- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from BOOK RIOTLet’s take a look back at this week’s most popular posts, here on Book Riot: We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, and much, much more- there are book ̷...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Book News & FeaturesActor Jon Cryer's new memoir details his life in show business, including, of course, co-star Charlie Sheen's meltdown. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says Cryer's a smart guy who's often been overlooked.
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from The Asian Review of Books Feedreviewed by Mani Rao. Tammy Ho Lai-MingsHula Hoopingis a collection of lyrical and reflective poems that mainly come from a Hong Kong life and imagination.Along with Ho, the reader takes a ride on Hong Kong buses, visits parks, and gains...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedYou can tell a lot about a country by how it censors its writers. That Ma Jian's book about the Tiananmen Square massacre, Beijing Coma, was banned, is perhaps no surprise. But a novel about Mao's Great Leap Forward – surely this is some...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedAilment: Being a teetotaller
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Haaretz.com BooksIt took a few decades, but local publishers have now realized that there are profits in comics.
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedParmjit Dhanda was one of the young New Labour stars of the 2001 intake, and was later a minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Then he lost his seat, Gloucester, in 2010. His parliamentary career reflects Labour’s fortunes – succes...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Dear AuthorSecond time’s the charm! Nothing about working with his former high school crush, Stephanie Stephens, is ideal. Still, if Aaron Caruthers intends to save his grandmother’s bakery, he must. Good thing he has a lot of ideas he ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Books on the KnobThis week’s Free Friday Book from Barnes & Noble, A Good Debutante’s Guide to Ruin, the first novel in The Debutante Files series by Sophie Jordan, is also free in the Kindle store, courtesy of publisher Avon [HarperColl...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from BOOK RIOTThis weekend giveaway is sponsored by Holding Strong by Lori Foster. An up-and-coming MMA fighter wants more than just one night from a woman fleeing her past in New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster’s irresistible new nove...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from BookMarketingBuzzBlogThis is my 1,500 th blog post. Actually, it's a few past that. I write and post at such a prolific pace that I can't keep up with myself. If I were to guess, I believe I have published three-quarter million words. If e...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksMarcia Angell America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System by Steven Brill Steven Brill has achieved the seemingly impossible—written an exciting book about the American health...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsA New Yorker editor since 1978, Norris provides an educational, entertaining narrative about grammar, spelling and punctuation. The author devotes chapters to commas (who knew a printer more or less invented comma usage in 14...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Books on the KnobShades of Milk and Honey ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), the first novel in the excellent Glamourist Histories series by Mary Robinette Kowal [Tor Books / Macmillan], is today’s Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. The final volume ...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from BOOK RIOTToday’s Deal Me Before You by Jojo Moyes for $2.99. Get it here or click cover image below. Recent Book Riot Deals that are still valid: The Gathering by Anne Enright for $1.99. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculia...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Dear AuthorJava is a delicious coffee. But I am not writing about this kind of Java. Disclosure: Those are organic espresso beans. Because I didn’t want to go out in search of actual Java coffee beans. Sorry. Call it a Java... more Read...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Books on the KnobToday on Amazon’s Gold Box, save 40% on Merrell shoes for women and men. Find styles for everyday wear and workouts, including women’s walking shoes, trail-runners, casual flats, and sporty mary janes, plus trail-running picks for ...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from dovegreyreader scribblesWishing everyone a happy and peaceful Easter, and sharing the glorious sunset we enjoyed yesterday evening... ...and what a lovely garden surprise .. The Crown Imperials have flowered in time for today, on what would have been the Tinker...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Kirkus Reviews“Leonardo is dead, Antonello is dead, and I’m not feeling too well myself.” Thus we read in French experimentalist Perec’s long-forgotten, rejected debut, now rescued from the dustbin of literary history. One sympathizes with the Gallima...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors Tweets@BradThor @scrowder According to Sharia Law, wouldn't the heads be removed?
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedFor a moment I think I’ve got the wrong day. I’m standing outside what I hope is Clive James’s neat Cambridge house but there’s no response from bell or knock – that is, until a bandaged head emerges from an upper window and calls cheeri...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from OmnivoraciousCasual Avengers fans will be forgiven for picking up the new original graphic novel, Avengers: Rage of Ultron, and scratching their heads. While the title is strategically similar to the blockbuster film set to release this May...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsAre you following @ZooCBS yet? Stay tuned for some exciting updates.
