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OTTAWA — There will be no new books, songs or plays added to the public domain in Canada until 2043 after the government squeezed in a change to copyright laws just before the end of 2022. Until Dec.

“Dogtown,” by Howard Owens (Permanent Press) Willie Black is a multi-racial, 60-year-old reporter who covers the night-cops beat for a dying Richmond, Virginia, newspaper.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday) 2. “The Boys from Biloxi” by John Grisham (Doubleday) 3. “Fairy Tale” by Stephen King (Scribner) 4. “Dreamland” by Nicholas Sparks (Random House) 5.

US Bestseller List - Paid Books 1. State of Shock (First Family Series, Book 4) by Marie Force - 9781958035085 - (HTJB, Inc.) 2. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover - 9781668001233 - (Atria Books) 3.

EDMONTON — An Alberta-born mother of four whose "Company's Coming" cookbooks have become ingredient-stained fixtures on kitchen shelves around the world has died at age 95. A statement from her family says Jean Paré died Christmas Eve in Edmonton.

NEW YORK (AP) — It took less than a day for the Jan. 6 report to go from public unveiling to the bestseller list on Amazon.com. By late Friday, three editions of the Congressional probe of the 2021 siege of the U.S.

Former U.S. president Barack Obama has included works by Canadians Kate Beaton and Emily St. John Mandel on his list of favourite books of the year.

NEW YORK (AP) — Books are an easy gift choice, but that doesn't mean they can't be fresh. There's always a great selection around the holidays for a range of ages and interests. Some ideas: “Creature,” by Shaun Tan.

HALIFAX — He's 84 years old and receiving chemotherapy treatments for liver cancer, but Mi'kmaq elder and author Daniel Paul says his mission of sweeping away the "fairy tales" of colonial history must go on.

Adam O’Byrne had largely put aside acting to work behind-the-scenes in television, but he could not turn down a hair-raising cameo on AMC's “Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire.