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'The Hobbit': Third film in the series gets a new title'The Hobbit' director Peter Jackson recently announced that the planned title for the third and final film in the trilogy has been changed.
Pushkin HillsA comedy of Russian art and politics finds a frustrated writer being torn apart at the seams.
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Bestselling books the week of 4/24/14, according to IndieBound* What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
American SpartanJournalist Ann Scott Tyson examines the complicated life of Army Special Forces Major Jim Gant.
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Showtime series 'Penny Dreadful' brings together favorite Victorian literary characters'Dreadful' include such characters as Victor Frankenstein and Mina Harker of 'Dracula.'
World Book Night arrives at Broadway musicals, baseball gameWorld Book Night was celebrated in the US on April 23.
What are the top signs you're living in a Dickens novel?Mallory Ortberg, writer for the site The Toast, poked fun at Dickens plotlines with such signs as 'You have only to see a letter once, but you will remember the hand that wrote it for the rest of your days.' What signs do you think indicate that you've stumbled into a Dickens book?
Will an unpublished work by Gabriel Garcia Marquez be released?An editor for Penguin Random House Mexico says there is an unpublished manuscript by Garcia聽Marquez but that the author's family has not yet decided what to do.
A Fighting ChanceMassachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has a good story to tell and she tells it well.
'The Fault in Our Stars': Vote on Tumblr to direct movie publicity tourA campaign titled Demand Our Stars has 'Fault' fans voting to determine which states 'Fault' author John Green and the stars of the film will visit.
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Grammar nitpickers rejoice: Google Chrome extension replaces 'literally' with 'figuratively'An extension for Google Chrome will take away instances of the word 'literally,' which many grammar fans say is often used incorrectly, with the word 'figuratively.'
A Window on EternityEntomologist Edward O. Wilson chronicles the audacious 鈥� yet successful 鈥� effort to bring Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park back to life after near devastation.
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What book would you pick if you could only read one for the rest of your life?Norah Gallagher's latest book, 'Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic,' raises the question as Gallagher details how she read Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall' before experiencing trouble with her eyesight.
Border Patrol NationJournalist Todd Miller explores life under the expanding watch 鈥� and lucrative industry 鈥� of Homeland Security.
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A love letter to 'orphan books' 鈥� the works that time forgotThe simple, cold truth is that thousands 鈥� perhaps millions 鈥� of books languish in libraries and bookstores for years, unopened, ungrasped, unloved.
