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Fifteen remarkable books by women

Mar 06 2018: New York Times critics chose 15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century...

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B&N to open five new design concept stores

Mar 05 2018: Later this year, Barnes & Noble will open five stores featuring a new, smaller-format design in which "front and center will be our new books," according to CEO Demos Parneros. The stores, which will ideally be 14,000 square feet--much smaller than the company's ...

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Five Oscar wins for movies based on books

Mar 05 2018: Although many movies based on books were nominated for Oscars this year, only three won with a total of five awards between them:

Darkest Hour, based on the book Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink by Anthony McCarten: Two wins: Best Actor...

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Author Jennifer Egan is the new president of PEN America

Mar 02 2018: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan is the new president of PEN America. Egan, who succeeds Andrew Solomon, has been a PEN America Trustee since 2013. She is the author most recently of Manhattan Beach, awarded the Carnegie Medal for literary excellence in ...

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Total US book sales up 28% in Oct '17 compared to Oct '16, Year to date sales up almost 2%.

Mar 02 2018: What a difference a year makes. In October, total net book sales in the U.S. rose 27.6%, to $1.164 billion, compared to the same period in 2016, representing sales of 1,204 publishers and distributed clients as reported to the Association of American Publishers. For the...

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Sherman Alexie responds to harassment accusations

Mar 01 2018: After a month of online charges that he has been abusive to many women, particularly Native American women, author Sherman Alexie issued a statement yesterday. It's a mix of admission and denial and, as with so much of the matter, it's somewhat vague.

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A lot is riding on "A Wrinkle in Time." Ava DuVernay doesn't care

Mar 01 2018: Both the New York Times and Washington Post have "Wrinkle in Time" articles in anticipation of the March 9 movie release. The Times focuses on filmmaker Ava DuVernay while The Washington Post reviews the 1962 Newbery Medal Winner concluding that, "Artistically, the ...

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Ta-Nehisi Coates will write the Captain America comic

Mar 01 2018: Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of Between the World and Me and one of the country’s best-known public intellectuals, announced Wednesday he would begin writing the Captain America title for Marvel Comics in July.

The writer has previously worked on Black Panther, ...

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    Two women on opposite sides of the law team up to bring down gangster Lucky Luciano in this gripping novel.

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    A woman revisits a Southern summer camp where a counselor's death may not have been an accident.
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    A marine biologist rescues a Maine island menaced by a giant glowing jellyfish in this inventive debut.
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    In 19th-century France, a girl with a magical taste becomes a duc’s poison taster amid nobility and danger.
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