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedFor publishers, timing is crucial; if they’re lucky they can catch the zeitgeist, or refashion a long-dead genre.
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedI always preferred the ancients At university, I studied Ancient Political Thought. I spent a lot of time with Plato, and I wish I'd spent more time with Aristotle. My dissertation was on Plutarch. I guess it was a very hermetic, scholas...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedEvery revolution writes history afresh and, in Ireland’s case, following independence in 1922, the memory of the Irish Catholics who fought for Britain was speedily effaced. It jarred with the received narrative: good Irishmen fought aga...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Books on the KnobSuper Angry Birds #1, by Jeff Parker, is free from Comixology today. Book Description It’s everyone’s favorite furious fowl as you’ve never seen them before! New Yolk City is your typical bustling metropolis and like ev...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from BOOK RIOTWe love to geek out with stats, and what could be better than using them to see which books Book Riot readers were most interested in? Below are the five most-purchased titles from the previous month. 1. The Princess in Black … Con...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Children's Book CouncilNEW YORK, NY – Scholastic Reading Club and 1-800-Flowers.com are joining together for a special spring campaign to say “thank you” to teachers and school administrative professionals nationwide. In celebration of Administrative Professio...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedIn the life of Virginia Woolf – and her friends, lovers and rivals – Norah Vincent has rich, if frequently plundered, source material. Bloomsbury’s tangled, talented lives provoke as much interest as their art, and this is at least the t...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Books on the KnobToday’s Featured New Release is as Anyone Seen My Pants? ($11.99 Kindle), by Sarah Colonna [Gallery Books / Simon and Schuster]. I don’t know what playlist the author used when writing it, but I’d suggest today’s ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors Tweetstalk to most Scottish police officers in private and you'll get similar http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/control-freak-police-scotland-chief-5454009 … The Strathclydification has been disastrous.
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Books on the KnobThe Ophelia Cut ($1.99 Kindle, Kobo), the fourteenth novel in the Dismas Hardy series by John Lescroart [Atria Books / Simon and Schuster], is the Kobo Daily Deal, price matched on Kindle. Book Description WHEN A BRUTAL RAPIST IS MURDERE...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedThere are still some in the small Dorset village of Moreton who wish their row about Judas Iscariot had remained a purely local matter. But the refusal, 30 years ago, of a gift to their parish church of a window that depicted the notorio...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Books on the KnobToday’s Audible Daily Deal is Talon ($8.89 Kindle, $24.47 $3.95 Audible), by Julie Kagawa (author of the Iron Fey and Blood of Eden series), narrated by Caitlin Davies, MacLeod Andrews and Chris Patton [Blackstone Audiobooks]. The ...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from BOOK RIOTToday’s Deal The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian for $1.99. Get it here (or click cover image below) Recent Book Riot Deals that are still valid: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs for $3.9...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Books on the KnobSnake Simulator ($0.99 Amazon – 50% off), by Gluten Free Games, is this week’s Free Friday App from Barnes & Noble. App Description Enter a tropical rainforest and live the life of a poisonous Snake! Explore a lush jungl...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Books on the KnobToday’s Featured New Release is Normal: A Novel ($11.04 Kindle), by Graeme Cameron [MIRA]. Book Description “The truth is I hurt people. It’s what I do. It’s all I do. It’s all I’ve ever done.” H...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from BOOK RIOTDid you know we have our very own YouTube (or BookTube, as they say) channel? Watch this week’s videos below, and don’t forget to head on over and subscribe! This video is sponsored by The Tightrope Walkers. 3 Backlist Books You Should &...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from BOOK RIOTWith over 25,000 registered Little Free Libraries in all fifty United States and seventy countries throughout the world, Little Libraries are taking over the world. And why not? They are a book lover’s dream. You can take a book. Y...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsProbably smart to take shelter if you are in Marrowbone, Joelton, and along 24 near Skyline Village. Winds very intense there.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsA detective's essentials. #BoschAmazon pic.twitter.com/jlxbDCL6Zl
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from The Asian Review of Books FeedBy Pankaj Mishra, Peter Gordon, Jennifer Pan, Karan Mahajan et al. in The New Yorker, Guardian, National, BBC, etc.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from BOOK RIOTNothing cures a case of the Mondays like a big, beautiful giveaway! Here’s your chance to win 10 great titles from the bounty of Riot book mail. Complete the form below to enter by 11:59pm Eastern, Sunday, April 12th. This giveaway...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsPrince Oliver’s YouTube channel is LIVE! Subscribe & be the first to see him OFF THE PAGE: http://bit.ly/1GagE78 #OffthePage #PrinceOliver
