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AN 800-word hand-written story by bestselling author JK Rowling, which she describes as a prequel to the Harry Potter boy wizard books, has sold for ?25,000 ($52,000) at a charity auction.

British author Jackie Collins is still inadvertently teaching teenage girls about sex through her steamy novels that have seen her regularly grace bestseller lists since her first book was published 40 years ago.

A consumer alert for the millions who have seen the 'Sex and the City' movie: There is no such book as 'Love Letters of Great Men,' which Carrie Bradshaw reads while in bed with Mr. Big.

In this spotty new collection, David Sedaris is like a stand-up comedian, rummaging through his daily experiences for comical nuggets.

If you have a pair of Aces in your hand, and another one falls on the turn, you will probably be putting in the sort of bets that you hope somebody calls in the hopes of getting the poor saps at the table to add to a pot that will ultimately be in neat little stacks in front of you. Any poker book that talks about this sort of action should include that type of value betting in a chapter entitled 'Duh'. If in this situation you are thinking, 'I hope they call my bets', and one of your opponents is looking at the King on the board like starving man eyeing a bucket of chicken, then you have mastered the concept of thin value betting.

CHICAGO, Ill., June 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- For a book that Midwest book review has highly recommended as 'an involving novel about an awakening sense of social responsibility,' Joe Redden Tigan has received both the Editor's Choice and Reader's Choice designations from publisher iUniverse for his first novel, 'Waggle' (ISBN: 978-0-595-41619-6).

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- International arbitrator Mark Kantor announced today his new book, 'Valuation for Arbitration' (ISBN: 9789041127358) available from Kluwer Law International. Valuation for Arbitration provides a clear understanding of the nuts and bolts of valuation approaches for litigation about business investments, including market, income and asset-based methods.

According to a recent press release the new eBook from Internet Poker Coach was timed to help players get ready to compete in the 39th annual World Series of Poker, currently running at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The eBook is titled 'The No BS Guide to Winning Online Texas Holdem' and was penned by author Chris Wilcox, who makes the point that many of the champions at the WSOP in recent years got their training by playing online poker, which allows for a faster education thanks to the speed at which the game can be played.Related Articles:Gus Hansen wrote a bookThree online pros to author books. ...

Is the Kindle about to catch fire?Could Amazon.com's seven-month-old wireless e-book reader - a rectangular wonder in antique iPod white, able to download any of 125,000 books adapted to its format - be the tipping point that marks the decline and fall of the paper book?

Film News: Users will drive project -- Bestselling Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho is teaming with MySpace to make an almost entirely user-generated film based on his book 'The Witch of Portobello.'