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Publication date for next 'Eragon' book announced & 4th book planned

Oct 30 2007: Alfred A Knopf Books for Young Readers will publish Book 3 of Paolini's Inheritance Series (following Eragon and Eldest) in both the UK and USA on Sept 23, 2008. In addition, there will be a fourth book in the Inheritance cycle (which was originally intended to be a ...

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Bible Belt backlash to Rowling's announcement

Oct 29 2007: The Daily Mail in the UK reports on the USA Bible Belt backlash to Rowling's announcement that she'd always thought of Dumbledore as gay. Meanwhile, the online English edition of the People's Daily reports that the official Chinese version of the final Harry Potter book...

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Booker shortlist titles maybe available to read online for free

Oct 28 2007: After years of being criticized for being elitist and out of touch, the Man Booker Prize is taking a radical step. The Times of London reports that the organizers of the Prize are negotiating to make this year's six shortlisted titles available in their entirety and for...

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Harry Potter 1st edition auctioned for record price

Oct 27 2007: The Guardian newspaper (UK) reports that a first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (one of a first edition print run of just 500 books) has sold at auction for a record-breaking 19,700 UK pounds (~US $40,000). Many of the first editions of the book (...

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Author of "The I Hate to Cook Book" dies aged 89

Oct 23 2007: The New York Times reports that Peg Bracken, an advertising copywriter who nearly half a century ago parlayed her irreverent wit — and her passionate dislike of a traditional womanly duty — into a subversive best seller, The I Hate to Cook Book, died on Saturday at her ...

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"Booker bounce" not what it used to be

Oct 21 2007: The UK newspaper, The Sunday Telegraph, reports that the "Booker bounce" is not what it used to be. Winning a place on the shortlist had only a modest effect on sales of the six selected novels. According to the latest figures from Nielsen Bookscan*, in the week ...

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Longshot Anne Enright wins Booker Prize

Oct 17 2007: Anne Enright has won Britain's Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Gathering, published in the UK in May 2007 and in the USA as a paperback original in Septembe 2007. The book beat out the two favorites Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones and On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. The...

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Knights Templar win heresy reprieve after 700 years

Oct 16 2007: Reuters reports that The Knights Templar, the medieval Christian military order accused of heresy and sexual misconduct, will soon be partly rehabilitated when the Vatican publishes trial documents it has closely guarded for 700 years. A reproduction of the minutes of...

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