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Jan 26 2009: The National Book Critics Circle have announced their 2008 award finalists in fiction, nonfiction, criticism, poetry, biography & autobiography. The winners will be announced in March.
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Roberto Bolano,
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Aleksandar Hemon,
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Jan 23 2009: Films based on novels have, once again, proved to be a winning formula when it comes to Oscar nominations which include:
Jan 20 2009: Publishers Weekly report on the "e-book rush" with Simon & Schuster and Random House reporting a 400% increase in e-book sales year on year, and the Association of American Publishers reporting that total e-book sales ending September 2008 surged 51% over the same ...
Jan 16 2009: The BBC reports on the death of Sir John Mortimer, author of the Rumpole of the Bailey series. He was 85.
Jan 15 2009: Barnes & Noble today announced the elimination of close to 100 positions in its corporate headquarters (representing about 4% of corporate staff). The company said most of the job eliminations were due to the reduction in store openings and consolidation of ...
Jan 15 2009: Late last week came word that one of the most famous characters in children's literature—A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh—will make a long-awaited return this fall when Dutton Books for Young Readers publish Return to the Hundred Acre Wood by David Benedictus, illustrated ...
Jan 15 2009: A few years ago, public libraries were being written off as goners. The Internet had made them irrelevant, the argument went. But libraries across the country are reporting jumps in attendance of as much as 65% over the past year, as newly unemployed people flock to ...
Jan 14 2009: Slumdog Millionaire, based on the novel Q&A by Vikas Swarup, has won five Critics Choice awards and four Golden Globes, which bodes well for the Oscars, to be awarded on February 22. Two book versions are available in the USA - the movie tie-in called Slumdog ...
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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