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• Tasting "A Drop of the Hard Stuff" by Lawrence Block

  

  Lawrence Block has written a head-spinning number of books and several series, but undeniably his best creation is private investigator Matthew Scudder, an alcoholic former cop who "does favors" for people for money to survive New York City's meaner streets.

  His last Scudder novel came out [...]

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• What are you reading now?

  

  "I just finished Ken Bruen’s The Devil, which shows that hardboiled mysteries still can surprise and delight. If you took the best features of 21st century noir and threw them into a Waring blender with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown, the result would read like [...]

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• "State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett - a review

  

  Ann Patchett’s rich new novel poses many intriguing ideas about how we live, but perhaps the most thought-provoking question is “whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never [...]

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• What "Pottermore" means for the industry

  

  By now you know the score on J.K. Rowling's new website Pottermore: It's the place to find additional stories and information about your favorite boy wizard, as well as the only place to get unavailable versions of ebooks of the Potter stories. The website [...]

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• Illinois woman joins battle for class-action lawsuit against "Three Cups of Tea" author

  

  Former schoolteacher Deborah Netter of Lake County, Illinois, has joined efforts to get a class-action lawsuit off the ground against the now-controversial Three Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson, the Associated Press reports.

  Netter filed a federal lawsuit this month in Illinois claiming Mortenson (at right), his [...]

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• World War II historian wins prestigious Pritzker award

  

  World War II historian Carlo D'Este has won the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for lifetime achievement.

  D'Este, whose books include Decision in Normandy and Bitter Victory, will be award $100,000 for his military scholarship. The Chicago-based Tawani Foundation sponsors the award.

  Previous recipients of the prize, which was founded in [...]

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• Self-published author sells 1 million ebooks on Kindle

  

  He has hit a milestone however you slice it: John Locke, author of Saving Rachel, Vegas Moon and Wish List, is the first self-published author to sell a million ebooks on Kindle, according to Amazon.

  He's in some pretty heady company. Other members of the Kindle 1 Million [...]

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• What are you reading now?

  

  “I have two teenage daughters, and so I read a lot of young adult fiction, but Libba Bray’s young adult novel Beauty Queens is really a book for everyone. Teen beauty queens crash on a tropical island, and from that point on, the story is [...]

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• Kindle self-publishing smacked by spam

  

  I suppose it was only a matter of time before this got on readers' nerves: Spam is hindering Amazon's foray into self-publishing.

  A Reuters story posted on Yahoo! reports that "Thousands of digital books, called ebooks, are being published through Amazon's self-publishing system each month. Many are [...]

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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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