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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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Da Vinci Code Movie Grosses $77m

Jun 01 2006: Despite poor reviews, The Da Vinci Code movie grossed $77 million in box office sales in its first weekend.

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Poet Stanley Kunitz Dies At 101

Jun 01 2006: Poet Stanley Kunitz died on May 14th at the age of 101.  He was prized by fellow poets as a rare symbol of health and happiness in an art often dominated by depression - and this despite the fact he experienced many hardships in his life.

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Book Title Decline Worries Some

May 22 2006: According to Publishers Weekly, Bowker (the official US agency for assigning barcodes for books, known as ISBNs) estimate that there was a 9% decline in titles in 2005 versus 2004, to 172,000.  Some are disheartened to see that the drop is mainly due to lower...

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