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Publishing War Is Over, but Fear Of Amazon Isn’t [14 Nov 2014|02:00am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/technology/amazon-hachette-ebook-dispute.html

The accord allows the publisher to set prices on its e-books, a major issue in a battle that led Amazon to discourage sales of Hachette books.
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Amazon and Hachette Resolve Dispute [14 Nov 2014|02:00am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/technology/amazon-hachette-ebook-dispute.html

The accord allows the publisher to set prices on its e-books, a major issue in a battle that led Amazon to discourage sales of Hachette books.
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Survivor Who Hated the Spotlight [14 Nov 2014|03:16am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/arts/survivor-who-hated-the-spotlight.html

Mary Berg wrote a diary about her life in the Warsaw Ghetto that was published in English long before Anne Frank’s diary. Then she disappeared.
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Amazon and Hachette Resolve Dispute [14 Nov 2014|07:15am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/technology/amazon-hachette-ebook-dispute.html

The accord allows the publisher to set prices on its e-books, a major issue in a battle that led Amazon to discourage sales of Hachette books.
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Paperback Row [14 Nov 2014|03:47pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/books/review/paperback-row.html

Paperback books of particular interest.
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Editors’ Choice [14 Nov 2014|03:55pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/books/review/editors-choice.html

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
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Inside the List [14 Nov 2014|03:57pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/books/review/inside-the-list.html

John Cleese, whose memoir “So, Anyway. . .” is No. 9 on the hardcover nonfiction list, once wrote to a fan: “I am very very very very very very important.”
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Daniel Bolger’s ‘Why We Lost’ [14 Nov 2014|04:01pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/books/review/daniel-bolgers-why-we-lost.html

In “Why We Lost,” Daniel Bolger says abysmal generalship doomed American efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Claire Prentice’s ‘Lost Tribe of Coney Island’ [14 Nov 2014|04:01pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/books/review/claire-prentices-lost-tribe-of-coney-island.html

In the early 1900s, an American huckster brought despair to a group of Filipino tribespeople.
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The Shortlist: Ian Leslie's 'Curious,' and More [14 Nov 2014|04:02pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/books/review/ian-leslies-curious-and-more.html

New books by Ian Leslie, Daniel J. Levitin, Judy Wajcman and Michael Harris.
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‘More Awesome Than Money,’ by Jim Dwyer [14 Nov 2014|04:03pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/books/review/more-awesome-than-money-by-jim-dwyer.html

Four university students tried to create a nonprofit, privacy-protected alternative to Facebook.
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‘On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller,’ by Richard Norton Smith [14 Nov 2014|04:03pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/books/review/on-his-own-terms-a-life-of-nelson-rockefeller-by-richard-norton-smith.html

Nelson Rockefeller, the subject of a new biography, was a big-government, big-spending liberal — and a Republican.
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‘Thrown,’ by Kerry Howley [14 Nov 2014|04:04pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/books/review/thrown-by-kerry-howley.html

A writer finds sublime poetry in the world of mixed martial arts.
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‘William Wells Brown,’ by Ezra Greenspan [14 Nov 2014|04:04pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/books/review/william-wells-brown-by-ezra-greenspan.html

Born into slavery, William Wells Brown escaped to freedom and reinvented himself as an author, lecturer and doctor.
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‘Tennessee Williams,’ by John Lahr [14 Nov 2014|04:05pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/books/review/tennessee-williams-by-john-lahr.html

Tennessee Williams spun unhappiness into dramatic gold, John Lahr’s study shows.
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‘Man Alive,’ by Thomas Page McBee [14 Nov 2014|04:06pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/books/review/man-alive-by-thomas-page-mcbee.html

A transgender writer’s memoir of forgiveness and discovery.
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‘The Deluge,’ by Adam Tooze [14 Nov 2014|04:08pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/books/review/the-deluge-by-adam-tooze.html

Between the Great War and the Depression, the world was remade by American economic and military power.
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Crime: Patricia Cornwell’s ‘Flesh and Blood,’ and More [14 Nov 2014|04:09pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/books/review/patricia-cornwells-flesh-and-blood-and-more.html

In Cornwell’s new thriller, Kay Scarpetta’s expertise is needed with a murder victim, a man once accused of being a terrorist.
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ArtsBeat: New York Public Library Names New Chairman [14 Nov 2014|06:12pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/new-york-public-library-names-new-chairman/

Evan R. Chesler, the chairman of the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, will take over as the library chairman from Neil L. Rudenstine.
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ArtsBeat: Dreamy Collections of Little Nemo and Moomin [14 Nov 2014|10:10pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/dreamy-collections-of-little-nemo-and-moomin/

“The Complete Little Nemo” and “Moomin: The Deluxe Anniversary Edition” are vast and enchanting collections of vintage comic strips.
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Bookshelf: A Bar for Whitman and Other Adventurers [14 Nov 2014|11:06pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/nyregion/a-bar-for-whitman-and-other-adventurers.html

New books take a look at Walt Whitman and his fellow bohemians, writers on their love for New York, and Hurricane Sandy’s power.
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