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Nov 21, 2009

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‘Under The Dome’
Celebrated storyteller Stephen King features a supernatural element as baffling and chilling as any he’s ever conjured. On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Time, under the dome, is running out....

‘Open’
“No one ever asked me if I wanted to play tennis,” Agassi writes, “let alone make it my life.” In Open, he recalls for the first time a childhood without choices. Forced to embrace tennis, banished to a brutal tennis camp while still in grade school, catapulted to fame while still in his teens, Agassi grew up feeling isolated, alienated, detached.

‘Waddle!’
Using Scanimation technology, each page is a marvel that brings animals, along with one shining star, to life with art that literally moves. It’s impossible not to flip the page, and flip it again, and again, and again. A first book of motion for kids, WADDLE! brings not just animals in motion, but animals -- in color -- in motion.

‘The Book Of Tomorrow’
The magical new novel from a bestseller. Tamara Goodwin has always got everything she’s ever wanted. Born into a family of wealth, she grew up in a mansion, a wardrobe full of designer clothes and all that a girl could ever wish for. What she discovers within the pages of a stray book takes her breath away and shakes her world to its core.

Richard Price: A real writer wants to write novels
“Screenwriting is not healthy writing,” says Richard Price, an acclaimed American novelist-screenwriter who was in İstanbul last weekend to speak in a panel discussion as part of this year’s İstanbul Book Fair, which wrapped up last Sunday.

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Book puts İstanbul under the microscope A recently published book titled “Mapping Istanbul” offers an in-depth analysis of the contemporary structure and borders of İstanbul through maps, comparative research and articles, providing a view of the city that was not previously available to readers in English.

İstanbul Book Fair attracts 329,000 attendees in 28th year The İstanbul Book Fair drew 329,000 visitors in its 28th edition, which wrapped up on Sunday, the fair’s organizers have said.

Cultural bridge built between suburbs of Stockholm and İstanbul Despite Turkey being among the countries whose populations read the least number of books in a year, some promising campaigns have prevailed in the country.

‘The Ottomans: Dissolving Images’ “The other” has always held a fascination: people who come from a different culture, who dress differently, who wear their hair differently, who have different attitudes and values.

‘Science: The Definitive Visual Guide' The complete illustrated science encyclopedia covering the history, key discoveries, inventions and people. This remarkable reference book reveals the story of scientific progress from the invention of the wheel to 21st-century climate solutions, including everything from Greek geometry to quantum physics.

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