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- 5 true crime stories you don't want to miss These five Edgar Award nominees are true-crime stories taken straight from real life.
- In 'Hard Measures,' former CIA official Jose Rodriquez defends waterboarding'Hard Measures' by former CIA official Jose Rodriguez also accuses Pakistan, Washington's current ally, of assisting terrorists.
- Follow the footsteps of Thoreau in 'Walden' through .. a video game?A video game based on Henry David Thoreau's life at Walden Pond is being developed by a team at the University of Southern California.
- 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Help' dominate reading lists in many American citiesData gathered by Nielsen BookScan for The Daily Beast show many of the same titles are popular in American cities – but exceptions include 'Heaven Is For Real' and 'The Great Gatsby.'
- Microsoft joins forces with Barnes & NobleThe software company announced it will invest $300 million in the bookseller's e-book and college bookstore ventures
- 5 great mystery novels Here are the five mystery novels that made the cut for the 2012 Edgar Awards.
- Honor in the DustThe historical lessons of Gregg Jones's exhaustively researched book about the US's campaign in the Philippines deserve to be remembered.
- Whitney Houston's mother may write book about her daughterCissy Houston reportedly met with publishers about a book she would pen with a ghostwriter about Whitney Houston's life.
- Reader recommendation: Pass the PolentaMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Mother's Day gifts: 4 great e-readers for Mom Stumped for a Mother's Day gift this year? Your mom would probably love one of these four e-readers.
- A Wedding in HaitiAuthor Julia Alvarez and her husband Bill travel to Haiti for a wedding – and then find themselves tied to a country and a culture.
- Reader recommendation: The Birth HouseMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- 'Mein Kampf' will be published in an annotated edition by BavariaThe German state, which holds the copyright to Adolf Hitler's book, will release a new edition in 2015.
- Digital Rights Managment to be dropped by Tor and other Macmillan sci-fi booksDigital Rights Management software was originally meant to restrict pirating of e-books, but many complain because of the restrictions it places on users.
- 10 best self-help books of all time From Benjamin Franklin to Norman Vincent Pearle to Stephen Covey, here are 10 of the best self-help books ever written.
- "The Little Red Guard": inside a Chinese familyWenguang Huang's memoir about his childhood in Mao's China tells a universal story of the bonds of love – and the pangs of regret – which can shape a family.
- The Race for What's LeftIt's not just oil and gas, warns Michael T. Klare in this first-rate wake-up call. Planet Earth is now in danger of running out of just about everything.
- Reader recommendation: 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About CapitalismMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Bestselling books the week of 4/26/12, according to IndieBound* What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
- Is Amazon morally wrong but legally right?Amazon's policies may be unkind to many in the book industry, but that doesn't make them illegal.