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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows
The last in the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling. Plans are to use recycled paper to print the book.
Here is the Top 100 Most Popular Books on LibraryThing. Bold what you own, italicize what you’ve read. Star what you liked. Star multiple times what you loved!
I almost didn’t do this today because I’ve already done the Top 106 Unread Books meme, but I don’t have a lot of opportunity to interact with this community right now, and the list is different, so here it goes:
1. Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone by J.K. Rowling (32,484)
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K...
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J.K. Rowling wrote an 800-word prequel to her Harry Potter books with the intent of selling it at auction for charity.
The winning bid was $48,858 which means the absent bidder paid more than $59 a word for the short story during the event at the flagship of Waterstone’s book store chain in London. The whole story was able to fit on the front and back of a piece of paper only a little bigger than a postcard.
The prequel is set three years before Harry is born and features the characters...
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The top 5 bestsellers of 2007, based on sales at Barnes & Noble.com from January 1 through December 27, 2007. 1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter #7)by J. K. Rowling The Washington Post - Elizabeth Hand It's hard to imagine a better ending than the one she's written for her saga after 10 years, more than 4,000 pages and close to 400 million copies in print. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows may be a miracle of marketing, but it's also a miraculous book that earns...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be two movies!! In case anyone is CUCKOO FOR COCO PUFFS ABOUT HARRY POTTER like I am I thought you might be interested in the above link. I just hope Heyman (The Director of Order of the Phoenix, who will also be directing the last three movies) doesn't ruin 7 the way that he ruined the movie for Order of the Phoenix. Any hollaback from anyone else about that? I was really dissapointed with it--I would have to say Chris Columbus did the best movies...
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A hand-written illustrated manuscript by Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling fetched a record 1.95 million pounds ($3.8) at a Sotheby's auction in London on Thursday.
"The Tales of Beedle the Bard" was expected to fetch up to 50,000 pounds but ended up going for nearly forty times that figure in a 10- minute bidding session involving four or five on-site bidders and an equal number on the phone
The sale set three auction records, including the highest price ever
paid for one of...
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"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows" made me laugh, cry and want to shout "Accio!" I thought I'd seen the last of his lightning scar until the next film release.
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