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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
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 ...
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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Oct 14 2008: Mediabistro reports that author Christopher Buckley has decided to leave his job as a columnist at the National Review (the magazine founded by his father, William F Buckley) after his blog posting in "The Daily Beast" saying that he planned to endorse ...
Oct 14 2008: USA Today reports that the Massachusetts House of Representatives has passed a bill naming "Moby-Dick" the state's official "epic novel." Rep. Cory Atkins said she was "appalled" and contended her district in Concord has "more authors per square mile than any other." ...
Oct 14 2008: Princeton University professor and bestselling author Paul Krugman has won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Krugman has been an Op-Ed columnist at the New York Times for nearly a decade; his books include The Conscience of a Liberal.The Nobel was awarded...
Oct 09 2008: Sixty-eight year old Frenchman, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works characterized by ''poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy'' and focused on the environment, especially the desert. He is the first French writer to ...
Oct 06 2008: While the publishing industry has struggled to come up with a "Happily Ever After" storyline in recent years, there's still plenty of money to be made in the business of books - at least for the world's top 10 best paid authors, according to Forbes ...
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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