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Imbolo Mbue, author of “Behold the Dreamers,” returns with new novel “How Beautiful They Were,” plus more of this week’s new releases.       

The former wildlife park owner and Netflix star who is serving time for his role in a 2017 murder-for-hire plot is telling his side of the story.       

Sales for some popular Dr. Seuss titles have soared on Amazon and Barnes and Noble following news six would stop publishing because of racist imagery.       

Mariah Carey is being sued by her older brother Morgan for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress in her recent memoir.       

Stephen King marries crime and horror again with his new “Later,” which features the latest in a long line of the legendary author’s kid protagonists.       

Klara is an Artificial Friend who observes humanity in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun,” his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in 2017.       

“Fear is natural and that’s the piece that we need to normalize,” Ajayi Jones tells USA TODAY. Her new book is out March 2.       

Looking for a good book? Actress, producer and passionate book-lover Reese Witherspoon has quite a few to recommend via her Hello Sunshine book club.      

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer” delivers more of a good thing.       

He might be waiting to get back on the road again, but Willie Nelson hasn’t been twiddling his thumbs this past year. He wrote another book.       

Nobel winner Kazuo Ishiguro returns with his much-anticipated new novel “Klara and the Sun,” while Viet Thanh Nguyen releases sequel “The Committed.”       

“There is no one Black experience,” says LaKeshia N. Darden, chair of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Jury. Meet 50 Black YA authors to start reading now.       

“Apropos of Nothing,” Woody Allen’s memoir, reads like the long-winded tale of the world’s most tiresome, self-pitying dinner party guest.       

In his third book, “Blood Gun Money: Firearms Trafficking Along America’s Iron River,” Ioan Grillo tackles the issue of proliferating firearms.       

CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter is reworking his book “Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth,” adding 20,000 words.       

Biographer Hermione Lee tackles the towering career of Tom Stoppard, and Morgan Rogers’ “Honey Girl” is sure to charm.       

Brooklyn-raised MC Talib Kweli invites readers into his life as a student of hip-hop, Black liberation and Pan-Africanism in “Vibrate Higher.”       

Black History Month this February follows months of calls for discussions on racism and police brutality. Books have arisen as an important resource.      

Fiction humanizes the Black experience and enlightens readers by helping them see the world through a Black author’s perspective.       

Allegations of abuse, creative theft and dashed dreams of success. Here’s a look inside the pages of incendiary new bio “The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee.”       

In the same week she died, Cicely Tyson shared memories from her seven-decade-long career in her first memoir, “Just As I Am.”       

Patricia Lockwood (“Priestdaddy”) explores life online, and off, in her first novel, “No One Is Talking About This.”       

“True Believer” paints a revelatory portrait of Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, and Bill Gates offers solutions to impending climate disaster.