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P.E.I. carpenter Nicholas Herring wins Writers' Trust fiction prize

P.E.I. carpenter Nicholas Herring wins Writers' Trust fiction prize

TORONTO 鈥 Debut novelist Nicholas Herring took home the top fiction prize at the Writers鈥 Trust Awards Wednesday evening for his tale of a lobster fisher whose unhappily monotonous life is upended by a series of unexpected events.
Skater Seguin's book details career-ending concussions, toxic relationship with coach

Skater Seguin's book details career-ending concussions, toxic relationship with coach

Julianne Seguin has spent a good chunk of the past few years "lying on my bed, staring at the wall" in her family's Montreal home.

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US Bestseller List - Paid Books Book Title by Author Name - ISBN - (Publisher) 1. No Plan B by Andrew Child & Lee Child - 9781984818553 - (Random House Publishing Group) 2. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover - 9781668001233 - (Atria Books) 3.
Emily Post's etiquette tome overhauled for 21st century

Emily Post's etiquette tome overhauled for 21st century

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Embracing without permission. Disparaging one parent in front of children struggling with divorce. Flaunting privilege. Being a bad listener or, worse, a terrible loser.
Judge blocks Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger

Judge blocks Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 A federal judge has blocked Penguin Random House's proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster, agreeing with the Justice Department that the joining of two of the world鈥檚 biggest publishers could 鈥渓essen competition鈥 for 鈥渢op-selling b
Review: 'The Revolutionary' chronicles key Founding Father

Review: 'The Revolutionary' chronicles key Founding Father

鈥淭he Revolutionary: Samuel Adams鈥 by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown and Co.) Aside from the namesake beer, Samuel Adams in many ways feels like the forgotten Founding Father.
Review: Cormac McCarthy returns with cryptic 鈥橳he Passenger'

Review: Cormac McCarthy returns with cryptic 鈥橳he Passenger'

鈥淭he Passenger鈥 by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) It鈥檚 been 16 years since Cormac McCarthy released 鈥淭he Road鈥 and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, cementing his reputation as a master American novelist.
Review: 'Someday, Maybe' earnestly embodies widow's grief

Review: 'Someday, Maybe' earnestly embodies widow's grief

鈥淪omeday, Maybe鈥 by Onyi Nwabineli (Graydon House Books) 鈥淪omeday, maybe鈥 is a phrase that noncommittally encapsulates hopes and fears alike. It's a response that lacks urgency, stagnating in the purgatory between 鈥測es鈥 and 鈥渘o.
Review: 'It's Not TV' account of HBO's rise and challenges

Review: 'It's Not TV' account of HBO's rise and challenges

鈥淚t鈥檚 Not TV: The Rise, Revolution and Future of HBO鈥 by Felix Gillette and John Koblin (Viking) Streaming and on-demand services are so commonplace nowadays, one can take for granted how revolutionary HBO was when it was first launched.

Hernan Diaz, Tana茂s among winners of $50,000 Kirkus Prize

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Hernan Diaz's novel 鈥淭rust,鈥 a postmodern take on wealth, power and reality set in the 1920s and 1930s, has won the Kirkus Prize for fiction.
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