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...average of 2 1/2 hours each month, according to research firm Nielsen//NetRatings. To cash in on such loyalty, the site has supplemented traditional banner ads at the top of each Web page with sponsorships within the site itself. For example, members can join a book club run by Doubleday without ever leaving the site. BlackPlanet then holds online chats about each selection...
Muriel Spark weaves her 21st work of fiction, Aiding and Abetting (Doubleday; 166 pages; $21), around a matter of fact: the 1974 disappearance of the seventh Earl of Lucan, who was subsequently charged with bludgeoning his children's nanny to death in a botched attempt to murder his estranged wife. Questions about this scandal have echoed in the British press ever since. Was Lord Lucan guilty? Is he still alive? If so, who helped him escape, and who has been aiding and abetting the fugitive's life in hiding ever since...
Gabriel's Story (Doubleday; 294 pages; $23.95) sometimes seems a little too derivative of William Faulkner as filtered through Cormac McCarthy: "The bull seemed to stand there for no particular purpose that it or the boys could make out, except as a spectacle reminiscent of some pagan culture." Never mind. Durham finds his own voice and rhythm, and the story gallops...
...untitled epic will examine the family's history and, no doubt, will attempt to shed a bit more light on the still elusive 20 years George W. spent from his time at Yale to when he bought the Texas Rangers. Kelley received a seven-figure advance from Doubleday, which, the Bushes will also be pleased to note, expects Kelley to finish the book in time for the 2004 presidential election...
...Machines like this are readily available right now, from companies like Sequoia Pacific Voting Equipment Inc., MicroTouch Systems Inc. and Fidlar Doubleday Inc. They run about $3,500 apiece if you buy in bulk, and they work. No chads. No recounts. No doubt...