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Sep 23 2007: French mime artist Marcel Marceau died Saturday at the age of 84. Born in Strasbourg in 1923 as Marcel Mangel he became famous for his creation Bip - the sad, white-faced clown in a striped jumper and a battered silk opera hat. He continued to perform until he was in...
Sep 19 2007: According to School Library Journal, some New York City students may soon be $50 richer due to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s new pilot program, Opportunity NYC, which aims to break the cycle of poverty by offering families financial incentives for promoting education. In...
Sep 17 2007: James Oliver Rigney Jr, creator of the Wheel of Time series under the pseudonym Robert Jordan, died at the Medical University of South Carolina on Sunday having battled cardiac amyloidosis for the past year. The disease attacks the body's major organs; in Rigney's ...
Sep 17 2007: Alan Greenspan, who served as Federal Reserve chairman for 18 years and was the leading Republican economist for the past three decades, levels unusually harsh criticism at President Bush and the Republican Party in his 531-page memoir, The Age of Turbulence: ...
Sep 13 2007: Author, philanthropist and literary entrepreneur Dave Eggers has become the youngest person ever to win one of the annual $250,000 awards from the Heinz Family Foundation.
Sep 12 2007: Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the 1963 Newbery Award and one of the most banned books in the USA, died on September 6 at the age of 88.
Sep 11 2007: The National Book Foundation will commemorate the literary achievements of Joan Didion and Terry Gross at its November 14 awards ceremony in New York City. Author Joan Didion will receive the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Terry Gross, host ...
Sep 10 2007: The 2007 Quill Award Winners have been announced. They include:
Debut Author of the Year: Diane Setterfield for The Thirteenth Tale
General Fiction: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Biography: Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
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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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