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Questions over The Kabul Beauty School

May 02 2007: An article in the New York Times points out flaws in Deborah Rodriguez's Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil. Six women also involved in the beauty school in Afghanistan dispute parts of her memoir, particularly concerning the Beauty School's ...

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Campaign in defense of book review coverage growing

May 01 2007: The campaign to have the Atlanta Journal-Constitution rescind its decision to let book editor Teresa Weaver go and cut back on book coverage has led to thousands of people signing a petition to "protect Atlanta's book review."  The cutbacks at the ...

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Edgar Awards Announced

Apr 28 2007: The Mystery Writers of America’s 61st annual Edgar Awards were held on Friday 26th at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York. Winners included The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin for Best Novel; The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson for Best First Novel by an American Author; ...

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David Halberstam dies

Apr 24 2007: David Halberstam was one of America's most distinguished journalists and historians, a man whose newspaper reporting and books helped define the era we live in. He graduated from Harvard in 1955, took his first job on the smallest daily in Mississippi, and then ...

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Dickens theme park to open outside London

Apr 23 2007: A new theme park inspired by the work of Charles Dickens aims to transform a 70,000-square-foot warehouse near London into a teeming -- and family-friendly -- corner of Victorian England. "Would Dickens approve? Yes," said Thelma Grove of the Dickens Fellowship, a ...

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Amazon previews e-reader

Apr 18 2007: Although Amazon has been previewing its e-reader to publishers both in the U.S. and U.K. for months it has declined to comment on its existence to the press. However, according to publishers who've seen the player it is a step up from the Sony Reader which was ...

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Google to offer Online Access

Apr 18 2007: Google's presentation at this week's London Book Fair included a glimpse at an option that they expect to make available later this year—Online Access. Google has made reference to the program before, but has provided few details. Under the program consumers will be ...

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More independent bookstores closing

Apr 15 2007: In a recent article The San Francisco Chronicle mourned the loss of yet another independent bookstore, and the loss of independent bookstores in general, whose numbers across the USA have dropped by half since 1993, as shoppers eyeball books in the independents and then...

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