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Oscar nominations 2012: the Academy's picks for best films

The Oscar nominations are announced, with a few surprises.
Bestselling books the week of 10/27/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Bestselling books the week of 10/20/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Bestselling books the week of 10/13/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Bestselling books the week of 10/6/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

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Oscars: 5 films that should have been nominated

Oscar missed out on these 5 films that should have earned a nomination.
Oscar nominations 2012: year of the 'feel-good' nominee (+video)

This year's Oscar nominations for best film contain little violence, explicit sexuality, or offensive language. Moviegoers are enjoying a wavelet of prestigious, feel-good films.
Oscar nominations 2012: the Academy's picks for best films

The Oscar nominations are announced, with a few surprises.
Top Picks: Examining the Wild West, an opera on Anne Boleyn, and more

'Moneyball' features a great performance by Brad Pitt, jazz duo Charlie Haden and Hank Jones release a beautiful collection of hymns and spirituals, a video shows breathtaking views of Ho Chi Minh City and the traffic inside it, and more top picks.
The Reformed Broker
The 'Moneyball' effect hits the markets

Our collective ability to process raw data from disparate sources has vastly improved, which will increase productivity and create more effective investments.
The best films of 2011

Monitor film critic, Peter Rainer, remembers the hundreds of movies he watched in 2011, and highlights his favorites ... and some he thought were overrated.
Chapter & Verse
Is Amazon's Kindle Lending Library a breach of contract?

Some writers are up in arms that Amazon's Kindle Lending Library is offering their books for free. 
Bestselling books the week of 10/27/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Bestselling books the week of 10/20/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

Michael Lewis touches down in the nations damaged by the 2008 financial meltdown and proves – yet again – that he can turn anything into compelling prose.
Theo Epstein to exchange toxic Red Sox for 'cursed' Cubs

Theo Epstein was revered in Boston for helping to bring the city its first World Series since 1918. Now, Theo Epstein is set to try to do the same in Chicago after enduring a disastrous Red Sox season.
Bestselling books the week of 10/13/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Chapter & Verse
Jonathan Franzen's book 'The Corrections' coming to HBO

'The Corrections,' Jonathan Franzen's 2001 story of a troubled family, will air on HBO with Franzen working with director Noah Baumbach and producer Scott Rudin on the project.
Bestselling books the week of 10/6/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Bestselling books the week of 9/29/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Fall books: 20 nonfiction titles you don't want to miss

From the energy crisis to The Doors, from Hitler’s Germany to Rin Tin Tin, here are the nonfiction titles that have readers buzzing this fall.
Amazon's Top 10 fall books

Is there anything good about the end of summer? Yes – the arrival of fall books! For those who can't wait another moment, here are the Top 10 fall book picks from Amazon editors. It's looking like a stellar line-up of autumn reads.
Baseball books: 9 personal favorites

Baseball has been very very good to books. Sure, people like to read about football, basketball, and even (gasp) golf. But no professional athletes seem to have inspired as many words between covers as the boys of summer. The sheer volume of baseball books makes it hard to put together any kind of "best of" list. But I decided to give it a try, enlisting the help of two professional sportswriters (both women, for a fresh perspective). They suggested three personal favorites and then I added three of my own.
Chapter & Verse
Yankees-Red Sox rivalry: Read all about it

If you think the New York-Boston rivalry is intense today, take a look at the summer of 1949.