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"Twilight" publisher sees film boosting book sales
Described in publishing circles as America's answer to Harry Potter, the teen-age vampires of "Twilight" may reach a wider audience when the movie of the book comes out on Friday with the publisher hoping for a surge in book sales.
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Twilight Review: Swooningly True to the Book
The film of vampire romance Twilight is swooningly true to the book
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Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize
The economy hung like a cloud over the 59th annual National Book Awards. Barack Obama was the silver lining.
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Book prizes awarded with nod to history
Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family," while Peter Matthiessen won the fiction award for "Shadow Country."
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'Joe the Plumber' lands book deal
The man who shot to fame in the US presidential election as "Joe the Plumber" signs a book deal.
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U.S. National Book Awards go to slave, outlaw books
A book about a slave family with ties to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and novel about a notorious Florida outlaw were among the winners at America's 59th annual National Book Awards on Wednesday.
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My Book Of A Lifetime: The Life of Vertebrates, By JZ Young
I do not know if JZ Young was a religious man, but The Life of Vertebrates has the gravitas of a sacred text. The animals and bits thereof, depicted in drawings neat as woodcuts, are esoterica. It's a textbook – albeit, Young assures us, a very personal one. As a great book should, it intrigues as much as informs. Always, it implies there are layers of meaning beneath what can be summarised and ...
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Mark Doty Wins National Book Award for Poetry
An acclaimed gay writer just got more acclaimed. Writer Mark Doty's Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems won the National Book Award for poetry at an awards presentation Wednesday night in New York City.
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