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The release into summer is one of the sweetest experiences of childhood. Enhance the freedom with some good books that can be read for pleasure. Brent Runyon's "Surface Tension," set over four summers, should make the best-of-the-year lists in December....New books by Jean Thompson, Chandler Burr, and Novella Carpenter.Forget Hellboy. Forget Pan's Labyrinth. Forget directing The Hobbit, which is why Oscar-nominated director Guillermo del Toro finds himself in New Zealand these days.Say what you will about Neil LaBute's often nasty battles between the sexes, but the person who influenced him most was . . . his mother. "I gained a love and respect of books through her," he tells The Post's Barbara Hoffman. "She was never...Powerful story of young girl hiding from the Nazis in WWII France has won the world's most prestigious prize for Holocaust literatureStarting Thursday, UNC Charlotte's English Department hosts a national children's literature conference with three events geared to the public.June 05, 2009 Jun. 5--Romance in the workplace. It's a topic that's been written about in books, laughed about on sitcoms and dramatized on film.All things artistic - literature, architecture, visual arts, video and music - at nearly 50 venues highlight this week's First Friday Art Walk in downtown Binghamton. The art events, presented by the Gorgeous Washington Street Association and sponsored by M&T Bank, will run from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday.Tom K. Phares, a former corporate communications executive for Westinghouse Electric Corp. and an author of various books, died of congestive heart failure on Tuesday.As a wide-ranging LAPD injunction restricts gangs on their own turf, seeds of opportunity are taking root in an area that has long felt marginalized. The boys had made no effort to hide the shotgun, so it was found, loaded, right where they'd left it, on the top bunk in their bedroom, next to a pile of clothes and two school books, "Decimals" and "The Language of Literature."Yahoo! News Search Results for Books Literature
