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NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Follett is ready to wrap up his epic fictional chronicle of Western civilization. Viking announced Wednesday that the British author's “The Armor of Light" will be published Sept.

NEW YORK (AP) — “Vintage Contemporaries,” By Dan Kois (Harper) Emily Thiel, fresh to New York City by way of college and Wausau, Wisconsin, often has her nose stuck in a book.

US Bestseller List - Paid Books 1. Spare by The Duke of Sussex & Prince Harry - 9780593593813 - (Random House Publishing Group) 2. The House of Wolves by James Patterson & Mike Lupica - 9780316405492 - (Little, Brown and Company) 3.

NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Elizabeth Acevedo, Nancy Horan and Abraham Verghese, and a new biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. are among dozens of upcoming works excerpted in a free e-book compilation.

“The Shards,” by Bret Easton Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf) It’s the 1980s and rich prep school students in Los Angeles are living the life of absentee parents, fancy cars, drugs, sex and disaffection.

"Rikers: An Oral History," by Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau (Random House) In these times, when people disagree about seemingly everything, just about everyone interviewed for this book concurs on the thesis: the New York City jails on Rikers Island

LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has signed a deal to write a memoir of his tumultuous time in office, which began with a vow to “get Brexit done” and ended in scandal and resignation.

NEW YORK (AP) — No, the public has not tired of hearing about Prince Harry . Sales for “Spare" have placed the Duke of Sussex in some rarefied company.

TORONTO — Writer Monica Heisey says her own divorce at the age of 28 inspired her novel "Really Good, Actually," because she didn't see her experience reflected in pop culture and wanted to change that.

US Bestseller List - Paid Books 1. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover - 9781501110375 - (Atria Books) 2. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover - 9781668001233 - (Atria Books) 3.