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NEW YORK (AP) — This year's long list of National Book Awards for young people's literature has a poetic touch. Five of the 10 nominees announced Tuesday by the National Book Foundation are novels written in verse, including Olivia A.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Capture or Kill by Don Bentley & Vince Flynn (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) 2. Passions in Death by J. D. Robb (St. Martin’s Publishing Group) 3. The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore (One More Chapter) 4.

There was a class at my university called Black Arts, Black Power. Lester Fabian Brathwaite’s “Rage” would fit snugly right into that syllabus.

Naturalist, priest and writer intertwines awe of nature into spiritual work and practice

I graduated from Middlebury College with Porter Fox just over 30 years ago. We weren’t friends, but it was a small campus and everyone knew something about everybody else. I knew he sailed and wore L.L. Bean like a native Mainer.

NEW YORK (AP) — Author-playwright Jessica Hagedorn, “Yellowface” novelist R.F.

An atomic bombing is so horrific all accounts tend to be quintessential. M.G. Sheftall’s “Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses,” a carefully and respectfully researched oral history, is no different.

TORONTO — Mattea Roach is starting a new professional chapter. The Toronto-based "Jeopardy" super-champion turned podcaster will hit the airwaves Canada-wide this weekend as they take the helm of CBC's new literary radio show, "Bookends.

NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Kingsolver, this year's recipient of a National Book Award medal for literary achievement, remembers well the years she couldn't imagine receiving such honors.

TORONTO — Carol Off hopes her latest book will become irrelevant as the years pass. She fears it will not.