It's one of those rare books that needs no introduction. Harper Lee didn't want it to have one, either. In writing the foreword to her Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee noted:

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Annette John-Hall: 'Mockingbird' still sings

From the first familiar sign of stiffness, Leland Smith knows what's coming. An arm or a leg becomes stiff, then numb.

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Teen with illness raises awareness

NEW YORK - Author Suzanne Collins, her gentle smile and soft features framed by waves of blond hair, looked out upon hundreds of fans crowded into the Books of Wonder store in Manhattan and unveiled the most anticipated young adult novel of the summer, "Mockingjay."

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The fans turn out in NY for midnight 'Mockingjay' release

Book review: John Vaillant's "The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival" tells the mesmerizing true-life story of the hunt for a man-killing Siberian tiger. Vaillant, the Canadian author who wrote the acclaimed 2005 book "The Golden Spruce," discusses his book this week at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Co.

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'The Tiger': John Vaillant's mesmerizing tale of a man-eating tiger, vengeance and survival

After slashing the listing price on the Frank Lloyd Wright textile=block house in the past two years from $7,733,000 to $4,995,000 and not finding a buyer, Crosby Doe says he's "talking to an international art dealer with Japanese art-collector clients who might be interested in buying the house."

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Landmark Frank Lloyd Wright houses languish on the market

Curtis Dahlin will present a power point program of rare photos of people and sites that were part of the US/ Dakota War of 1862.

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Pictorial History of the US Dakota War of 1862

With celebrity gossip sites buzzing over Angelina Jolie's comment that her 4-year-old daughter, Shiloh, wants to be a boy, media reports spotlighting rare cases of transgender children and even children's books beginning to tackle the issue, concerned parents are sifting through a lot of contradictory information.

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When kids cross the gender divide

"Hollywood" is by far the most enjoyable of McMurtry's short memoirs that began with "Books" and continued with "Literary Life."

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Nonfiction review: 'Hollywood: A Third Memoir' by Larry McMurtry

DENVER - Two Denver women share a special bond, now that one donated a kidney to the other.

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Rare interracial kidney transplant a success

  So we found ourselves with three days off and full-time weekend babysitting, so we did what I think most 35-year-old professional married couples would do when gifted with such a rare opportunity: Went promptly to Harry Potter land in Orlando. My idea was Chuck E.

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Vrabels