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Dec 19 2008: Iraqi Prime Minister has officially reopened Baghdad's Mutanabi Street, home to many book stores. The New York Times reports that Mutanabi Street, destroyed by a car bomb in March 2007, "has long been the intellectual center of the Iraqi capital" and that "resurrecting...
Dec 19 2008: Poet Elizabeth Alexander has been selected to compose and read a poem at the presidential inauguration next month. As the Washington Post observed, "It is the first time that 'poetry's old-fashioned praise,' as Robert Frost called it, will be featured at the ceremony ...
Dec 19 2008: Ecco has acquired U.S. rights to a prequel of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by its author, David Wrobleski - part of a planned trilogy. According to the publisher, the forthcoming book, which focuses on John, the patriarch of the Sawtelle clan, exposes the origins of the...
Dec 19 2008: J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard is now the fastest-selling title of 2008 with more than 2.6 million copies sold worldwide in less than two weeks.
Dec 17 2008: A BBC survey suggests that nearly half of all men and one-third of women have lied about what they have read to try to impress friends or potential partners. But they're not necessarily lying about books they claim to have read; 74% of teenagers said that they've have ...
Dec 16 2008: The drumbeat of grim news from the publishing industry continues a Macmillan, the company that operates imprints including Farrar, Straus and Giroux, St. Martin's Press and Henry Holt, laid off about 4% of its staff and restructured its children's book division. Layoffs...
Dec 15 2008: During October, bookstore sales slipped for the second month in a row, falling 5.6%, according to preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau. In September, bookstore sales fell 4.5% compared to the same period a year earlier. For the year to date, bookstore sales have...
Dec 10 2008: Despite reaching near-record audiences, NPR say it will be reducing its workforce by 7% and cutting expenses to compensate for the sharp decline in current and projected revenues from corporate underwriting. A significant number of the personnel cuts result from the ...
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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