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The CircleA young woman joins a tech firm with Orwellian ambitions in Dave Eggers's accomplished new novel.
Reader recommendation: My BookstoreMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.- Alice Munro, master of the short story, wins Nobel Prize for literatureAlice Munro聽is the first Canadian writer to receive the prestigious $1.2 million award from the Swedish Academy since Saul Bellow, who left for the US as a boy and won in 1976.
Russia blacklists translation of the QuranMore than 2,000 texts have been banned over the past decade in Russia.
Book of AgesNew Yorker writer Jill Lepore examines the life of an 鈥榚very woman' who just happens to be the sister of Benjamin Franklin.
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Librarian Shaming lets library workers share their shameful secretsThe Tumblr site Librarian Shaming includes such confessions as 'I prefer Wikipedia' and 'I never return my books on time.'
'War and Peace' will be adapted as a BBC miniseriesThe miniseries of 'War and Peace' is expected to air in the UK in 2015.
One SummerBill Bryson centers on the summer of 1927 鈥� a seminal season, but not an innocent one.
Bestselling books the week of 10/10/13, according to IndieBound* What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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Jennifer Lawrence and 'Hunger Games' director Gary Ross will reportedly adapt 'Burial Rites'Hannah Kent's novel 'Burial Rites,' released last month, has received good reviews and now may be a new movie for director Ross and Lawrence.
'Divergent' finale outsells 'Hunger Games' conclusion by almost five to one on AmazonAccording to Amazon, the novel 'Allegiant,' which is set to come out Oct. 22, is already far outpacing the sales for the third book in the 'Hunger Games' series for about the same time before its release.
Elizabeth Smart details her kidnapping and near rescuesElizabeth Smart was kidnapped at age 14. Elizabeth Smart recounts her nine-month ordeal in "My Story," a 308-page book released Monday by St. Martin's Press.
Alexander McCall Smith brings Jane Austen into the 21st centuryWriters including Alexander McCall Smith and Curtis Sittenfeld will bring some of Austen's most famous stories into contemporary times.
Thank You for Your ServiceWashington Post journalist David Finkel focuses on an often-neglected narrative: what happens when soldiers return home.
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Steinbeck Center workers follow in the footsteps of the Joad familyStaff members from California's Steinbeck Center are currently traveling from Oklahoma to California, mirroring the journey of the main characters of John Steinbeck's novel 'The Grapes of Wrath.'
Furloughed by the government? At least you've got time to read.In the wake of the government shutdown, Baltimore-based breathe bookstore caf茅 is offering a 10 percent discount to furloughed workers.
Catastrophe 1914British journalist and historian Max Hastings explores the tumultuous and sometimes baffling early months of World War I.
