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J.K. Rowling: Life Beyond Harry Potter [PHOTOS]

J.K. Rowling is one of the top five self-made female billionaires in the world, according to Forbes magazine. The Harry Potter author has fascinated children and young teens with her magic spell-laced writing ever since she started working on the stories of the bespectacled wizard boy.
Adventures of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn

Tintin Book Not Racist, says Court

As booksellers package an early Tintin adventure book, and seal it with a warning, a Belgian judicial advisor rejects the book as racist
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Billions of Years of History on a Piece of Paper

Cambridge University's Festival of Ideas will feature one rather innovative attempt at narrating the history of the world. The festival will feature the work of author Christopher Lloyd, who has written a book of unusual proportions. Titled "The What on Earth? Wallbook", it is a seven-and-a-half feet long chart that narrates the history of the world (and of humanity) on one piece of paper - combining twelve illustrated threads dealing with evolution, civilizations and continental movem...