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Author of 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'The Stepford Wives' dies

Nov 17 2007: The New York Times reports that Ira Levin, author of Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives and The Boys From Brazil, died on Monday 12th November at his home in Manhattan. He was 78.

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Judith Regan files lawsuit against Harper Collins

Nov 14 2007: The New York Times reports that Judith Regan, has filed a 70-page lawsuit that seeks $100 million in damages for what she says was a campaign to smear and discredit her by her bosses at HarperCollins and its parent company, News Corporation, after her project to publish...

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National Book Award Winners Announced

Nov 14 2007: The winners of the 2007 National Book Awards are:

• Fiction: Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke (FSG)
• Nonfiction: Tim Weiner: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Doubleday)
• Poetry: Robert Hass, Time and Materials (Ecco/HarperCollins)
  Young People's Literature: ...

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Prestigious UK publisher to publish all books as paperback originals

Nov 13 2007: The Guardian reports that from next spring Picador UK will release all new novels in paperback editions, alongside a small run of hardbacks, breaking with the trade convention of staggered publication dates. Andrew Kidd, publisher of the prestigious Macmillan imprint...

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Canadian consumers rage against price disparity

Nov 12 2007: The Globe and Mail reports that the aggressive rise in value of the Canadian dollar against its U.S. counterpart (the Canadian dollar is now worth US $1.10) has created a charged environment in Canadian bookstores with consumers raging against the disparity between US ...

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Author Norman Mailer Dies

Nov 10 2007: Norman Mailer, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and self-proclaimed heavyweight champion of postwar American letters, whose six decades in the public eye helped make him one of America's most acclaimed, and controversial authors, died this morning of acute renal failure ...

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Chile returns looted books to Peru

Nov 08 2007: Chile has returned almost 4,000 books to Peru's national library, more than a century after they were taken by Chilean soldiers. The soldiers pillaged the library after capturing the Peruvian capital, Lima, in 1881, during the War of the Pacific. Chile's director of ...

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Reader's Circle celebrates 10th anniversary with Book Club Book Fair

Nov 06 2007: 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of Random House Reader's Circle, and to celebrate this milestone, Random House Reader's Circle have launched their first annual Online Book Club Book Fair which is running from October 18 to November 19th. The Fair includes exclusive ...

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