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First Day Of Winter: Great Books To Give And To Curl Up With On Winter Solstice (VIDEO)

abcnews.com | Posted 12.21.2009 | Books

Winter Solstice, the first day of winter, the shortest day of the year. Looking for a good book to curl up with, or perhaps some great last-minute Chr...

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Radomir Luza Dead: Author And Professor Wrote About WWII Horrors

Philadelphia Daily News | John F. Morrison | Posted 12.21.2009 | Books

Read More: Communism, Nazis, The Hitler Kiss, Czech Author, Czechoslovakia, Author Dead, Authors, Radomir Luza, Wwii, Books, Radomir v. Luza, Czech Republic, Books News

From bitter years of fighting the Germans, hiding underground and seeing comrades hunted and killed by the Gestapo, including his own father, then bat...

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Mark Gates Dead: Sales Rep For Farrar, Straus & Giroux Was Much Loved By All

Shelf Awareness | Posted 12.21.2009 | Books

Read More: Farrar Straus and Giroux, Sales Rep, Publishing, Voice Literary Supplement, Book Publishing, Mark Gates Dead, Books, Sales Reps, Village Voice, Mark Gates, Books News

Sad news: Mark Gates, longtime rep for Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Holt, died on Friday at age 57 of lung cancer. Gates got his start in book publish...

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Best Sarah Palin Spoof Yet: Ru Paul In "Going Vogue"

Posted 12.18.2009 | Books

Read More: RuPaul Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Book, Bestsellers, RuPaul Sarah Palin Spoof, Books, RuPaul Going Vogue, Sarah Palin, Going Vogue, Going Rogue, Palin, Rupaul, Books News

Amidst all of the spoofs of Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue", RuPaul comes out and tops them all. The new promo for RuPaul's show "RuPaul's Drag Race" feat...

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Bill Clinton Lied, Had Affair With Susan McDougal, New Book Claims

The New York Post | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Bill Clinton, The Death of American Virtue, Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Bill Clinton Affair, New Books, Bill Clinton Susan McDougal, Books, Ken Starr, Ken Gormley, Susan McDougal, Books News

A new book, "The Death of American Virtue" by law professor Ken Gormley, claims that Bill Clinton had an extramarital affair with Susan McDougal, the ...

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"Friendly Fire" Author C.D.B. Bryan Dead

AP | STEPHANIE REITZ | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books

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HARTFORD, Conn. — C.D.B. Bryan, whose 1976 book "Friendly Fire" about the accidental death of a soldier in Vietnam struck a chord with disillusi...

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Stephen King Picks 10 Best Books Of 2009

EW | Stephen King | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books

Take it from your Uncle Stevie -- book lovers on your shopping list will thank you for the gift of any of these rockin' reads....

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It's Christmas: Don't Get an MFA -- Write a Story, Win a Prize

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Grub Street, Muses & Monsters, Mfa, Writing, Alexander Chee, Christmas, Writer, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Dickens, Mentors, Books, Books News

Plenty of writers proceed without courses, without MFAs. They read voraciously, and learn about writing from reading, the way we learned to write before there were courses in it.

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Google Books Settlement: Paris Courts Find Google Guilty Of Copyright Infringement

The New York Times | MATTHEW SALTMARSH | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Google, Copyright Infringement, Paris, France, Paris Courts, Copyright, Google Books, French Law, Google Books Settlement, Copyright Law, Books, Digital Books, Books News

A French court ruled Friday that Google was guilty of infringing copyrights by digitizing books and putting extracts online without authorization, dea...

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Blog To Book: How 6 Authors Did It

mashable.com | Brenna Ehrlich | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Escape From Cubicle Nation, Twitter Wit, I Can Has Cheezburger, Fail Nation, Bloggers, Twitter, New Books, Rules for My Unborn Son, FU Penguin, This Is Why You're Fat, Fail, Books, Fail Blog, Blogging, Blooks, Blog to Book, Books News

Ever since roughly 2005, publishers have been looking toward the Internet in order to find new fodder for the printed page, and this year, those liter...

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Breaking Up And Old Love Lessons: Change Your Passwords

Andy Selsberg | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Breaking Up, Dear Old Love, Books, Break Ups, Facebook, New Books, Email, Love, Books News

Curating "Dear Old Love", a website and now book of short, anonymous notes to old loves, has provided me with an email box full of insight into the ways relationships pull apart.

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Feminist Books For The Holidays

Feministing | Courtney Martin | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Christmas Books, Feminism, Christmas Gifts, Feminist, Holidays, Christmas, Books, Best Books, Feminist Books, Books News

As they say, it's always "too many books, too little time." But the holiday season is a time when a) you often get to slow down and actually devour a ...

