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Nov 06 2008: Michael Crichton, the author of the blockbuster science-fiction novels Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain and State of Fear, has died. He was 66.
His family released the following statement:
“Best-selling author Michael Crichton died unexpectedly in Los Angeles ...
Nov 04 2008: The British newspaper The Guardian has announced the shortlist for their first book award. The shortlisted titles are: The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross, Stalin's Children by Owen Matthews, God's Own Country by Ross Raisin, A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz and A ...
Oct 31 2008: Pulitzer Prize-winning author, radio host and activist Studs Terkel died in his Chicago, Illinois, home Friday at the age of 96.
Oct 30 2008: The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation today named ten recipients of the 2008 Whiting Writers’ Awards, including Mischa Berlinski, whose first novel Fieldwork, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. The awards, which are $50,000 each, totaling $500,000, have...
Oct 27 2008: Tony Hillerman, the award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction, most notably the Leaphorn/Chee mystery novels, died on October 26 at the age of 83. Hillerman's daughter, Anne Hillerman, said her father's health had been declining in the last couple ...
Oct 24 2008: The third annual Book Group Expo meets this weekend in San Jose, California. Tickets are $55 for a two-day pass and $42 for a single day. Find out more about Book Group Expo and its founder in BookBrowse's interview, and buy tickets at bookgroupexpo.com
Oct 24 2008: Pulitzer-winning author Toni Morrison will unveil her highly anticipated ninth novel, A Mercy (publishing Nov 11), on NPR.org's Book Tour in pre-publication readings on October 27, 28, 29 and 30. During the four days she'll read the first 30 pages of the 177-...
Oct 22 2008: JK Rowling is to host a tea party for Edinburgh school children to launch her much-anticipated volume of wizarding fairy tales, The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
The book, publishing on December 4, marks Rowling's farewell to the world of Harry Potter. Not originally ...
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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