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SWEETHEART By Chelsea Cain St. Martin's Minotaur. 328 pp. $24.95 It was just a year ago that "Heartsick," Chelsea Cain's gory tale of a Portland, Ore., detective's obsession with a beautiful serial killer, turned up on the bestseller lists. Now comes a sequel, "Sweetheart," in...(more)
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INVISIBLE NATION How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East By Quil Lawrence Walker. 366 pp. $25.95 In journalistic accounts of the Iraq war, the Kurds, if they are mentioned at all, tend to be used as a counterexample. Kurdistan...(more)
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BAGHDAD Upstairs, the blue bedroom door of Nabil al-Hayawi's only son was locked, sealing in the artifacts of his short life. Downstairs, the frail bookseller's voice quivered as he recalled the car bombing that killed his son and his brother and razed his family's bookshop...(more)
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The title of Carla Bruni's new album, "Comme Si de Rien N'Etait," translates to "As if Nothing Happened," which suggests that the foxy French-Italian model-turned-singer has at least some semblance of a sense of humor. Much, of course, has happened in her world in the...(more)
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A copy of J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel sold at auction Thursday for almost $41,000. The copy of the hardback first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," published in 1997 and signed "Joanne Rowling" on the back of the title page, was sold...(more)
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal appeals court has reversed a ruling that awarded John Steinbeck's son and granddaughter publishing rights to 10 of the author's early works, including "The Grapes of Wrath."...
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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - She was a teenager from Dublin looking to make her name as a journalist when American author Ernest Hemingway entered her life in 1959.
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Of the wild rumors to circulate across New Orleans in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, one of the more preposterous was the tale that Gov. Kathleen Blanco exacerbated the flooding by ordering helicopters sent to attempt repairs on the 17th Street Canal to instead rescue...(more)
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. court was wrong to award rights to some of John Steinbeck's best-known novels, including "The Grapes of Wrath," to his son and granddaughter, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
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A CRIME SO MONSTROUS Face-to-Face With Modern-Day Slavery By E. Benjamin Skinner Free Press. 328 pp. $26 Freelance reporter E. Benjamin Skinner opens his book on modern slavery with a paradox: Though human bondage is now banned everywhere, "there are more slaves today than at...(more)
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On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ian Fleming, the novelist Sebastian Faulks adds another ersatz James Bond title to the shaky bibliography compiled after Fleming’s death.
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Once upon a time, Sherry Jones was a Montana newspaper reporter who dreamed she could contribute to world peace with a novel about the prophet Muhammad and his feminist leanings. Then she wrote it. Today? She's the target of a Serbian mufti and a Middle...(more)
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