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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books - chicagotribune.comA pair of hurricanes bearing down on Hawaii has grounded flights and closed tourist areas while threatening floods, landslides and blackouts during the heart of vacation season.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books - chicagotribune.comTwo people were killed when they were hit by aMetratrain on the border between Little Village and Lawndale this evening, authorities said.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books - chicagotribune.comPresident Obama, saying that he was acting to avert a threatened "genocide," announced that he had authorized air strikes against Sunni militants who have advanced quickly across northern Iraq, driving tens of thousands of refugees out o...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books - chicagotribune.comIn the spring of 1959, Alva Earley attended an NAACP picnic at a park in downstate Galesburg. The high school senior knew he wouldn't be welcomed at North Lake Storey Park, as it had been unofficially off-limits to blacks and Hispanics f...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Sony is getting out of the consumer e-reader sector and focusing their efforts on devices aimed at businesses. The first commercially viable product is the new Digital Paper (DPT-S1) which is a super advanced PDF Reader. How viable is th... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books - chicagotribune.comSEATTLE (Reuters) - The body of a child found on Thursday near a Washington state mobile home park appears to be that of a 6-year-old girl last seen on Saturday and reported missing when she failed to turn up for dinner the following nig...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books - chicagotribune.comThe 14-year-old arrested with four other teens after a USC student was beaten near campus has been charged with seven felonies in connection with a Dockweiler Beach robbery following the deadly assault, officials said.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books - chicagotribune.comA senior administrator at the University of Illinois at Chicago will step down later this month, the university announced Thursday.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Books - chicagotribune.comThree teenagers were arrested on Thursday after assaulting a Baltimore school bus driver with a fire extinguisher and trash can, then hijacking the bus for a joy ride, police and local media said.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Books - chicagotribune.comThe military completed its questioning of freed U.S. prisoner of war Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl on Thursday and a U.S. Army general must now recommend whether he should face charges over the circumstances that led to his capture by the Taliban.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Books - chicagotribune.comThroughout Team USA's minicamp in Las Vegas, coaches and executives talked about this situation being perfect for Derrick Rose's return because he wouldn't have to carry as heavy a load with so much starpower.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Daily Express :: Books FeedHELL hath no fury like a woman scorned, as Kathy Lette's hilariously boisterous feminist characters demonstrate navigating their way through the tough-as-boots world of law and order
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Daily Express :: Books FeedPASSIONATE testament to the Second World War propaganda battle which saw off a dithering Hitler in the face of strong British leader Sir Winston Churchill
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Daily Express :: Books FeedJOHN HEGLEY, 60, is a performance poet and comedian well known for his appearances at the Comedy Store and Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe books that have made it on to this year's longlist feature lives lived in exile, family sagas, the human brain and the supernatural Continue reading...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostA sad day here in Book World: Our longtime book reviewer Carolyn See is retiring. See, who celebrated her 80th birthday earlier this year, has been championing great books and wittily skewering bad ones for decades. Her first review — of...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsA widely quoted report in the New York Times details a partnership between Barnes & Noble and Google to create a same-day book delivery service utilizing Google Shopping Express. According to the report, “book buyers in Manhatt...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Adobe Digital Publishing
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comTalent runs in the Pattinson family. Robert Pattinson's 31-year-old sister Lizzy recently passed an audition for "The X Factor U.K.," which means she could end up appearing on show's 11th season. When asked about his older sister's recen...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesColleen Higgs of Modjaji Books discusses the challenges of running a independent women's press that publishes the work of southern African women writers.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostGreat myths and fantasies enable children to come to terms with their fears indirectly, battling figurative monsters, lighting imaginary darkness, conquering abandonment through confidence. The uses of enchantment are many, but surely on...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Digital Book WorldThe three-way deal that would have seen Hachette grow its U.S. revenues roughly 10% and content distributor Ingram swallow one of its main competitors has fallen apart, according to Publishers Lunch. Announced at the end of June, the blo...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comMy parents weren't athletes but they were runners. My father picked up the habit from a student of his during his late twenties -- come on Mr. C, the kid said, he was a body building enthusiast -- you gotta take care of yourself a little...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Digital Book WorldRevenues and profits increased at HarperCollins in its 2014 fiscal year, driven by nearly 20 million in unit sales of Veronica Roth’s smash hit Divergent series, which saw its first title released as a motion picture. HarperCollins...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Digital Book World
Want a book, and want it now? Your local bookstore is probably still your best bet. With some out-of-town travel lined up for this evening but no airplane reading on hand, I thought I’d try out Amazon’s new same-day delivery … -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comI like surprises. And (almost) nothing is better than a good book that takes me to an unexpected place. I recently picked up Lesbian Marriage: A Sex Survival Kit (2014) by Kim Chernin and Renate Stendhal, and then I picked up Active Duty...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comAs Congress heads into recess, we hope they use their break to improve their understanding of the issues surrounding the influx of child refugees at the border. To listen to the solutions proposed by Congress and the executive branch, yo...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Digital Reader
