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3 smart novels for the last weeks of summer Three male characters head to the desert hoping to change their lives.
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Homeschooling: 5 stories from a mother who tried it From Quinn Cummings' book 'The Year of Learning Dangerously,' 5 stories from a mother trying to homeschool her kids for the first time.
'Dark Tower' adaptation stops but may start againThe adaptation of Stephen King's Dark Tower series was dropped by Warner Bros., but Media Rights Capital may take on the project.
Teachers buying lots of Ayn Rand for the classroomThis past school year saw a 30 percent increase in classroom requests for Ayn Rand novels from the Ayn Rand Institute.
Olympic medalist Alex Morgan to write young adult seriesAlex Morgan, soccer star on the US Olympic team will write a soccer series targeted at middle school girls.
The Fight For HomeIn 'The Fight for Home,' Daniel Wolf lets Katrina survivors tell their stories in their own words, and the result is revelatory.
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Bestselling books the week of 8/23/12, according to IndieBound* What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Barnes & Noble will begin selling its Nook e-reader in the UK this fallBarnes & Noble opens up its Nook e-reader to an international market.
'Paterno': 8 stories from the biography Biographer Joe Posnanski charts the life of the late Joe Paterno in his new book.
'Hunger Games' passes 'Harry Potter' as bestselling Amazon seriesSince debuting in 2008, Amazon says, Katniss Everdeen and the Hunger Games 'have taken the world by storm.'- Jodi Picoult quiz: How well do you know her books?
Jodi Picoult is one of America's bestselling fiction authors. She is known for confronting controversial topics and her novels include plenty of drama and rich characterizations. Picoult graduated from Princeton University and has a master's degree in education from Harvard University. She is currently the author of nineteen novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers "Sing You Home," "Handle With Care," "Change of Heart," "Nineteen Minutes," and "My Sister's Keeper."
DiariesMuch of the material in George Orwell's 'Diaries' is of interest only to the most obsessive of Orwellians.
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Merriam-Webster adds 'e-reader,' 'gastropub' and moreMany of the 2012 inclusions in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary are words that 'provide colorful images,' according to editor at large Peter Sokolowski.
'People Who Eat Darkness' could be the best true crime book of the century'People Who Eat Darkness' follows the case of Lucie Blackman, who disappeared in Tokyo more than a decade ago.
Lauren Conrad stirs up readers' outrage with book-destroying videoAfter protests, reality star Lauren Conrad took down a video in which she cut up books to make a storage box.
The Eighteen-Day Running MateWith the Paul Ryan announcement, writer Joshua M. Glasser's book is timely as well as impeccably researched.
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