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book

[book] / bƊk /






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While Tarlov was grateful for his advice, her book praises current Fox News Chief Executive Suzanne Scott for creating a workplace culture that is much more hospitable to women.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

"I think that's probably why I resonated with the story when I read the book," Evans said of the novel the series, which is based the book written by Elizabeth Day.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

These AI companies are stocked with “rationalists” and “effective altruism” folks who devoured neo-Luddite Eliezer Yudkowsky’s 2025 book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Less than a month before the CDC officially closed the book on the outbreak, Warren sent U.S.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

The Bible that Nollie had smuggled to her she had torn up and passed around, book by book.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

By Jessica Tarlov Random House: 272 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

"I hope the fans of the books and films explore more about Draco," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Engelhardt may be technically correct that there’s no explicit law on the books about bodily integrity, but he’s wrong in a much broader sense.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

Reeling from these two fat books, I pulled from the shelves Peter Ackroyd’s 1983 novel, “The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde”—densely wrought, impressionistic and all wrapped up in about 180 pages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

I went down the stairs with my head down and slipped past the charging desk, which swarmed with patrons clutching books and slips of paper.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The hotel Min Zin had booked said he never checked in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Oracle said it booked more than $30 billion worth of additional AI cloud contracts during the recent quarter, putting the company’s remaining performance obligations at $664 billion, up $209 billion from last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Robson was booked Monday evening and charged with one misdemeanor count of trespassing and refusing to leave private property, according to court records.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Styles will also play US stadiums for the first time as a solo artist - with dates booked in Phoenix, Dallas, Atlanta and Chicago.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Daniel Ellsberg was booked, fingerprinted, photographed, and released on $50,000 bail.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Dell’s stock rose 12%, also booking a record close, the data showed.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

Shares of the AI-powered corporate travel booking platform sank after revealing higher operating costs and widening losses, but Wall Street says that isn’t the full story.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Shares of Meta Platforms rose 6.6% to $653.69 after it launched Muse, a personal AI agent designed to automate routine tasks such as booking appointments, filling out forms and monitoring home-security camera feeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

"It is council's assessment that there is currently adequate provision for tennis across the city, based on existing capacity, usage levels and booking demands across available facilities," the spokesperson added.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

The theater had lost its luster and its high-society audience, reduced to booking vaudeville comedians, clog dancers, and trick dogs.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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