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsThe Bookseller reported that UK department store chain Sainsbury’s has bought out its publisher partners HarperCollins and Penguin Random House in aNobii, the book-focused social media platform originally launched by Greg Sung in H...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Nook Blog
THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY opens in theaters this weekend — check out the trailer here, in the NOOK Screening Room! Make sure to read THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY on NOOK before you see the movie! Overview Soon to be a major [ ... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > Books“The Magician’s Land,” the final volume of Lev Grossman’s trilogy for grown-ups, evokes that breathless, stay-up-all-night, thrumming excitement of reading as a child.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Books News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsBy Karen Brooks AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) - A suburban Texas teen who survived the massacre of her entire family found a sliver of joy in her mailbox, a letter of support from Professor Albus Dumbledore, the beloved icon of wisdom and magic...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from GalleyCatStephen King ‘s next book Revival comes out in November. To help reveal details about the book, he is playing a little game on Facebook called #RevealREVIVAL. Today, the new cover will slowly be revealed as squares covering the des...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Kobo CafeReading on devices may help parents stop the “summer slide” A recent study from a University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) scholar, shows that eReading on tablets may help increase both motivation and rea...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from GalleyCatThis week, TASCHEN America is hiring a public relations manager , while HarperCollins needs a website and email marketing manager . Applewood Books is seeking a content and production assistant , and Cambridge University Press is on the...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from globeandmail - Books & MediaSame-day delivery to be available in Manhattan, L.A. and San Francisco
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from GalleyCatPemberley Digital has partnered with PBS Digital Studios to adapt Mary Shelley’s beloved horror novel, Frankenstein , into a web series called “Frankenstein M.D.” According to the PBS Digital Studios press release , th...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from bookforum.comDemocracy was once a comforting fiction — has it become an uninhabitable one?
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comAs a product, myself, of the privileged British boarding school/Oxbridge education system, I know a thing or two about the stiff upper lip, the Old School ethic, and loyalty. The upside is what used to be, at least, the best education in...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from GalleyCatLast month, Texas teen Cassidy Stay witnessed her entire family die in a violent shooting. At the funeral, she quoted Harry Potter as a source of solace. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest times if one only remembers to tu...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsThe last time I wrote an article for Teleread on the whole Amazon business, my message was a simple one: if you want to compete, compete! Do a better job. Make a better website, a better store, a better product. Do a better job than Amaz...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from GalleyCatThe CW has unveiled a new trailer for The Flash TV adaptation . The video embedded above offers glimpses of actor Barry Allen portraying the speedy superhero. According to The Hollywood Reporter , this trailer features many details that ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comSinger-songwriter Tori Kelly built her fanbase with a video camera, an acoustic guitar and raw vocal talent. Never abandoning her intimate roots, the 21-year-old is premiering the video for her brand new tune "Silent" with HuffPost Enter...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from GalleyCatFor years, fans of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire series have speculated on the true parentage of the character Jon Snow . Neither Martin’s books or the Game of Thrones TV adaptation have divulged the answer to...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from theBookseller.comE-book subscription service Scribd has revealed a “reimagined way to digitally browse and...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comI write a lot about the changes happening in book publishing. I tend to cover the rise of self-publishing, new models of publishing, and the ways in which traditional publishing is consolidating and contracting, making itself inaccessibl...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comThere's a disconnect between armies and ideologies and those who bear the burden of conflicts like those raging in Israel, Gaza, Iraq, Syria and the Ukraine. This has always been true and it's true now. The German writer W.G. Sebald wrot...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsThe latest short data report from ProQuest research affiliate Bowker showed traditional print publishing holding up very nicely, thank you, in the U.S. The Bowker release stated that: “production of print books by traditional publ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from GalleyCatAmazon isn’t the only book retailer that is offering same day book delivery. Barnes & Noble has partnered with Google to support same day delivery in limited markets using Google’s Shopping Express online delivery service...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsPenguin Modern Classics edition upsets fans with its 'sexualised' cover
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BookMarketingBuzzBlogAuthors United, a recently formed group of concerned authors about the book industry-challenging practices of Amazon, is running a full-page ad in this Sunday's New York Times. Here is what it will say: http://authorsunited.net/ Show you...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedHowever much you admire the masters of uncanny or supernatural fiction, from MR James or Henry James to Sheridan Le Fanu and Walter de la Mare, you would be hard put to imagine any of them in the vicinity of Marianne Faithfull's bed. Not...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: Eve West Bessier, a writer, musician and visual artist, will be featured at Davis' Poetry Night Reading Series at 8 p.m. Thursday at the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St. in downtown Davis.Link!
