Literature
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'The Turnaround' shows the price of penance
Aug 04, 2008 11:00 pm - At 51, Alex Pappas was a handsome man until he turned his head to show the scar that wormed below his drooping eye - the one he couldn't see out of very well. It was his...
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Million-selling opening for 'Twilight' series finale
Aug 03, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Harry Potter is still king, but the final book of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series did manage a million-selling debut. "Breaking Dawn," the fourth of Meye...
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J.K. Rowling fairy tales to be sold for charity
Jul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - LONDON -- News alert for Harry Potter fans: A book of wizard fairy tales written and illustrated by J.K. Rowling is to be published for charity. A British charity said T...
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'The Bible Salesman' has humor, religion and crime
Jul 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Henry Dampier, 20 years old and raised to be a Christian gentlemen, is pursuing a career selling Bibles door-to-door when he sticks his thumb out for a ride and ends up ...
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Hype, excitement building for 'Twilight' finale 'Breaking Dawn'Jul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Shortly after the clock strikes midnight on Saturday, you just might hear squeals of delight echoing from all corners of the suburbs. The reason: The final "Twilight" bo...
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Clark's new thriller is about kidnapping
Jul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - For Mary Jane Clark fans, the most thrilling TV network has to be KEY. The fictional company has some very nasty anchors, producers and correspondents who would do anyth...
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'Good People' is a tightly written yarn
Jul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - When Tom and Anna Reed investigate a beeping smoke alarm in their downstairs tenant's apartment, they discover a grease fire blazing on the kitchen stove and the tenant ...
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New book gives Doris her dayJul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - David Kaufman comes right to the point at the start of his life of Doris Day: "Day has been largely and unfairly neglected by cultural arbiters." Day's career is not som...
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A sci-fi publishing odyssey
Jul 27, 2008 11:00 pm - PALATINE - Arthur C. Clarke's health was failing fast, but he still had a story to tell. So he turned to fellow science fiction writer Frederik Pohl, and together the lo...
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Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell'
Jul 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the J...