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NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Oprah Winfrey has chosen Lisa Marie Presley's posthumous memoir as her new book club pick, and made a trip to the famed Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee, to meet with Presley's daughter and Elvis and Priscilla Presley's granddau

鈥淭he Book of George鈥� is a novel of many finely crafted, often funny moments that arrive episodically as the title character grows older. At first he鈥檚 a millennial kid, then a college guy as the Twin Towers fall on 9/11.

Since bursting on the scene in 2015 with 鈥淭he Girl on a Train,鈥� Paula Hawkins has established herself as a reliable writer of psychological thrillers set in the U.K.

Deborah Levy is a celebrated novelist, memoirist and playwright whose latest book 鈥� 鈥淭he Position of Spoons鈥� 鈥� is a petite collection of essays spanning the last few decades of her career.

TORONTO 鈥� As a fiction writer, Ian Williams has dissected conversation. He's learned its rhythm and texture, found its liver and lungs, so he can transmute it into dialogue on the page.

Books about the civilizations of pre-colonial Indigenous North America, the early Black civil rights movement and post-Second World War Japan are finalists for the US$75,000 Cundill History Prize.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Reese Witherspoon's latest literary news marks a new direction for the Oscar-winning actor, producer and founder of her own book club.

TORONTO 鈥� Celebrated novelist M.G. Vassanji's exploration of the emigrant experience is among the finalists for the $60,000 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy. The Writers' Trust of Canada announced this year's short list on Wednesday morning.

Amazon confirmed Tuesday the removal of a memoir from its site that purports to tell the story of an abusive relationship between the late actor and model Kim Porter and her longtime partner, hip-hop mogul Sean 鈥滵iddy" Combs.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Salman Rushdie's memoir a bout his near-fatal stabbing, 鈥淜nife,鈥� and Percival Everett's revisionist historical novel, 鈥淛ames," are among the finalists for the 75th annual National Book Awards.