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsA girl raised to be a weapon by her brutal mother must decide whether she’s willing to ruin a boy’s life for the sake of revenge. For most teenagers, the first day at a prestigious boarding school in England would be fraught with nervous...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Top Thriller & Suspense Authors TweetsWishing everyone who celebrates, a very happy Passover.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from BISGAccurate and robust metadata boosts discoverability and efficiency, especially when all trading partners use standard formats and data elements. But rapid technological changes, while enabling rich new forms of content that can be distri...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Candace's Book BlogHappy weekend everyone! Welcome to Saturday Situation! If this is your first time stopping by here’s all the details for you: Saturday Situation is hosted by both Lori at Pure Imagination and myself. It’s a linky for you to link your boo...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from The eBook Reader BlogAn online retail website in New Zealand called Mighty Ape has revealed details about Kobo’s newest ebook reader ahead of any official word from Kobo about its release. The new device is called the Kobo Glo HD. It has a 300 ppi E In...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsLife for a clergyman's family in the 1970s was busy, unpredictable and comical
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from The Digital ReaderThere are many fringe benefits to being a blogger, including free stuff, working in my bathrobe, admission to press conferences, etc. Lately I've come to notice one of the lesser known fringe benefits, namely extra special customer servi...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Ereader News TodayHere’s a collection of 4 bargain books and 2 free books for you to check out. You can read Kindle books wherever you are and on any device with the Free Kindle App – you don’t even have to own a Kindle to use the app! BARGAIN...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsJeremy Warner explores HSBC's rise from an outpost of empire to a global leviathan
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsA new book reveals the little-known histories of Britain's public school rebellions, from gunpowder plots to masters held at sword-point
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comFor years, the radical anti-gay movement has made a paranoid case that "the gay agenda" was an actual book published in 1990. That book was called After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90s . It outli...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsThe Booker Prize-winning author says he was 'only fooling around' when he reviewed books on a public forum he believed was private
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Publishing PerspectivesFor Sara Lloyd of Pan Macmillan, book marketing in 2015 is all about mobile, millennials, and the interplay of real and virtual worlds. — a topic she'll address at the LBF's Digital Minds conference next Monday. The post New Trends in Bo...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe horse-obsessed author of The One Dollar Horse trilogy took a 1,800 mile journey across the American West to research her new novel The Glory , the story of an epic endurance horse race and a teenage girl and boy desperate to win it. ...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsCatherine Taylor admires a sensory novel that imagines the reintroduction of wolves to the English countryside
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'I give this book five stars out of five, mainly for the humour and teenage sarcasm of the heroine' Continue reading...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsThe must-read novels, memoirs and history books released in 2015 so far. Updated weekly
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksRachel Cooke reviews the life and career of the singular English poet and novelist, whose first book, Novel on Yellow Paper, is reissued Stevie Smith was the first poet I read. I can’t remember how I discovered her; all I know is that I ...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comThe baseball season is now upon us. "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball," wrote Columbia University scholar Jacques Barzun in 1954. That observation remains true today and in the intervening yea...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from The Digital ReaderText to speech is a useful feature, but it's actually pretty rare in Android reading apps. Most of the big name ebook apps don't have TTS built-in, and Android doesn't have a text to speech tool built-in either, but we do...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsSci-fi awards have been roped into GamerGate-style furore
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'I couldn't get involved with the story or find it particularly believable' Continue reading...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksA woman tries to keep her sister alive in Miriam Toews’s urgent and witty novel based on deaths in her own family Continue reading...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic NewsThe Onyx Boox i86 is only available in China and it should be hitting Europe and North America later this year. This eight inch e-reader features Google Android and users can install apps via Google Play. The Onyx i86 HD features an eigh...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'I know it is cliché but this book really grabs you and makes you want to read on' Continue reading...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'A very enjoyable, uplifting read, with the perfect combination of friendship, anguish, romance and humour' Continue reading...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from NYT > BooksThe influential and prolific composer has written a warm, low-key and often delightful new memoir.
