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Want to get your hands on J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard? Amazon.com wants to send you and a friend to London to spend a weekend with the rare and delightful book of fairy tales handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling herself (security guards included, of course). Open to Muggles ages 13 and [...]

This book is very close to my heart. It’s about no-nonsense, simple cooking with great flavours all year round. When I began writing it, I didn’t really know what recipes I would come up with, but something began to inspire me very quickly… my vegetable patch! I came to realise last year that it’s not [...]

Don’t Stop Me Now
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Alex Rider is on the wrong side of the world – and the law. Alone in Sydney, he is recruited by the Australian government to infiltrate an organized people-smuggling ring: the violent criminal underworld of the Snakeheads. Working undercover as a refugee he moves to Bangkok, where he meets someone he can finally trust – [...]

A funny, tender, utterly beguiling story about a woman’s search for happiness.Get It Now at 2Daydeals USA or Amazon UK
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Based on news on some Blogs, controvesy began after Jessica Seinfeld appeared on Oprah to promote her recipe book “Deceptively Delicious“,according to bloggers there’s a notable similarity between some of the recipes in Jessica Seinfeld book collection and those in another cookbook, “The Sneaky Chef” by Missy Chase Lapine.
 
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Doris Lessing, who turns 88 later this month, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.Swedish Academy praised her “skepticism, fire and visionary power.”

A 177-year-old first edition of the Book of Mormon found in a home near Palmyra — the birthplace of the Mormon religion — will be put up for bid next week at an upstate New York estate auction.ADVERTISEMENT
The rare book was discovered at the bottom of a box of books by workers cleaning out the [...]

Shoko Tendo lived her life in luxury until the age of six, when her father was sent to prison and her family fell into terrible debt. Bullied by classmates who called her “the yakuza girl,” and terrorized at home by a father who became a drunken, violent monster after his release from prison, Tendo rebelled. [...]

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SO Harry Potter is dead. Hold your ire. I have no idea whether JK Rowling’s young hero has really met his match at the hands of his flat-nosed nemesis Lord Voldemort. What I know is Harry Potter the concept, the brand, the franchise, is now well and truly ended, give or take the odd multimillion-pound [...]

Rain was flung about in what seemed to be great sloshing bucketfuls, liquefying sidewalks, turning intersections into soppy messes, making basements into lagoons. Then suddenly, it stopped.
By the time “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” went on sale here—at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, or 6:01 p.m. Friday Chicago time—it was a clear, bright, brisk night. That [...]

In the final days before the world learns whether Harry Potter lives or dies, spoilers — or those pretending to spoil — are spreading on the Internet.
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Harry Potter spoilers proliferate – Yahoo! News.

Harry Potter mania reaches fever pitch this month with the publication of the seventh and final book on July 21 and the release of the fifth film Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix on July 12. So what do the stars of the film think about the Harry Potter phenomenon?
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Arguing that the power in America is concentrated in large institutions, this book studies the people at the top of these institutions—who they are, how much power they wield, and how they came to power. Tom Dye has chronicled the national leadership since the Nixon-Ford years
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Six authors have been shortlisted for the prestigious for Science Books.
The full shortlist for the 2007 Royal Society Prize for Science Books:

Homo britannicus, by Chris Stringer (Penguin Allen Lane)
In Search of Memory, by Eric R Kandel (WW Norton & Co)
Lonesome George, by Henry Nicholls (Macmillan)
One in Three, by Adam Wishart (Profile Books) [...]