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Carlos Fuentes: 5 best novels

Throughout his decades-long literary career, Carlos Fuentes produced more than 20 books. Here are five of his best.
10 best books of May, according to Amazon

Amazon's editors picked these 10 books as the best for the month.
Bestselling books the week of 5/10/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
5 award-winning mystery novels for young adults

Here are five great mystery novels aimed at teenage readers.
5 best mystery books for kids

Thrilling but not too frightening, here are 5 children's mysteries that are great for younger readers.

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Carlos Fuentes: 5 best novels

Throughout his decades-long literary career, Carlos Fuentes produced more than 20 books. Here are five of his best.
10 best books of May, according to Amazon

Amazon's editors picked these 10 books as the best for the month.
Bestselling books the week of 5/10/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Maurice Sendak showed us 'Where The Wild Things Are'

Maurice Sendak wrote and illustrated the acclaimed 'Where The Wild Things Are,' along with other children's books. He passed away early Tuesday in Connecticut.
5 award-winning mystery novels for young adults

Here are five great mystery novels aimed at teenage readers.
5 best mystery books for kids

Thrilling but not too frightening, here are 5 children's mysteries that are great for younger readers.
5 true crime stories you don't want to miss

These five Edgar Award nominees are true-crime stories taken straight from real life.
5 great mystery novels

Here are the five mystery novels that made the cut for the 2012 Edgar Awards.
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Apple will fight the DOJ

Apple wants the anti-trust case filed against it by the DOJ to be decided 'on the merits.'
Bestselling books: How well do you know the books on the top?

From the IndieBound's bestseller list, test your knowledge of today's popular books.
Why wasn’t there a Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction this year?

A three-person fiction jury read 314 books before deciding on three finalists, but a Pulitzer Prize winner was not selected. In Pulitzer history, fiction has not had a winner 11 times.
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Book world expresses disappointment, outrage over Pulitzer snub

Pulitzer juror Susan Larson said she and the rest of the fiction jury are 'shocked … angry … and very disappointed' that the Pulitzer board elected not to choose a 2012 fiction winner.
Pulitzer Prize for history, but not for fiction

The late Manning Marable won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for history, honored for a Malcolm X book. But no Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction.
Pulitzer Prize: How well do you know the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners?

How well do you know past Pulitzer Prize winners for fiction?
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Adrienne Rich: a voice for the marginalized

Adrienne Rich shaped her verse and prose into a passionate cry for justice.
15 spring 2012 novels we think you'll like

A preview of new novels coming this spring.
Philip Roth: 10 quotes on his birthday

10 quotes on Philip Roth's 79th birthday.
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Edith Pearlman takes the NBCC fiction prize

Other National Book Critics Circle honorees include writer John Lewis Gaddis for 'George F. Kennan: An American Life' and Maya Jasanoff for 'Liberty's Exiles.'
10 best books of March, 2012, according to Amazon's editors

The editors at Amazon pick their 10 favorite titles for March, 2012.
Top Picks: New works by da Vinci, the story of Mildred and Richard Loving, and more

Dion releases new songs, StoryCorps tells the tale of a couple who met because of a wrong e-mail address, filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman explains why Black History Month should be a relic of the past, and more top picks.
10 sequels based on a classic book

10 authors who wrote a novel based in another author's literary world.
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'A Wrinkle in Time' 50 years later

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publishing of Madeleine L'Engle classic "A Wrinkle in Time."
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Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' takes top app prize

The Publishing Innovation Awards honors the 'Atlas Shrugged' book app, which includes bonus materials like lectures by Rand.
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Newbery, Caldecott winners: Jack Gantos, Chris Raschka take the top prizes

Award-winners Jack Gantos and Chris Raschka both wrote stories based on real-life incidents.
Edith Wharton: 10 best quotes on her 150th birthday

On Edith Wharton's 150th birthday, 10 quotes from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

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Bill Morse stands outside the Landmine Museum in Siem Reap, Cambodia, wearing the Army uniform of the pro-Western Lon Nol government (1970-75).

From the good life to digging up land mines in Cambodia

While living in Palm Springs, Calif., with retirement looming, Bill Morse chose to move to Cambodia to help activist Aki Ra rid the country of land mines that kill and maim.