| | Two books, two styles, one target: Obama |
| | | Two hot-selling conservative books slam Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama: one using discredited rumors and allegations about his patriotism and personal life; the other claiming his public record doesn't match his image as a new style politician. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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| | Libraries step into the age of iPod |
| | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - It may be about time to dig out that old library card. Hoping to draw back readers, libraries have vastly expanded their lists of digital books, music, and movies that can be downloaded by their patrons to a computer or MP3 player -- and it doesn't cost a cent, unlike, say, media from Apple Inc'siTunes or Amazon.com Inc. | | From Reuters | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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| | Obama shows hints of his year in global finance |
| | | WASHINGTON - Barack Obama has authored two books, heralded for their poetic reflections on the conundrums of identity and the possibilities of politics. But his first professional writing was for a weekly newsletter more concerned with how investing in gold futures in Sao Paulo and London could be used to hedge against the fluctuating value of Brazilian cruzeiros. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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| | | Nobel Prize winner Solzhenitsyn buried in Moscow |
| | | Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books exposed the horrors of Soviet slave labor camps, was buried Wednesday in a Russian Orthodox ceremony that included goose-stepping honor guards and a religious choir singing solemn dirges. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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| | Best-seller out of the blue |
| | | In a woeful time for book publishing, when sales are stagnant and reading for pleasure is declining, an unlikely first novel is climbing bestseller lists and causing a sensation. To the astonishment of writers, editors, and booksellers, David Wroblewski's "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" is proving that readers can still fall hard for an old-fashioned literary epic by someone they've ... | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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