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Apr 03 2008: The Lenox, Mass., estate where Edith Wharton wrote The House of Mirth and other novels is faced with imminent foreclosure due to financial difficulties. Trustees have launched a fundraising campaign with $3 million needed before April 24. Pledges can be made at www....
Mar 31 2008: Costco have picked Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors as their April pick. First published in 2004 (and strongly recommended by BookBrowse at the time), the book tells the story of the building of the Taj Mahal through the eyes of the Emperor's daughter. BookBrowse ...
Mar 31 2008: On 3/28 Publishers Weekly reported that BookSurge, Amazon’s print-on-demand subsidiary, is making an offer that most publishers would like to refuse, but don’t feel they can. According to talks with several pod houses, Amazon has told them that unless their titles are ...
Mar 31 2008: The winner of the Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of 2007 has been announced. The winner is the self-help manual "If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs", which took an impressive one-third of the 8,500 votes cast. The runner up, "I was ...
Mar 26 2008: A new state law in Indiana that requires sellers of adult material to register with the state has bookstore owners fuming about government censorship and threatening a legal challenge. "This lumps us in with businesses that sell things that you can't even mention in a ...
Mar 26 2008: The New York Times blog "Paper Cuts" offers an amusing piece on the Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing ....
Mar 25 2008: The 'Authors for Autism Research' auction is now live at Ebay. Seventeen authors including Lee Child, Louis de Bernieres, Ken Follett, Jodi Picoult and James Sallis, are taking part in the auction. The winning bidders will have their names included as a character in ...
Mar 24 2008: Barnes & Noble has launched Quamut.com, a how-to Web site offering free online guides on more than 1,000 topics. Quamut, pronounced kwomut, is Latin for "how to". The company simultaneously publishes all content in two formats: as HTML online and as downloadable PDFs;...
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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