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NEW YORK (AP) — Two giants of the women's rights movement, Gloria Steinem and Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee , have teamed up for a picture book with the mission of inspiring young people to change the world.

Richard Russo, whose “Fool” trilogy is beloved for the characters he created to populate a fictional upstate New York town, freely admits he’s always pulled from his real life to write his novels.

TORONTO — The limited series adaptation of Esi Edugyan's 2018 Giller Prize-winning novel "Washington Black" will arrive on Disney Plus this summer.

OYSTER BAY, N.Y. (AP) — Some places seem to communicate with you when you visit. Not audibly, of course, but they somehow impart the echo of a life lived long ago. That’s the feeling I get at Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park.

In 2014 Donal Ryan published a novel in the U.S. called “The Spinning Heart” about a rural Irish town after the 2008 financial collapse.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List) 1. Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 2. Great Big Beautiful Life: Reese’s Book Club by Emily Henry (Penguin Publishing Group) 3. My Friends by Fredrik Backman (Atria Books) 4.

Calgary writer Natalie Sue's debut novel about the absurdities of office life is one of three finalists for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.

Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia.

When Hugh Mangum was growing up in Los Angeles, his Texan father showed off his barbecue skills in their backyard nearly every weekend. It became a ritual for the family to patiently tend to the fire.

NEW YORK (AP) — This year's winners of the Gotham Book Prize celebrate New York City as experienced on foot, bus and train.