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OYSTER BAY, N.Y. (AP) — Some places seem to communicate with you when you visit. Not audibly, of course, but they somehow impart the echo of a life lived long ago. That’s the feeling I get at Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park.

TORONTO — Sarah McLachlan's taste for poking fun at herself has made its way onto "The Simpsons.

In 2014 Donal Ryan published a novel in the U.S. called “The Spinning Heart” about a rural Irish town after the 2008 financial collapse.

The six-legged alien Stitch from “Lilo & Stitch” doesn't choose to be bad. He's just genetically programed that way.

Top New Shows (US) 1. Next Up with Mark Halperin , MK Media 2. Spot On with Link Lauren , MK Media 3. Aspire with Emma Grede , Audacy 4. ReLiving Single , Hartbeat 5. The American West , MeatEater 6. Trial by Jury: Diddy , CNN 7.

Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US) 1. A Minecraft Movie 2. Warfare 3. A Working Man 4. Captain America: Brave New World 5. Snow White (2025) 6. Mickey 17 7. Drop 8. The Luckiest Man in America 9. Becoming Led Zeppelin 10.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List) 1. Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 2. Great Big Beautiful Life: Reese’s Book Club by Emily Henry (Penguin Publishing Group) 3. My Friends by Fredrik Backman (Atria Books) 4.

Nonfiction 1. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, narrated by the author (Audible Studios) 2. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 3. Mark Twain by Ron Chernow, narrated by Jason Culp (Penguin Audio) 4.

NEW YORK (AP) — Marjan Neshat is a veteran of stage and screen who teaches fledgling actors. Like so many of us, she sometimes has bouts of self-doubt.

Calgary writer Natalie Sue's debut novel about the absurdities of office life is one of three finalists for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.