Ayelet Waldman, the California novelist whose books include “Love and Other Impossible Pursuits” and the Mommy Track mystery series, is an ardent Obama supporter and is encouraging lovers of literature to contribute to his campaign in exchange for a “mystery bag” of books.

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Beckinsale enjoys the complexity, intimacy of smaller film

Kate Beckinsale has starred in big-budget Hollywood movies, including Pearl Harbor and The Aviator, and fought monsters in such films as Underworld and Van Helsing. After all that, Snow Angels, out this week on DVD, was a nice departure, she said, allowing her to play an ordinary person in a small-budget drama.

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Novelist Stewart O’Nan’s “Songs for the Missing” is due in bookstores in less than two months, but it’s a 1998 work that is the focus of attention Monday in Farmington.

O’Nan plans to attend a Farmington Library event with a unique crowd – some adults in a book group who chose to read his “A World Away” together, and some students from the Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford who, as part of a yearlong symposium, are reading everything O’Nan has written.

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School motto resonates with ‘Lobster’ author

CLARKSON CONVOCATION: Writer speaks to freshmen who read novel for orientation

POTSDAM — Author Stewart O’Nan didn’t realize when he agreed to be Clarkson University’s convocation speaker that the college’s motto would turn out to describe perfectly the main character in his latest novel.

“‘A Workman That Needeth Not to be Ashamed.’ That’s Manny,” he said.

A former engineer, Mr. O’Nan has earned acclaim for turning his lucid eye on America’s overlooked edges.

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“Grade A! Captivating!”
-Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

“A Great Film! The cast is just uniformly excellent here.” -Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper With The Movies

SOME WILL FALL. SOME WILL FLY.

Burbank, CA, Aug 1, 2008 – Experience a poignant tale of life, love and loss on September 16th when SNOW ANGELS arrives onto DVD from Warner Home Video. This captivating drama follows the intertwining lives of two couples and the difficulties that they must face and overcome.

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