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British Museum apologizes for using Canadian translator's work without permission

British Museum apologizes for using Canadian translator's work without permission

The British Museum says it has removed a Canadian translator's work from its exhibition after using the translations without permission, attribution or compensation.
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Granddaughter calls her picture book a 'love letter' to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Granddaughter calls her picture book a 'love letter' to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

NEW YORK (AP) — The 15-year-old granddaughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is collaborating on a picture book tribute to the late civil rights leader and his wife, Coretta Scott King.
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Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is writing a book on leadership

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is writing a book on leadership

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Friday she is writing a book, with the focus more on leadership than on politics.
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Presto! Rare Maurice Sendak picture story, 'Ten Little Rabbits,' will be published in 2024

Presto! Rare Maurice Sendak picture story, 'Ten Little Rabbits,' will be published in 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — A rare Maurice Sendak picture story, originally a pamphlet for a 1970 museum fundraiser, will be coming out in book form next year. HarperCollins Publishers announced Thursday that Sendak's “Ten Little Rabbits” is scheduled for Feb.
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Poet Stuart Ross wins Trillium Book Award for 'The Book of Grief and Hamburgers'

Poet Stuart Ross wins Trillium Book Award for 'The Book of Grief and Hamburgers'

TORONTO — An unflinching meditation on loss and mortality has won Ontario's top book prize. Stuart Ross took home the $20,000 Trillium Book Award on Tuesday night for "The Book of Grief and Hamburgers.
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Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand - 9780316259385 - (Little, Brown and Company) 2. Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood - 9780593336878 - (Penguin Publishing Group) 3.
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Book Review: Ruth Ware’s 'Zero Days' lacks the urgency of her previous books

Book Review: Ruth Ware’s 'Zero Days' lacks the urgency of her previous books

“Zero Days” by Ruth Ware (Scout Press) The author of “The Woman in Cabin 10” and “In a Dark, Dark Wood” is back with another page-turning thriller.
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Book Review: Erudite but accessible, Megan Fernandes’ new book will turn poetry agnostics into fans

Book Review: Erudite but accessible, Megan Fernandes’ new book will turn poetry agnostics into fans

“I Do Everything I’m Told” by Megan Fernandes (Tin House) Megan Fernandes’ new book, “I Do Everything I’m Told,” is a collection of unruly, irreverent love poems — to the speaker’s younger self, her former lovers and the child she aborted.
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Book Review: Lorrie Moore brings her maximalist wordplay to a macabre exploration of love and death

Book Review: Lorrie Moore brings her maximalist wordplay to a macabre exploration of love and death

“I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home,” by Lorrie Moore (Alfred A. Knopf) Lorrie Moore has loss on her mind.
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Robert Macfarlane wins inaugural Weston International Award for non-fiction author

Robert Macfarlane wins inaugural Weston International Award for non-fiction author

TORONTO — British author Robert Macfarlane has won the inaugural Writers' Trust Weston International Award. The $75,000 prize goes to a non-fiction author who is not from Canada to honour an outstanding body of work.
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