New York-based Open Road Integrated Media says Buck wrote the novel, titled “The Eternal Wonder,” shortly before she died in 1973. The publisher says someone found the manuscript in storage in January. It will be published Oct. 22 in paperback and digital formats.

The publisher describes  the book as the coming-of-age story of a gifted young man whose search for meaning leads him to New York, England, Paris and Korea.

Buck’s novel “The Good Earth” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and helped earn her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.

She raised seven adopted children and wrote many later works at her farm outside Philadelphia.

There’s a development in the Gas Plant Scandals that have been dogging the minority Liberal government at Queen’s Park.

The McGuinty government estimated a worst-case scenario of 900-million dollars to scrap plants in Oakville and Mississauga.

The figure is contained in a footnote to a February 2012 Treasury Board document recently tabled to a legislative committee.

The Tories say the footnote was originally blacked-out from the document they received a week ago and that it shows the Liberals were trying to cover up the potential true costs of cancelling the plants.

The government announced in July 2012 that the cost of relocating the Mississauga plant was 180 million dollars later revised to 190 million.

In September, it said the Oakville plant relocation would cost 40 million.

In April, the auditor general tallied the total costs of moving the two plants at 585 million dollars.

Mark Towhey left city hall a short while ago escorted by security.

He did not say why he was no longer Ford’s chief of staff, but said it followed discussions earlier in the day with the mayor.

He said his leaving did not come as a shock.

Towhey refused to say what advice he had given Ford about an alleged videotape that apparently shows the mayor smoking crack cocaine.

Ford has been dogged by the allegations for almost a week, but has said little about them, beyond calling them “ridiculous.”

Meanwhile–

A Toronto city councillor says he registered a warning on a roadside alcohol screening test but is not being criminally charged.

Paul Ainslie spoke today  at city hall, saying he was stopped at a RIDE check on May 3, after having “two or three glasses of wine” while out for dinner with friends.

Ainslie says his driver’s licence was suspended for three days.

He says he decided to come forward, because he saw some chatter on Twitter that claimed he’d been stopped for DUI, which he says “wasn’t true.”

Ainslie said the incident serves as a stark reminder of the dangers of alcohol and said he wanted his constituents to know that such an incident won’t happen again.

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A Nepalese official says 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura has become the oldest man to reach the top of Mount Everest.

Miura, who also conquered the 8,850-metre peak when he was 70 and 75, reached the summit at 9:05 a.m. local time Thursday, according to his support team in Tokyo.

Miura called them from the summit to report the news.

Nepalese mountaineering official Gyanendra Shrestha, at Everest base camp, confirmed that Miura had reached the summit, making him the oldest person to do so.

The previous age record holder was Nepal’s Min Bahadur Sherchan, who accomplished the feat at age 76 in 2008.

Sherchan, now 81, was preparing for his own attempt on the summit next week.

On May 23, 1964 Ella Fitzgerald became the first artist to have a hit with a cover of a popular song by The Beatles. Her cover of Can’t Buy Me Love entered the UK chart in May of 1964 after being released by the Beatles several months earlier on their sixth album.

Can’t Buy Me Love has been covered by over 20 artists since its original release.

9. It’s Over – Roy Orbison

8. Ronnie – The Four Seasons

7. (Just Like) Romeo & Juliet – Reflections

6. Bits and Pieces – The Dave Clark Five

5. Love Me With all Your Heart – Ray Charles Singers

4. Chapel of Love – The Dixie Cups

3. Hello Dolly – Louis Armstrong

2. Love Me Do – The Beatles

1. My Guy – Mary Wells

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