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Cloaking devices would steer light or other electromagnetic waves around them like water around a stone in a smooth stream, leaving nary a ripple of difference in the flow.

Pledge: Jason Aufdem-Brink, left, of the Nora Roberts Foundation shares a whiff sundae with a pupil from a kindergarten class at Hamilton Heights Elementary School, Chambersburg.

In John Irving's latest novel, the main character shares the author's profession, but that's not the most important similarity.

Apps can turn mobile phones into e-readers. This week's app feature takes a look at phone e-readers Amazon's Kindle app for the iPhone is an industry standard Not to be outdone, Barnes & Noble has a clean e-reader app, too Mobipocket is a good choice for Palm and BlackBerry owners Editor's note: This is CNN.com's App Wednesday feature.

WAYNESBORO, Pa. - The Nora Roberts Foundation has made a five-year pledge to support Renfrew Institute through the institute's "Today's Horizon Fund." The foundation has made a five-year pledge of $10,000 annually, according to Tracy Holliday, the institute's assistant director.

Starts: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at NOON Eastern Standard Time It may seem simple, at first, to categorize Christian fiction.

Published Tuesday 27 October 2009 07:17pm EST. Someone recently accosted a friend of mine with the snide remark, "I bet you read... literary fiction." My friend, a nice bookish young man, innocently agreed that most of his reading choices were, in fact, literary fiction.

Posted by David Forsmark on Oct 26th, 2009 and filed under FrontPage . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 . You can leave a response or trackback to this entry While the Obama Administration is decisive about declaring war on Fox News and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, but dithers on whether to go after the jihadists in ...

Meinders Library is pleased to welcome John Koblas, a prolific author on Minnesota and Midwestern historical figures and events, for a talk and book signing.

An American novelist whose works have been among the first to explore the loves and emotions of African American women through a style which might be described as popular fiction rather than literary, Terry McMillan saw.... An American novelist whose works have been among the first to explore the loves and emotions of African American women through ...

Nora Roberts's books grossed $60 million last year. SUPPLIED PICTURE Her books are rarely reviewed and you may not know her name, but Nora Roberts is one of the world's bestselling authors.

CAMDEN : As part of its Mystery Month, Camden Public Library has invited mystery writer Archer Mayor to speak at the library Sunday, Oct.

The life of Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher, is not obviously the stuff of popular fiction.

Life is unfulfilling. You go to class or work and try to get something done. You grout the spaces between your chunks of obligation with lesser obligations: errands, research, meetings, chores.

UC is represented among more than 80 national and regional authors at the Oct. 17 Books by the Banks book festival downtown.

Professor David Carter of The University of Queensland, in Australia wrote, "While a number of high profile Australian writers are now located in the US and/or routinely have American publishers, little is known currently about the history of the publishing relationship between Australian authors/Australian books and American publishers.

There is no way past the infatuated blogger word of mouth that has accompanied this album, with its cut-and-paste stories of Christopher Owens' childhood.

Book lovers can go to a Winnipeg movie theatre this fall to watch live interviews with two giants of popular fiction, it was announced this morning.

If we do not grab this opportunity now, to improve and expand the usage and literary work, we will kill the language ... says Malaysia's new National Literature Laureate : Datuk Dr Mohd Anuar Rethwan and Siti Nurbaiyah Nadzmi interviews him in The New Straits Times .

Whenever I am near a Powells location with some time to kill, I stop in for a visit.