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: ... He served as the N.C. Poet Laureate from 1997 until 2002. Chappell is the author of more than two dozen books of poetry, fiction and literary criticism. His work has been translated into many languages, including Finnish...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from - Books RSS Feed"The first and last thing I do every day is see what strangers are saying about me." So begins Nikesh Shukla's Meatspace (The Friday Project, £12.99). If you plan to switch off your computer and enjoy the sunshine, this is the novel for ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedMany have advocated kindness over the ages, from Aristotle to Albert Schweitzer to Charles Darwin himself. Despite recognising this, Stefan Klein endows his own pro-altruism stance with a uniqueness it doesn't have by telling us that "em...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedMadga Szabó was one of Hungary's pre-eminent novelists, suppressed during the Stalinist years, but hugely popular once the stranglehold of Socialist Realism had been relaxed in the late 1950s. Szabó is best known in translation for her 1...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedWhere are you now and what can you see?
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThe very title evokes a certain image: the typical "girl next door" in all her apple-cheeked wholesomeness. But what will the reader discover in this story? In all her golden career as a crime writer, Ruth Rendell has always produced sol...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsEven Ralph Ellison wrote Juneteenth (published posthumously) in addition to his groundbreaking hit Invisible Man. While we may remember certain authors, say, Jack Kerouac, by one major book, that doesn’t mean On the Road is the only one ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: In Frank William Talen's new book, he crafts an elegant and mystical collection of poetry .Link!
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedIn 2008, Howard Jacobson declared his aspiration to write a novel without any word containing the letter "j". It was Jacobson's jokey instruction to avoid any hint of Jewishness in his then-new novel, The Act of Love. He was serious enou...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedTruly significant poets continue to challenge their readers from book to book. Some – like W B Yeats, Czeslaw Milosz and even R S Thomas – go on to have "late great" flowerings. David Harsent may not be at the "late" stage yet, but with ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsFairfield, NJ, July 30, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Kirk Nugent is a critically acclaimed, and highly regarded poet and inspirational speaker. His unique perspective on life have deemed him “The People’s Poet,” because he challenges preconceived n...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsAmong his volumes of poetry, the finest are Manasi (1890), Sonar Tari (1894), Gitanjali (1910), and Balaka (1916) and plays such as Raja (1910), Dakghar ...Link!
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilNEW YORK, NY – Children worldwide are making this the biggest summer ever for reading and have set a new world record by logging 200 MILLION MINUTES in the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge! With six more weeks to go, these kids have &...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsIn search of her creative journey, she also published a book of poems "Poetry Out and Loud". Touted as the best-selling authors in India today, Ms. Sujata is an executive member of a Delhi-based NGO, ...Link!
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThis spring, as we were completing the summer issue of Granta, American Wild, I started reading Kent Haruf.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedA group of children from China's 56 ethnic minorities paraded in the Bird's Nest stadium at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. They were all dressed in their respective traditional garbs. The section was supposed ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BookMarketingBuzzBlogSome people are just too smart to promote themselves and their books to the news media. This doesn’t mean only dumb people are good book promoters, but it does mean that for some, ego, fear, or time constraints aside, there is a legitima...
- Siberia: A History of the People by Janet M Hartley, book review: A guided tour of the frozen wastesThursday, August 7, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedA grim waste of ice and snow dotted with unspeakable penal colonies. That's all we know about Siberia. The first surprise in Janet M Hartley's fact-packed survey of 400 years of Russia's Wild East is that Siberia is a rich country.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedWhen the film of the hit stage play Frost/Nixon came out I was fortunate enough to be invited to a charity screening at which Sir David Frost interviewed Michael Sheen, who, in the movie, plays David Frost.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThere aren't many books on Islam where the Prophet Muhammad and Martin Scorsese appear together. But Jonathan Brown's book is about recounting history, multiple interpretations and making sense of legacies; religious traditions and Holly...
