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OTTAWA — The Governor General's office has announced 83 new appointments to the Order of Canada. A look: Companions: -Monique Forget Leroux, C.C., O.Q., Outremont, Que., a promotion within the Order for a leading figure in Canadian finance.

Hillary Clinton’s next book is a collection of essays, touching upon everything from marriage to politics to faith, that her publisher is calling her most personal yet.

Grace Zulu clawed her way out of her village and into college to study law in the Zambian capital Lusaka.

With her new novel “Parade,” the writer Rachel Cusk returns with a searching look at the pain artists can capture — and inflict.

ORILLIA;ONTARIO — Patrick deWitt's novel "The Librarianist" has won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. The $25,000 award goes to the best Canadian book of literary humour published in the previous year.

Heavy storms have made much of northern Maine impassible. Streams and rivers are overflowing their banks, and logging roads and forest trails are crisscrossed with toppled trees.

TORONTO — Nina Dunic has won Ontario's top book prize for her debut novel "The Clarion." Dunic's tale of two siblings took home the $20,000 Trillium Book Award at a ceremony on Thursday evening. A.

NEW YORK (AP) — The first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate, Carol Moseley Braun, will have a memoir out next year.

Marlowe Meadows has great grades and a loving family, two best friends who understand her and all her autistic quirks, and a picture-perfect, blue-eyed, football-playing, romantic boyfriend, Josh.

LONDON (AP) — Author-activist Naomi Klein won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction on Thursday with “Doppelganger,” a personal account of her plunge into the world of online misinformation.