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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited Books'Kate DiCamillo has a distinctive voice for storytelling and deals with important issues such as loneliness and rejection in a very funny and totally original way' Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from theBookseller.comAdaptations of novels by British authors make up 40% of the 20 top-grossing films worldwide since...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from theBookseller.comNewly-opened Southcart Books in Walsall is attempting to crowd fund an all “bells and...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesAs one of the regular features of the annual Yale Publishing Course, Martin Levin presents a controversial book and asks whether you would publish it or not.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesIn a survey, Codex Group reports 39% were aware of the Amazon/Hachette dispute — and 7.5% are buying less from Amazon. Are you?
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsWe Love and We Hate Reading for Pleasure (Book Riot) Reading is great, and we can talk about it in a million different contexts, but we must always pause for a moment to offer a people now don’t read like people used to read, like there’...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from bookforum.comAs people get richer, they are more likely to feel entitled, to exploit others, and to cheat
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Ereader News Today
Add to your Kindle library with this collection of 4 bargain books and 2 free books. Make sure to “LIKE” and share your favorite downloads with fellow book aficionados. Book Of The Day: Joshua’s Tree by N.W. Harris has a 4.7 star rating ... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Digital Book WorldScholastic revenues and profits both increased in 2014 and the company expects the same in 2015. In 2014, the company booked $1.82 billion in revenue, a modest increase of 2% over the previous year’s $1.79 billion result. Profits w...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostAttention ‘Fifty Shades’ fans… We have some very special guests in Studio 1A pic.twitter.com/ofnW7bIGeC Fans finally got a glimpse of the movie version of EL James’s “Fifty Shades of Grey,” starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan. The t...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Ereader News Today
Today’s Book of the Day is a Action and Adventure novel by N.W. Harris and it’s 83% off for a limited time. Joshua’s Tree has a 4.7 star rating and is on sale for only 99 cents – save $4.94! “Joshua’s Tree was not exact... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Digital Book World[Press Release] Baker & Taylor Adds Site Scoping Functionality to Axis 360 Digital Service - Enhancement allows libraries to control availability of shared content - Baker & Taylor, the premier worldwide distributor of digital an...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comThe wait is over. The "Fifty Shades of Grey" trailer debuted on the "Today" show on Thursday, and it teases just about everything fans of the book will want to see -- plus a special, exclusive version of Beyonce's "Crazy In Love ." ( Tha...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Ereader News Today
Start off with these 4 bargain books and 2 free books to enjoy. Please “LIKE” and let colleagues and friends in on your source for Kindle deals. Book Of The Day: Joshua’s Tree by N.W. Harris has a 4.7 star rating and is on sale for only ... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GalleyCatThe Weinstein Company has unveiled an official trailer for The Imitation Game . This film adaptation is based on Andrew Hodges’ biography Alan Turing: The Enigma . The video embedded above offers glimpses of star actor Benedict C...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksA thrilling adventure with a compellingly Byronic central character, this is a perfect seaside read though it might put you off going swimming Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Publishing TechnologyLast week, Amazon announced that it would be entering the book subscription service game with the launch of its Kindle Unlimited program,…
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsWatch: Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan in action
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksOur choices this year are marked by great ambition and they will continue to draw readers for much longer than the next 12 months, writes Erica Wagner Justine Jordan: A more global, less diverse list Gallery: The longlist in focus Contin...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comWhen it comes to reading, I'm a bit of a masochist. What I mean is that I love books that break my heart just a little. I'm talking about the stories that simultaneously crush your soul and renew your faith in the world. (Sappy chick-lit...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Digital Book World[Press Release] OYSTER NOW AVAILABLE ON WEB AND MOBILE WEB BROWSERS Aiming to be on any platform where people want to read, Oyster takes the next step in product expansion Oyster, the unlimited ebook subscription service, today announced...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Digital Book World
Why authors and publishers participating in Kindle Unlimited have cause to celebrate, Amazon tries to quell authors' dissent in Hachette feud, Oyster gets onto Web browsers, Apple adds 48 million new devices to the market and more. -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited Books'I initially thought that the book would be a fairytale retelling or a twist on a traditional tale however I was pleasantly surprised to read something different and unique' Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksReading as an adult, this novel's appeal is in the psychological claustrophobia, not the rather perfunctory horror Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
Author Harper Lee says she did not cooperate with a book that is now on USA TODAY's list.
