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Mar 06 2007: Triggered by the rumor that the Los Angeles Times will soon fold its review section into its regular newspaper, The Wall Street Journal reports on the demise of the stand-alone newspaper book review section in USA regional newspapers - currently 6 regional newspapers ...
Mar 05 2007: Lower prices for its club members combined with deep discounting for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows caused Barnes & Noble to forecast earnings projections for the current fiscal year that were well below analysts' expectations. The company said it expects earnings...
Mar 02 2007: At last night’s reception for the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Awards, the newspaper's editor and book editor both downplayed reports that the paper is planning to scale back its book coverage. Editor James O'Shea hinted that, despite the suggestion from his predecessor...
Mar 02 2007: Simon & Schuster has placed the biggest reorder in its history for Rhonda Byrne's runaway hit, The Secret, going back to press for two million more copies. The book and movie got a boost from Oprah Winfrey who dedicated two episodes of her talk show to it in early ...
Mar 01 2007: Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., author of more than 20 books and winner of the Pulitzer Prize (twice) and the National Book Award, died Feb 28 in New York City. He was 89. His biographies include "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House" and "Robert ...
Feb 26 2007: Venerable publishing house Wiley is celebrating its bicentennial this year. Charles Wiley opened his shop in New York City in 1807, the same year Beethoven composed his 5th Symphony. Since then Wiley has been responsible for publishing many of the English speaking ...
Feb 22 2007: Controversy is swarming over the Newbery Award winning book, The Higher Power of Lucky, written by public librarian Susan Patron, about a 10-year-old girl, which contains the anatomically correct word "scrotum". The furor seemed so ridiculous that BookBrowse has held ...
Feb 21 2007: Today marks the centenary of the birth of the poet Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H.) Auden, born Feb 21, 1907.
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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