Alice Sebold's first published book was a memoir of her rape as an eighteen-year-old college freshman. Titled Lucky because one of the policemen told her that she was lucky to be alive--not long befor...
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Lucky
Life has a tendency of losing control and turning everything upside-down. The main character in Lucky, a memoir by Alice Sebold, understood this better than most people. A...
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Barnes & Noble.com is getting a new look. Starting Monday, the online site for the superstore chain will have a thoroughly revised home page, including a running scroll of featured releases, an...
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It was the "confession" that nobody wanted to read in 2007 — at least until they had the chance to read it.O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It," vilified when first announced a year ago, dropped by H...
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Manhattan declared war on Brooklyn on Sept. 16, and the first casualties are Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss. Writing in The American Scholar (www.theamericanscholar.org), Melvin Jules Bukie...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - Actor/director Mel Gibson has sold his Malibu,
California mansion for 30 million dollars, after buying it for 24
million dollars in 2003.
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Los Angeles (dpa) - Superstar couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
are expanding their partnership to the professional level.
Pitt, 43, and Jolie, 32, are teaming up ...
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Can writing confer immortality? Let’s hope for at least temporary immortality, because the season’s books are crowded with the dead. David Halberstam, Molly Ivins and Arthur Schlesinger...
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WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERSFICTION1. "The Almost Moon" by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)2. "World Without End" by Ken Follett (Dutton)3. "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham (Doubleday)4. "The Ch...
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Ryan Gosling could be the Sundance Kid, emerging out of that indie film festival with such gritty dramas as "The Believer," "The United States of Leland" and "Half Nelson," which earned him an Acad...
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Alice Sebold
Lucky
Barnes & Noble.com revamps home page
