Publisher delays Palin biography for tweens (AP)

AP – Christian book publisher Zondervan is delaying publication of a Sarah Palin biography for young readers.

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Justice Sotomayor aims to inspire by writing memoir (Reuters)

Reuters – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will write a “coming-of-age memoir” detailing her modest immigrant upbringing in New York to her appointment as the first Hispanic to serve on the nation’s highest court, said publisher Alfred A. Knopf on Monday.

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Ky. con man gets 2 life sentences for 1980 deaths (AP)

AP – An aging con man who confessed to killing five people over 20 years and wrote an autobiography detailing his life of crime was sentenced to two life terms in prison Monday, his second such sentence in as many weeks.

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Poet Eamon Grennan gives literary archive to Emory (AP)

AP – Irish poet Eamon Grennan is placing his literary papers at Emory University’s library in Atlanta.

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NM mayor sues local newspaper publisher for libel (AP)

AP – The mayor of Gallup in western New Mexico has filed a defamation lawsuit against the local newspaper publisher, claiming the newspaper intentionally harmed him by publishing articles about a 1948 rape case in which the mayor was implicated but never tried nor convicted.

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Facebook top publisher of display ads: comScore (AFP)

AFP – Facebook has passed Yahoo! to become the top US publisher of display ads on the Web, another milestone for the fast-growing social network, according to figures released on Thursday.

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November publication date for George W. Bush memoir (AFP)

AFP – Former President George W. Bush’s “strikingly candid” account of his eight years in the White House is set for publication in November, Random House publishing announced Monday.

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Restaurateur wages BBQ diplomacy with N. Korea (Reuters)

Reuters – New Jersey restaurateur Robert Egan barbecues meat for a living, except when he acts as a self-appointed, unofficial conduit between the United States and North Korea.

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Spitzer has chance of a political comeback: author (Reuters)

Reuters – The financial crisis and its aftermath may yet revive the political career of disgraced former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, the author of a new book about Spitzer says.

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“Twilight” among “most challenged” books of 2009 (Reuters)

Reuters – The best-selling vampire themed “Twilight” book series has entered the top 10 list of books that U.S. schools and public libraries were asked to remove from their shelves in 2009.

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