked on a years-long journey to the heartland of America, which they recount in “Our Towns.”

In her new book, the sociologist Arlene Stein follows four subjects connected by their experiences at a Florida clinic for gender affirmation surgery.

'Our Towns' finds optimism in America's smaller cities