Clinton chronicles charitable work
Former President Bill Clinton writes about charitable work done by the famous and not-so-famous in a book Knopf will publish Sept. 2: “Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World” will go to press for an announced 750,000 copies. “I’ve done my best in this book to demonstrate what I’ve seen firsthand through my foundation’s work in Africa and around the world: that all kinds of giving can make a profoundly positive difference,” Clinton said in a release. The famously long-winded Clinton, whose memoir ran nearly 1,000 pages, keeps his new book to just 256 pages.|Publishers Weekly
A new Bond book
James Bond will soon be back in bookstores. “Devil May Care,” a novel written by British author Sebastian Faulks and authorized by the estate of the late Ian Fleming, is due to come out in 2008, the centennial of Fleming’s birth.
According to the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, “Devil May Care” is set during the Cold War and moves about a variety of scenic locales.|The Associated Press
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Kissing Babies at the Piggly Wiggly
by Robert Dalby, $22.95
By the time mid-September of the year 2001 rolled around in the quirky little town of Second Creek, Mississippi, two things were readily apparent. The first was that the oppressive heat the millennium had ushered in had more than worn out its welcome. The second was that most Second Creekers were having trouble believing that the seventyish Mr. Choppy Dunbar was actually going to take on the solidly entrenched and self-serving Mr. Floyce Hammontree in the February 2002 mayoral election – the result of Second Creek’s special charter that allowed it to march to its customary different drummer and vote around Valentine’s Day.”
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