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Row For Water: Katie Spotz, Row, Row Our Boat

Steven Solomon | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books

As the throngs at Copenhagen pack their bags and disperse from the historic summit back to all corners of the globe, a lone young Ohio woman, Katie Spotz, 24, is getting set to start out on a solitary, sea level voyage.

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"Avatar" Movie Spawns Geeky Guide Book (PHOTOS)

Dirk Mathison | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Pandora, AVATAR Pictures, Avatar, Avatar Movie, Books, Avatar Premiere, Avatar Guide, Movies, Slideshow, Books News

It's not easy messing around in the fictional sandbox of a famous director, especially one as exacting as James Cameron.

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What Not To Read After A Break Up (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books

There's no good time to go through a break up and the holidays are just about the worst. The last thing you want to do is rub salt into a wound by rea...

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eBook Sales Skyrocket, Book Sales Up In General

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Ereaders, Book Publishing, Publishing, Aap, The Lost Symbol, Sarah Palin Going Rogue, Kindle, Books, Dan Brown the Lost Symbol, Sarah Palin, Book Sales, Dan Brown, Ebooks, Books News

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) announced today in a press release that overall book sales were up in October. The increase is small -- 1...

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Steve Harvey On Why Men Cheat (VIDEO)

abcnews.com | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Infidelity, Why Do Men Cheat, Act Like a Man, Books, Steve Harvey, Steve Harvey Good Morning America, Cheating, Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man, Reasons for Cheating, Why Men Cheat, Books News

Why do men cheat? How do you know? Steve Harvey, author of "Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man", tells all. You can read an excerpt from "Act Like a ...

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The Best Books Of The Decade You Never Read

The Guardian | Posted 12.23.2009 | Books

While people are busy ranking the hit books of the last 10 years, many a publishing insider is quietly mourning a volume that unaccountably never made...

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Stephen King On Colbert: America Needs Scary, Gross Stories (VIDEO)

Posted 12.17.2009 | Books

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Stephen King was on the Colbert Report last night for the feature "Better Know a Stephen" and gave Colbert spooky visions of double Stephens. They tal...

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Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel

Phil Villarreal | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books

Read More: New Books, Humor, Save Money, Books, Saving Money, Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel, Books News

If your New Year's resolution is to be more cheap, petty and evil, I have some tips for you.

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Copenhagen: Climate Change Affects More Than Polar Bears (PHOTOS)

Alun Anderson | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Slideshow, Climate Science, Copenhagen 2009, Glaciers, Copenhagen, New Books, Global Warming, Climate Change, Environment, Polar Bears, Arctic, Books, Greenland, Books News

Climate change may seem as if it is a worry just for the people who want to "save the planet" but really it is about saving our current standard of living. And once you get the Arctic angry it will go for a long, slow revenge.

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Christmas Gifts 2009: The Best Children's Picture Books Of The Year (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Bill Bryson, Moon Theater, Yummy Eight Favorite Fairy Tales, Books, Christmas Books, Lucy Cousins, Slidepoll, Princess Hyacinth, Harry and Horsie, The Snow Day, Never Smile at a Monkey, Christmas Presents, A Really Short History of Nearly Everything, Children's Books, Christmas Gifts, The Odd Egg, Kids' Books, A Penguin Story, The Curious Garden, Picture Books, History of Everything, Best Books, Best, Holiday News, Best Children's Books, Best Children's Books 2009, Best Picture Books 2009, Books News

2009 has been a fantastic year for kids' picture books, and parents, you'll love them as much as your children do. There's something for everyone: fro...

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The Death of Print Doesn't Have to Mean the Death of Publishing

Steve Haber | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Industry, Publishing, Sony, Apple, Ereader, Publishing Industry, The Lost Symbol, Books, Ebooks, Books News

In a world of social networks, video games and mobile handsets that do everything imaginable, Americans have maintained their interest in reading.

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Does Social Networking Kill the Author Mystique?

Jason Pinter | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Social Media, Twittering, Twitter, Facebook, Huffpost Books, Social Networking, Books, Books News

I have no doubt that some people buy books based on their discovery of an author online. But I also believe that what helps can also hurt if not done in moderation.

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Marketing 101: Never (Ever) Sell Your Book

Penny C. Sansevieri | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Online Marketing, Promoting Your Book, Marketing Yourself, Book Marketing, Authors, Twitter, Books, Facebook, Marketing Authors, Blogging, Books News

One of the biggest mistakes authors make is selling their book. Remember it's not about the book; it's about what the book can do for the reader.

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