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Polish event brings 'Harry Potter' castle Hogwarts to life'Harry Potter' fans came together at a castle in Poland to act out the world of J.K. Rowling's books.聽 More events are planned for April.
Blogger Zoe Sugg sets new record for fastest-selling debut novelSugg's debut book, 'Girl Online,' now holds the record for the highest sales in its first week for a new writer in the UK.聽
Taking a cue from nightclubs, 24-hour bookstores boom in Taiwan: Could they work in the US?Western booksellers might want to take a page from a Taiwan-based chain's nightclub-like approach to book retailing.
'Let Me Be Frank with You' returns to Richard Ford's best known protagonistRichard Bascombe ponders everything from aging to race in America in Richard Ford's fourth novel featuring the one-time real estate salesman.
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'Everything I Need To Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book' series gets two more titlesLove- and Disney-themed titles in the series by Diane Muldrow, which offers life lessons based on the Little Golden Book series, will be published.
J.K. Rowling's Harvard commencement speech will become a bookRowling's 2008 speech will be adapted as a book titled 'Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination.'
Cheaper books make for wealthier authors, insists Amazon's Jeff Bezos'The Kindle is trying to reduce friction for reading a whole book, and it鈥檚 working,' Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said at a conference yesterday.
Bestselling books the week of 12/4/14, according to IndieBound* What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
"Visions of Teaoga" spins native American history into a likable story for middle-grade readersMiddle-schooler Maddy Winter is drawn into the past when she joins her dad in a rural Pennsylvania town.
'Moriarty': Does it live up to Anthony Horowitz's previous 'Sherlock Holmes' tale?Horowitz won over critics with his 'Holmes' book 'The House of Silk,' but his take on Holmes's greatest adversary, 'Moriarty,' has received more mixed reviews so far.- Need help shopping for a book? 300 experts are waiting to hear from youThe new Penguin Hotline will connect shoppers in search of books with Penguin staffers prepared to make recommendations.
Mark Strand: a poet both elegant and risqu茅Strand was a versatile poet, capable of shifting easily from the metaphysical to the wry, and embracing styles that ranged from pensive to bawdy.
'The Strange Library' is a kid鈥檚 book, despite Murakami's reliance on allegories, semiotics, parables, and moreAn adolescent boy drops into his neighborhood library to return some books and finds himself in a strange, charged landscape.
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10 best nonfiction titles of 2014 Here are the 10 nonfiction titles that the Monitor鈥檚 book critics admired most in 2014.
10 best fiction books of 2014 Here are the 10 fiction titles that the Monitor鈥檚 book critics admired most in 2014.
P.D. James spun crime into literatureJames was behind such novels as 'Death Comes to Pemberley' and 'An Unsuitable Job for a Woman.' Monitor fiction critic Yvonne Zipp noted in a review of one of James's books that 'there are few living mystery writers more widely respected than James.'
Thanksgiving weekend was kind to some independent bookstoresOverall, Black Friday sales are said to have dropped this year, but some independent bookstores reported strong sales on Friday and Saturday of the holiday weekend, even as they celebrated the Indies First bookstore initiative.
Would men rather read men? Yes 鈥� about 90 percent of the timeMaybe we shouldn't be surprised. A Goodreads survey suggests that both men and women are strongly drawn to books by authors of their own sex.
