]]>  "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...." Celebrate the 75th anniversary of "The Hobbit".  Fans around the world will be reading from "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings" and other works by J.R.R. Tolkien on March 25th.]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> Sherlock Holmes, the creation of novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first appeared in publication in 1887. Mystery readers throughout the decades have learned of the British detective's deductive prowess through 56 short stories and four novels, narrated by Holmes' friend, side-kick, and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson.
 ]]> February is a time when we celebrate the accomplishments of African-Americans. ]]> ]]> A Christmas Carol (1843), and also a Christmas fairy story intended to be read aloud on winter evenings, The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy-tale of Home (1846).
]]> Colum McCann’s novel “Let the Great World Spin” took the fiction prize among five finalists at the National Book Awards ceremony in New York City Wednesday , November 18.  Other winners were..
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