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TORONTO — Anthropologist David R. Samson has won the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy for his book about how tribalism can be harnessed for good and ill.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Inheritance by Nora Roberts (St. Martin’s Publishing Group) 2. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Inc.) 3.

“California, here we come.” The refrain from the Phantom Planet tune “California” that served as the theme song for “The O.C.

“There is nothing new under the sun.” So goes the adage which conveys the tendency for history to repeat itself. It’s this unstated premise that drives Kliph Nesteroff’s latest book, “Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars.

The Oneg Shabbat archive was a secret project of Jewish prisoners in the Warsaw Ghetto to record their histories as they awaited deportation to Nazi death camps during World War II.

CALGARY — The Indigenous roots of one of Alberta's longest serving and best-known premiers is explored in a new book focusing on the ancestry of Peter Lougheed and his Métis grandmother.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ringo Starr's latest project is for fans of music and of fashion.

TORONTO — Debut novelist Kai Thomas said he was struck by "surreality" when Margaret Atwood announced he had won the top fiction prize at the Writers' Trust Awards on Tuesday evening.

Hannah Masury, for a brief time, was a pirate.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. The Edge by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing) 2. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled Publishing, LLC) 3. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Inc.