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A library thrives, quietly, in one of Pakistan’s gun markets

Jun 18 2019: Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan — This tribal district, located about 85 miles west of Islamabad, is best known for its sprawling weapons bazaar. Walking through it, the sounds of workshop machinery and craftsmen striking hammers become a nearly musical backdrop.

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Prequel to The Hunger Games coming in 2020

Jun 17 2019: Scholastic will be publishing another novel in its mega-selling Hunger Games franchise. The trilogy by Suzanne Collins, which launched in 2008 with the titular title, has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide.

The forthcoming work, currently known as "the ...

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Despite fierce opposition, Strand Bookstore now a NYC landmark

Jun 12 2019: The building that houses the Strand Bookstore at 826 Broadway was designated as a New York City landmark on Tuesday morning, following a contested process and fierce opposition from community members and the bookstore’s owner.

“What they [the LPC commissioners] fail ...

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Owner of UK book chain to buy B&N

Jun 07 2019: Elliott Management, the U.S. private equity company whose U.K. arm, Elliott Advisors, bought Waterstones last year, is buying Barnes & Noble, B&N announced this morning. Elliott is paying $6.50 a share--well above recent levels--in an all-cash transaction that places ...

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Entertainment Weekly magazine to be monthly from August

Jun 07 2019: Entertainment Weekly's print magazine, which has continued to provide substantive coverage of books and authors at a time when many other print magazines and newspapers have cut back, will become a monthly publication as of August.

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Many books aren’t fact-checked, and we’re increasingly realizing they’re full of errors

Jun 05 2019: Writing in Vox, Kelsey Piper looks at the growing concern about "books by prestigious and well-regarded researchers" which "go to print with glaring errors, which are only discovered when an expert in the field, or someone on Twitter, gets a glance at them."

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Women's prize for fiction goes to 'utterly moving' Tayari Jones novel

Jun 05 2019: American novelist Tayari Jones’s portrait of a young African American’s wrongful incarceration, and its devastating impact on his marriage has beaten two Booker prize winners to take the Women’s prize for fiction.

Described by chair of judges Kate Williams as a book ...

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Remembering the Passions of Bob Bernstein, Random House chairman and founder of Human Rights Watch

Jun 02 2019: People are fortunate if they have one great passion in life. Robert L. Bernstein, who died May 27, had three, starting with his family. He also had publishing. For a quarter century, he led Random House Inc., turning it into an enterprise as luminous as it was ...

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