October 23 will be a big day for fans of Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance cycle. That’s the pub date for a quartet of new releases from Knopf, including an enhanced e-book featuring 17 ...

Our March book club pick for Now Read This, the PBS NewsHour’s book club with The New York Times, is Dani Shapiro’s “Inheritance,” a memoir about grappling with the unexpected results of an ancestry ...

These days, having your DNA analyzed is almost as common as owning a smartphone, so when Dani Shapiro jumped on the trend, she thought she was just taking a measure of her genetic heritage. She didn’t ...

Oh, how quickly they grow up. Just eight years ago, Eragon was an orphaned farm boy, and his inventor was a home-schooled wunderkind. Today, the dragon rider possesses immortality, a light-up sword ...

A DNA test, taken on a whim, leads to a startling result and a big meditation on the meaning of ancestry and family. Author Dani Shapiro tells her story in the celebrated new book, “Inheritance.” She ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- If you are looking for a great book look no further. Launching the week of April 1st is a novel called "The Sicilian Inheritance" by local author, Jo Piazza. It's an adventure, ...

Jo Piazza's latest book is a deeply researched novel steeped in her own family's history. But the Philadelphia-based author isn't just going after the historical fiction crowd. As she writes on her ...