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May 02 2008: The 2008 Edgar Awards were announced last night by Mystery Writers of America. John Hart won the Edgar for Best Novel for Down River. Best First Novel By An American Author went to Tana French for In the Woods. Megan Abbott’s Queenpin won Best Paperback Original; ...
May 02 2008: New York State Governor David Paterson signed a bill into law yesterday that will make it harder for "libel tourists" to threaten authors and publishers with foreign libel suits. The Libel Terrorism Protection Act prohibits the enforcement of a foreign libel judgment ...
May 01 2008: The Royal Society of Literature is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2008 Ondaatje Prize is Graham Robb for The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War, published by Picador in the UK and Norton in the USA. The ...
May 01 2008: Shelf Awareness reports that Amazon.com has sued the State of New York, charging that its new statute requiring Amazon and other online retailers to collect sales tax on sales made to state residents is unconstitutional. The company is requesting a declaratory judgment ...
May 01 2008: To celebrate the centennial of Louis L'Amour's birth, Bantam Books is offering a copy of Education of a Wandering Man, L'Amour's 1989 memoir, to all "the more than 100,000 free lending libraries in the U.S," including public libraries, public school libraries, and ...
May 01 2008: Publishers Weekly reports on used book seller AbeBooks's decision to place an 8% charge on seller shipping expenses that has caused outrage among many of the online retailer’s booksellers, who called the move shortsighted
May 01 2008: School Library Journal reports on a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the National Commission on Writing, that shows that teens believe that writing only takes place in school and on paper—not on cell phones, Web sites, or blogs. The ...
Apr 28 2008: Dmitria Nabokov plans to defy the wishes of his father, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) author of Lolita et al, by publishing his father's unfinished final work which, apparently, the latter wanted burned after his death. For three decades the collection of 50 index cards...
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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