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Laura Hillenbrand, Jon Meacham Adapt Titles for Children [08 Oct 2014|01:29am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/business/media/laura-hillenbrand-jon-meacham-adapt-titles-for-children.html

Best-selling authors are writing new editions of their books for children and young adults, mining a large new market.
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To Lure Young Readers, Nonfiction Writers Sanitize and Simplify [08 Oct 2014|01:29am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/business/media/laura-hillenbrand-jon-meacham-adapt-titles-for-children.html

Inspired by the booming market for young adult novels, a growing number of biographers and historians are retrofitting their works to make them palatable for younger readers.
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Children’s Books: 'Richard Scarry’s Best Lowly Worm Book Ever!' and '100 Things That Make Me Happy' [08 Oct 2014|04:44pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/books/richard-scarrys-best-lowly-worm-book-ever-and-100-things-that-make-me-happy.html

A posthumously published Richard Scarry book, and writer-illustrator Amy Schwartz’s latest, share the pleasure of cataloging the world.
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Lost Stories by Capote Are Published [08 Oct 2014|07:52pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/books/lost-stories-by-capote-are-published.html

After the discovery of some previously unpublished works from Truman Capote, four of those stories are appearing in a German magazine.
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Gail Sheehy’s 'Daring: My Passages' [08 Oct 2014|09:27pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/books/review/gail-sheehy-daring-my-passages-review.html

Gail Sheehy’s memoir recalls New York magazine and the New Journalism.
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Books of The Times: Walter Isaacson’s ‘The Innovators’ Studies Computer Wizards [08 Oct 2014|09:47pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/arts/walter-isaacsons-the-innovators-studies-computer-wizards.html

Walter Isaacson’s “The Innovators” traces the history of the computing machine and the more recent invention of the Internet, with profiles of many integral players.
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