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  • A turquoise ring that once belonged to Jane Austen<\/a> is on the block at Sotheby\u2019s, accompanied by a note from Eleanor Austen to her daughter. <\/li>\n
  • Bookstores with caf\u00e9s sell more<\/a> reading material, figures suggest. <\/li>\n
  • Two more New York City bookstores, Washington Heights\u2019s Word Up<\/a> and\u00a0Harlem\u2019s Hue-Man<\/a>, face closure. (The latter will continue as an online store.)<\/li>\n
  • Poet Simon Armitage<\/a> crossed the Pennine Way as a modern troubadour, exchanging only verse for food and shelter. <\/li>\n
  • A new edition of \u00a0A Farewell to Arms <\/em>will contain Hemingway\u2019s thirty-plus alternate endings<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • Celebrating Pie Week<\/a>. <\/li>\n

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    A turquoise ring that once belonged to Jane Austen is on the block at Sotheby\u2019s, accompanied by a note from Eleanor Austen to her daughter. Bookstores with caf\u00e9s sell more reading material, figures suggest. Two more New York City bookstores, Washington Heights\u2019s Word Up and\u00a0Harlem\u2019s Hue-Man, face closure. 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