Betty Ballantine, who with her husband helped transform reading habits in the pre-internet age by introducing inexpensive paperback books to Americans, died Tuesday in Bearsville, New York. She was 99 ...

1. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books: $30) A story of friendship, love and adversity during the 1980s Space Shuttle program. 2. Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart (Random House: $28) ...

Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel about book burning faced its own censorship when its publisher, Ballantine Books, released an expurgated edition in 1967, censoring words like "hell," "damn," and ...