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MELBOURNE, Australia

Texas author, Mitchel Street is pleased to announce the release of the first book in his Mitosis fantasy series, 'Prophase: A Present Tale.

Set against the rich backdrop of the Basque culture in the north of Spain, 'Resistance Music' will please the student of European history and culture as well as those concerned with the intricacies of separatist movements everywhere.

'The Flaws That Bind' tells the story of an idealistic college girl from Iowa who meets an exciting Jamaican inventor with plans to save the world and drops everything to begin a new life with him.

ALBUQUERQUE— On October 27th, at 7:00 PM, Bookworks and the University of New Mexico English Department and Creative Writing Program welcome Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk to the University of New Mexico Student Union Building for an event promoting the release of his new Doubleday novel Beauti

Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, announced today that it has acquired world rights to Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures, plus two other books in a new series by #1 New York Times bestselling and Michael L.

Below are this week's events at Bookworks.

It is the near future.

Skinner House Books offers its newest release,Restored to Sanity: Essays on the Twelve Steps by Unitarian Universalists, the first book to explore the intersection of Unitarian Universalism and Twelve-Step recovery programs.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.

Disney Publishing Worldwide (DPW) announced today a 3 million copy first printing of The Blood of Olympus, the fifth and final book in the New York Times #1 best-selling Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan.

Beetle Boy, published by Carolrhoda Lab, an imprint of Carolrhoda Books, division of Lerner Publishing Group, tells the story of a young man defined by his past as a child prodigy-or at least, as the child prodigy his father made him out to be.

NEW YORK, Oct.