The James Logan Courier

By Steve Everly
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hundreds of millions of dollars in fuel taxes paid by American drivers aren't going to the government, but instead into the pockets of gas and diesel retailers.

It's legal, the IRS acknowledges. It's widespread, according to industry experts. And it's the latest twist in a controversy involving how the oil industry sells fuel based on temperature fluctuations across the country.


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Reviewed By Jessica Stewart, Courier Staff Writer

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (fiction)
Hardcover: 656 pages
ISBN: 0316011770

“This is the story of how as a girl of sixteen I went in search of my father and his past, and of how he went in search of his beloved mentor and his mentor’s own history, and of how we all found ourselves on one of the darkest pathways into history.”

The name "Helen" is used 913 times in The Historian

By Tish Wells
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

``She's Such a Geek! Women Write About Science, Technology and other Nerdy Stuff'' by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders;
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Seal Press (November 28, 2006)
ISBN: 1580051901

In circus parlance, a "geek" is a sideshow performer who does disgusting things such as bite the heads off live chickens. More commonly these days, a geek is a socially awkward person who's enthusiastic, smart and skillful with computers. "She's Such a Geek!" is a collection of essays by gifted tech women who don't fit the narrow sugar-and-spice stereotype. Some prefer math to lipstick and light-sabers and dragon fighting to swooning over the latest teen idol. And some do both.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

Here are the best sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Nov. 11, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2006 by Reed Elsevier, USA)

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Wild Fire. Nelson DeMille. Warner, $26.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. Dear John. Nicholas Sparks. Warner, $24.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
3. For One More Day. Mitch Albom. Hyperion, $21.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 7
4. Born in Death. J.D. Robb. Putnam, $24.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
5. Lisey's Story. Stephen King. Scribner, $28
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 3

By Glenn Garvin
McClatchy Newspapers(MCT)

MIAMI — Media baron Rupert Murdoch, facing a civil war within his television empire and a furious barrage of criticism from outside, pulled the plug Monday on a book and TV special in which O.J. Simpson would have confessed — maybe, sort of — to the murder of his ex-wife and one of her friends.

"This was an ill-considered project," said Murdoch, chairman of News Corp. "We are sorry for any pain that this has caused the families."

His words spelled doom for ``If I Did It,'' a book/TV package announced with great fanfare only last week by ReganBooks and Fox Broadcasting, both part of the sprawling News Corp. media conglomerate.


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André Paul Guillaume Gide (November 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in-between the two World Wars.

Read Andre Gide's "banquet speech" accepting the Nobel Prize, provided free from Nobelprize.org


Andre Gide