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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Digital Book World
Amazon's latest financial figures halfway through a busy year, Amazon helps authors set prices, Scholastic sees growth and expects more, 90% of American libraries now lending ebooks, John Ingram invests in Mediander and much more. - This Week in Publishing: New Yorker’s Web Redesign, Continuous Scroll, Digital ‘Magazines’, and MoreFriday, July 25, 2014 from Technology for Publishing LLC » Blog
The New Yorker‘s Web Redesign, Continuous Scroll, Digital ‘Magazines’, Subscription Ebook Model, InDesign Tip: 7 Tips to Make Your InDesign Workspace Work for You, DPS Tip: App Builder Advanced Options as of v31, TFP’s ... -
Friday, July 25, 2014 from theBookseller.comTor UK’s Julie Crisp has pre-empted World English Language rights for a new novel called...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from theBookseller.comBloomsbury Publishing has acquired Irish writer Rob Doyle’s debut novel Here Are the Young...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from theBookseller.comOneworld has signed two non-fiction titles for publication next year and 2016. Senior...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from theBookseller.comCoronet, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton is to publish the autobiography of medium Gordon...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from theBookseller.comLegend Press has acquired world rights in a new novel from crime writer Jane Isaac, titled Before...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from FutureBook blogsJoin us today, 25th July, when our #FutureChat with The Bookseller's FutureBook community will focus on subscriptions and their place in publishing. We'll be live on Twitter at 4 p.m. London time, 11 a.m. New York time, 8 a.m. Los Angele...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Fifty Shades of Grey has crossed an important milestone recently, when it recorded its 100 millionth book sale back in February. Random House originally picked up the book and published it in 2011 to massive popularity. 50 Shades made so... -
Friday, July 25, 2014 from NYT > Books“Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943” is an anthology of memoirs, poetry, political commentary and newspaper excerpts. “Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison During the Vietnam War” gives a backstage tour o...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from The Nook Blog
July 25, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is HOW TO LOVE – a breathtaking debut about a couple who falls in love… twice – for just $1.99. Overview Before: Reena Montero has loved Sawyer LeGrande for as long as she ... -
Friday, July 25, 2014 from The Nook Blog
FREE FRIDAY BOOK July 25, 2014: Today’s Free Fridays book selection is A PEDIGREE TO DIE FOR — a must-read for dog fanciers and others alike — when a likable heroine encounters an unexpected mystery, she immerses herself into... -
Friday, July 25, 2014 from NYT > BooksMr. Smith’s many adventures included a late-life, 66-day odyssey across the Atlantic on a raft.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from NYT > BooksMs. Lowry, whose novel “The Giver” helped spawn the young adult science fiction genre, says seeing the film version opened her eyes to things left unsaid in the book.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comThe best comic novel I've read this year wasn't published by Random House or Penguin. It was self-published by Philadelphia writer Stacia Friedman. The title? "Tender is the Brisket ." Does the book live up to the comic promise of that t...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Books News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsBy David DeKok HARRISBURG Pa. (Reuters) - The son of Joe Paterno, the legendary Penn State football coach and boss of convicted child sex abuser Jerry Sandusky, said in a new book that he was propositioned by a pedophile - possibly a uni...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Motion comic pioneer Madefire has just released their digital comic book reader and store on Android. The company offers a slew of free content from DC, IDW, Dark Horse, Valiant, Oni Press, Top Cow, Liquid Comics and popular properties s... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Daily Express :: Books FeedTHE story of Jona von Ustinov - Peter Ustinov's father - jumps from Nazi Germany, to wartime London and Cold War Eastern Europe will fascinate anyone with half an interest in the Second World War and top secret intelligence
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Daily Express :: Books FeedA BOY with failing eyesight is an unlikely hero for exposing his grandmother's cruel care home in this moving novel - just don't start reading without a box of tissues nearby
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Daily Express :: Books FeedHALF-TRUTHS are spun by three intertwined characters to lull each other into a false sense of security amid the chaos of the First World War
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Daily Express :: Books FeedANNE ARCHER, 66, is best known for the films Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games and Short Cuts.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comChristian Grey -- eh, yeah he's easy on the eyes. But we're in such a deep, all-consuming love affair with our charming furry companions below that we hardly noticed that the "Fifty Shades of Grey" trailer dropped Thursday. We give you o...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsBy Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday expressed concern over a proposed $450 million settlement of claims Apple Inc conspired with five publishers to fix e-book prices, saying its provisions could drastically redu...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from The Digital Reader
