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<title>PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS 
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<description>AP - 1. &quot;Fearless Fourteen&quot; by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin&#039;s Press)</description>
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<description>AP - 1. &quot;Fearless Fourteen&quot; by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin&#039;s Press)</description>
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<description>AFP - Top-selling Spanish cookbook author and chef Simone Ortega, who won top culinary awards in both France and Spain, has died, her publisher said Wednesday. She was 89.</description>
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<description>AP - On his book promotion stopover here, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan was squired around by a &quot;literary escort,&quot; a pleasant woman named Naomi who drives visiting authors to their speaking engagements in a blue convertible. There were no motorcades, no street closures, no Secret Service.</description>
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<description>AP - &quot;Executive Privilege&quot; (HarperCollins Publishing. 368 pages. &#36;25.95), by Phillip Margolin: It&#039;s a common plot ploy: A detective takes what looks like an easy job and winds up running for her life.</description>
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<description>AP - &quot;Hunting Bin Laden&quot; (Skyhorse Publishing. 229 pages. &#36;24.95), by Rob Schultheis: Veteran war correspondent Rob Schultheis draws a line in the sand early in his new book, &quot;Hunting Bin Laden.&quot;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:04:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>AP - Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback</description>
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<title>Musician Shawn Colvin working on memoir 
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:22:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:11:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:58:39 GMT</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:34:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:28:07 GMT</pubDate>
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