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Mar 21 2008: British memoirist Sebastian Horsley's book tour ended before it started this week when he was denied entry into the U.S. Horsley, who boasts of having consorted with 1,000 prostitutes, was turned away on the grounds of "moral turpitude". The irony of this happening ...
Mar 21 2008: Author Jon Hassler, who chronicled the foibles of small-town life in Staggerford, Grand Opening and other novels after starting his career late in life, has died. He was 74.
Mar 20 2008: A rare 1937 first issue of the first edition of Tolkien's The Hobbit sold at Bonhams today for 60,000 UK pounds (~ US$120,000), going for twice its pre-sale estimate. The copy, inscribed by the author with a message of thanks to his friend Elaine Griffiths, who helped ...
Mar 20 2008: Facing a liquidity crisis, unable to borrow in today's nervous credit markets, with a plunging stock that valued the entire company at about $400 million yesterday (and less today), Borders has suspended its quarterly dividend and enlisted JPMorgan and Merrill Lynch to ...
Mar 20 2008: The Scotsman reports that a rare copy of the first Harry Potter book fetched almost 4000 UK pounds (~$8000) at auction after being sold by a library for 2 pounds (~$4). A total of 20 Harry Potter books were sold for a combined 36,560 pounds (over $70,000)
Mar 19 2008: The 64-year-old mystery surrounding the disappearance of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince and Flight to War, may have been resolved.
Saint-Exupery, who served with a Free French air force reconnaissance squadron based in Corsica, failed to return...
Mar 19 2008: Arthur C Clarke, a writer whose seamless blend of scientific expertise and poetic imagination helped usher in the space age, died early Wednesday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since 1956. He was 90. The author of almost 100 books, Mr. Clarke was an ardent ...
Mar 19 2008: Amazon completed its purchase of audiobook provider Audible on March 19. The same day OverDrive, one of the main suppliers of audio content to libraries, announced they were adding 20,000 DRM-free titles (that can be transferred freely between devices) and will soon be...
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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