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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.
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'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.
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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.
Gideon Sunback zipper Google doodle: 10 great books about zippers From picture books to history tomes, here are 10 books about zippers – an invention we couldn't get along without.
Farther AwayThe notably unsentimental Jonathan Franzen offers a clear-eyed defense of sentiment in this essay collection.
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Shakespeare: 10 quotes on his birthday April 23, 2012, marks Shakespeare's 448th birthday, Here are just a handful of the memorable aphorisms sprinkled throughout the Bard's work.
Marilynne Robinson: Why are we so afraid?'Do we never expect to have a bad time?' Robinson asked an audience at Calvin College's Festival on Faith & Writing. 'Every generation or so, something goes haywire. It's human history.'
Jonathan Safran Foer: "I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion"Jonathan Safran Foer spoke on God, prayer, writing, and film adaptations at Calvin College's Festival on Faith & Writing.
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American CityFrom Brooklyn to Philly to Houston: Is the American city of today becoming more like Paris?
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