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Oct 06 2011: Walter Isaacson's forthcoming biography of Steve Jobs has been moved up to October 24. The 656-page book will include an interview Isaacson conducted with Jobs four weeks ago.
Oct 06 2011: Tomas Tranströmer, called "Sweden's most famous poet," has won the 104th Nobel Prize for Literature. Tranströmer, born in Stockholm in 1931, has been translated into over 50 languages.
A number of his books have been released in the U.S. including The Sorrow Gondola,...
Oct 05 2011: Steve Jobs, the visionary who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world's leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died today aged 56.
Oct 05 2011: Amazon is inviting its 10,000-plus former California affiliates to re-enroll. All CA affiliate contracts were terminated in June after the state passed an online sales tax measure.
Oct 05 2011: California Governor Jerry Brown this week signed into law a bill that will extend privacy protections currently in place for library records to book purchases, including e-books.
Sep 28 2011: Amazon has unveiled the Kindle Fire, an Android-powered tablet that will retail for $199.
"We're building premium products at non-premium prices," says Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
The specifications are lower than high-end tablets. While the Kindle Fire has a dual-core...
Sep 26 2011: Kenya's Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai has died in Nairobi while undergoing cancer treatment. She was 71.
She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for promoting conservation, women's rights and transparent government - the first African woman to get the award.
She ...
Sep 26 2011: Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Friday that postpones new sales taxes rules that would have affected online purchases in California, granting more time for traditional and online retailers to lobby Congress for a national standard on the high-stakes issue.
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Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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