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9 hrs ago | Heraldseries.co.uk

Pullman books to be auctioned online

BOOKS by Oxford author Philip Pullman are to be sold in an online auction expected to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for children with Aids.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, HIV/AIDS, Health

Sun Nov 22, 2009

AltWeeklies.com

Chris Weitz

New Moon is a terrible movie, worse in some ways than Twilight, better in others, and no doubt baffling to the many who don't spend their time fantasizing about being swept off their feet by Robert Pattinson's controlling vampire Edward Cullen or Taylor Lautner's petulant werewolf Jacob Black.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, New Moon, Adventure, Musical Movies, Crime Movies, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Twilight, Pop/Rock, Movies, Entertainment

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Poor Mojo Newswire

Hey America, why don't *we* have a museum of Story and Storytelling?

From Lewis Carroll's Wonderland to JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth, CS Lewis's Narnia and the parallel universes of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Oxford has played host to some of the UK's most enduring literary creations.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

Book trade news from Book2book

Museum 'Of Story And Storytelling' Planned For Oxford

From Lewis Carroll's Wonderland to JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth, CS Lewis's Narnia and the parallel universes of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Oxford has played host to some of the UK's most enduring literary creations.

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Book trade news from Book2book

Aptara Offers High-volume Epub Conversion Software

Aptara, a digital vendor specializing in e-book data conversion, has developed eGen, a new e-book platform for converting large volumes of digital content into the ePub standard e-book format for distribution to multiple e-reader hardware platforms.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Fri Nov 13, 2009

TheDailyBeast.com

New Moon Countdown

Courtesy of Summit Entertainment Chris Weitz was devastated when the blockbuster film, The Golden Compass, was taken away from him.

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Related Topix: New Moon, Drama Movies, Adventure, Musical Movies, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Twilight, Chris Weitz, Pop/Rock

Sat Nov 07, 2009

The Independent

Philip Pullman: A winner - if he gets his evil way

When the long list for the Booker Prize was published this week, the absences were as striking as the literary lions who were present.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Arts, Literature

Tue Nov 03, 2009

The Independent

Heroes and heroin: the 10 greatest novels for children

One is a cosy bedtime read about a family of tiny people who live beneath the floor; another takes you into the world of a 14-year-old heroin user; and a third enacts an elaborate fantasy of demons and witch-clans. They are among 10 books today nominated as the most important children's novels of the past 70 years, and encompass gritty themes of ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Arts, Literature, New York

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Cinema Blend News

Vampires Fight In The Latest Twilight New Moon Clip

While Chris Weitz's adaptation of The Golden Compass wasn't as successful or good as any fan of Philip Pullman's series would have hoped, though it did show that Weitz has a surprisingly good eye for special effects.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Twilight, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Pop/Rock

Sat Oct 17, 2009

The Independent

Passed/Failed: An education in the life of David Harewood, actor

'I was the classroom clown' Interview by Jonathan Sale enlarge David Harewood, 42, appears in The Last Enemy, the BBC1 surveillance thriller series starting on Sunday, and in Gunrush on ITV in March.

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Related Topix: David Harewood, Pop/Rock, African-American

Sat Oct 10, 2009

Leader Post

Kate Heartfield a Books that ask questions

If you've never read Philip Pullman's wonderful book The Golden Compass , you can be forgiven for thinking it must be a piece of graceless atheist propaganda.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Libraries, Roman Catholic Church, Religion

Tue Oct 06, 2009

Associated Content

Young Adult Movies From Books

I compiled a list of ten movies, based on young adult books, that I can not sit through.

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Mon Oct 05, 2009

Financial Times

Transition

The term "multiverse" will be familiar to readers of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and Michael Moorcock's fantasy sagas.

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Sat Oct 03, 2009

Orange Co. Register

O.C. observes Banned Books Week

UCI student Yinghsuan Chen reads a passage from Jack London's Call of the WIld at Wednesday's Read Out held in recognition of Banned Books Week, which draws attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

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Related Topix: Best of 2007, 9, Pop/Rock

Thu Oct 01, 2009

BBC

Gay penguins book is most banned

Authors, artists and musicians are due to gather at a library in San Francisco to protest against the banning of books in schools and libraries in the US.

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Related Topix: Libraries, Pop/Rock

Wed Sep 30, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Pullman second on US banned books list

His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman. The books have been challenged in America.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Libraries, Appleton Metro, Gay/Lesbian

Tue Sep 29, 2009

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Page to stage

Told By an Idiot, about to showcase its version of Michel Faber's The Fahrenheit Twins, proves that stage adaptations of novels fare best when they leave the original behind Told By an Idiot, about to showcase their version of Michel Faber's The Fahrenheit Twins, prove that stage adaptations of novels fare best when they leave the original behind ...

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Sun Sep 27, 2009

The Huffington Post

John Lundberg: A Poem Highlights Banned Books Week

This week is Banned Books Week here in the U.S., an event sponsored primarily by the American Library Association to draw attention to recent acts of book banning.

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Related Topix: Harry Potter, Books, Pop/Rock

Thu Sep 24, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Banned Books Week adopts author's anti-censorship poem as manifesto

US author Ellen Hopkins, whose young adult fiction tackles controversial topics, writes poem addressing censorship to coincide with Banned Books Week Still from the The Golden Compass, based on Philip Pullman's Northern Lights, one of the year's most challenged authors An author of young adult fiction whose books have provoked bans and complaints ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Libraries

Tue Sep 22, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

His dark misgivings make King's universe the bleakest of them all

Tom Stevenson sees comparison between Philip Pullman's novel The Subtle Knife and the parallel realms of opposing financial thinkers.

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