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“City of Dreams,” by Don Winslow (William Morrow) “City of Dreams” is the middle book in a planned trilogy that began when a stunning woman emerged from the surf at a Rhode Island beach in last year’s “City on Fire” and sparked a war between the stat

“Games and Rituals” by Katherine Heiny (Knopf) A driving examiner falls for the new guy. A woman wonders what to do about her teenage son who may be experimenting with drugs.

“The Tip Line,” by Vanessa Cuti (Crooked Lane) Virginia Carey’s two best friends were married and pregnant, but at age 30, she was single, “drinking wine every night,” she says, “while I swiped my way through online dating sites.

“The Wager: A Take of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,” by David Grann (Doubleday) The Wager, a British war ship, crashed onto rocks amid stormy seas off the coast of Patagonia in 1741.

HALIFAX — Joan Clark, acclaimed Canadian author and Order of Canada recipient, has died. She was 88. Clark wrote more than 15 books for adults and children, including An Audience of Chairs, Latitudes of Melt and The Dream Carvers.

Leaders in a rural Texas county held a special meeting Thursday but drew back from the drastic option of shutting their public library system rather than heeding a federal judge's order to return books to the shelves on themes ranging from teen sexua

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Romantic Comedy (Reese’s Book Club) by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House Publishing Group) 2. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover (Atria Books) 3.

NEW YORK (AP) — Saying she is ready to share the “unfathomable” experience of being arrested and incarcerated in Russia , basketball star Brittney Griner is working on a memoir that is scheduled for spring 2024.

TORONTO — Journalist John Lorinc and former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz are among the nominees for this year's Donner Prize, which goes to the best public policy book.

“Advika and the Hollywood Wives” by Kirthana Ramisetti (Grand Central) Evening. Interior.