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'Empire Of The Sun' author J.G. Ballard dies at 78

Associated Press
Apr 19, 2009 11:00 pm - LONDON -- Author J.G. Ballard, a survivor of a Japanese prison camp whose vision was so dark and distinctive it was labeled "Ballardian" and who reached a wide audience ...
New Dan Brown novel coming in September

Associated Press
Apr 19, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- At last, a new Dan Brown novel is coming. Six years after the release of his mega-selling "The Da Vinci Code," the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group announced...
First-time author scores unexpected best seller

Associated Press
Apr 19, 2009 11:00 pm - JACKSON, Miss. -- Good thing Octavia Spencer is an actress. She needed all her stagecraft to hide a horrified look when her friend, Kathryn Stockett, asked her to read h...
'Two Towers' via cell towers? Digital Tolkien arrives

Associated Press
Apr 19, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A major new name has been added to the digital library: J.R.R. Tolkien. E-versions of the late author's multimillion-selling "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of th...
Sheepshearing event planned for Kline Creek Farm in Winfield

Daily Herald Staff Report
Apr 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Freebie! Shear delight Find out how wool sheared from a sheep is made into a sweater or coat during the sheepshearing event at Kline Creek Farm. The farm's resident shee...
Harlan Coben pens most suspenseful thriller yet

Associated Press
Apr 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Myron Bolitar, sports agent and accidental detective, has returned in what is perhaps Harlan Coben's best-written and most suspenseful thriller yet. The story begins whe...
'Playing with the Enemy' author in Bolingbrook

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Apr 16, 2009 11:00 pm - • Meet "Playing with the Enemy" author Gary Moore as he discusses and signs copies of his book at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 18, at Barnes and Noble at the Promenade Bolingb...
Amazon 'glitch' removes sales rank from gay books

Associated Press
Apr 12, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A "glitch" on Amazon.com has caused the sales rank to be removed from gay- and/or lesbian-themed books by James Baldwin, Gore Vidal and others. "There was a ...
Evan Wright's 'Hella Nation' portrays America

Associated Press
Apr 07, 2009 11:00 pm - In the first chapter of Evan Wright's "Hella Nation," American troops stationed in Afghanistan are easily conned by an Afghan translator into believing the former-Taliba...
2 posthumous Michael Crichton releases planned

Associated Press
Apr 05, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Two new Michael Crichton novels, one of them unfinished, have been scheduled for release. Publisher HarperCollins announced Monday that "Pirate Latitudes," a...

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