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from The Digital Reader
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comIn his early twenties, a young man from Switzerland arrives on the Greek Aegean island of Sifnos one May, trying, at once, to discover the colors of nature and, at the same time, his own personal colors. Christian Brechneff, a painter st...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comWhen children at a New York City hospital looked out of their windows Wednesday morning, they were met with a super-sized surprise: There, suspended in mid-air, were Batman, Spider-Man and other beloved superheroes just waiting to say he...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostTime-tripping witch and scholar Diana Bishop returns in “ The Book of Life ,” the final installment of Deborah Harkness’s bestselling All Souls trilogy. When last encountered in “Shadow of Night,” Diana and her husband, aristo vampire ge...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Digital Book WorldSee bolded area in the release below. [Press Release] Libraries Support Digital Readiness with Tech Training, STEM Programs, More Robust Online Collections Leading Role Recognized in Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Nearly 100 pe...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostBy now, the story of British double-agent Harold “Kim” Philby may be the most familiar spy yarn ever, fodder for whole libraries of histories, personal memoirs and novels. But Ben Macintyre manages to retell it in a way that makes Philby...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
With a fairly significant US election looming on the horizon, candidates are already working the public for both electoral and financial support. And with the support of the Federal Election Commission, a whole new form of political cont... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from NYT > Books“Big Little Lies” by Liane Moriarty is full of women with ethical and emotional issues, men with possibly criminal ones, and high drama at a school, including a murder.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Digital Book WorldAmazon continues to grow at a fast clip. Revenues at the nation’s largest bookseller increased 23% in its second quarter to $19.34 billion. At the same time, losses increased to $126 million; the company lost $7 million in the seco...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsI have spent the last week being simply exhausted by the Amazon stuff showing up in my news feed. Every blog, every writer, every author’s group or reader’s group or publisher’s group has an opinion on the latest Amazon...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from globeandmail - Books & MediaComic-book hero Thor’s shift from a man to a woman is driven more by commerce than ideology
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
Teen love story was No. 1on USA TODAY's list for 11 straight weeks.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comThe "Fifty Shades of Grey" trailer officially dropped on Thursday and it has already caused quite a lot of chatter . And if there was ever a reaction to sum up all reactions, it's this one right here: var src_url="https://spshared.5min.c...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GalleyCatAs part of his battle with Amazon, Stephen Colbert has been promoting the book California by first time novelist Edan Lepucki . His goal was to help Lepucki land on The New York Times bestsellers list – a rare occurrence for a...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comTwenty seven publishers in the U.S. and U.K. turned down my novel. The vast majority of rejections my literary agent received were surprisingly positive, but were knock-backs all the same. Most liked -- even loved -- my novel. As one pub...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from bookforum.comYes, men, you can be feminists
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comBetween the stress of school work, the social scene, extracurricular activities and other obligations, I oftentimes feel like I don’t have much time to sit down and read anything other than a textbook during the school year. For me, one ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
He's launching 'Third Man Books' with a star-studded anthology.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comAmazon last week unveiled Kindle Unlimited, following in the footsteps of ebook subscription services Oyster and Scribd. When I first heard of Kindle Unlimited, it sounded like a great opportunity for authors to reach readers. After read...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from The Digital Reader
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GalleyCatWhite Stripes frontman Jack White has launched a book publishing company called Third Man Books. The imprint launches with a poetry collection entitled Language Lessons , co-edited by Chet Weise and Ben Swank of Third Man Records, White...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comNow that we've all seen the "50 Shades Of Grey" trailer, it's time to share our feelings, in GIF form. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36....