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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 USATODAY - Books Top Stories
HEA contributor and best-selling romance author Donna Kauffman recaps last night's episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
It's her first time at No. 1 as the All Souls Trilogy reaches its conclusion.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksHow do you make 260 million people on 6,000 islands feel like they are all the same nation? Elizabeth Pisani takes a look at post-independence Indonesia Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from theBookseller.comReaders are hungering for more experimental fiction, according to Man Booker Prize longlisted...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe Game of Thrones author, who is holding an online auction for a wolf charity, responded to a 13-year-old's fan letter asking that Martin kill him off in his next novel Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from theBookseller.comWaterstones is set to close two shops in its estate after failing to renegotiate the leases. The...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from theBookseller.comHarperCollins imprint Fourth Estate is to bring forward its publication date for Joseph O'...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThis years Man Booker longlist sees Americans appearing for the first time amid a field of established names, including David Mitchell, Ali Smith and 2010 winner Howard Jacobson. The shortlist will be announced on 9 September and the win...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Digital Book World
Book prizes have become an increasingly key route through which to discover and champion the best writers, to elevate and highlight the brilliant above the masses of books now being published every year. That’s why over the last fe... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksBanish any summer holiday boredom with our pick of the best children's and YA book events across the country Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThis tale of a possessed killer in a town of repossessions shows that horror can be the best way to explain our unbelievable reality Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited Books'Jodie means everything to Pearl. She's her sister, her best friend, all until they start attending Melchester College' Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Marvel has discounted their Unlimited subscription program to 99 cents for your first month. Readers will have access to over 13,000 digital comics to read on their smartphone, tablet or PC. Unlimited is a Marvel exclusive and was design... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksFrom the brave and heroic Jim in Treasure Island to David Copperfield to poor Linus in The Bunker Diaries, John Boyne picks his top ten stories with a youthful protagonist Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe hype on the economy does not bear much relation to the grim realities that most people still face Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsMelissa and Jasmine Hemsley's cookbook has arguably been the most popular cookbook all year so far
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksLamentable difference exists between the witchcraft of modern romance and the witchcraft of ancient superstition Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from WLT BlogNews and Events WLT Celebrating the First 10 Years of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature featuring contributions from all six laureates and a retrospective by Kathy Neustadt A Special Section on 21st Century Indigenous Lite...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from NYT > BooksIn an upcoming storyline in “Hawkeye,” the hero has to communicate without hearing.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from ArtsBeat» BooksIn an upcoming storyline in "Hawkeye," the hero has to communicate without hearing.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from The Nook Blog
July 24, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is ATTACHMENTS – from award-winning author Rainbow Rowell comes a hilarious and heartfelt novel about love in the workplace – for just $1.99. Overview “Hi, I’m the guy who reads y... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from bookforum.comA jeremiad against the Ivy League succumbs to its own selective outrage
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
The Man Booker Prize for literature is one of the most prestigious awards in publishing and very often the winners go on to critical success. Any author can be considered, as long as their work is in English and published in the UK. Toda... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington Post
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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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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 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 GotPoetry.com News9. Terms of Endearment, by Larry McMurtry You're probably more familiar with the Academy Award-winning film that was based on the book, but McMurtry's original novel has all the same despair and pain and then some. Both the book and the ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: "Legend: A Collection of Poetry," a new book by Nikki Bowers, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. Life and human experiences cannot be explained in their entirety.Link!
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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 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 - Books RSS FeedTo be asked to pick just one book as a "book of a lifetime" is of course silly – when people only have one book (eg the Bible) a vast amount of nonsense and mayhem follows, as history and our painful present shows.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedSurely no country offers richer pickings for a cabinet of curiosities than India. The diverting assemblage in Sam Miller's A Strange Kind of Paradise: India through Foreign Eyes (Cape, £18.99) ranges from the putative appearance of St "D...
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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 FeedWhen I interviewed Helen Dunmore earlier this year about her Great war novel, The Lie, she said: "A century isn't a long time to come to terms with a cataclysm that transformed our society. We're still getting to grips with it." The impa...
