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Jan 29 2007: Bookshop Santa Cruz in California is selling a "Bush Countdown Clock" keychain for $9.95 at nationalnightmare.com, including free shipping. In the past year, the store has sold some 30,000 units, about 82 a day or 3.4 an hour. This is not the first time the left-...
Jan 26 2007: Oprah has chosen Sidney Poitier's autobiography The Measure of a Man as her first book club selection after a hiatus of more than a year, following the debacle over James Frey's memoir.
Jan 25 2007: Boaz Publishing have announced a $10,000 award for unpublished novels. The Frances Fabri Literary Prize for Fiction honors the memory of holocaust survivor Frances Fabri, an unpublished poet and fiction writer who spent much of her later years recording oral histories ...
Jan 24 2007: The 10-year-old print on demand publisher AuthorHouse has been acquired by Bertram Capital, a private equity firm in Palo Alto, Calif. AuthorHouse has published some 40,000 books by 30,000 writers. In 2006, AuthorHouse released 6,000 books.
Jan 24 2007: In the last two months of 2006 customers of Borders and Walden Bookstores (both part of Borders Group) raised $830,000 for First Book, a nonprofit organization that provides books to children from low-income families. $780,000 was raised by customers making ...
Jan 22 2007: The American Library Association have announced the winners of the ALA Awards.
Jan 22 2007: The National Book Critics Circle have named the 2006 nominees for the organizations top annual honors. Contenders include Michael Pollan for The Omnivore's Dilemma, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun, Kiran Desai for The Inheritance of Loss, ...
Jan 22 2007: The Perseus Books Group have made an offer to acquire substantially" all of the distribution contracts of PGW, the distribution arm of bankrupt Advanced Marketing Services (AMS). The deal is subject to approval by the bankruptcy court, but PGW's two largest clients, ...
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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