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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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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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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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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very adult take on “The Blue Lotus,” one of the best-known tales to feature the fictional boy reporter Tintin, has been withdrawn from bookshops.
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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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NEW YORK (AP) -- The publisher that took on O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It" after it was dropped in the face of public outrage has signed up another rejected project: Sherry Jones' "The Jewel of Medina," a novel about a wife of the prophet Muhammad...(more)
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A romantic novel about the prophet Muhammad that was canceled by Random House after critics said it could provoke Muslim anger has found an English-language publisher in Britain. Sherry Jones's "The Jewel of Medina" will be released next month by Gibson Square, the firm announced...(more)
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glueck has been awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry," the Academy of American Poets announced Tuesday....
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Ms. Eyerly was one of the first writers for young adults to deal with themes like unwanted pregnancy, alcoholism and drugs.
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