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Amazon pulls Macmillan titles in first e-book skirmish
Jacket CopyIf you want to buy Hilary Mantel's popular, prizewinning "Wolf Hall" from Amazon.com today, you'll be getting it from some third-party vendor. Same for Orson Scott Card's "Hidden Empire" and the Hungry Girl cookbooks. In the place where the Amazon...... -
Science fiction goes political
DAVID WEIGEL is an associate editor at Reason magazine (www.reason.com).Be afraid, conservatives. If you survived the victory speeches of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and allowed yourself to think, "Things can't get any worse," get over it. They can. Two years from now, terrorists under the banner of the "Progressive...Tags: Harry Reid, Islam, Rick Santorum, Genres, United Nations
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Mother-Son Book Club
We are a group of mothers and sons in Riverside who have met since summer 2002. Our sons were all friends entering fourth grade, and one of the moms suggested starting a book club for the boys. We all thought she was crazy because we didn’t think...
Tags: J.K. Rowling , Lifestyle and Leisure, Ray Bradbury, Colleges and Universities, Mark Twain
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Superman comic books draw ire of gay advocates
It's hard to imagine that gay marriage and Superman could be wrapped into a controversy, but that's happening across the nation as DC Comics launches a new line of comic books featuring Clark Kent's alter ego. One of the authors signed on for the...
Tags: Family, Gays and Lesbians, Fells Point, Superman (fictional character), Marriage
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'Superman' author's gay-rights opposition prompts local boycott
A Baltimore comic store has joined the growing public outcry over DC Comics' decision to hire a gay-marriage opponent and author to write part of the coming "Adventures of Superman" series. Joining many shops nationwide, Gorilla King Comics in Fells...
Tags: Family, Gays and Lesbians, Social Issues, Fells Point, Superman (fictional character)
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Struggling with Superman: Should Orson Scott Card Write A Superman Comic?
This week has been a tough one for me, both as a fan of comics & science fiction AND as a professional writer. See, for the last few days, comic book readers have been debating DC Comics’ hiring of Orson Scott Card to write a Superman story for...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Gays and Lesbians, Twitter, Inc., Glenn Beck, Superman (fictional character)
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Saint Patrick High School Book Discussion Groups
One thing to know about our book club We are the Saint Patrick High School Book Discussion Groups. Marilyn Wenzel, head librarian for 21 years, started the book discussion groups in 1999 when Mayor Richard M. Daley declared that every school should have...
Tags: Richard M. Daley
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Skeletons come to life at CyberINK
Some times you just have to drop everything to pursue your dreams, right? That's what Jean Latz Griffin decided to do when she stepped away from the world of news media and founded her own company called CyberINK. If you check out the site...
Tags: Printing Service, Customs and Tradition, Twitter, Inc., Literature, Josephine Baker
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Under a literary spell
As Lucy Kobbs turned the final page of the seventh and last book in the "Harry Potter" series, she took a pencil to the wall beside her bed and memorialized the end of an era: 7/22/07, 3:20 a.m. "It's one of those books that will stick with me for life,"...
Tags: J.K. Rowling , Fantasy (genre), Cancer, Religion and Belief, Dyslexia
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2011-12 Tribune Scholar-Athlete Team: Schaumburg's Josh Marchok
Josh Marchok
Schaumburg
Wrestling, football
Class rank: 41 of 622.
Athletics: All-Mid Suburban League in football; two-year team captain; two-time state champion in wrestling; three-time all-state; 156 career wins; three-year team captain.
Academics:...Tags: Schools, Benjamin Franklin, The Big Bang Theory (tv program), High Schools, Apple iPod
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Award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni will give free talk in Hampton next fall
Award-winning poet and Virginia Tech professor Nikki Giovanni will give a free talk at Hampton's Thomas Nelson Community College Oct. 4 as part of a series organized by Virginia Peninsula Literary Consortium. Giovanni has been called the "Princess of...
Tags: University of Pennsylvania, Colleges and Universities, York County (Virginia), Langston Hughes, Blacksburg
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