- “Please don’t turn this into a teenage romance”: Lois Lowry on Hollywood’s Adaptation of ‘The Giver’Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilNYT: “‘The Giver,’ like much contemporary Y.A., has a totalitarian setting, although the society was designed to be an egalitarian utopia.”LL: “People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevo...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThere is much to admire in Alex Preston's third novel, In Love and War, the Florence-set tale of one young man's journey from lacklustre British Blackshirt to fervent Italian Resistance fighter.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThere is much to admire in Alex Preston's third novel, In Love and War, the Florence-set tale of one young man's journey from lacklustre British Blackshirt to fervent Italian Resistance fighter.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Book Portal Site
Jennifer Lee, who wrote the screenplay and co-directed the Oscar-winning Frozen, impressed Disney executives with her vision for the adaptation of the classic book. -
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from BISGBISG's ongoing research into student and faculty attitudes toward content in higher education is now available for purchase as an immediate download. For the fourth year, Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education and its comp...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsShaped pages help youngsters count to 10 and beyond. Two stylish double-page spreads are devoted to each number one through 10 and then, counting by 10s, to 100. In the first spread, the right-hand side is a page-high, die-cut numeral th...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA savvy security expert tries to deal with a ruthless gang of kidnappers while protecting a deep and damaging secret. Intently watching the activity outside the Marseilles Opera House as the Ballet National performs inside, Daniel ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsThis historical romance doubles as an adventure story about two travelers in China who fall in love, only to discover that they’re on opposite sides in a political chess game. Thomas ( The Luckiest Lady in London , 2013, etc.) returns wi...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA young French woman, determined to pursue her dreams, shows resourcefulness and endurance as she journeys from her home to America in a novel set in the late 1800s. Seventeen year-old Sara Thibault is the youngest daughter of a Loire Va...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA bookseller in Victorian London leads a sub rosa life as a sleuth. Georgia Fenchurch is a member of the Archivist Society, a secret group of investigators with varied skills and backgrounds. Having already helped crack one case ( The Va...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsFifteen short, new (save one) episodes from 32 comics artists, writers and editors are presented as demonstrations of how comics can be used for educational purposes. That agenda often weighs heavily on the entries, which are grouped und...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsThe Earth Mother commands a Paleolithic Spirit Man to solve a murder. Raven, a Spirit Man who doubts the existence of spirits, has never been sure of his worth in the role, but at his advanced age, he’s acquired enough wisdom to pu...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsBest-selling French novelist de Villiers, who died in 2013, wrote more than 200 books about suave Austrian spy Malko Linge; this is the first to be translated into English in decades. Linge, who comes from the Austrian nobility, is a fre...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsBeing 35th in line for the British throne is no guarantee of a peaceful life for an inveterate amateur sleuth. Lady Georgiana "Georgie" Rannoch has had much better luck solving mysteries than finding security. Poor as a church mouse, she...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsApparently, underemployed Philadelphia lawyer Victor Carl’s first seven cases ( A Killer’s Kiss , 2007, etc.) have left him sufficiently starry-eyed to be capable of rude disillusionment when he runs into a bruising congressional campaig...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA reporter whiles away the final days of her pregnancy juggling beaux and solving murders. Nora Blackbird ( Little Black Book of Murder , 2013, etc.) is feeling the heat on her aging Bucks County farm as she counts down the days until th...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsThe thrills continue as Jasper Dash, Boy Technonaut, goes into the deepest regions of space in search of his long-lost father. Jasper is joined by Katie Mulligan and Lily Gefelty for another absurd adventure through time and space. This ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA parade of historical characters comes under investigation when an LAPD detective and his sister try to solve a mystery about their father. Detective Tom Hickey had quite a dramatic life before he became a cop. After his father, Charlie...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA vibrant telling, amplified by striking images and photographs, of the Curiosity mission to Mars. This is a National Geographic Society endeavor, and the society has a reputation for head-turning, worldview-shaking products; this one do...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA mother and daughter take a coast-to-coast journey and get caught in the economic downturn. Thirteen-year-old Ruthie’s entire life has been a parade of shoddy homes and questionable men as her mother moves from relationship to rel...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsIn his fiction debut, della Quercia imaginatively steampunks a worldwide conspiracy confronting President William Howard Taft, a crisis that threatens the U.S. Curiously, Taft is "the single greatest underground boxing champion...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA clutch of brusque, seriocomic and sometimes forbidding tales about lust, loss and betrayal by the Slovenian author ( You Do Understand , 2010). Each of the 15 brief stories in this collection tends to be restricted to two people involv...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA pedal-to-the-metal survey of SEC football. Radio and TV sports personality Finebaum is known as the “Mouth of the South,” and for the first few pages, his local boosterism and sheer windbaggery will make readers understand why his titl...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsPretested by a crew of young assistants, these dozens of science demonstrations are both doable and worth doing. The experiments are grouped into seven categories such as “Bugs and Microbes,” “Weird Physics” and “Things Water Does.” They...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsIn this simple, inviting and sturdy lift-the-flap title, wild animals enjoy several rounds of peekaboo with readers. “Who’s that behind the rock?” Readers can pull back the rock-shaped flap to reveal “a hungry bear! Growl! Growl!” ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Book Portal SiteRowling sent a handwritten letter, written in the voice of Harry's gentle and wise Hogwarts headmaster, to Cassidy Stay, the 15-year-old sole survivor of a mass shooting that killed her family.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilAt the beginning of 2014, the Diversity Committee finished its first meeting of the year with answering the questions “How do we want to move forward?” and “What perspectives haven’t we covered on the blog just ye...
