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The Stiftsbibliothek — literally, the abbey library — in St. Gallen, Switzerland, will digitize and post its collection with the help of a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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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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In Spain a very adult take on “The Blue Lotus,” one of the best-known tales to feature the fictional boy reporter Tintin, has been withdrawn from bookshops.
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Tomi Ungerer, an artist equally at home with political art, children’s books and dark erotica, returns to American bookstores.
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Who could blame the Garcia girls for not knowing which way to turn? As novelist Julia Alvarez first revealed in her well-received 1991 novel, "How the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents," the sisters were wrenched from circumscribed, privileged childhoods in Rafael Trujillo's repressive Dominican Republic...(more)
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Philip Hensher's "The Northern Clemency" is a British novel that as of Sunday had yet to attract any customer reviews on Amazon.com. But the online retailer's staff reviewers have noticed well, making it Amazon's book of the year....
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Leonardo Padura writes gritty crime novels notable for their setting – Havana, the author's hometown – and for viewing Cuba through a critical eye. The characters deal with constant hardships of life in modern Cuba, including shortages of food, limited opportunities and a heavy-handed government bureaucracy....(more)
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Michael Meyer's book paints an unsentimental picture of the urban poor, whose homes and way of life are being eradicated to make room for malls and high-rises.
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Martin Rynja, the British publisher whose house was attacked over the weekend, is going ahead with plans to publish “The Jewel of Medina,” a novel about the early life of A’isha, a wife of the Prophet Muhammad.
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MAGNIFICO The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici By Miles J. Unger Simon & Schuster. 513 pp. $32 THE MONTEFELTRO CONSPIRACY A Renaissance Mystery Decoded By Marcello Simonetta Doubleday. 251 pp. $26 In 1469, Lorenzo de' Medici succeeded his father, Piero "the...(more)
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In her new book "Know Your Power," Nancy Pelosi explores the route to becoming the first female speaker of the House, including growing up in Baltimore (where her father and brother both served as mayor), her years organizing in Democratic politics in California and her...(more)
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Robert J. Samuelson says historians have not understood the significance of the “Great Inflation” that raged through the economy in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
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