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Apr 07 2006: April 13 is the 100th birthday of Samuel Beckett, the great Irish playwright, poet and novelist and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize.
Apr 07 2006: Despite intense lobbying from the Society of Authors and Publishers Association, Britain's Competition Commission yesterday gave provisional approval to a proposed takeover of Ottakar's bookstore chain by HMV, the parent company of the country's largest bookseller, ...
Apr 07 2006: Author John Reynolds Gardiner died on March 4th, at the age of 61. He is best known for his 1980 novel Stone Fox(HarperCollins). He is also the author of Top Secret (Little, Brown) and General Butterfingers (Houghton).
Apr 07 2006: Sean Penn is planning to direct a movie based on Jon Krakauer's Into The Wild
Apr 07 2006: Scholastic, which disappointed investors in previous years by failing to hit its financial targets, announced third quarter earnings and warned that it will miss its projections for the current fiscal year. Higher promotion expenses in its book clubs, higher staffing ...
Mar 20 2006: World publishing rights to Alan Greenspan's forthcoming memoir have gone to Penguin Press for a rumored $8 million+. Although there is a certain caché to the acquisition, many question whether the book could really be ...
Mar 20 2006: Margaret Atwood successfully demonstrated her brainchild - the first long distance signing device known as The Long Pen (as mentioned in the last issue of BookBrowse Recommends) at the London Book Fair in early March. The idea came to her while on an ...
Mar 02 2006: Bookspan has reached a consent judgment with the Federal Trade Commission over the FTC's investigation into the book club's telemarketing activities. Bookspan has agreed to pay a $680,000 civil penalty for telemarketing activities that violated FTC standards between ...
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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