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Claypoolers straggle through the 40-ft. bookmobile for 2½ hours-young and middle-aged adults, children with and without parents, and a good many grandparents. Inside, shelves flaunt 6,000 paperback volumes of fact, fiction and fancy, skinny picture books for preschoolers, fat classics for the solemn. The "Hardy Boys." The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. A Child's Garden of Verses. Mark Twain. Sinclair Lewis. Bernard Malamud. Dreiser's An American Tragedy. Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. But which one to pick...
...many, assassination appears to have become a kind of international adventure serial, available both in paperback and next door, and so is to be considered as something quasi-fictional, set apart by razzle-dazzle technology and melodrama from the life of real grief and real blood. The bestselling Matarese Circle has at the base of its plot the idea of the original assassins, the hashshashin, a bunch of hashheads who practiced contract murders at the behest of an "Old Man of the Mountains." We have had Three Days of the Condor, one Day of the Jackal, even...
...Stop the Music," at least on city streets. A cacophony of portable radios and tape players blares from every corner, park bench, bus and subway. But now Sony has come out with a sidewalk stereo that is not a noise polluter. About the size of a paperback book, the 14-oz. Walkman is a cassette player that can be hung from the neck, strapped to a belt or simply carried in a pocket. Attached is a headset with half-dollar-size earphones that provide true stereo sound. Best of all, the Walkman (just under $200) lets a pedestrian stroll...
...Simon & Schuster, which hopes to make millions by publishing new paperback adventures of the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and the Bobbsey Twins, written by the syndicate under the direction of Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet Adams, 87. Not fair! expostulated Grosset, legally. Yes it is! countered...
...bookstores late last year, 100,000 copies were snapped up in a matter of days. The smash seller? A revised and expanded version of the Atheist's Pocket Dictionary, first issued in 1973 and put out by a state-run political publishing house called Politizdat. The 280-page paperback, though "designed for propagandists, lecturers and organizers of atheistic work," has some of the appeal of forbidden fruit; few books are ever published in the U.S.S.R. that deal with religion, even in a backhanded...