Smerconish is the author of six books, two of them New York Times' best sellers.
And long before they ever met, they read, virtually memorized the same six books or authors, and that was central to their self-making.
In its first year, 1987, Penguin India published just six books.
In neighbouring Kazakhstan first lady Sara Nazarbayeva, according to her official biography, has for many years been overseeing several charitable projects and is the author of six books.
Originally published in the 60s and 70s, the six books concern the adventures of an elephant called Uncle and his entourage of friends who live in the seemingly infinite castle, Homeward.
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Thayil, a poet and librettist who has lived in Mumbai, Hong Kong and New York, has called his first novel - one of six books nominated for last year's Booker prize - "nightmarish".
Ten fiction works and six poetry books were announced Wednesday by Three Percent, a center for international literature that's based at the University of Rochester in New York.
That kind of thing needn't be confined to PCs: You might order a book made up of six chapters on Russian stamps from six different books, or a CD with 12 tracks you specify, or a pair of pants cut to your measurements.
In February, the foundation launched its latest educational endeavor, a brainchild of Adriana's: a series of six e-books on influential Latin American artists (quotes and selected art from e-books at right) aimed at students and art fans alike.
If you want to help a friend manage his money better, The Washington Post identified six great personal finance books.
At the other extreme, laws making it a crime to live together as an unmarried couple are still on the books in six states.
But the overwhelming majority of the Pumas squad play their club rugby in Europe, with Pichot himself one of six Argentines on the books of French giants Stade Francais.
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They pulled pages from eight different books--six in Aramaic and two in Greek--and did their best to erase the original writing.
In peddling the tenth, he scored a low six-figure advance for three books from publisher Hyperion in 2003.
So, too, is Watt's library of scientific books, written in six languages (all of which Watt could read) and representing the apex of scientific thought at the time.
They make a loan and every six months or so they check the books to see how it's doing.
The biggest break came in 2004, when TV writer Alan Ball, the creator of the HBO show "Six Feet Under, " discovered the books when he was killing time at a bookstore before a dentist appointment.
She has a reputation for reserve: for being likable but shy and thin-skinned, and not at all comfortable with the personal impact of having created a modern myth, sold four hundred and fifty million books, and inspired more than six hundred thousand pieces of Harry Potter fan fiction, a total that increases by at least a thousand stories a week.
The single mother, scraped along financially before the success of the Potter books, and has since donated a six-figure sum to a charity for single mothers.
The six squad pace bowlers currently on Hampshire's books include Chris Tremlett and Dimitri Mascarenhas, both of whom could be called up by England frequently during the summer.
Karnazes earns a healthy six-figures annually thanks to royalties from his two books, speaking engagements and sponsors like North Face, Boa (shoes) and Motorola Mobility (MotoActv sports watch).
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Macmillan is the smallest of the big-six publishers, which produce sixty per cent of all books sold in the U.S. Like its peers, Macmillan relies heavily on Amazon, which sells about fourteen per cent of its trade books and the vast majority of its e-books.
Johnny Weissmuller, though, was hardly the Tarzan of the books, described as an English lord fluent in six languages.
His rowing companion Mr Humphreys, 32, from Clapham, London, previously spent four years cycling round the world, has written two books and run the Marathon des Sables, a six-day endurance race across the Sahara desert.
Sourcebooks, a medium-sized publisher that has developed an online group focused on poetry, found that sales of its books rose by more than 50% in the six weeks after poems from them had featured on the site.
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For the big six conglomerates, this represents their future much more than e-books do.
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But there is a law on the books, black and white, that a sedan, a six-passenger-or-under, for-hire vehicle can charge based on time and distance.
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For six months, as many as 160 auditors crawled over the company's books.
While a teacher at an English state secondary recalled "six boys refusing to work, throwing glue, pens, fighting and throwing books".
For the past six years, the company has relied on a partnership with Amazon to sell books online, a practice that hasn't done much for profits or for building brand loyalty.
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