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Barack Obama Signs Post-Presidency Book Deal

President Barack Obama, who has already published two successful works of nonfiction, has signed a book deal to do a "youth-oriented" adaptation of his best-selling memoir "Dreams From My Father" that will be...

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'Three Cups of Tea' Promotes Peace, Climbs Bestseller List

A K2 climber's promise to repay Pakistani villagers for sheltering him results in the impoverished town’s first school. The project grew into the Central Asia Institute, which has since constructed...

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The Dust Bowl's Inconvenient Truths:Seattle's Egan Wins National Book Award

"eattle author Timothy Egan has won the National Book Award for nonfiction for his harrowing account of America's Dust Bowl catastrophe, "The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl.""The Worst Hard Time is an expertly rendered...