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Books News & Reviews

“Let It Destroy You” by Harriet Alida Lye, 256 pages, $24.95.

Ambition, power a love story, and the physicist who invented the atomic bomb

Harriet Alida Lye’s ‘Let It Destroy You’ is Inspired by Leo Szilard, a Hungarian-born physicist known for his work on nuclear fission

The bestselling books in Canada for the week ending June 7

Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami poses for media during a press conference on the university's new international house of literature, The Haruki Murakami Library, opening at the Waseda University in Tokyo, on Sept. 22, 2021. In a speech released Wednesday, June 7, 2023, Murakami says walls are increasingly built and dividing people and countries as fear and skepticism flourish following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author Haruki Murakami says pandemic, war in Ukraine create walls that divide people

In Ashley Audrain’s new book ‘The Whispers,’ secrets come to light, lies are revealed, deceptions unfold, all with the delicate cold grace of a scalpel sliding through flesh.

Ashley Audrain’s new book ‘The Whispers’ a razor-sharp thriller examining contemporary morality and beliefs

Summer is here, and the reading is amazing. These are the 20 best books to pile by your hammock

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Once homeless, Angela Sterritt’s now a journalist whose debut memoir ‘Unbroken’ is a story of disappearance and survival

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