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Book Review: 'The Celebrants' by Steven Rowley will make you want to call an old friend

Book Review: 'The Celebrants' by Steven Rowley will make you want to call an old friend

鈥淭he Celebrants鈥 by Steven Rowley (G.P. Putnam's Sons) Steven Rowley is one of those authors where if you read one of his novels, his name gets added to a mental 鈥淭BR鈥 (to-be read) list.
Jasmine Sealy's 'The Island of Forgetting' wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award

Jasmine Sealy's 'The Island of Forgetting' wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award

TORONTO 鈥 An intergenerational saga about a family that runs a beachfront hotel has won the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Jasmine Sealy took home the $60,000 prize for "The Island of Forgetting.
Adaptation or recreation? The art of translating poetry into another language

Adaptation or recreation? The art of translating poetry into another language

TORONTO 鈥 Among the five works nominated for this year's Griffin Poetry Prize is a collection from Iman Mersal, whose unflinching poems put in stark terms the realities of everyday life.
T.J. Newman returns with a novel that's on par with summer movie blockbusters

T.J. Newman returns with a novel that's on par with summer movie blockbusters

Time is a precious commodity and some readers need to be hooked from page one. T.J.

US-Apple-Books-Top-10

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Identity by Nora Roberts - 9781250284327 - (St. Martin鈥檚 Publishing Group) 2. Tom Clancy Flash Point by Don Bentley - 9780593422793 - (Penguin Publishing Group) 3.
Griffin-nominated poet Susan Musgrave on what happens after the worst

Griffin-nominated poet Susan Musgrave on what happens after the worst

After spending years on high alert, anticipating the worst and attempting to prevent it, Susan Musgrave is learning to live with its aftermath.
Presidential hopeful DeSantis inspires push to make book bans easier in Republican-controlled states

Presidential hopeful DeSantis inspires push to make book bans easier in Republican-controlled states

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) 鈥 As he vies for the Republican presidential nomination, Florida Gov.
Iowa law limits gender identity instruction, removes books depicting sex acts from school libraries

Iowa law limits gender identity instruction, removes books depicting sex acts from school libraries

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) 鈥 Iowa teachers will be banned from raising gender identity and sexual orientation issues with students through grade six, and all books depicting sex acts will be removed from school libraries, under a bill Republican Iowa Gov.

Review: 'The 1998 Yankees鈥 revisits team 25 years later

鈥淭he 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever,鈥 by Jack Curry (Twelve) Twenty-five years ago this fall, the New York Yankees won the World Series for the 24th time, part of a six-year run in which they won baseball鈥檚 champion

Rare James M. Cain story 'Blackmail' published for first time

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 PLEASE SEND FRIDAY JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT The characters are pure noir: Pat, a 鈥渄ark, heavily handsome thick-shouldered" young man; Myra, a 鈥渃heesecakey鈥 woman whose 鈥渢hick blonde hair" fell 鈥渙ff her bare head to brilliant brassy effect.