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The Kansas City Royals were on their way to a fourth 100-loss season in five years when Dayton Moore took over as general manager...

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LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s debut novel—about a black female journalist escaping the early-1900s Jim Crow laws of the South a...

Sifting through the stacks of her local library in Hamburg, Germany, Jennifer Teege happened upon a book that first fascinated and...

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