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The Detroit Lions haven’t made any big splashes yet at the start of NFL free agency, but their NFC North rivals have been very busy.

Geraldine Brooks’ “Horse,” a novel about race and forgotten history, and Robert Samuels’ and Toluse Olorunnipa’s “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice” have won awards from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation.

Ling Ma’s sharp and surreal “Bliss Montage” and Beverly Gage’s sweeping biography of the late FBI Director J.

Barbra Streisand’s very long-awaited memoir, a project she has talked about for years, is coming out this fall.

Ken Follett is ready to wrap up his epic fictional chronicle of Western civilization.

Melissa Bank, whose 1999 bestseller “The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing” was a series of interconnected stories widely praised for its wit and precise language and embraced by many young readers has died.

It’s something you don’t see every day -- a cruise ship along the Detroit riverfront.

A book coming out this fall will show readers a more personal side of the late John le Carré.

Two Washington Post reporters are working on a biography of George Floyd, from his family history in the tobacco fields of North Carolina to his murder last year in Minneapolis by a white police officer.

A final novel by John le Carré will be published this fall, 10 month after the spy writer’s death.

This image released by Viking shows "After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America" by Jessica Goudeau, winner of the Lukas Book Prize, a $10,000 honor for a socially or politically themed work. (Viking via AP)NEW YORK – Books about slavery, immigration and drug treatment are among this year's winners of awards presented by the J. Anthony Lukas Project. Jessica Goudeau's “After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America” won the Lukas Book Prize, a $10,000 honor for a socially or politically themed work which demonstrates “literary grace, commitment to serious research, and original reporting.”The Mark Lynton History Prize, also worth $10,000, was given to William G. Thomas III for “A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War.”On Wednesday, the Lukas project also announced two work-in-progress awards, each with a $25,000 cash prize to help with the book's completion: Emily Dufton, for “Addiction, Inc.: How the Corporate Takeover of America’s Treatment Industry Created a Profitable Epidemic” and Casey Parks, for “Diary Of a Misfit." AdThe Lukas project, based at Columbia University, is named for the late investigative reporter and author. The awards were established in 1998 and have previously been given to Robert Caro, Isabel Wilkerson and Jill Lepore among others.

The Church of Scotland is suing a man for a share of a $2.5 million Viking treasure trove he discovered with a metal detector on church land in 2014. GALLOWAY, Scotland (CNN) - The Church of Scotland is suing a man for a share of a $2.5 million Viking treasure trove he discovered with a metal detector on church land in 2014. The treasure trove, known as the Galloway Hoard, is regarded as one of the richest and most significant finds of Viking objects ever found in the United Kingdom. Following the discovery of the treasure, National Museums Scotland raised $2.5 million to acquire the treasures for the Scottish public. Church trustees subsequently lodged legal action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh against McLennan, claiming the church is entitled to an equal share of the proceeds.

A large Norse "drinking hall" was discovered on an island of Scotland, archaeologists say, and is believed to have been used by a Viking chieftain named Earl Sigurd way back in the 12th century. A large Norse "drinking hall" was discovered on an island of Scotland, archaeologists say, and is believed to have been used by a Viking chieftain named Earl Sigurd way back in the 12th century. Westness is mentioned in the Orkneyinga Saga, a historical narrative of the region, as a home of the Viking chieftain. According to the UHI Archaeology Institute, the name "Skaill" suggests the site was once a popular Norse drinking hall, and location for high status community members to gather and kick back. "You never know, but perhaps Earl Sigurd himself sat on one of the stone benches inside the hall and drank a flagon of ale!"

Swedish archaeologists have uncovered two rare "boat graves" where high-status individuals were buried in a boat in the ground. (CNN) - Archaeologists have uncovered two rare Viking boat graves in the Swedish village of Gamla Uppsala. There are only about 10 other known boat burial sites like this in Sweden, Arkeologerna said. You can suspect that they were distinguished people in the society of the time since burial ships in general are very rare," archeologist Anton Seiler said in a news release. It's been 50 years since the last burial ship was found in Sweden, according to Seiler.