Literature
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Fla. library puts racy ‘50 Shades’ back on shelvesJun 02, 2012 7:51 am - VIERA, Fla. — A Florida county is putting the racy romance trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey” back on its library shelves. The Brevard County Library System had pulled 19 co...
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Book notes: Meet blues guitarist Buddy GuyJun 01, 2012 6:00 am - Ÿ Authors John McEvoy (“Photo Finish”) and Jack Fredrickson (“Hunting Sweetie Rose”) discuss and sign copies of their books at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 2, at Centuries and ...
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Batavia author’s book relives Northwoods memoriesMay 30, 2012 2:05 pm - For many of us who grew up in the Chicago suburbs, Wisconsin was the place where we spent the vacations of our youth, whether going to church camp at Lake Geneva, tent c...
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'Cliff Walk' is chilling murder mysteryMay 30, 2012 6:00 am - In his Edgar Award-winning first novel, “Rogue Island,” published in 2010, retired AP writing coach Bruce DeSilva introduced readers to the affable Liam Mulligan, a crim...
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'SecondWorld' will leave you breathlessMay 28, 2012 11:00 pm - The popcorn novel of the summer has arrived, and Jeremy Robinson delivers an action fest that rivals the best of James Rollins, Clive Cussler and Matthew Reilly. NCIS ag...
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Should scientists-authors be more forthcoming about their flaws?May 28, 2012 9:29 am - “Doubt is our product,” a tobacco executive observed in the late 1960s, infamously summing up the effort to undercut the link between smoking and cancer. Since then, man...
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Free-e-book promotes fall releases with excerptsMay 28, 2012 7:20 am - NEW YORK — Summer is weeks away, but the fall book season has already started. “Buzz Books 2012” is a free e-book that came out Monday and features excerpts from 33 upco...
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Book details how swindler duped Ulysses S. Grant in gilded-age scamMay 28, 2012 7:20 am - For Ulysses S. Grant, the Union commander who broke the Confederate army, bitter defeat came on Wall Street, not the battlefield. The date was May 6, 1884, and the broke...
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Agent: ‘OMG’ diet book subject of 7-figure dealMay 26, 2012 8:22 am - NEW YORK — The author of a self-published diet book that advocates skipping breakfast and taking cold baths has agreed to lucrative deals with British and U.S. publisher...
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'Flat Spin' has riveting plot and fine proseMay 25, 2012 6:00 am - "Flat Spin," the title of this debut thriller, is the name of a complex and risky flight maneuver that only the most accomplished pilots should attempt, so it's no surpr...