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Dr Samuel Johnson's dictionary defines a novel as "a small tale, generally of love".

Khalifa's winning novel, 'No Knives in this City's Kitchens', about life under Baath regime; writer unable to attend ceremony in Cairo due to ongoing Syrian war Daily book trade headlines and breaking publishing news by email - just 3 a month.

Steve Gamble laughs during a recent discussion of the classic 'A Christmas Carol.'

Are you confounded by Common Core? Are you sick of endless standardized testing with less classroom teaching? Is your child doing the new fuzzy math?.

Notable Penguin Classics include Plato's Republic , Homer's The Odyssey , Darwin's The Origin of Species, Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, and hundreds more, including, now, in the first straight-to-classic printing in the imprint's history, Morrissey's Autobiography .

Readers will surely get a kick out of this banned book mug offered by The Philosophers Guild.

Ever since childhood, Emma Jane Holloway refused to accept that history was nothing but facts prisoned behind the closed door of time.

There's something about the frenzied vigor of snowflakes, shopping outings, and journeys back home, that make us want to take a break and curl up with a good book.

Leonardo Padura is a Cuban writer, journalist and winner of the 2012 National Literature Award, whose novels have been translated into more than 15 languages.

"Hobbit" star Richard Armitage may not be a method actor in the strictest sense of the phrase, but he certainly took extensive preparations to get into the role of J.R.R. Tolkien's dwarf king, Thorin Oakenshield.

The Annals of Applied Statistics , Vol. 7, No. 2. , pp. 1010-1039, doi:10.1214/12-aoas617 We describe a network clustering framework, based on finite mixture models, that can be applied to discrete-valued networks with hundreds of thousands of nodes and billions of edge variables.

The Yorkshire Post looks back on December/Christmas 1893. Among other things, this is what was happening: December did bring some lighter news.

Chance Theater presents the fifth show of its 15th Anniversary Season - a family-friendly holiday offering The Secret Garden - The Musical with book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Marsha Norman , music by Tony Award nominee Lucy Simon , and directed by Casey Long and KC Wilkerson.

We asked some of our contributors for their favorite books they read this year. Here's the first installment.

BOOK REVIEW: Stone's familiar themes are on display here, but they have become predictable and his exploration heavy-handed.

The Trustees of the Charles Taylor Foundation are pleased to announce that the jurors for the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize are: English Canadian literature professor and critic Coral Ann Howells PhD; editor, publisher and arts consultant James Polk, PhD; and writer, lecturer and former CTP winner Andrew Westoll, MFA.

Hey there, befuddled aunts, uncles and family friends. Not sure what to get for all those nieces, nephews and offspring of other people? This year we've included kids' titles in our year-end best books roundup.

This past summer, the Ridgefield Library included a MOOC as part of its adult summer reading program.

RosettaBooks has released three Oscar Hijuelos works as eBooks, including The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love , for which he was the first Latino to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1990, Our House in the Last World, and The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien.

The best writers in Scotland, including Christopher Brookmyre, John Burnside and Janice Galloway, pick out the creme de la creme of 2013's books The books I have enjoyed reading most this year all seem to deal with the American Dream and the way it leads the individual into tragedy and self-knowledge.