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From Steve Martin to Soviet skyscrapers, it's not a bad way to end a good year for books

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Revisiting the Last Day of John Lennon’s Life

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Missing Charles Darwin Notebooks Deemed “Likely Stolen”

Twenty years after they went missing, the notebooks are now presumed victims of theft

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Penguin Random House Buys Simon & Schuster

The nation's largest book publisher just got bigger

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Tom Clancy's Sprawling Baltimore Penthouse Is for Sale

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Previously Unread J. R. R. Tolkien Essays Slated for 2021 Publication

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