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The secret’s out: `Da Vinci’ mania fading - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK - It couldn’t last forever, right? Simmered by three years of lawsuits, religious debates and conspiracy theories, brought to a boil in May by the Hollywood movie, the craze for all things “Da Vinci Code” is finally fading, publishers and booksellers agree.

“I would definitely say it’s slowing down,” Barnes & Noble fiction buyer Sessalee Hensley says. “Once everybody got past the movie, the whole thing peaked.”

No more “Da Vinci” spinoffs. Yay!

I saw this coming two years ago when I published THE SOLOMON KEY AND BEYOND.

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All the world is a battlefield open in front of us

CNN.com - Al Qaeda: War with Israel is ‘jihad’ - Jul 27, 2006

“All the world is a battlefield open in front of us,” said the Egyptian-born al-Zawahiri, second-in-command to Osama bin Laden

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J. K. Rowling, force for good

Harry Potter and the Positive Impact

On the day that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince arrives in paperback, consumer trend-tracking company Yankelovich has released a study demonstrating the power J.K. Rowling has on children’s reading habits.

More than half of kids ages 5-17 say they did not read books for fun before the Harry Potter series came along, according to the report, which surveyed 500 children and 500 parents nationwide. Among parents, 76 percent say reading the series has helped their child perform better in school, while 65 percent of children agree.

“While the overwhelming success of Harry Potter is undeniable, this study quantifies for the first time the impact children and parents believe the series has had on helping kids to read and learn and indicated that the right book can even lure older kids to stay engaged with reading,” says Dr. Hal Quinley from Yankelovich.

The Harry Potter study found that the average age at which readers pick up Harry Potter is 9, and many older children will read and re-read the books as they get older.

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