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14 Jul

BookSense.com Warns of New Fraudulent Order Wrinkle

A number of booksellers with BookSense.com Web sites have recently reported a new twist to the problem of fraudulent orders. In addition to orders for large numbers of Bibles and medical texts, booksellers are now seeing fraudulent orders for popular trade titles, sometimes with expedited shipping, and with domestic billing and shipping addresses.

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13 Jul

An Unfinished Season Mixes Memory and Desire in a Just Cause

"It's a mistake," cautions one of the characters in Ward Just's 14th novel, An Unfinished Season (Houghton Mifflin), "to infer the author's life from the author's fiction."

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13 Jul

Retail Strip Mining

By Chuck Robinson

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13 Jul

Rep. Sanders Vows to Continue Fight to Amend Patriot Act

On Monday, July 12, Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) held a press conference at the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, Vermont, to announce that he would continue his efforts to get Congress to pass an amendment of Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act to protect the privacy of bookstore and library patrons' records. Congressmen Sanders, addressing a crowd of approximately 50 reporters, librarians, and booksellers, said, "I have no doubt that we are going to win this fight, and when we do it, we're going to strike a tremendous blow for the U.S.

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