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Ghost Ships, Murders, Bird Attacks: Stories To Keep You Awake()  

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May 19, 2013 Author Ethan Rutherford started reading Daphne du Maurier's collection of stories, Don't Look Now, while it was still light out and didn't move from his chair until dark. Each one features characters who endure the strange and the extreme, and who are forever changed by the events that befall them.

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Author Elliott Holt Says: 'Go West, Young Woman'()  

Elliott Holt's short fiction has been published in the The Pushcart Prize XXXV, among other publications.

May 18, 2013 In this Q&A, author Elliott Holt discusses her six favorite novels about expatriates. She also talks about what it's like to be in your 20s, and the importance of travel and exploration.

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Book News: Amazon May Be Called Before Parliament Over Taxes ()  

Amazon's U.K. unit racked up sales of $6.5 billion last year, but only paid $3.7 million in corporate taxes.

May 17, 2013 Also: AARP and The Nation join a growing list of ebook publishers; Hilary Mantel on Jane Austen; Anne Applebaum on Sheryl Sandberg.

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Book News: Amazon's Tiny Tax Payment Draws Fresh Scrutiny()  

An Amazon.co.uk parcel passes along a conveyor belt at a facility in Milton Keynes, England.

May 16, 2013 Also: Afaa Michael Weaver on being a black poet abroad; ebook sales jumped 44 percent last year; Cormac McCarthy's beach body.

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Book News: Justice Department Says Apple Led Price-Fixing Ring()  

Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the 2011 Apple World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco. He died later that year.

May 15, 2013 Also: George Orwell's rules for making tea; what Antigone can teach us about the burial of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

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Book News: Amazon Debuts Its Virtual Currency()  

The new Amazon Coins are making some people in the publishing world a little uncomfortable.

May 14, 2013 Also: Illinois school district bans The Perks of Being a Wallflower; W.H. Auden's 1939 journal discovered; Bret Easton Ellis on gay stereotypes.

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Book News: Mich. School System Won't Ban Anne Frank's 'Pornographic' Diary()  

Anne Frank is seen at Amsterdam Town Hall in July 1941.

May 13, 2013 Also: Behind the Beautiful Forevers will be adapted for the stage; Lionel Shriver attacks the media focus on weight; the best books coming out this week.

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Marked By Darkness: A War Novel That Sheds Light On Past Hurt()  

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May 12, 2013 Andrzej Szczypiorski's The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is a book set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Author Courtney Angela Brkic says reading it helped her understand her father, whose family had lived through the second world war.

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Questions For Eduardo Halfon, Author Of 'The Polish Boxer'()  

Eduardo Halfon is the author of The Polish Boxer.

May 10, 2013 Alt.latino guest DJ Eduardo Halfon, author of The Polish Boxer, answers a few questions about literature and the important books in his life. Halfon, who is Guatemalan, recommends Time Commences in Xibalba by Mayan author Luis de Lion for readers looking for a better understanding of his country.

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Book News: Microsoft Rumored To Be Interested In Buying Nook()  

Microsoft already owns nearly a 17 percent stake in Nook Media.

May 10, 2013 Also: rare footage of William Faulkner; drag and Virginia Woolf; and the art of translation.

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