Wilson named top library author
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Children's author Jacqueline Wilson holds onto title of most borrowed author in the annual public library lending charts.
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DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. -- Caryn Wilson of Rancho Mirage shot a 4-over par 76 on Friday and is tied for 51st place after three rounds of the LPGA Tour Qualifying School.
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Best-selling author Nora Roberts won book of the year on Monday at the third annual Quill Awards, which were created to bring glamour and red carpet extravagance to the world of publishing.
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Former US President Bill Clinton&#39;s library will be officially dedicated today in Little Rock, Arkansas. Among those who will attend the event will be Robin Williams and Kevin Spacey, as well as former presidents Jimmy Carter and George Bush Senior.
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First lady Laura Bush paid tribute Monday to 10 cultural institutions for their creativity and public service and was then surprised to receive an honor of her own Â an award for her commitment to promoting the nation's libraries.
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J. K. Rowling, who gave the world Harry Potter, will be the principal speaker at the afternoon exercises of Harvard Universityâs 357th commencement on June 5. âPerhaps no one in our time has done more than J. K. Rowling to inspire young people to experience the excitement and sheer joy of reading,â said Drew Gilpin Faust, the universityâs president.
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A biography of Gen. Robert E. Lee and a book about the relationship between President Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass were this year's winners of the Lincoln Prize for Civil War scholarship.
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A judge in Monroe County, Georgia, has ruled that 21-year-old Genarlow Wilson should be released from a 10-year prison sentence for a consensual sexual encounter he had when he was 17. He has been imprisoned for more than two years after his conviction for a sex act with a 15-year-old girl. But the state attorney general quickly filed a notice of appeal, keeping Wilson in prison for the time being.
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1. "The Almost Moon" by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)
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Douglas L. Wilson looks at the role that writing played in the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, who used his eloquence to transform how Americans thought about their country.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy has been awarded one of Britain's oldest literary honors for his tale of a father and son's travels through a post-apocalyptic America.
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A loose-leaf notebook was perched on a stool at Gibril Wilson&#39;s locker Thursday, but probably not for long. Wilson is a rookie safety for the Giants, and the
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Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback
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Gretchen Wilson, the 31-year-old country music sensation, received the Breakthrough Favorite New Artist award at the American Music Awards on Sunday night, her second major award in less than a week.
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A Baltimore librarian's classroom project is now part of publishing history. "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices From a Medieval Village," first conceived a decade ago by Laura Amy Schlitz, is this year's winner of the John Newbery Medal for best children's book.
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Best-selling author Nora Roberts won  book of the year on Monday at the third annual Quill Awards,  which were created to bring glamour and red carpet extravagance  to the world of publishing.
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Good news! To librarians everywhere, the report that Google plans to digitize millions of books from five major research libraries (Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the New