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14 Oct

Memorial Service Scheduled for Pat Kirby Sado

A memorial service will be held for Pat Kirby Sado on Thursday, October 23, at 4:00 p.m. at the Juilliard School's Morse Hall, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, located on the northwest corner of West 65th St. & Broadway in New York City.

Sado, a long-time bookseller, died suddenly on September 19 at age 56.

For more on the life of Pat Kirby Sado, click here.

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14 Oct

DBC Pierre Wins 2003 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

On Tuesday, October 14, Australian-born author DBC Pierre was named the winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his first novel, Vernon God Little, published in the U.K. by Faber & Faber and in the U.S. by Canongate.

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10 Oct

Independent Bookseller Takes on USA Patriot Act

In this op-ed piece, which appeared in the October 8 edition of the Boston Globe, Frank Kramer, owner of the Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts, discusses the inherent dangers in the broad powers granted the FBI under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act.

Why the Patriot Act worries booksellers

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09 Oct

Maxwell's Successfully Carves Out a Niche for 13 Years

In 1859 Darwin published his conclusion that species that were adequately different from each other could co-exist in one environment, since they were not directly competing for the same niche. More recently, after owning and running Maxwell's in Bismark, North Dakota, for 13 years, Karen Sakariassen has determined the same thing.

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