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsViolin wizard Nigel Kennedy will perform the closing concert of 2015 Hay Festival and there will be gigs from Unthanks, Texas, Frank Turner and actress Charlotte Rampling
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksTo celebrate Easter we’ve chosen the most eggstraordinary eggs in children’s literature. From Harry Potter’s mysterious first clue in the Triwizard Tournament to Charlotte’s egg sac to Humpty Dumpty, here are some golden, green and crack...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Publishing PerspectivesOur April 2015 selection of reviews from BlueInk Review, a service which reviews self-published books. The post April 2015: Top Reviews of Self-Published Books from BlueInk Review appeared first on Publishing Perspectives .
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comMost books about obsessive-compulsive disorder fall into two categories. First, there are the memoirs -- first-person accounts of journeys through OCD's hell. (Fletcher Wortmann's Triggered and Traci Foust's Nowhere Near Normal , for e...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksWood’s new book tells how novels gave him the freedom to think when he was growing up. Has he become an evangelist for literature? This, I thought when I arrived to meet James Wood, is no place for a literary critic to be staying – a bou...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comI recently read John C. Maxwell's reissued book, The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs . I've become interested in the topic of leadership because of my work in studying, practicing, and teaching Christian conte...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from International Business TimesThe Easter Sunday sermon is usually all about Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection. If following along is difficult, here are several key Bible verses that most Christians will read to meditate on the significance of Christ’s resurrection.
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from NYT > BooksThree books attempt to understand the Islamic State.
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Ereader News TodayAdd more books to your weekend reading list with these 3 bargain books and 2 free books. You can read Kindle books wherever you are and on any device with the Free Kindle App – you don’t even have to own a Kindle to use the a...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from The Nook BlogApril 6, 2015: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is a multi offer: Save over 70% on the novels of the Shadowlands series today only. Overview: Rory Miller had one chance to fight back and she took it. Rory survived … and the serial ...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe Palestinian author and lawyer on hope, human rights and gardening in the Occupied Territories ‘ Am I giving you a good picture?” asks Raja Shehadeh from across the table. We are sitting in a bare room in his publisher’s offices, in c...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe photojournalist’s work in conflict zones has seen her subjected to the horrors of the frontline, including being kidnapped in 2011. In a new memoir, already optioned by Hollywood, the mother-of-one explains why she keeps on going bac...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'I would recommend this book to everyone who likes books that are about difficult problems in life and how to overcome them' Continue reading...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksWhen I was a 14 year old back in 1975 my life was dull and quiet; I didn’t even own many books. But then I won Wuthering Heights and fell in love with it. I realise now that Emily Bronte’s book seeped into my blood, my bones, into my upb...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksIntellectuals are collected in a re-education camp during the Great Leap Forward for a novel that leaves the reader with a profound sense of the power of ideology The work of the Chinese author Yan Lianke reminds us that free expression ...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comUntil I began to research a novel about a young clergyman's search for the language Adam spoke in the Garden of Eden, I had no idea that my character's eccentric quest had roots in the earliest civilizations. For as long as tales have be...
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- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic NewsAmazon and Harpercollins are trying to renegotiate their contract for print and digital books. They have been in talks since late 2014 and apparently HarperCollins is not happy with the new terms. We have it on good authority that in t...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Ereader News TodayIndulge in some jellybeans and a new book from this collection of 3 bargain books and 2 free books. You can read Kindle books wherever you are and on any device with the Free Kindle App – you don’t even have to own a Kindle t...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comThere's probably not enough wine in the world to get most writers through a book launch without the jitters. Luckily, writers have lots of people cheering us on. I'm not only talking about our mothers and spouses, but about our bookselle...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from NYT > Books“A Fine Romance,” Ms. Bergen’s new memoir, interweaves 35 years of love affairs.
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsWhy Sunday is Money Day for App Makers (Re/Code) But if you’re in the app business, the crucial thing to remember is that Sunday is a really good day to extract money from your users, via in-app purchases. *** Little Free Libraries Take ...
- Saturday, April 4, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksA baking baby, a banjo-playing bear and a fish with big plans, as well as high-concept board books and poetry in our Easter roundup Continue reading...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Publishing PerspectivesAlex Zucker, translator and co-chair of the Translation Committee at PEN, wonders whether more focus on fewer translations would help the books sell better. The post Are We Publishing Too Many Literary Translations? appeared first on Pub...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from USATODAY - Books Top StoriesNew YA books include two sequels and a book spun off a hit YouTube series.