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Starbucks to sell Books

Aug 02 2006: Starbucks announced recently that they will be entering the bookselling business this Fall when Mitch Albom’s 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...

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J.K Rowling Offers Tantalising Glimpse Into Next Potter Book,

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 ...

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Mockingbird Sings

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 ...

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Queen Holds Book-Themed Birthday Party For 2,000 Children

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 ...

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Microsoft Launches Book Search Service

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 ...

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U.S. Children Read Less As They Grow Older

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 ...

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Suite Française Spurs Author Biography

Jun 01 2006: In the wake of the surprising success of Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky’s 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...

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Theft Upsets Author's Ex-Wife

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 ...

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