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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have raided a long-established Palestinian-owned bookstore in east Jerusalem, detaining the owners and confiscating books about the decades-long conflict . The police said the books incited violence.

TORONTO — Treble Charger musician Greig Nori has filed legal documents in an Ontario court saying that Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley’s memoir has helped proliferate "fabricated" details about their sexual relationship and caused “enormous damage” to

NEW YORK (AP) — The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a scholar's immersion into a poem written during happier times.

TORONTO — Two jurors withdrew from the Giller Prize in the weeks leading up to the book award's split with its lead sponsor Scotiabank, with one saying his writing community feels alienated by the literary institution that faces ongoing boycotts.

NEW YORK (AP) — In John Irving's next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud's, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed “The Cider House Rules.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Several large book publishers, a tiny public library and others are suing Idaho officials over a law that forces libraries to keep some books in an adults-only section if community members believe they are “harmful to minors.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Several large book publishers, a tiny public library and others are suing Idaho officials over a law that forces libraries to keep some books in an adults-only section if community members believe they are “harmful to minors.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros - (Entangled Publishing, LLC) 2. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros - (Entangled Publishing, LLC) 3. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins - (Hay House) 4.

NEW YORK (AP) — Christie Brinkley will have a memoir out this spring, tracing “every adventure and twist of fate” from her rise to becoming a supermodel to her acting career to her marriage to Billy Joel.

TORONTO — The Giller Prize has parted ways with its lead sponsor Scotiabank more than a year after members of the literary community began protesting the bank's ties to an Israeli arms manufacturer.