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In José Saramago?s new novel, death goes on strike ? and an absurdist tangle follows. Advertisement: MMO Currency MMO Street sells WoW Gold, Lord of the Rings Gold, Final Fantasy XI Gil and much much more at the lowest prices you will find! Visit MMO Street

Among the nominees for this year?s National Book Award in fiction is a book that some have complained is not exactly new: Peter Matthiessen?s ?Shadow Country.?

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British novel tops Amazon's list for 2008 (AP, 11/10/08)

Batter up! Piazza to write memoir (AP, 11/11/08)

DiCamillo's hero doesn't chicken out in 'Louise' (AP, 11/11/08)

Playbill - Broadway, TV and film writer Larry Gelbart, whose stage projects include Sly Fox, City of Angels, Mastergate and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, will be presented with the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Literary Awards Festival gala dinner (LitFest) Dec. 3.

It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the page. Her writing is as stripped, raw and intense as her emotions, and at times you don""?t want to read further. But you do, anyway, with a kind of abject horror. The t... Advertisement: MMO Currency MMO Street sells WoW Gold, Lord of the Rings Gold, Final Fantasy XI Gil and much much more at the lowest prices you will find! Visit MMO Street

Reuters - A new book by former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has not been seen in public since undergoing intestinal surgery in July 2006, will be presented in Havana and on state-run media on Wednesday, the Communist Party newspaper Granma said.

CLEVELAND, OH (MARKET WIRE) OverDrive (www.overdrive.com), a global distributor of digital audiobooks, eBooks, and more, today announced the addition of 1,000 Tantor Media (www.tantor.com) audiobooks to its catalog of 150,000 digital titles. The new audiobook content includes hundreds of popular and best-selling audiobooks like "The White Tiger," "Three Cups of Tea," and "Body of Lies," a collection of 'always available' titles for simultaneous download, and a collection of iPod(R)-compatible MP3 audiobooks. To find Tantor Media titles from your library, and to see if your public library is a member of the OverDrive