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1 Events

• J. K. Rowling gets the idea for Harry Potter while on a train ride from Manchester to London. She says "I was staring out the window, and the idea for Harry just came. He appeared in my mind's eye, very fully formed. The basic idea was for a boy who didn't know what he was." It would be seven more years before the world was introduced to Harry.

2 New Books

• The Bourne Ultimatum - Robert Ludlum
• The Burden of Proof - Scott Turow
• The Cardinal Virtues - Andrew Greeley
• Clear and Present Danger - Tom Clancy
• Devices and Desires - P. D. JamesPhyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park (born 3 August 1920 in Oxford) is a British writer of crime fiction. Her detective novels include: Cover Her Face ( 1962) (introducing her Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh) A Mind to Murder ( 196
• Eric - Terry PratchettTerence David John Pratchett OBE (known to some fans as Pterry is an English fantasy author (born April 28, 1948, in Beaconsfield, Bucks), best known for his Discworld series. Biography Pratchett's first published work was the short story "The Hades Busin
• Four Past MidnightFour Past Midnight is a collection of four novellas by Stephen King. The four stories are The Langoliers Secret Window, Secret Garden The Library Policeman and The Sun Dog''. It was published in 1990. The Langoliers has an antiquated feel that is reminsic - Stephen KingThis page is about Stephen Edwin King, the writer. There is also Stephen King, a convicted British paedophile. Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is a prolific American author best known for his horror novels. King's books have been extremely po
• Get Shorty - Elmore LeonardElmore John Leonard (born October 11, 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a popular American novelist. Leonard got his first breaks in the fiction market during the 1950s regularly publishing pulp western novels. He has since forayed into mystery, crime, a
• A Graveyard for Lunatics - Ray BradburyRay Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is a science fiction and fantasy writer. He was born in Waukegan, Illinois, and his family moved several times, eventually settling in Los Angeles in 1934. In his family were many publishers of books and not surprisingl
• Heads - Greg BearGreg Bear (born August 20, 1951) is a science fiction author. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict Forge of God books), artificial universes Eon series) and accelerated evolution Blood Music Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children . He is the son
• Harvest - Belva Plain
• Homecoming - John Bradshaw
• An Inconvenient Woman - Dominic Dunne
• Joy - Marsha Hunt
• Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
• Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams & Mark Cawardine
• Liberty and Power - Harry L. Watson
• Message From Nam - Danielle Steel
• Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett
• Pilgrimage - James A. Michener
• Queen of Angels - Greg Bear
• September - Rosamund Pilcher
• The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Version - Stephen King
• A Tenured Professor - John Kenneth Galbraith
• The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
• Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks
• Vineland - Thomas Pynchon