Comment On New Releases For May

Henry Holt and Company announced on Thursday that Mr. Atkinson, a former Washington Post editor and reporter, will be writing a trilogy covering the years 1775-1781.    

“Women or Nothing,” by Ethan Coen, is scheduled to begin previews Aug. 28.    

Poet Li-Young Lee will speak in early June to kick off the series.

Those clinging hopefully to the old Borders books gift cards stashed in their drawers or wallets are out of luck, a Manhattan federal judge ruled Wednesday.Those clinging hopefully to the old Borders books gift cards stashed in their drawers or wallets are out of luck, a Manhattan federal judge ruled Wednesday. According to Reuters, there are about $210.5 million worth of such cards that had not been used by the time the bookstore chain went out of business in September 2011. All of which are now "equitably moot."

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