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Jun 17 2008: Publishers Weekly provides topline stats from the Scholastic/Yankelovich 2008 Kids and Family Reading Report including:
Jun 16 2008: In all the statewide stories of heroism coming out of Iowa during the recent floods, it would be hard to find more passion than in the snaking line going up the steps of the Main Library at the University of Iowa on the banks of the flooding Iowa River. Hand over hand...
Jun 16 2008: The London Times reports on the daytime TV phenomenon that has killed the literary snob. The Richard & Judy Book Club accounts for 26% of the sales of the top 100 books in the U.K., making Amanda Ross, the club's creator and book selector, the most powerful player in ...
Jun 12 2008: According to the Association of American Publishers, sales for 2008 are up 1.3% year on year to $1.71 billion but sales in March declined 11%. Growth came from categories including ebooks, children's and adult paperbacks and children's hardcovers. Losses were recorded...
Jun 12 2008: DeNiro's Game by Rawi Hage is this year's winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind. It involves libraries from all corners of the globe, and is open ...
Jun 12 2008: Eliot Asinof, best known as the author of Eight Men Out, about the 1919 Chicago "Black Sox" cheating scandal, died on Tuesday at the age of 88.
Jun 12 2008: J.K. Rowling's "storycard" prequel to the Harry Potter series (written purely for the fundraiser and not planned to be a book), which sold for £25,000 (~US$49,000) at a charity auction this week, is now available at Waterstone's website, along with contributions by 12 ...
Jun 12 2008: Although the U.S. and Canadian dollars have had about the same value for a year, Canadian consumers are still paying up to 18% more than Americans for the same products. For example, a recent study found that a hardcover book selling for $30.79 in Canada costs only $...
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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