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May 27 2007: Today, May 27, marks 100 years since the birth of Rachel Carson, best remembered for Silent Spring (1962), which is credited with starting the modern environmental movement. Carson died two years after Silent Spring was published, at the age of 56.
May 25 2007: Terry Ryan, author of the bestselling book, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less, died on May 17, 2007at her home in San Francisco. She was 60.
May 23 2007: Amazon announced this morning that it has acquired Brilliance Audio, the Grand Haven, Mich., independent producer of audio books. In addition, Amazon said standard CD and MP3-CD audiobook formats will now be supported by its CustomFlix disc on demand service.
May 17 2007: Voters in five southwestern Oregon counties have defeated proposals to increase taxes to compensate for lower federal timber subsidies. As a result, 15 libraries will remain closed in one county, and law enforcement and other services will be cut back in others.
May 16 2007: Today is author and radio personality Stud Terkel's 95th birthday. Birthday greetings can be sent through his publisher's website: thenewpress.com
May 08 2007: BookBrowse polled 930 mothers to ask what they would like this mother's day. Only 4% wanted flowers or chocolates, 6% were tempted by jewelry; less than 10% wanted to be taken out for a meal or receive a homemade gift (the latter is probably low because only a fraction...
May 07 2007: Independent booksellers have long argued that shopping at locally owned stores is important to support the economic health of a region; now a report supports thus belief. "The San Francisco Retail Diversity Study," released last...
May 04 2007: Xinhua Bookstore, which used to hold a monopoly in China, celebrated its 70th anniversary last week. The first Xinhua Bookstore was opened in 1937, by Communist partisans in Yan'an, where the party had a sanctuary during the civil war and the war against the Japanese. ...
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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