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Adobe Digital Publishing
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from The Digital Reader
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GalleyCatScholastic’s total revenues for fiscal 2014 reached $1.82 billion, representing a 2 percent increase from $1.79 billion in 2013. The company also revealed that its fourth quarter revenues for the year were $549.3 million, up 8 perc...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books - chicagotribune.comMidwestern natives among four of five Americans longlisted for literary award Lost in Wednesday's news about the first global Man Booker Prize longlist was that among the five Americans who made it on the longlist of finalists, four are ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of Books
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of BooksThe subtitle of Nikil Saval’s book is curiously inapt. Cubed is not a ‘secret history of the workplace’, but the not (entirely) secret history of a very particular kind of workplace. The main title is intended to pull that particular wor...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of BooksBy the time he was elected to the Académie française in 2004, Alain Robbe-Grillet had suffered a cruel fate: he had all the renown he could have hoped for but few readers to show for it. The literary movement he’d launched half a century...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of BooksWhat happens when you set out to look the present in the eye but can’t quite bear the thought? Much of David Marquand’s powerful essay about ‘Britain, now’ is an elegy for a lost past, unsullied by ‘masterless capitalism’, a sad story of...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of BooksI have worked in an atomic weapons depot, a Veterans’ psychiatric hospital and a perfectly awful mental hospital for juveniles, and in all of these places I did what I was told to do, and gave my notice when I had had it with the life th...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of Books
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of Books
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of BooksThe letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 36 No 15 (31 July 2014)
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of BooksTable of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 36 No 15 (31 July 2014)
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilThis project marks Stine’s debut as a picture book author. Liza Baker, an executive editorial director at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, managed the acquisitions process and obtained world rights. The children’s publi...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilNEW YORK, NY — NCAC’s Kids’ Right to Read Project and other organizations concerned about free speech and education have enlisted the aid of noted children’s literature expert Pat Scales to refute the justification offe...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilShare your favorite things that YA readers say by tweeting @this_is_teen using #IreadYA.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Book Portal Site
The bestselling fantasy author recently received a touching letter from a young fan who wanted to donate his "pocket money" to Martin's wolf sanctuary online fundraising project. -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThe first thing that Hu Gang taught me about bribing a judge was the importance of food. "Everyone says no to the first invitation," he explained. "After three or four invitations, any man agrees – and once you eat together, you're on th...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from The New York Review of BooksVladimir Sorokin Russia is pregnant with Ukraine. Birth is inevitable. There is more to come: the intensifying labor pains, the tearing of the umbilical cord, the newborn’s first cries… The infant’s name will be beautiful: Farewell to Em...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Book Portal Site
Chris Ryall, IDW Publishing's editor-in-chief, described the show as a "perfect premise for comics." -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BISGThe Annual Meeting of Members , BISG's most popular event, will take place on September 19, 2014 at The Eisner & Lubin Auditorium in The Kimmel Center at NYU, 60 Washington Square S in New York City from 8:30 A.M.-2:00 P.M. Registrat...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsFor many years he has written a weekly music column for the Argus. As a freelance he has also been reviewing jazz and poetry, as well as contributing to a range of literary journals.. Link!
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from The New York Review of BooksDaniel Mendelsohn Compared to John Williams’s earlier novels, Augustus —the last work to be published by the author, poet, and professor whose once-neglected Stoner has become an international literary sensation in recent years—can seem ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: This free festival intends to create branches between disparate poetry communities, and other artists and artisans, by bringing poetry out of the dark bars and universities and by placing it in the sun.Link!
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: Wilks Library: Book club meets every third Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m.; Will host a monthly writers' group on the first Thursday of every month from 6-7 p.m. All writers welcome, no matter their experience.Link!
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by Michael Robins for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.Link!
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Book Portal Site
Patricia Lockwood's poem "Rape Joke" generated a massive online response last year. Now, Lockwood is attracting critical praise with her latest collection, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals. -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsDefinitions of Love: Practical Tips for Demonstrating Love as Family, Professionals, and Members of Society, by author Althea L. McMillan. Link!
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: Now in its 12th year, the international Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest will award $1,000 for a poem in any style and $1,000 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style.Link!
