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Newsday article which asks "Will teens still be wild about Harry?"

as intense as it was for the last one, perhaps because the release date is still three weeks away.

"I'm just not feeling the urgency," Uhl said. "The anticipation is there but it's not with the older readers as much as it is with the younger readers." Still, the 200 people who signed up for her midnight Harry Potter party is about the same as for the last book release.

At Once Upon a Story in Long Beach, Calif., about 100 people have pre-ordered the new book, about half of whom will pick it up at midnight -- again similar to the last book, said store owner Julee Morris.

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Unfortunate #12

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Lemony Snicket completes next Unfortunate Events novel

It has just been discovered that Lemony Snicket has completed Book the Twelfth in A Series of Unfortunate Events, the depressing and mysterious chronicles of three unlucky orphans who are plagued by villainy, conspiracy, and itchy clothing. The book is currently scheduled to go on sale Tuesday, October 18, 2005, with an initial 2.5 million print run, and reports suggest that this will be Mr. Snicket's most dreadful volume yet. It's so terrible that the author himself refuses to reveal the book's title, fearing that it will cause panic, chaos, or both. In fact, executives at HarperCollins Children's Books, which is publishing the book, have been instructed to refer to it only by its ISBN number, 0-06-441015-3... ...

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