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Michael Calce, aka "Mafiaboy," who shut down major Web sites in 2000, has written a tell-all book that is due out next week.

Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist at the center of a Washington, D.C., corruption scandal, was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison.

According to the Washington Post, he told the judge he is no longer the person who "happily and arrogantly" engaged in a lifestyle of corruption.

In fact, he's now a writer.

Writers respond to the revelation that a memoir describing a woman's childhood as a half-white, half-Native-American girl on the streets of South Central Los Angeles was actually written by a white girl from an affluent suburb.

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Benazir Bhutto made the last few edits on Reconciliation, her final book, on the morning that she was assassinated.

In that book -- part political manifesto, part memoir -- Bhutto wrote that she was prepared for the worst upon her return to Pakistan from exile.

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Based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's 1997 memoir, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is an unexpectedly funny film.

It was written after a stroke leaves him almost completely paralyzed.

Cupcake Brown, author of Piece of Cake

Last February, the New York Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society announced the winners of the 2006 Books For A Better Life Awards, which honor titles and authors of motivational and self-improvement titles.

The Library owns all the titles, because we know from our own experience, there is always room for improvement!