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- 'Game of Thrones': Which major characters may not appear in season 5?
'Thrones' actor Kristian Nairn, who portrays Hodor, recently said in an interview that he and actor Isaac Hempstead-Wright, who plays Bran Stark, will not be in the upcoming season.
- Title, cover, and other details of George W. Bush's book on his father are revealed
Bush's book '41' will be released on Nov. 11.
- Previously unpublished Tennessee Williams draft centers on writers D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield
Scholar Gerri Kimber wrote that the untitled play 'seems never to have been discussed by scholars until now.' Williams' draft will reportedly be published in 'Katherine Mansfield Studies' in 2015.
- 'Reading Rainbow' host LeVar Burton will publish a children's book
Burton's book 'The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm' will reportedly be released this October.
- 'Acceptance,' the finale in Jeff VanderMeer's 'Southern Reach' trilogy, is published
'Acceptance,' which was released according to an unusual publication strategy, has largely been receiving positive reviews.
- Terrorist-themed coloring books for kids: instructive or inflammatory?
Subjects of new coloring books from Really Big Coloring Books include ISIS and the Boston Marathon bombings.
- Never-before-published section of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' is available for reading
The children's book by Roald Dahl is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
- Haruki Murakami's 'The Strange Library' will be published in English this December
Murakami's novel 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage' is still topping US bestseller lists.
- 'Rosewater': The movie about journalist Maziar Bahari's imprisonment gets a trailer
'Rosewater' is based on Bahari's memoir 'Then They Came for Me' and stars Gael Garcia Bernal as Bahari.
- Bruce Springsteen's song 'Outlaw Pete' will be adapted as a children's book
The book 'Outlaw Pete' will be illustrated by Frank Caruso.
- What is it like to work at an independent bookstore?
Apparently all customers believe the book they're looking for has a blue cover and some will tell you that if you haven't read every book in the store, 'you're not very good at your job.'
- Did 'Joe and Marilyn' biographer C. David Heymann commit plagiarism?
According to a Newsweek article, many of Heymann's books were fabricated and contained many errors.
- Percy Jackson narrates Greek myths for kids
Author Rick Riordan recently published the book 'Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,' which is a compilation of traditional Greek myths as told by his character Percy.
- Gov. Jerry Brown calls for mention of 'significance' of Obama's election in California textbooks
Brown recently signed a law recommending that the state's Instructional Quality Commission 'consider including, and recommending for adoption by the state board, instruction on the election of President Barack Obamaand the significance of the United States electing its first African-American president, as appropriate.'
- Robin Williams biography will be written by a New York Times reporter
Dave Itzkoff, who is also the author of 'Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies,' says he will publish a biography of the actor.
- 'Gone Girl': A new trailer shows more of the twist-filled story
'Gone Girl' stars Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne, a husband who comes under suspicion when his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) disappears.
- Floating libraries take to the water
A library on a docked boat is set to debut in New York in September, while a book collection has been circulating on a lake in Minneapolis this summer.
- Misquote has UK children's laureate Malorie Blackman defending her cry for more diversity in children's books
A quote misattributed to Blackman complained that there are 'too many white faces' in children's literature, subjecting her to 'hatred, threats, and vitriol'. The author says her intent was to express support for 'more books featuring kids/YA with disabilities, LGBT, people of colour, travellers, different cultures, religions.'
- David Mitchell's 'The Bone Clocks' is the novel to watch this fall
'The Bone Clocks' isn't out until early September, but the novel by 'Cloud Atlas' author Mitchell is already drawing almost universal praise.
- 'Outlander': A map from Visit Scotland gives fans a guide to the real country
Wondering what's real and what's fiction on 'Outlander'? The tourism organization Visit Scotland has explanations for Gaelic phrases and where to find real buildings featured in the show, among other trivia.