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Guardian announces shortlist for Book Award

Nov 04 2008: The British newspaper The Guardian has announced the shortlist for their first book award. The shortlisted titles are: The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross, Stalin's Children by Owen Matthews, God's Own Country by Ross Raisin, A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz and A ...

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Studs Terkel dies

Oct 31 2008: Pulitzer Prize-winning author, radio host and activist Studs Terkel died in his Chicago, Illinois, home Friday at the age of 96.

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Whiting Foundation awards 10 writers $50,000

Oct 30 2008: The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation today named ten recipients of the 2008 Whiting Writers’ Awards, including Mischa Berlinski, whose first novel Fieldwork, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. The awards, which are $50,000 each, totaling $500,000, have...

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Tony Hillerman dies

Oct 27 2008: Tony Hillerman, the award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction, most notably the Leaphorn/Chee mystery novels, died on October 26 at the age of 83. Hillerman's daughter, Anne Hillerman, said her father's health had been declining in the last couple ...

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Book Group Expo this weekend

Oct 24 2008: The third annual Book Group Expo meets this weekend in San Jose, California. Tickets are $55 for a two-day pass and $42 for a single day. Find out more about Book Group Expo and its founder in BookBrowse's interview, and buy tickets at bookgroupexpo.com

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Exclusive prepub readings of Toni Morrison's 'Mercy' on NPR

Oct 24 2008: Pulitzer-winning author Toni Morrison will unveil her highly anticipated ninth novel, A Mercy (publishing Nov 11), on NPR.org's Book Tour in pre-publication readings on October 27, 28, 29 and 30. During the four days she'll read the first 30 pages of the 177-...

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JK Rowling's Beedle the Bard to help institutionalized children in E. Europe

Oct 22 2008: JK Rowling is to host a tea party for Edinburgh school children to launch her much-anticipated volume of wizarding fairy tales, The Tales of Beedle the Bard.

The book, publishing on December 4, marks Rowling's farewell to the world of Harry Potter. Not originally ...

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Columbian library has 4,800 books and 10 legs

Oct 20 2008: In a ritual repeated nearly every weekend for the past decade in Colombia’s war-weary Caribbean hinterland, Luis Soriano gathers his two donkeys, Alfa and Beto, in front of his home and sets out with an eclectic cargo of books destined for the people living in the ...

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