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EVENTS

February 13 - Final original '' Peanuts '' Comic Strip is published

September 24 - The American Family Association begins a year-long attack on Robert Clark Young 's novel, '' One Of The Guys '', in an attempt to persuade the U.S. Congress to defund the National Endowment For The Arts

NEW BOOKS

'''' - Michael Chabon

'' The Amber Spyglass '' - Philip Pullman

'' The Bear And The Dragon '' - Tom Clancy

'' The Beatles Anthology '' - The Beatles

'' Bee Season '' - Myla Goldberg

'' Blackberry Wine '' - Joanne Harris

'' The Blind Assassin '' - Margaret Atwood

'' The Brethren '' - John Grisham

'' Code And Other Laws Of Cyberspace '' - Lawrence Lessig

'' Code To Zero '' - Ken Follett

'' Daughter Of Fortune '' - Isabel Allende

'' Deadly Decisions '' - Kathy Reichs

'' Deck The Halls '' - Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark

'' Doubleshot '' - Raymond Benson

'' Drowning Ruth '' - Christina Schwarz

'' A Friend Of The Earth '' - T. C. Boyle

'' Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire '' - J. K. Rowling

'' Hayati, My Life '' - Miriam Cooke

'' Her Infinite Variety '' - Louis Auchincloss

'' The Hiding Place '' - Trezza Azzopardi

'' The House On Hope Street '' - Danielle Steel

'' Hugger Mugger '' - Robert B. Parker

'' The Human Stain '' - Philip Roth

'' The Indwelling '' - Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

'' Ingrid Caven '' - Jean-Jacques Schuhl

'' Journey '' - Danielle Steel

'' The Last Precinct '' - Patricia Cornwell

'' Look To Windward '' - Iain M. Banks

'' The Mark '' - Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

'' The Measure Of A Man '' - Sidney Poitier

'' Morgan's Run '' - Colleen McCullough

'' Omertà '' - Mario Puzo

'' The Pagan Book Of Halloween '' - Gerina Dunwich

'' The Prayer Of Jabez '' - Bruce Wilkinson & David Kopp

'' Parallel Journeys '' - Elanor Ayer

'' Prodigal Summer '' - Barbara Kingsolver

'' The Prometheus Deception '' - Robert Ludlum

'''' - Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee

'' Roses Are Red '' - James Patterson

'''' - Charles Foster

'' True History Of The Kelly Gang '' - Peter Carey

'' The Truth '' - Terry Pratchett

'' When I Lived In Modern Times '' - Linda Grant

'' White Teeth '' - Zadie Smith

'' The Will '' - Reed Arvin

'' Winter Solstice '' - Rosamunde Pilcher

'' Winter's Heart '' - Robert Jordan

'' Your Magickal Cat '' - Gerina Dunwich

NEW DRAMA

David Auburn - '' Proof ''

Timothy Findley - '' Elizabeth Rex ''

POETRY

Grazyna Miller - '' In The Wabe Of The Breat ''

NON-FICTION

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BIRTHS

DEATHS

January 26 - A. E. Van Vogt , Science Fiction author

January 31 - Gil Kane , Comic Book writer

February 12 - Charles M. Schulz , 77, creator of the '' Peanuts '' Comic Strip

March 28 - Anthony Powell , British novelist

April 13 - Giorgio Bassani , 84, Italian writer ('' The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis '')

August 25 - Carl Barks , 99, illustrator of '' Donald Duck ''

October 30 - Steve Allen , comedian, composer, talk show host, author

November 8 - L. Sprague De Camp , 92, American sci-fi and fantasy author

AWARDS

, ''The Blind Assassin''

, ''When Genius Failed''

''Not Before Sunset'' (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi)

, ''Mercy Among the Children''

See 2000 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''A Deepness in the Sky''

, ''Wide Open''

, ''Darwin's Radio''

, ''Bud, Not Buddy''

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, ''When I Lived in Modern Times''

, ''Dans ces bras-là''

, ''Ingrid Caven''

, ''Camille''

, ''Le zoo des philosophes''

, ''Diabolus in musica''

, ''Anil's Ghost''

, ''Dinner With Friends''

, ''Interpreter of Maladies''

, ''Repair''

, ''Berlioz: Volume 2''

, ''Il mio nome a memoria'' and Sandro Veronesi , ''La forza del passato''

, ''English Passengers''