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TOKYO (Reuters) - On Benjamin Buchholz's second day in Iraq as a U.S. army officer, a young Iraqi girl was struck and killed by a military convoy while trying to catch a bottle of water thrown to children by the roadside as ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is looking into allegations that the electronic book industry has violated antitrust law, a top Justice Department official said on Wednesday.In an oversight hearing, the Justice Department's top antitrust official Sharis Pozen, in an roundup of ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Charles Frazier's novel "Cold Mountain" was a bestselling and critical phenomenon in 1996 and later became an Academy Award-winning movie, which is not bad considering it was the 46-year-old's debut.Ten years later, the North Carolina native returned to ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel, whose "Wolf Hall" retold the life and thoughts of Thomas Cromwell, is planning not one sequel, but two, she said in an interview published on Friday.The 59-year-old revealed she was planning a follow-up to ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Into a traditional northern New England town under pressure from chain stores and cell phone towers, its old family farms struggling, comes Hattie Kong, half-Chinese and newly widowed.Soon she is joined by the teenaged daughter of a Cambodian immigrant ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Julian Barnes, who won this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Carol Ann Duffy, Britain's poet laureate, were among the nominees for the 2011 Costa Book Awards announced on Tuesday.English author Barnes is one of four shortlisted for ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Walter Isaacson's biography of Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs leapt to the top of bestseller lists in its first week in book stores, flying off shelves to the tune of 379,000 copies, according to Nielsen's BookScan."Steve Jobs," which ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran actor and comedian Steve Martin is writing a book based on his Twitter posts, with all profits going to charity, the book's publishers said on Friday.Martin announced the book via Twitter in a tweet that said "Due ...
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc may enter the Japanese e-book market this year and launch its Kindle readers in the market, the Nikkei business daily reported.The largest internet retailer, which plans to set up an online e-book store this year, is in final ...
LONDON (Reuters) - English author and bookmakers' favorite Julian Barnes finally won the Man Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday, despite once dismissing the coveted award as "posh bingo."The 65-year-old triumphed with "The Sense of an Ending," which at 150 pages was ...
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