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Player One, By Douglas Coupland

Fans of Douglas Coupland know what we can expect from his novels: social misfits thrown together in apocalyptic isolation; the fetishisation of storytelling; quirky meditations on time and human life; and an ease with the language of modernity that contemporary Great North American Novelists should envy. (That's you, Jonathan Franzen.)

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BOOKS IN BRIEF

AMERICAN ASSASSIN By Vince Flynn Fans of Vince Flynn's spy novels know his CIA agent hero Mitch Rapp as a cross between Jason Bourne and James Bond, but more realistic. Now Flynn takes his readers back to Rapp's beginnings in this "prequel" to his best-selling series.[...]

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Broomstick-riding 'muggle' teams compete in 2-day Quidditch world cup tournament in NYC

NEW YORK - More than 40 broomstick-riding teams are competing in the two-day Quidditch world cup tournament in New York City. Long a fictional fixture of the Harry Potter novels and movies about teenage wizards, the sport features players who fly on broomsticks.

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