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Oprah Picks The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Mar 28 2007: Oprah has picked Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalypic novel The Road as her second book club pick of 2007. "He is an intensely private author, who doesn't do tours or give blurbs, and doesn't usually do things like go on Oprah, but he will be doing his first-ever TV ...

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Book credited with saving boy's life.

Mar 22 2007: Yesterday, a team of rescuers found Michael Auberry, the 12-year-old Boy Scout who had been missing in the rugged wilderness of western North Carolina for four days, alive and well, if a bit shaken and dehydrated.

According to his father, Kent Auberry, a key to the ...

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Borders announces loss and plans to restructure

Mar 22 2007: Borders Group announced both a fourth-quarter loss and plans to "reinvent itself" through a plan to roughly triple pretax profit margins.

The company's plan entails boosting inventory turnover by 25%, focusing on its domestic superstores (redesigning some to include...

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65% of Harry Potter 7's 12-million print run to be on recycled paper

Mar 21 2007: Scholastic, USA publishers of the Harry Potter series, have announced a 12 million copy first print run of the final volume, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which will require 22 million pounds of paper. In collaboration with the Rainforest Alliance, 65% of all ...

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"300" No. 1 at Box Office

Mar 20 2007: "300", the movie about the Battle of Thermopylae, based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, grossed almost $32 million over the weekend, bringing its revenues to $127 in its first 10 days. Described by one BookBrowse member as an "okay movie if you like lots of violence ...

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"The Year of Magical Thinking" on Broadway

Mar 19 2007: "The Year of Magical Thinking", adapted by Joan Didion from her bestselling memoir, is already playing at the Booth Theatre, New York, but will officially open on March 29th. Vanessa Redgrave stars in the 95 minute show with no intermission, directed by David Hare ("...

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Shortlist for 29th Annual Oddest Book Title Announced

Mar 13 2007: The Bookseller, Britain's leading publishing magazine, has revealed its shortlist for the 29th Annual Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year.  The six titles are:

• How Green Were the Nazis?
• D. Di Mascio’s Delicious Ice Cream: D. Di Mascio of Coventry: An...

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Non-digitized resources in danger of disappearing from cultural memory

Mar 12 2007: The New York Times reports that as electronic resources increasingly become the main tool for gathering information by both amateur researches and serious scholars (sometimes the only tool), items left behind in non-digital form are in danger of disappearing from the ...

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