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		<title>2010 Rough on Writers</title>
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2010 has started out with a bang, and it&#8217;s not a good one:  quite a few well-known writers have died since this year began!





Here are some of the authors we&#8217;ve lost:
William Tuohy, 83
 He was a former Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent who covered the Vietnam War and who wrote three well-known books: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steven Knight Takes On THE LOST SYMBOL</title>
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 Dan Brown&#8217;s bestselling THE LOST SYMBOL, featuring Harvard symbology professor Robert Langdon, will follow THE DA VINCI CODE and ANGELS &#38; DEMONS into theaters, but it won&#8217;t be written by Akiva Goldsmith, writer of the first two screenplays.
According to reports in Variety, Steven Knight (Eastern Promises) has been chosen to pen the 3rd movie. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://books-for-all-reasons.us/2010/02/steven-knight-takes-on-the-lost-symbol/</link>
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		<title>Michael Crichton&#8217;s Collection Goes On The Block</title>
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Michael Crichton, bestselling author of such techno-thrillers and adventure fiction JURASSIC PARK, THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN and THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY and creator of the TV series ER, was also an avid collector of fine art.  Four paintings from his collection, all created sometime in the 1960s and worth approx. $30-35 million, will be on display [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://books-for-all-reasons.us/2010/02/michael-crichtons-collection-goes-on-the-block/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Game: Post a Line From a Book</title>
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Here&#8217;s a neat little game I came across on Facebook:
Grab the book nearest you. Right now. • Turn to page 56. • Find the fifth sentence. • Post that sentence AS YOUR STATUS. AND POST these instructions in a comment to this status. • Don&#8217;t dig for your favourite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Harrison&#8217;s Back with a New Book</title>
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 Jim Harrison, best known for his book of novellas LEGENDS OF THE FALL which had the title story made into a movie with Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins, has a new book of novellas out, called THE FARMER&#8217;S DAUGHTER.  (And no, it isn&#8217;t a dirty jokebook, although it does have some sex, drugs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 2010 Book Signings</title>
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Looking to get a copy of your book signed or want to meet the author of your favorite novel? From celebrities to regular writers, many will be out and about in January.
Here are just a few of the book signings coming up this month in some of the major cities across the U.S.:




TERA PATRICK
 &#8220;SINNER [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philip K. Dick&#8217;s Family Sues Google</title>
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Back in 1968, Philip K. Dick wrote a science fiction novel entitled DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP, starring an bounty hunter looking for Nexus series androids, which later became the movie BLADE RUNNER.
Now, in 2010, Google has come out with a phone called the Nexus One based on their Android OS-software / technology.  Philip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Collecting Made A Lot Easier</title>
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For a long time, I&#8217;ve been trying to find software that would let me catalog my books AND help me to sell them.  I finally found one that does pretty much everything I need and for under $50:  Book Collector by Collectorz.com.
It allows me to just type in the ISBN of the book (either the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LOVELY BONES in Theaters Jan 15th</title>
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THE LOVELY BONES, the acclaimed bestselling novel by Alice Sebold, tells the story of a girl who was murdered and who is narrating the story from Heaven.  It is a tale of someone torn between vengeance and trying to heal those left behind.
Now the movie based on the book hits theaters Jan 15th. It stars [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://books-for-all-reasons.us/2010/01/lovely-bones-in-theaters-jan-14th/</link>
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		<title>Upcoming Paperbacks for January 2010</title>
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If you prefer your books in paperback format, check out what&#8217;s being released this January in softcover:








Title
Author
Isbn 13
List Price
Publication   Date


The   Candy Shop
Swinson, Kiki
9780758238917
$6.99
05-JAN-2010


Death&#8217;s Mistress
Chance,   Karen
9780451412768
$7.99
05-JAN-2010


Dead Air
Kennedy,   Mary
9780451228772
$6.99
05-JAN-2010


Too Hot to Hold
Tyler, Stephanie
9780440244356
$7.99
05-JAN-2010


How to Seduce a Sinner
Basso, Adrienne
9781420104332
$6.99
05-JAN-2010


Notorious
Johansen, Iris
9780553593440
$7.99
05-JAN-2010


Inked
Chance,   Karen
9780425231975
$7.99
05-JAN-2010


Eggsecutive Orders
Hyzy,   Julie
9780425232033
$7.99
05-JAN-2010


Come Hell or High [...]]]></description>
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