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TORONTO — A Canadian award for books on global affairs has more than tripled its purse to $50,000.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jada Pinkett Smith has a lifetime of thoughts she'd like to set down.

NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres are among the celebrity moderators joining former first lady Michelle Obama on tour for her upcoming book, “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times.

NEW YORK (AP) — Gayl Jones' “The Birdcatcher,” a short, lyrical novel about a writer's trip to Ibiza and the gifted, unstable couple she stays with, is a National Book Award finalist for fiction.

Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries,” by Greg Melville (Abrams Press) It turns out that America’s graveyards are much more than keepers of our bodily remains until the organisms within the soil reclaim everything.

US Bestseller List - Paid Books Book Title by Author Name - ISBN - (Publisher) 1. Treasure State by C. J. Box - 9781250768032 - (St. Martin’s Publishing Group) 2. Verity by Colleen Hoover - 9781538724743 - (Grand Central Publishing) 3.

NEW YORK (AP) — Naomi Osaka has some life lessons she'd like to share. The tennis superstar has a deal with HarperCollins Publishers for a children's picture book, “The Way Champs Play," scheduled to come out Dec. 6.

NEW YORK (AP) — Bono's next tour will be without U2 and without a new album to support. He will instead be promoting his memoir “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story,” which comes out Nov. 1.

“Our Missing Hearts,” by Celeste Ng (Penguin Press) Celeste Ng takes us into a dystopian future where people are judged on their embrace of American "customs and traditions" and people of Asian descent are viewed with suspicion, sometimes even hate.

“The Hero of This Book” by Elizabeth McCracken (Ecco) Don’t be fooled by the fact that this slim new volume from Elizabeth McCracken has the words “a novel” on the cover. It’s a memoir.