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Harry Potter Hacked?
June 21, 2007
A hacker who goes by the name of Gabriel claims he obtained a digital copy of the manuscript for J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' and has posted plot details online, Reuters reported. The man claims he was able to hack into the computer system at Bloomsbury, the publisher of the book. CONTINUED »
Debut of the Espresso Book Machine - June 22, 2007
Controversy Surrounding Books about Cycling and Doping - June 22, 2007
Joint Venture Between Kirtas Technologies and Amazon's BookSurge - June 21, 2007
Website TMZ May Be in Contempt for Leaking Simpson Manuscript - June 21, 2007
Record Growth for Wiley in Bicentennial Year - June 21, 2007


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    GOD IS DEAD
    June 15, 2007 - It begins in Darfur, whence God, hamstrung by the indecisiveness of "an implacable polytheistic bureaucracy," has come, in the guise of a native African (Dinka) woman, to show His solidarity with embattled Sudanese refugees. The Deity's disguised appearance elicits both emergency aid and profane insubordination from visiting U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. And when the eponymous tragedy occurs, humanity comes apart at its seams in a series of variously interrelated seriocomic episodes. A hopeful high-school graduate eager to jettison her past and embrace the future instead experiences numbing depression when she observes a priest committing suicide. When the absence of God moves parents to blind adoration of their children, a weary CAPP (Child Adulation Prevention Psychologist) tries, and fails, to set misguided moms and dads straight....Very clever indeed: Kurt Vonnegut laced with Louis-Ferdinand Cline. ...Full Review

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