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鈥淟ife Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest Gang Leader,鈥� by Mark Bowden (Atlantic Monthly Press).

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) 鈥� A high school along Florida's Atlantic Coast has removed a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank after a leader of a conservative advocacy group challenged it, claiming it minimized the Holocaust.

鈥淭he Trackers鈥� by Charles Frazier (Ecco) The characters that populate Charles Frazier鈥檚 new novel 鈥淭he Trackers鈥� are all searching for something.

TORONTO 鈥� An examination of China鈥檚 evolution from fragile superpower to global heavyweight has won the $50,000 Lionel Gelber Prize. Susan L.

TORONTO 鈥� Calgary author Suzette Mayr has been shortlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. The US$150,000 award celebrates excellence in fiction by women and non-binary writers in Canada and the United States.

MONTREAL 鈥� Tomson Highway says he hopes his upcoming multilingual kids' book can help preserve the Cree language.

TORONTO 鈥� Scott Griffin is shaking up the Canadian poetry landscape for the second time in a year, lending his name to the Writers' Trust poetry prize and more than doubling its purse.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Yiyun Li's novel 鈥淭he Book of Goose,鈥� the story of two mischievous teenage girls in post-World War II France and their improbable literary success, has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Outlive by Bill Gifford, MD & Peter Attia (HarmonyRodale) 2. I Will Find You by Harlan Coben (Grand Central Publishing) 3.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Novels by Geraldine Brooks and Lan Samantha Chang and poetry by Saeed Jones are among this year's winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, presented for literature 鈥渢hat confronts racism and explores diversity.