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TORONTO — No Canadians are in the running for the Griffin Poetry Prize for the first time in the literary award's 25-year history.

NEW YORK (AP) — When Random House Publisher Andrew Ward met recently with staff editors to discuss potential book projects, conversation inevitably turned to current events and the Trump administration.

NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick is a memoir by an old friend and personal hero, Tina Knowles . Winfrey announced Tuesday that she had selected Knowles' “Matriarch,” which was published this week.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Tuesday signaled support for the religious rights of parents in Maryland who want to remove their children from elementary school classes using storybooks with LGBTQ characters .

NEW YORK (AP) — After winning one of the top literary prizes last year for his children's book “The Eyes & The Impossible,” Dave Eggers has a sequel set for this fall.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List) 1. Strangers in Time by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing) 2. The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose (Blackstone Publishing) 3. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Inc.

Demure, submissive and erotic, Suzie Wong is that bigger-than-life stereotype, that caricature Asian women grew up with in the U.S. We may have also secretly hoped to play that geisha-like image to win our way out of our oppression .

What would Joan think? Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into a book after her death.

Alan Weisman has found an all-world cast of scientists, engineers and environmentalists who have dreamed big and worked passionately to repair some of the world’s wrecked ecosystems and also to develop processes that, for example, use far less energy

Sara Jafari’s “Things Left Unsaid” is a love-craving, tumbling tale of two Iranian British friends who first meet in high school — the self-skeptic and pessimist Shirin Bayat, and the traumatized Kian Rahimi.