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When a rock quintet of farm animals hits the highway in a van, mayhem and music ensue. In his ninth vividly illustrated children's book, Jarrett J. Krosoczka brings to life the adventures of a barnyard band.

Some doctors are "better" than others. The author and surgeon explores the meaning of excellence in medicine — and life. On the page and off, Gawande is obsessed with the fragile balance between doing harm and doing good.

A new study suggests that there are 20 quadrillion ants on Earth. And that's a conservative estimate.

In The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, Hooman Majd, an Iranian-American writer and the grandson of an ayatollah, travels behind "Persian walls" to provide a revealing look at modern Iran.

From dismembered toes to leathery tongues, Peter Manseau explores the centuries-old obsession with relics, the body parts of long-dead saints and spiritual leaders.

A definition, cost and explanation of the resurgence of the deadly coal miners' disease.

Bestselling author, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou is considered to be among the greatest writers alive today. In this week's Wisdom Watch, Angelou talks — and sings — about why she feels proud to be an American woman of color. Her latest book is A Song Flung Up to Heaven, the final volume of her memoirs.

Drawing on tales from her grandmother's life, debut novelist Padma Viswanathan depicts the intense social and political changes of the past century in India in The Toss of a Lemon.

Irish author Anne Enright heads for the familiar terrain of the dysfunctional family in The Gathering. Last fall, the novel was awarded Britain's highest literary honor, the Man Booker Prize.

"Born with horses and oil in his blood," Colton H. Bryant was a sweet-natured Wyoming kid who died in an accident while working on an oil rig. In a new book, Alexandra Fuller narrates the short life of a modern American cowboy.