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“Games and Rituals” by Katherine Heiny (Knopf) A driving examiner falls for the new guy. A woman wonders what to do about her teenage son who may be experimenting with drugs.

“The Tip Line,” by Vanessa Cuti (Crooked Lane) Virginia Carey’s two best friends were married and pregnant, but at age 30, she was single, “drinking wine every night,” she says, “while I swiped my way through online dating sites.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Love isn't patient, love isn't kind — at least if you ask the fans of Netflix's “Love Is Blind.

“The Wager: A Take of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,” by David Grann (Doubleday) The Wager, a British war ship, crashed onto rocks amid stormy seas off the coast of Patagonia in 1741.

NEW YORK (AP) — The final curtain came down Sunday on New York's production of “The Phantom of the Opera,” ending Broadway’s longest-running show with thunderous standing ovations, champagne toasts and gold and silver confetti bursting from its famou

NEW YORK (AP) — Without citing a reason, the Delaware judge overseeing a voting machine company’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News announced late Sunday that he was delaying the start of the trial until Tuesday.

TORONTO — A Canadian Screen Awards special that replaced a live show took on a patriotic tone Sunday night, promoting the work of this country's film and TV creatives and celebrities.

TORONTO — "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is set to disappear from Toronto. Mirvish Productions announced Sunday it plans to close the stage play based on J.K. Rowling's characters that opened less than 10 months ago.

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president. Then the 1976 Democratic nominee brought up sex and sin as he explained his religious faith to Playboy magazine.

NEW YORK (AP) — Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, a bridal industry pioneer and Holocaust survivor who decided over a half century ago that brides deserved better than cookie-cutter dresses, has died in Manhattan. She was 99.