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Investigation Reveals Mega Best-Selling Authors EL James and Suzanne Collins Are Actually Sisters

Linda Howard Urbach | Posted 03.31.2013 | Comedy

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Two women writing two trilogies garnering a lion's share of all book sales? Coincidence? I thought so until I received a telephone call from Bruce Watson a private investigator who specializes in uncovering improprieties in the publishing industry.

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'Even When Laura Lippman Was Good, I STILL Never Heard of Her!'

Laura Zigman | Posted 10.15.2012 | Books

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But despite the many New York Times best-sellers and Edgar awards, there's one person who hasn't heard of her: The Frenemy. Though he has heard of her husband.

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WATCH: I Have To Ask: What Do You Think Of The Book "50 Shades Of Grey"?

Posted 10.09.2012 | MarloThomas

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Microphone in hand, I asked pedestrians around New York: What do you think of the book "50 Shades of Grey"? var src_url="http://pshared.5min....

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Shades of Grey, a 'How-to' Book With Many Climaxes

Warren Adler | Posted 09.05.2012 | Books

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This is the kind of "novel "that plays by its own rules and offers something of obvious value to its mostly female readership. For the uninitiated it can be gloriously instructive and for the more mature it could offer a choice menu of self-help inspiration.

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15 Beach Reads Worth Your Time and Money

LearnVest | Posted 09.02.2012 | Women

All of these titles go great with sun and a splash of lemonade.

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Are Best-seller Lists Irrelevant?

Warren Adler | Posted 08.06.2012 | Books

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It may be time for the media that covers the book business to stop publishing best seller lists. They are, in today's book choosing environment, disorienting, unhelpful and confusing, a valiant but failed attempt to make sense out of disorder.

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Michael Pollan Has Some Food Rules to Live By

Laura Klein | Posted 02.06.2012 | Home

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Pollan's collection of rules keeps it simple: No medical or calorie counting rules (don't people get tired of counting calories?). And my favorite rule is the super simple number 24: When you eat real food, you don't need rules.

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Will Smith's Last Pharaoh vs. Egypt's History by Hollywood

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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Will Smith's upcoming movie sheds light on long forgotten Egyptian history. If you want to know the true story of the Last Pharaoh of Egypt, you'd better pay attention to what's going on in Egypt today and in the near future.

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A Revolution in the Making?

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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A sense of frustration, hopelessness and repression seems to be haunting Egyptian youth and the older people as well, struggling to make ends meet. The result has impacted Egyptian society.

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"The Last Song": In Defense of Miley and Nicholas

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

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Nicholas Sparks writes romantic novels that usually are tear inducing. They have made him his fortune but they have also incurred the wrath of the non-romantics among us.

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Thirty Years after Khomeini: Will Egypt Turn into another Iran?

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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The 83-year-old President Mubarak of Egypt has been in power since 1981. Concerns about his health draw much greater attention to the question of who will next rule the nation of Egypt.

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Is Egypt's Economy in Crisis?

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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Egypt is undergoing a severe liquidity crisis caused by the loss of hard currency from few sources: tourism was a key source of foreign exchange and the main engine of growth.

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Sarah Palin: Exploitation of Women at its Worst

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Sarah Palin is definitely the embodiment of the antifeminist movement in this country as she aims to appeal to female voters and consumers in the so-called pink economy.

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Risky Business in the Arab World

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

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Why is it hard for Arab and Muslim writers, professors, intellectuals and average persons to speak out against suicide bombers, Jihadists, anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism in their countries?

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Will Smith, The Last Pharaoh

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

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Will Smith's latest project, The Last Pharaoh, is a greatmega action movie expected by millions of fans around the globe.

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David Swanson's Daybreak Is Chart-Topping Inspiration

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

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A journey through Daybreak is an educational awakening, and an alert to the misdeeds of those we've elected. It's a clarification of why these deeds are wrong, why they must be challenged, and how they can be changed.

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Pulp (Non-) Fiction: The Blagojevich Book Deal

Karen Stabiner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

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He's getting six figures to tell us what really happened when he didn't, he swears, do any of the things that the rest of the world seems to believe he did. A fairly cushy bully pulpit, with no one interrupting to ask embarrassing questions.

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