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Secrets and shame 鈥� every family has its share. When it came time to write her most autobiographical novel, Claire Messud relied on a 1,500-page family history compiled by her paternal grandfather.

Dymitr is on a personal mission, and it starts with facing the mythical leszy who鈥檚 guarding the fern flower as it blooms for the summer solstice.

The biggest challenge for an author tackling the history of the Situation Room, the basement room of the White House where some of the biggest intelligence crises have been handled in recent decades, is the room itself.

When the Challenger space shuttle exploded a little over a minute after its launch in 1986, it pierced the dreams of millions about who watched the tragedy unfold live on television.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Tom Selleck starts his memoir in the middle of a car crash. He is 17 and in the passenger seat when he and two friends go airborne in his mom's red Chevy Corvair, tumbling off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles.

TORONTO 鈥� Four books about Indigenous life are among the finalists for the $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.

TORONTO 鈥� A book about the legal implications of developing outer space has won the $60,000 Donner Prize.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch will have a book out this summer on a subject he has commented upon often 鈥� the volume of laws in the U.S.

OTTAWA 鈥� John Vaillant's bestselling book about the Fort McMurray wildfire has won the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Colm T贸ib铆n's 鈥淟ong Island,鈥� the Irish novelist's follow-up to the prize-winning immigrant tale 鈥淏rooklyn,鈥� is Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick.