Now you can read more stories like this one in the first ever StoryCorps book, Listening Is An Act of Love.

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What he meant was that in an age where almost nobody reads, you can be forgiven for thinking that the simple act of picking up a book is revolutionary.

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President Mwai Kibaki said: "No effort will be spared in ensuring perpetrators of the heinous act are brought to book".

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The book publishers claimed that scanning books was an act of reproduction and, as such, was something that should be paid for.

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The Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 has long been one of the most controversial pieces of legislation on the statute book.

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While researching my book, yesterday I came across a fascinating FBI report from 1970 that was declassified under the Freedom of Information Act in 2009.

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America should act as sheriff, assembling posses as needed: hence the title of Mr Haass's book.

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Criticising the content of a book that you have not, by your own admission, ever read, is a graceless and risky act.

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