Palin's book tour to include Fort Hood stop
The Associated Press | 1:03PM
Palin Book Tour
Sarah Palin's tour to promote her new memoir will include a stop at Fort Hood to benefit the victims of the shooting rampage and their families.
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Colum McCann novel wins national award for fiction
By HILLEL ITALIE | AP National Writer | November 18, 2009
National Book Awards

The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future.

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New Sistine Chapel books to come out in Italy
The Associated Press | November 18, 2009
VATICAN SISTINE CHAPEL

A series of four books presented Tuesday at the Vatican seeks to explain how Michelangelo and other artists translated the Bible into images to produce in the Sistine Chapel some of the world's most renowned frescoes.

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Slices of life and limbs fill King's new novel

Stephen King has settled down a bit from the days when he would wipe out most of the world's population with a flu bug just to set the stage for his real story. But once in a while he still likes to work on a big canvas and take, say, a small-to-middling Maine town and put it through the wrath of God.

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Excerpt from 'Under the Dome' by Stephen King