Slappy, evil lawn gnomes, and the Fever Swamp Werewolf aren’t just spooky stories — they’re all too real.
The first trailer for the film adaptation of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series debuted Wednesday.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015
How Well Do You Remember "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire"?
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The fourth Harry Potter book is turning 15 years old!
This Quiz Is The Closest You'll Get To Putting On The Sorting Hat
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Didn’t get your Hogwarts letter? Here’s your chance to get sorted!
So by now, you've probably realized the inevitable: You've never received your Hogwarts letter, and you'll never ACTUALLY know which house you'd be sorted into.
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Lucky for you, we're bring the Sorting Hat to YOU so you can finally figure if you're a Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, or Hufflepuff.
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So, without further ado:
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Here's A Look Inside This Awesome New Book Of Literary Maps
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Plotted: A Literary Atlas by Andrew DeGraff goes on sale in October.
Andrew DeGraff, a New York-based illustrator, has created a book of literary maps that any book addict will love, titled Plotted: A Literary Atlas.
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The book includes original illustrations based on a number of familiar texts that are all near and dear to our hearts.
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Around the World in 80 Days
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Ben Carson Has Sold More Copies Of His Book Than Every Other 2016 Republican Combined — By A Lot
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A rare mega-hit in the presidential candidate lit genre.
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The Iowa caucuses are still months away, but one presidential hopeful has already pulled far ahead in the 2016 conservative book sales primary: Dr. Ben Carson.
Carson's book, One Nation: What We Can All Do To Save America's Future, has sold a whopping 362,813 hardcover copies to date, according to Nielsen BookScan, a service that tracks most bookstore sales.
To compare: If you take the combined hardcover sales of every other book written by a current Republican presidential contender since 2010 and add them together, you only get 252,177.
Carson's dominance as an author has not necessarily translated to frontrunner status in the GOP presidential primaries, where he generally polls among the top cluster of candidates — at around 10% — but has not pulled away from the pack.
The book's success does, however, illustrate how Carson's specialized brand of charisma, emphasis on personal biography, and proud defiance of political correctness appeals to the book-buying masses of the Republican base.
It also comes at a moment when the conservative publishing industry has grown so large, and competitive, that many on the right fear it's unsustainable. BuzzFeed News explored this phenomenon last year, in part, by examining the quadrennial rush to put out campaign manifestos by prospective presidential candidates. Publishing sources described bidding wars among the proliferation of conservative imprints, which have led to soaring advances that couldn't be economically justified. Often, campaigns and political action committees end up spending thousands of dollars to inflate the books' sales numbers.
So far, Carson's book is shaping up to be a rare runaway bestseller in the sub-genre of candidate lit.
From BookScan, here are the total hardcover sales for each book released since 2010 by one of the current Republican presidential contenders:
American Dreams, by Marco Rubio: 7,807 hardcover copies sold
Unintimidated, by Scott Walker: 19,096
Taking a Stand, by Rand Paul: 7,795
Rising to the Challenge, by Carly Fiorina: 2,620
Immigration Wars, by Jeb Bush: 4,905
God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy, by Mike Huckabee: 65,939
Leadership and Crisis, by Bobby Jindal: 20,080
Midas Touch, by Donald Trump: 21,424
Fed Up!, by Rick Perry: 27,264
An American Son, by Marco Rubio: 36,786
Bella's Gift, by Rick Santorum: 6,112
American Patriots, by Rick Santorum: 6,831
Government Bullies, by Rand Paul: 10,818
The Tea Party Goes To Washington, by Rand Paul: 10,778
Blue Collar Conservatives, by Rick Santorum: 3,919
TOTAL: 252,177
One Nation, by Ben Carson: 362,813
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