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NEW YORK (AP) — Simon & Schuster's corporate parent has officially ended the agreement for Penguin Random House to purchase the publisher, a proposed sale a federal judge already had blocked last month.

NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Dylan's publisher is offering refunds for a $600 special edition of his new book, “The Philosophy of Modern Song,” acknowledging that the allegedly “hand-signed” copies were not individually inscribed.

If your idea of a New Orleans cocktail is a Kool-Aid colored, alcohol-heavy concoction served in a plastic hand grenade or a novelty glass resembling a hurricane lamp, stop thinking like a college freshman on his first trip to Bourbon Street and take

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Desert Star” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) 2. “The Boys from Biloxi” by John Grisham (Doubleday) 3. “The Silmarillion” by J.R.R. Tolkien (William Morrow) 4. “No Plan B” by Child/Child (Delacorte) 5.

NEW YORK (AP) — Tess Gunty’s “The Rabbit Hutch,” a sweeping debut novel set in a low-income housing community in Indiana, has won the National Book Award for fiction.

“The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America,” by H.W. Brands (Doubleday) Though they're mentioned in the subtitle, William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo often feel more like supporting players in H.W.

TORONTO — Acclaimed writer Sheila Heti has won this year’s Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction. She picked up the $25,000 prize for her novel “Pure Colour,” a strange and meditative book about love and grief in a pre-apocalyptic time.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence blames Donald Trump for endangering his family “and all those serving at the Capitol” on Jan. 6 in a new memoir released Tuesday.

Book Title by Author Name - ISBN - (Publisher) 1. Desert Star by Michael Connelly - 9780316421461 - (Little, Brown and Company) 2. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover - 9781668001233 - (Atria Books) 3.

“Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions,” by Steve Martin with drawings by Harry Bliss (Celadon): Between the covers of this surprisingly thin memoir are truffles of humor from comedian Steve Martin’s movie career illustrat