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Oct 09 2009: Romanian-born author Herta Mueller* has won the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature. A member of Romania's ethnic German minority Mueller was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain. The Nobel committee honored her for work that "with the...
Oct 07 2009: As reported by Shelf Awareness, The future course of the war in Afghanistan is currently being influenced by two books that "draw decidedly different lessons from the Vietnam War," according to Wall Street Journal.
"President Barack Obama recently finished Lessons ...
Oct 07 2009: Amazon made its long-awaited move into the international market, announcing last night that it will begin shipping a new device with U.S. and international wireless access October 19. The new Kindle, priced at $279, will be available in more than 100 countries, Amazon ...
Oct 06 2009: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall has been awarded the Man Booker Prize. Long before its publication last April this 650-page novel, based on the life of Thomas Cromwell, adviser to a petulant Henry VIII and remembered as an architect of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, was ...
Oct 06 2009: "Why do they always name schools after politicians and movie stars? Why don't they name a school after a teacher?" the late Frank McCourt often asked. Now his wish may come true. New York magazine reports that Mayor Michael Bloomberg "is expected to soon announce the ...
Oct 05 2009: More than 160 pirate copies of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol have been traced online, across 12 different download sites. The largest culprit was online filesharer Rapidshare.com which had 102 pirated copies available online last week.
Oct 02 2009: Amazon has agreed to pay $150,000 in a lawsuit filed by 17-year-old Justin Gawronski, who sued the online retailer after George Orwell's novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" were deleted from his Kindle. The money, after going to the law firm representing the teen, will be ...
Oct 01 2009: In an experiment testing consumers' interest in integrated print and video content, Simon & Schuster has partnered with multimedia start-up Vook to create a quartet of titles that melds print and video. The fruits of the partnership are four vooks.
The books ...
Pony Confidential
by Christina Lynch
In this whimsical mystery, a grumpy pony must clear his beloved human's name from a murder accusation.
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