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Posted on November 20, 2014 at 12:00 AM by Jeffrey Bruner
November 20
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Russian author Leo Tolstoy died on this date in 1910. Tolstoy is best known for his epic novel "War and Peace" (1869) and "Anna Karenina" (1877), but he was also a thinker on nonviolent resistance and influenced Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
SPOKEN WORDS
"If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it." -- Toni Morrison (b. 1931.)
NEW RELEASES
- "Beyond the Dark Veil" (Jack Mord, history). Amazon.
DAILY DEALS
- "Principle-Centered Leadership" (Stephen Covey, business). $1.99. Kindle.
- "What It Is Like to Go to War" (Karl Marlantes, history). $1.99. Kindle.
- "Mr. Churchill's Profession" (Peter Clarke, biography). $1.99. Nook.
NEWS
- Ex-Marine Phil Klay has won the National Book Award for fiction, for his short story collection "Redeployment."
- Nook is getting back in the audiobook business. (Digital Book World)
- The Guardian picks the Top 10 words invented by writers.
- Hugh Howey has collaborated on a children's book.
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