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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. ...
May 03 2007: The winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced at the beginning of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. They include A Woman in Jerusalem by A.B. Yehoshua (Fiction); Echo Park by Michael Connelly (Mystery/thriller); and The Looming Tower by ...
May 02 2007: An article in the New York Times points out flaws in Deborah Rodriguez's Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil. Six women also involved in the beauty school in Afghanistan dispute parts of her memoir, particularly concerning the Beauty School's ...
May 01 2007: The campaign to have the Atlanta Journal-Constitution rescind its decision to let book editor Teresa Weaver go and cut back on book coverage has led to thousands of people signing a petition to "protect Atlanta's book review." The cutbacks at the ...
Apr 28 2007: The Mystery Writers of America’s 61st annual Edgar Awards were held on Friday 26th at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York. Winners included The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin for Best Novel; The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson for Best First Novel by an American Author; ...
Apr 24 2007: David Halberstam was one of America's most distinguished journalists and historians, a man whose newspaper reporting and books helped define the era we live in. He graduated from Harvard in 1955, took his first job on the smallest daily in Mississippi, and then ...
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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