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Cleary Wolters, the basis for an 'Orange Is the New Black' character, will write a memoirThe character of Alex Vause, portrayed by actress Laura Prepon on the show, is based on Wolters.
'If I Stay' author Gayle Forman discusses the movie adaptation of her YA book'Stay' follows a teenage cellist, Mia, who must decide whether to die or move forward with life after becoming injured in a car accident.
Copernicus book believed to have been destroyed in a library fire is found after 10 yearsThe Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, Germany, went up in flames in 2004, destroying thousands of books and works of art.
What I didn't know about Tiananmen SquareRowena Xiaoqing He鈥檚 new book 'Tiananmen Exiles' offers fresh insight into the challenges that exiled Chinese student leaders faced after they escaped from China.
'Unruly Places' finds our planet's clandestine, mismapped, abandoned, or repurposed placesSocial geographer Alastair Bonnett explores the challenge 鈥� and delight 鈥� of searching for undiscovered territories in the age of Google Earth.
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Amazon expands presence on college campusesAmazon is opening its first on-campus pick-up and drop-off center at Purdue University and its second online storefront.聽
Lois Lowry likes the movie version of 'The Giver'Lowry wrote the book 'The Giver,' which was published in 1993. Now, 21 years later, it will finally hit theaters on August 15.
Obama's on vacation? Nothing new about thatQuestions about White House vacations are as old as the presidency itself, points out Lawrence L. Knutson, author of 'Away from the White House.'
'Game of Thrones': Have you already figured out the end of the series?George R.R. Martin, author of the 'Song of Ice and Fire' series on which the HBO series 'Game of Thrones' is based, recently said that 'some of the theories are right' about the finale of his books.
George Orwell estate 'appalled and wryly' amused at Amazon's 'doublespeak''This is about as close as one can get to the Ministry of Truth and its doublespeak: turning the facts inside out to get a piece of propaganda across,' Bill Hamilton, executor of the Orwell estate, said. Amazon recently wrote a letter criticizing publisher Hachette, with which it is engaged in a battle over e-book prices, and took out of context an Orwell quote about paperback books.
How many books per hour should you read on summer vacation?On summer vacations, we never read as much as we think we will.
'Berlin, Now' describes a city that is 'weird,' 'incomplete,' yet ever attractiveGerman author Peter Schneider tries to articulate what Berlin is today, as a community, a quarter century after reunification.
Reader recommendation: 1177 B.C.Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
James Franco will direct and star in an adaptation of 'The Sound and the Fury'Franco previously adapted the Faulkner novel 'As I Lay Dying' for the screen.
July 2014 is the most profitable month ever in comic book history, and comics are only getting biggerWith the success of movies like 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' and more ways to buy comics than ever before, the industry is growing rapidly.
'Soldier Girls': Helen Thorpe explores the pain, power of three unexpected soldiersJournalist Helen Thorpe goes deep into the lives of three women 鈥� Michelle, Debbie, and Desma 鈥� who signed up for the Indiana National Guard in peacetime and then found themselves serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Obama on Martha's Vineyard: Will he stop by an independent bookstore this summer?Obama angered some in the independent book world after he praised Amazon's business practices in 2013 and skipped his usual visit to a Martha's Vineyard indie bookstore later that year. Will he pick up some books during his Vineyard visit this year?
Death penalty ban: 'A Wild Justice' author Evan Mandery explains how the US adopted, and then discarded, itNo one was executed in the US between 1972 and 1976 after a landmark Supreme Court decision. It was later overturned, but that ban still affects our rights today. Mandery explains how it all happened.
'In the Kingdom of Ice' follows a disaster-ridden journey to the North PoleHampton Sides blends human drama with suspense and engrossing play-by-play descriptions to tell the tragic and triumphant story of the USS Jeannette.