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NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Ringo Starr's latest project is for fans of music and of fashion.

TORONTO 鈥� Debut novelist Kai Thomas said he was struck by "surreality" when Margaret Atwood announced he had won the top fiction prize at the Writers' Trust Awards on Tuesday evening.

Hannah Masury, for a brief time, was a pirate.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. The Edge by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing) 2. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled Publishing, LLC) 3. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Inc.

Susan Kiyo Ito always knew she was adopted, but uncovering her birth family became a decadeslong process marked by moments of warm connection and icy divides 鈥� raw stories compiled into a memoir that鈥檚 alternately touching and heartbreaking.

Author Matt Coyle has put San Diego private eye Rick Cahill through a lot in his fine series of crime novels. Rick has accumulated sinister enemies on both sides of the law. He鈥檚 been shot and beaten so many times that his body is laced with scars.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A good book packs power. A good book thoughtfully chosen as a gift can add a layer of joy. The holidays are a great time to track down just the right coffee table reads for loved ones. There's a wide array this time of year.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) 鈥� A library book that is more than a century overdue was finally returned in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Toronto layabout Scott Pilgrim has been 23 for 19 years, but somehow, he still feels fresh.

TORONTO 鈥� When Geddy Lee goes big, he goes huge. It鈥檚 a personality trait that served him well as bassist and vocalist of prog-rock legends Rush, whose epic songs, among them 鈥淭om Sawyer鈥� and 鈥淲orking Man,鈥� are enshrined in Canadian music history.