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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Return” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) 2. “Battle Ground” by Jim butcher (Ace) 3. “The Evening and the Morning” by Ken Follett (Viking) 4. “The Book of Two Ways” by Jodi Picoult (Ballantine) 5.

1. “The Return” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) 2. “Battle Ground” by Jim Butcher (Ace) 3. “The Happy in a Hurry Cookbook” by Steve Doocy and Kathy Doocy (William Morrow Cookbooks) 4.

LONDON — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are joining activist Malala Yousafzai in a video chat about the challenges girls face in accessing education amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The vice-chair of Edmonton's food bank says he decided to take matters onto his own land when COVID-19 shut down Alberta in March.

Adam Wright, “I Win” (Independent) Nashville songwriter Adam Wright may have sensed we could all use a laugh, and so he has released a witty antidote to 2020.

NEW YORK — ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC averaged 1,836,000 viewers for 16 broadcasts in Major League Baseball’s expanded wild-card round, drawing far more viewers for 16 games but an average down vastly from the single-knockout contests in previous years.

WASHINGTON — They’re not cures and it’s not likely that everyone will be able to get them as President Donald Trump has suggested.

A new report suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has struck a devastating blow to Toronto's already struggling live music sector, shutting down at least 11 venues in the city and cutting income for dozens of workers.

“I'm illegal,” says Rosario “Rose” Garcia (Eva Noblezada), a Filipina living undocumented in Texas, in Diane Paragas' “Yellow Rose.” The way she says it is meant, as it is, to sound ridiculous.

TORONTO — A proposed ban on some single-use plastics should serve as a wake-up call to Canadians concerned about the potential harms everyday items may pose, say experts who expect the move will spur research into settling ongoing questions about whe