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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.

MONTREAL — Days after a local Montreal library refused to offer space for an English-language book club, the City of Montreal has backtracked and asked the Quebec government for more guidance in applying the province's language laws.

NEW YORK (AP) — Rumaan Alam's “Entitlement,” Ian Frazier's “Paradise Bronx” and Lisa Ko's “Memory Piece” are among 14 finalists for the Gotham Book Prize, a $50,000 award for outstanding fiction or nonfiction writing about New York City.

NEW YORK (AP) — Nora Roberts is so prolific she had to take up a pen name so her publisher could release more books by her each year. “I’m a fast writer,” Roberts told The Associated Press in a rare interview.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Authors Guild has set up an online portal for members to certify that their books “emanated from the human intellect” and not from artificial intelligence.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Authors Guild has set up an online portal for members to certify that their books “emanated from the human intellect” and not from artificial intelligence.

MONTREAL — A Montreal author is speaking out after a local library cited Quebec's language laws in refusing his request to host an English-language book club.

NEW YORK (AP) — Dan Brown' s next global, multi-tiered thriller finds protagonist Robert Langdon journeying from Prague to New York to London as he evades a would-be assassin and ponders the depths of human consciousness.

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump's press secretary says the plan to slap Canada with tariffs on Saturday is still in play, as NDP leader Jagmeet Singh called for Parliament to return to prepare for the threat of devastating duties.

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