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WINNIPEG — Some 250 coloured tacks pepper a large-scale world map among bookshelves at Whodunit Mystery Bookstore. Estonia, Finland, Japan and even Fenwick, Ont.

NEW YORK (AP) — At the end of her new memoir, Hillary Clinton offers up what sounds like a far-off wish: “I hope I’m alive to see the United States elect a female president.” Turns out her book went to the printers a tad too soon.

TORONTO — When Barbara Adhiya first learned that Terry Fox had run the length of a marathon a day during his journey across Canada, she was shocked.

NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction nominee for the National Book Awards.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie's “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” his explicit and surprisingly resilient memoir about his brutal stabbing in 2022, is a nominee for the National Book Awards.

NEW YORK (AP) — A $10,000 literary award named for the late author-editor-podcaster Gabe Hudson has been established by the publisher McSweeney's, where Hudson once worked.

Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat explores family, homeland and her literary heroes in “We're Alone,” a new volume of essays that include personal narratives of her early years as child immigrant in Brooklyn to reportage of recent events like

NEW YORK (AP) — This year's long list of National Book Awards for young people's literature has a poetic touch. Five of the 10 nominees announced Tuesday by the National Book Foundation are novels written in verse, including Olivia A.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Capture or Kill by Don Bentley & Vince Flynn (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) 2. Passions in Death by J. D. Robb (St. Martin’s Publishing Group) 3. The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore (One More Chapter) 4.