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The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Nov. 10
The hottest titles in both fiction and non-fiction
Heather O’Neill: ’So I go through life naked’
We profile the authors of the books shortlisted by the Scotiabank Giller Prize this year. Here, Heather O’Neill on writerly vulnerability
A rock-star astronomer searches for the oldest stars
Anna Frebel’s research tells us much about the beginnings of the universe
Anna and Jane McGarrigle’s memoir overflows with wit
The roots music royals recall their formative years
Nem, Rio’s hardened criminal and anti-hero
The life of Antônio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, better known as ’Nem’
Correcting the record on the Salem witch trials
The Witches presents a a new, nuanced narrative
God and Charlie Brown: What Peanuts was really saying
A new book delves into one of the great enigmas about Charles M. Schulz: Was he a fundamentalist, an atheist—or both?
How the killing of Yitzhak Rabin changed Israel
Dan Ephron, Newsweek’s former Jerusalem bureau chief, delivers the finest impact statement on PM Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination to date with ’Killing a King’
André Alexis wins the 2015 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Andre Alexis celebrates winning the prestigious Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize by feting the rise of the small-press publisher