At shops across the country, some of the most popular sales associates have four legs, twitchy ears and whiskers.

DARWIN AND THE BEAGLE by Alan Moorehead. Illustrated. 280 pages. Harper & Row. $15.Any pleasant Sunday afternoon aboard H.M.S. Beagle, outward bound from Plymouth in 1831 on a scientific voyage ...

USA TODAY’s Jocelyn McClurg scopes out the hottest books on sale each week. 1. “Target Alex Cross” by James Patterson (Little, Brown, fiction, on sale Nov. 19) What it’s about: Alex Cross ...

Stephen King, Author, Peter S. Beagle, Author, Laura Kasischke, Author. Underland $14.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-9802260-8-9 Brockmeier (The Brief History of the Dead ) compiles 20 eclectic and ...

Local children’s author Evelyn Gilmer has published the fourth book in her beloved Beagle series, entitled “Maggie the Beagle Goes to Summer Camp.” Gilmer, a Thomas University alumni and ...

The reconstruction, led by science historian John van Wyhe of the National University of Singapore, catalogs more than 195,000 pages of text and 5,000 illustrations. The project began in 2006 when van ...

Snoopy, good ol’ Charlie Brown’s pet beagle in the “Peanuts” comic strip, has been many things: World Famous World War I Flying Ace, jazz saxophonist Joe Cool, a writer, attorney, tennis ...