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NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country's first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.

TORONTO — Poet-novelists Canisia Lubrin and Fawn Parker are among the authors shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. The Writers' Trust of Canada announced the finalists for the $60,000 prize on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Although it's a bestseller on Amazon, the late Kim Porter did not write a tell-all memoir detailing an abusive relationship with her longtime partner Sean “Diddy” Combs, her children said in a statement Tuesday.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia economist Lars Osberg's latest book on the widening gap between the very richest and the rest argues the trend is creating disappointed Canadians prone to distrusting one another and their governments.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Texas county that wants to keep 17 books off its shelves — some dealing humorously with flatulence and others with issues including sex, gender identity and racism — argued its case Tuesday before 18 federal appeals court judges

A Texas county that wants to keep 17 books off its shelves — some dealing humorously with flatulence and others with issues including sex, gender identity and racism — argued its case Tuesday before 18 federal appeals court judges amid questions on w

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. We Solve Murders by Richard Osman (Penguin Publishing Group) 2. The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave (S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books) 3. The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore (One More Chapter) 4.

Ivan and Peter Koubek’s father has just died, but neither seems willing to talk much about it, let alone to one another. After all, it’s not like the two brothers are even friends.

Historian H.W. Brands' “America First: Roosevelt vs Lindbergh in the Shadow of War" barely mentions former President Donald Trump or the 2024 election. But it could be one of the most relevant books to read for this year's presidential campaign.

“The barn… is long and narrow with sliding doors in the middle,” writes Wright Thompson in ‘The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi.