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• Tim Tebow ready to invade "enemy territory" (Miami)

  

  Tim Tebow knows that not all college football fans will welcome him when he arrives in Miami to tout his new memoir.

  “It’s definitely enemy territory,” jokes the former University of Florida quarterback and current Denver Broncos player, who will appear Monday at [...]

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• Samuel L. Jackson audio of "Go the Bleep to Sleep" blows up

  

  Oh, we love our cursing! A free version of the Samuel L. Jackson-narrated Go the Bleep to Sleep has been downloaded 160,000 times since it became available two days ago on audible.com.

  That's not a Harry Potter style record - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [...]

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• What the heck is Pottermore.com?

  

  We know what it's not - a new Harry Potter book (or so a spokesperson from J.K. Rowling's camp says). So then, what is Pottermore.com, the new website set up by Rowling and Co.?

  Rowling gave out coordinates out on 10 Harry Potter fansites, leading eager Potterphiles [...]

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• What are you reading now?

  

  “I’ve been reading Tim Johnston’s great short story collection Irish Girl. These are stories both menacing and heartfelt, about small town life and its buried secrets. And ‘buried’ is sometimes meant literally.”

  Jean Thompson, author of The Year We Left Home

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• Samuel L. Jackson reads "Go the Bleep to Sleep"

  

   

  Some things were meant to be.

  Samuel L. Jackson, who drops the F bomb like no other, reads the audiobook of the hit book Go the Bleep to Sleep by (extremely tired) dad Adam Mansbach. The audiobook went on sale Tuesday.

  The book has touched a nerve with parents [...]

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• What are you reading now?

  

  "I just finished The Year of Fog, Michelle Richmond’s absorbing novel about a woman who loses her fiance’s daughter while they are taking a walk on a San Francisco beach. I’ve also been poring over Thomas Keller’s fabulous and very comforting Ad [...]

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• "The Year We Left Home" by Jean Thompson - a review

  

  The Ericksons, who form the center of Jean Thompson’s terrific new novel, may not be exactly like your family, but many things about their lives are strikingly familiar. The irksome duties. The simmering discontent. The odd moments of grace. Moving up. Moving on. Comedy. Tragedy. [...]

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• James Patterson e-book sales top 3 million

  

  Prolific author James Patterson has hit the 3 million mark in 3-book sales, according to his publisher the Hachette Book Group.

  The author, whose latest book is 10th Anniversary with Maxine Paetro, releases a few books every year, often with other writers (like Paetro). Two million [...]

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• "Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life" by Steve Almond - it rocks

   I am not and never have been what Steve Almond calls a Drooling Fanatic. In his estimation, DFs don't play an instrument (I used to play the guitar, though not particularly well).  DFs own "at least 3,000 albums at any given moment, with a core of our collection represented by [...]

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• "Bossypants" by Tina Fey - get the audiobook

  

  Like anything ever written by David Sedaris, Tina Fey’s Bossypants virtually begs to be listened to instead of read. Hearing the actual wise-ass voice of the former Saturday Night Live writer and creator of the brilliant NBC sitcom 30 Rock enhances the entire experience.

  Not that [...]

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