Aug 02 2006: Starbucks announced recently that they will be entering the bookselling business this Fall when Mitch Alboms forthcoming novel, For One More Day, goes on sale at the suggested retail price at 5,400 Starbucks locations across the USA in October (the publisher...
Jul 06 2006: In a British TV interview last week, J.K. Rowling revealed that at least two key characters will die in the seventh and final installment of her Harry Potter series. She wrote the final chapter long ago but has ...
Jul 06 2006: Ever since Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published in 1960 and went on to sell 2.5 million copies in its first year and win the Pulitzer Prize, the author has led a low-profile life. But ...
Jul 06 2006: 2,000 children, along with their parents or guardians, shared Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday celebrations this year on Sunday June 25th. All British children between the ages of 4 to 14 were eligible to enter the online lottery that ...
Jun 15 2006: Microsoft has announced that out-of-copyright titles from the University of California and the University of Toronto libraries will eventually be searchable through its Windows Live Book Search service. The University of California ...
Jun 15 2006: According to the Kids and Family Reading Report (a national survey, sponsored by Scholastic Books, of children ages 5-17 and their parents that was released this week) 92% of kids say they like to read for fun. But the number of those who are classified as high ...
Jun 01 2006: In the wake of the surprising success of Suite Française, Irène Némirovskys posthumous novel about life in Nazi-occupied France which Knopf published in April, Stanford University Press has stepped up production on the first English-language...
Jun 01 2006: Peter Carey's ex-wife is unhappy with his latest novel Theft, in which the chief protagonist (who bears more than a striking resemblance to Carey) describes his ex-wife as an "alimony-whore". Theater director Alison Summers, who was married to Carey for 20 ...
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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