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The tiny town of Semur-en-Auxois in Burgundy has the honor of hosting the Tour de France for the first time ever this year, and it has been sprucing up for the occasion for months.

Oprah Winfrey has named Ruby, a novel about a beautiful, abused woman in Texas, as her March book club selection. That could make first-time novelist Cynthia Bond into a literary star.

Bradford Morrow's novel delves into literary forgery, and takes its time doing so. But when the truth belongs to those able to fake it, The Forgers — elegant yarn it may be — promises some knots, too.

While readers may not share Edmund de Waal's obsession with the precious clay (at one point, he crafts an exhibition of 2,455 white-glazed porcelain vessels), his writing makes the subject seductive.

Edna O'Brien's new book is set in a little Irish village disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger, a war criminal in hiding whose murderous hands can heal as well as kill.

A new translation of the 14th century Egyptian scholar Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri's magnum opus, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition, is a priceless glimpse at the medieval Muslim world.

In Where the Water Goes, David Owen uses the history of the Colorado River to lay out the immense complexity of America's water situation, reminding us that both water and time are finite resources.

A woman gave birth to eight babies in Bellflower, Calif., on Monday. She had 46 doctors, nurses and assistants on hand for the delivery by C-section. Dr. Harold Henry, chief of maternal and fetal medicine at the Bellflower Medical Center, weighs in.

A tiny bit of space junk just a third of an inch wide had the crew of the International Space Station scrambling for safety Thursday, as experts continue to debate what can be done about all the trash that's orbiting our planet.

The Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve is home to the biggest subpolar ice field in North America, and nine of the 16 highest peaks in the U.S. Smitty Parratt, the park's chief interpreter, talks about the largest U.S. national park.