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsIn each issue of Writer’s Digest magazine, we ask one reader to step into the role of the unconvinced, perhaps even curmudgeonly or fool-hearted editor. What harsh rejection letters might the authors of some of our favorite hit books hav...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from RT Book Reviews - RT Daily BlogSince it's Throwback Thursday, we decided to ask veteran romance author Jane Feather — whose latest, Trapped at the Altar , released this week — how she became enraptured by romance, specifically the timeless historicals that helped shap...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsCapital Fringe Festival The huge annual performing arts festival continues through Sunday. Highlights include “Mandarin Orange,” Kate Robards’s one-woman comedy about her travels to Shanghai (Thursday at 6 p.m., Saturday at 10 p.m. Caos ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from The New York Review of BooksMichael Kinsley, reply by Sue Halpern The question here is not whether the government, in the name of national security, should have absolute veto power over revelation of any government secret. The question is whether the government has...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from The New York Review of BooksBarney Frank To the Editors : Readers of John Cassidy’s review of Elizabeth Warren’s book [ NYR , May 22] may be puzzled by how she succeeded in winning congressional approval of an independent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from The New York Review of BooksBurton Caine, reply by Cass R. Sunstein To the Editors : Cass Sunstein’s review of Justice John Paul Stevens’s Six Amendments: Why We Should Change the Constitution omits what I believe is the greatest danger of amending our charter of l...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from The New York Review of BooksNikil Saval, reply by Martin Filler To the Editors : I am exceedingly grateful to Martin Filler for his long, serious, and respectful treatment of my book, Cubed . He alleges a few misinterpretations of architectural history and errors o...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsAs of July 18, we’re at 149 nominations and counting, and the list is as complex and interesting as ever. This year’s list, responding to the selection category “A Book That Changed My Life,” is particularly wide-ranging. Here are a few ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsThe quintessential New Zealand character comes to the fore in the finalists for the New Zealand Post Book Awards 2014, announced today. Selected from 150 entries, the judges say the finalist books capture the essence of the country’s psy...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsThe Wilton Public Library has lots of fun in store today with two special programs: Summer Poetry with Judson Scruton Thursday, July 24 & 31, 10:30 - noon Judson Scruton leads this 4-part Summer Poetry Series exploring Pulitzer Prize and...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Flavorwire » Books
I didn’t reread Nora Ephron’s only novel, Heartburn , last summer when my fiancé broke off our engagement, leaving me to move out of his Brooklyn apartment and onto a friend’s couch on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I did, however, wa... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books on the Knob
The Kindle Deals of the Day for those in the UK: The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking (£0.99 UK; $8.89 US; $3.99 companion audiobook) by Oliver Burkeman [Canongate Books]; An Amazon Best Books of the... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from RT Book Reviews - RT Daily BlogWhile most of the time we wish our life could be like a book, we often watch a movie and think, "Gee, I wish my life was like that ." In Kelly Fiore's latest book, Just Like the Movies , two girls set out to bring a little movie m...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsIn his new book, A Thousand Laurie Lees, Adam Horovitz, explores not only how the Slad Valley informed the man and his writing but also how the valley itself was affected by its association with such an international figure; and how it h...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsFor Charlene Thomas, practicing what she preaches is an essential part of her life. Especially because some of those practices are helping others, thanks to her first published book, Achieving Personal Power and Inner Calm.. Link!
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: Following the success of his first collection of verse, You Are Not Alone: Poems of Hope and Faith , author Lon Cole is preparing to launch Alive and Thankful , his second volume of inspirational poetry, aimed at bringing ho...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsThird Man Books' first commercially available release will be Language Lessons: Volume I, which comprises a 321-page book of poetry and prose as well as two vinyl LPs of "jazz, psychdelic-punk, poetry, blues and pop" and five "frameable"...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedMy parents, who lived through the blitz, used to divide the nations of Europe into two categories – those who had fought "a good war" and those who had not. In the first camp were the Russians, Greeks, the Yugoslavs and ourselves. Headin...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedWhere are you now and what can you see?
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedJean Guéhenno's diary, now published for the first time in English, helps explain why even the most principled Parisians were often completely passive in the face of evil.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from RT Book Reviews - RT Daily BlogWhat do you do when the growing number of new reads causes your wallet to shrink uncomfortably? Shop the e-book deals, of course! In this column we highlight some of our favorite book buys that will cost you less than a medium-sized coff...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedBritish readers who loved TV scriptwriter Maria Semple's feted title, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, will be pleased to hear that her debut novel, This One is Mine is being published in the UK for the first time.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BookMarketingBuzzBlogLet me just state up front that I love America and wouldn’t live anywhere else but, I also believe there’s room for a blend of socialism and capitalism to exist in a democratic society, and when it comes to how books are sold or treated,...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Cuddlebuggery Book Blog
Boomerang is a distinctly familiar book. It’s like fanfiction and manga made a baby. It’s got that same kind of delicious story setup, constantly sprinkling of sexual tension as if it were a serial trying to keep the crowd co... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from RT Book Reviews - RT Daily BlogThe wait is over, folks! This morning, Universal Pictures released the first trailer for the hotly anticipated movie adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey , E.L. James 's debut novel that took the world by storm. Watch the trailer below: Wi...
