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Rowling: Two ‘Potter’ characters, maybe even Harry, will die in last Harry Potter book.
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Science Fiction publishing visionary, Jim Baen, dies at 63.
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Babar the Elephant, a timeless figure in children’s literature, turns 75.
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Book trailers? Why not? New filmmakers of top U.S. film schools have created Book Videos for three of the hottest debut titles of 2006. Here are the winners of the 2006 Book Video Awards:
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Shadow Man
by Cody McFadyen
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Special Agent Smoky Barrett was one of the FBI’s best at hunting down serial killers - until a madman destroyed her family and shattered her life. Now she feels she has nothing left to lose. She’s wrong. She’s about to encounter the Shadow Man. And he’s issued Smoky a direct challenge, coaxing her back from the brink with the only thing that could convince her to live.

Stuart: A Life Backwards
by Alexander Masters
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When they met, Alexander Masters was an American living in England and Stuart Shorter was, by his own admission, a chaotic, knife-wielding alcoholic with a heroin problem who had spent half his life in prison and the other half on the streets. Thus began the unlikeliest of friendships from which grew this extraordinary biography, one which will leave readers changed forever by the story of a man who could be someone they pass on the street every day. Film rights sold to Sam Mendes and HBO/BBC.

The Thieves of Heaven
by Richard Doetsch
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In a small, heavily fortified room just north of the Sistine Chapel, a master thief is about to strike. All he needs is an instant to steal the most important treasure in the Vatican museum: two antique keys - one gold, one silver - that protect the secret of salvation. This spellbinding debut thriller has already been snapped up for a major motion picture by Twentieth Century Fox.