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Tony Hillerman dies

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 ...

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Book Group Expo this weekend

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

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Exclusive prepub readings of Toni Morrison's 'Mercy' on NPR

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-...

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JK Rowling's Beedle the Bard to help institutionalized children in E. Europe

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 ...

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Columbian library has 4,800 books and 10 legs

Oct 20 2008: In a ritual repeated nearly every weekend for the past decade in Colombia’s war-weary Caribbean hinterland, Luis Soriano gathers his two donkeys, Alfa and Beto, in front of his home and sets out with an eclectic cargo of books destined for the people living in the ...

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National Book Award finalists announced

Oct 15 2008: The National Book Award finalists have been announced, and include The Lazarus Project by Aleksander Hemon and Home by Marilynne Robinson. The winners will be announced on November 19 at a ceremony in New York City

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27% of consumers plan to give books this holiday season

Oct 14 2008: Publishers Weekly reports that 26% of consumers surveyed said they plan to spend less this holiday season than in 2007, according to the latest results from market research company NPD Group, Inc's annual survey of consumers' holiday spending intentions. Books ranked ...

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Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker

Oct 14 2008: Aravind Adiga has won the prestigious Man Booker prize for his first novel, The White Tiger. He won against Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture (the bookie's favorite) and Amitav Ghosh's The Sea of Poppies.

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