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What Do Children Read? Hint: Harry Potter's Not No. 1
Children have welcomed the Harry Potter books in recent years like free ice cream in the cafeteria, but the largest survey ever of youthful reading in the United States revealed today that none of J.K. Rowling's phenomenally popular books has been able to dislodge the works of longtime favorites ...
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Remembrances of life's cruelties.
Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen and resident of Germany, had been traveling in Pakistan in December 2001 when he was detained on his way to the airport and handed over to the U.S. military. He was 19 years old. After a couple of agonizing months in Kandahar, he was sent, shackled and hooded, to...
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Contemporary Masters Offer Unique New Twists on the Classic Whodunit
For much of Nevada Barr's 14th Anna Pigeon mystery, it's not a question of who-, why- or howdunit, but of whether a crime has been committed at all.
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Poet's Choice
Slave traders who ransacked Yoruba villages in West Africa solely for labor missed out on the tribe's magnificent artistic tradition, in which a poet or singer could rank with a great hunter.
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Washington Area Bestsellers
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended April 27, 2008.
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Literary Calendar
7 P.M. Syndicated columnist Ariana Huffington , co-founder and editor of the Huffington Post, discusses and signs Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919.
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Bloomberg to Write New Book: His Tips in Business, Politics
NEW YORK -- Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg is sharing what he has learned in business and government in a new book due out later this year, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
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