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The Drifter wins International Thriller Writer's First Novel Award

Jul 17 2017: This year's International Thriller Writers' annual awards have been presented to:
Hardcover: Before the Fall, Noah Hawley
First Novel: The Drifter, Nicholas Petrie
Paperback Original: The Body Reader, Anne Frasier
eBook Original: Romeo's Way, James Scott Bell

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'The Beatles Yellow Submarine' Comic Book to Mark 50th Anniversary

Jul 13 2017: For the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, the Apple Corporation is authorizing a comic book adaptation of the classic film with Titan Comics. The book is slated for release in 2018.

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Liu Xiaobo, Chinese dissident who won Nobel Peace Prize while in jail dies aged 61

Jul 13 2017: Liu Xiaobo, the renegade Chinese intellectual who kept vigil at Tiananmen Square in 1989 to protect protesters from encroaching soldiers, promoted a pro-democracy charter that brought him a lengthy prison sentence and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while locked away,...

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Bertelsmann ups PRH stake to 75%

Jul 11 2017: In a move that had been expected, Bertelsmann has increased its stake in Penguin Random House. After the deal is completed in September, Bertelsmann will have a 75% share of PRH with Pearson controlling the remaining 25%.

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Spencer Johnson, author of "Who Moved My Cheese" and "The One-Minute Manager", dies aged 78

Jul 10 2017: Spencer Johnson, a onetime physician and children’s book author, whose best-selling books on business management, including "The One-Minute Manager" and "Who Moved My Cheese?," sold millions of copies and inspired a cult-like following, died July 3 at a hospital in ...

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Lost Maurice Sendak picture book to be published next year

Jul 07 2017: An unpublished picture book by Maurice Sendak has been found hidden deep in his archives, five years after his death. The typewritten manuscript and illustrations, co-authored by Sendak’s longtime collaborator Arthur Yorinks, were discovered in Connecticut by Lynn ...

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Paddington Bear creator Michael Bond dies aged 91

Jun 28 2017: Michael Bond, the genial British author who created Paddington Bear, the polite, good-natured but disaster-prone little hero of children’s novels, picture and activity books, television series, and films, died at his home in London on Tuesday. He was 91.

In a 2014 ...

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Heaviest users of public libraries are Millennials

Jun 26 2017: Millennials in the U.S. are more likely to have visited a public library in the past year than any other adult generation. In a Pew Research Center survey from fall 2016, 53% of 18 to 35 year-olds said they had used a library or bookmobile in the previous 12 months, ...

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