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		<title>Into the Wild</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  The Outlander by Gil Adamson
  Reviewed by Ron Charles
  Washington Post Book World
  Gil Adamson's first novel bolts off the opening page: Men with hounds are chasing a young woman through the woods at night. Nineteen-year-old Mary Boulton has murdered her husband and now, still wearing a black mourning dress [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=3256</link>
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		<title>Read It Before They Screen It: The Queen of the South and Same Kind of Different As Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bestselling Spanish author Arturo Perez-Reverte will have another thriller translated into an English-language film. 
Eva Mendes has agreed to star in The Queen of the South along with Ben Kingsley and Josh Hartnett.
Story tracks a Mexican woman who escapes to Spain after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Teresa becomes the reigning drug smuggler in Spain, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=3253</link>
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		<title>Book News for Thursday, May 8, 2008</title>
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 Faulks. Sebastian Faulks.  Expect many more articles like this one from the Wall Street Journal as we approach the May 28th laydown date for the new James Bond novel, Devil May Care.
Doubleday and Penguin believe they can rekindle interest in the Bond brand by returning the story line to the Cold War. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=3255</link>
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		<title>The Old Frontiers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea by Richard Kluger
  Reviewed by Alan Taylor
  The New Republic Online
  In 1893, more than twelve million Americans traveled to Chicago to attend a national exposition celebrating the quadricentennial of Columbus's voyage of American discovery. "The World's Columbian Exposition" summoned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=3254</link>
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		<title>Four-Track Pepper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Editor's Note: Mark Sarvas will read at Powell's City of Books on Monday, May 12, at 7:30 p.m.  See our calendar for details.]
I'm a longtime and vocal Beatles fan, which I admit is scarcely an original passion, but what has me all worked up these days is a bootleg I was recently given.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=3252</link>
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		<title>Read It Before They Screen It: Boomsday and Birds in Fall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Buckley will get another one of his satirical novels turned into a feature film.
First there was Thank You for Smoking, which spawned the equally dark and hilarious film version. Next up for adaptation is Buckley's most recent novel, Boomsday.
The protagonist is a D.C. lobbyist who casts herself in the center of a firestorm after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=3248</link>
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		<title>Book News for Wednesday, May 7, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 Bright Shiny Frey: Was James Frey caught in another pack of lies?  Maybe not...
Editors at MSNBC.com removed and retracted a story about James Frey last Thursday afternoon after receiving some angry phone calls from members of Mr. Frey's publicity team. In the story "Frey Still Having Trouble Keeping Facts Straight," which ran in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=3251</link>
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		<title>Everything They Ever Wanted to Know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People often ask me whether strange people come to my Bonk events and ask peculiar questions.  Not often. The people who come to my events are mostly book people. They're smart and funny and extremely likable.  I have the most wonderful readers in the world.   Though it's possible I'm biased.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=3249</link>
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		<title>Not Just a Love Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  The Region of Lost Names by Fred Arroyo
  Reviewed by Rigoberto González
  National Book Critics Circle
  The Region of Lost Names by debut novelist Fred Arroyo tells the touching tale of Ernest and Magdalene, star-crossed lovers separated by conflicts that predate their families' migration from Puerto Rico.
 College-educated and building [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=3247</link>
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		<title>INK Q&#038;A: Siri Hustvedt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Describe your latest project.
When father was ill and dying, I asked his permission to use material from a memoir he had written for his family and friends in the novel I was then writing.  He said yes, and I integrated his stories about growing up during the Depression in rural Minnesota and his experiences [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=3196</link>
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