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When divorced Tony Webster receives an unexpected inheritance, he's pulled back into the past, to the end of his first relationship and the boyhood friend who picked up where he left off. Barnes tells a quietly devastating tale of memory, aging, time and remorse in The Sense of an Ending.

Michael Ondaatje's fifth novel, The Cat's Table, follows an 11-year-old boy on a 21-day journey from Sri Lanka to London. Unsupervised, he and his companions live by only one rule: to every day do at least one thing that is forbidden.

Police say a 32-year-old woman was kidnapped as she waited in her car at a red light in the Hillcrest area of San Diego.

The turmoil in the financial markets has pushed mortgage rates close to the lowest levels on record. But many Americans can't qualify for refinancing, and analysts say the government needs to step in to help.

Frank Miller's 300

A Changed Man?

Donna Cooper and her family were lost for three days in Death Valley. Now, a ranger wants to prevent cases like hers by going to the root of the problem.

Just back from a performance at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee, local band Joel P. West and the Tree Ring perform in the These Days studio and talk about their music. We have video!

Centuries ago, Afghanistan was a vital stop along the ancient Silk Road where cultures of the East and West converged. Artifacts from that rich cultural crossroads are currently on display at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. — after being hidden away for more than two decades in Kabul.

The Darker Side of Hope (And the Audacity of 'Our Posterity')