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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.

A heartfelt presentation of small-town American life and the joys and struggles that go with it, “Home of the American Circus” centers on Freya who, at 30, must move back home and deal with the house her parents left her.

TORONTO — A book about Canada's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has won the Donner Prize for public policy writing.

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