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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 - Books RSS FeedThis idiosyncratic and illuminating book begins with a collection of oddballs competing to see who can hold their breath for the longest time while diving deepest. Some surface covered in blood, others unconscious, one is rushed to hospi...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedIt's strange to think of Huddersfield – so evocative of Yorkshire that you could call it onomatopoeic – as an outpost of Caribbean culture. Yet this industrial town in West Riding was a destination for post-war West Indian migrants in th...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThe series of commissioned novellas attempts in literature what hasn't yet quite worked on film: a revival of the cheap, campily elegant, cliché-subverting genre thrills associated with the Hammer brand. Writers of sober literary reputat...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThe Palestinian literary theorist Edward Said noted that western writers are able to come to terms with the east only through stereotypes. Thus was it the fate of Pakistani cricket to be defined by negative images, and its cricketers to ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThe world has just heard the latest from Edward Snowden. Holed up in a Moscow hotel room, he told The Guardian his thoughts on the security services and surveillance and his bizarre new existence in Russia. His story, it goes without say...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedSo the American’s aren’t coming, despite the column inches of worry that they would descend like a Viking horde and commandeer our prize after Man Booker opened its doors to international writers (beyond its Commonwealth scope). Well, fo...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedSo the American’s aren’t coming, despite the column inches of worry that they would descend like a Viking horde and commandeer our prize after Man Booker opened its doors to international writers (beyond its Commonwealth scope). Well, fo...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsLaced with poison oak, pines lie like pick-up sticks round the new cabin.Link!
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsThe Breaking Ground Poets are back from competing at Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival, the largest youth poetry competition in the world. Returning to the Dietrich for another stirring night of performance poetry...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsBeaumont, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/23/2014 -- While millions of Christians have an unshakable relationship with Christ, KJ White knows first-hand that this bond can always be strengthened. Having enjoyed a life of amelioration himself, White...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsA D.C. slam poetry team won first prize at an international festival last weekend. The 2014 Brave New Voices Festival, the largest youth slam poetry festival, attracted 50 teams from around the country and five international cities, and ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsOsoyoos and area writers are being urged to make submissions to a creative writing contest open to emerging writers of short fiction and poetry. Manuscripts must be printed on white paper, double- spaced, 12 points Times New Roman font, ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Powell's Books: OverviewThe Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein Reviewed by Tung from Lake Oswego, Oregon.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsCases both hot and cold force a Mississippi sheriff to confront issues from the past. For now at least, former Army Ranger Quinn Colson ( All the Broken Places, 2013, etc.) is the sheriff of Tibbehah County. Hidden behind the county’s do...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsThe sequel to Waters' dystopian Archetype (2014) is set in a world where women are in scarce supply and cloning has a creepy, but increasingly important, role in society. Emma Wade Burke has managed to escape from Declan Burke, the riche...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsSparks—both romantic and cultural—fly when Hasidic Devorah and Jaxon, the son of West Indian immigrants, meet on a hospital elevator stuck between floors during a hurricane. This chance flirtation fans a tiny flame of doubt into a wildfi...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedYou may remember last month that George R. R. Martin held an online fundraiser on behalf of a wolf sanctuary in which a donation of $20,000 got you a grisly death in his next A Song of Ice and Fire novel, Winds of Winter.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPablo Neruda’s vast and innumerable body of work is truly compelling... his prolific compositions are so rich in substance that his poetry lingers in the imagination long after it has been absorbed. A pioneering literary tour de force, N...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilSpringfield, GA – Students in Effingham County’s READ 180® classrooms made dramatic gains in reading in the 2013-14 school year, with nearly half of them advancing the equivalent of two years in reading achievement, according to data rel...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Whatever
And you are looking lovely this evening. I am in town. I have signed books for Tor to give away at its booth. I am going to get something to eat, and then I am going to go to sleep, because my brain is still in the Eastern time zone. See... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books on the Knob
Of Love and War, by Paul Doherty, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble and Google, courtesy of publisher Headline [Hachette]. Book Description In 1921, Lieutenant Henry Gilpin is scouring the country seeking out those... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Books on the Knob
Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, Google and Kobo, courtesy of publisher Open Road. At Audible, the companion audiobook is $2.99. Book Description The timeless tale of a horse named B... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Book Patrol
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Children's Book Council“As people who work with youth, we must continually examine our culture and engage with teens to break down these harmful stereotypes. One way to do this is through collection development. Whatever our personal bias, we must active...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from The Asian Review of Books Feedreviewed by Peter Gordon. Edward St. Aubyns Lost for Wordshas recently won the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction. The irony hasnt been lost on anyone, for the subject of St. Aubyns satire is the Man Booker Prize for which he was nominate...
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