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Seattle Times - The author of two books on ambiguous loss, she has researched and worked with 4,000 families around the world — including families who lost a loved one on Sept. 11, wives of pilots missing in Vietnam and of husbands lost at sea, and families in ...

Newsday - THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Novelist, poet and sculptor Jan Wolkers, whose sex-charged books helped shake off the shackles of postwar conservatism in the Netherlands, died Friday at his home on the North Sea island of Texel, his publisher said. He was ...

Detroit Free Press - Zoë Life publishes books with a positive message. The company's mission is to change the world one life at a time through the power of the written word. Turner's book can be purchased on his Web site, www.frankturner.org , and will be sold in local ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - Yet he died in poverty and only a handful of his books remain in print. Krissdottir, who has already published a critical study of Powys and edited two collections of his letters, is to be commended for her scholarship and thankless dedication. She ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - Before the three competitive rounds leading to the final began, contestants warmed up with puzzle books they had been given by Kappa Publishing Group Inc., the Blue Bell publisher responsible for Games magazine. They sat at tables lining the hall, or ...

Miami Herald - A handsome companion show is in the Main Library's gallery on the second floor. Stargaze and Other Tales, or More Artist-Poet Collaborations contains remarkable books from the permanent collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library System, including ...

San Francisco Gate - A couple of older books list and describe cultivars of hinoki false cypress, such as Gerd Krussmann's "Manual of Cultivated Conifers" and, with more images, "Conifers: The Illustrated Encyclopedia," by D.M. Van Gelderen and J.R.P. Van Hoey Smith ...

Forbes - Rowling, finishing a brief "Open Book Tour" of the United States, her first tour here since 2000, also said that she regarded her Potter books as a "prolonged argument for tolerance" and urged her fans to "question authority." Not everyone likes her ...

Chicago Tribune - Addy's dusty library of pop culture doubles as his eBay store, where he packages and sends off rock posters, books and hard-to-find magazine back issues. Without lights, it's still a tomb. Heading toward the door to his own store, Addy says, "It ...

Newsday - An obvious influence on McElhatton was the "Choose Your Own Adventure" children's books, a series she knew and loved. The series offered a template -- go to Page 5 if you go on the pirate ship, go to Page 10 if you open the door -- that lent itself ...