The Seattle Times
Kids' Books: This year's "Best Books for Babies" list includes "My Face Book," "Red Sled," "All of Baby, Nose to Toes" and "Little Chicken's Big Day." By KAREN MACPHERSON Choosing the best books for babies ...
A Picture Book Without Pictures
New York Times (blog)
Now, they're in a book: a photography book without pictures. The collection, “Photographs Not Taken,” edited by Will Steacy, features the testimonies of 60 photographers who recount the moments that slipped from their photographic grip, either because ...
New York Times (blog)
Book Review: Star Trek FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the First Voyages of ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
ORG Just for kicks, I typed in "Star Trek" on Amazon Books, and came up with an astonishing 18061 titles. The cultural impact of Trek is unprecedented, and just continues to grow. So when I picked up the new Star Trek FAQ by Mark Clark, I wondered just ...
The Queen: Diamond Jubilee books round-up
Telegraph.co.uk
Philip Eade, Prince Philip's biographer, selects the best new books celebrating the life of Elizabeth II at the peak of her popularity. By Philip Eade On the eve of the last Diamond Jubilee, in 1897, Queen Victoria threatened to boycott the ...
Telegraph.co.uk
No indictment against King's Torah authors
Ynetnews
Nearly a year after police launched an investigation into the publication of the King's Torah, a book that stated that it was permissible to kill non-Jews when their presence in Israel endangers Jews, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein decided to close ...
New York Times (blog)
Now, they're in a book: a photography book without pictures. The collection, “Photographs Not Taken,” edited by Will Steacy, features the testimonies of 60 photographers who recount the moments that slipped from their photographic grip, either because ...
New York Times (blog)
Book Review: Star Trek FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the First Voyages of ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
ORG Just for kicks, I typed in "Star Trek" on Amazon Books, and came up with an astonishing 18061 titles. The cultural impact of Trek is unprecedented, and just continues to grow. So when I picked up the new Star Trek FAQ by Mark Clark, I wondered just ...
The Queen: Diamond Jubilee books round-up
Telegraph.co.uk
Philip Eade, Prince Philip's biographer, selects the best new books celebrating the life of Elizabeth II at the peak of her popularity. By Philip Eade On the eve of the last Diamond Jubilee, in 1897, Queen Victoria threatened to boycott the ...
Telegraph.co.uk
No indictment against King's Torah authors
Ynetnews
Nearly a year after police launched an investigation into the publication of the King's Torah, a book that stated that it was permissible to kill non-Jews when their presence in Israel endangers Jews, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein decided to close ...
AG: 'Torat Hamelech' authors will not be indicted
Jerusalem Post
By JEREMY SHARON Investigations against rabbis who approve book will also be closed; Weinstein: Not enough evidence of intention to incite racism. The Attorney General's Office announced on Monday that the authors of the book Torat Hamelech, ...
Book Review: Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
ORG Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit by Eric L. Haney is a memoir of the author as one of the founding member of the Army's elite Delta Force. This is a gripping book which is hard to put down.
Interviews: The authors of 'For Love and Honor'
USA TODAY
By Joyce Lamb, USA TODAY As we remember what our troops do for us (as we should every day, not just on Memorial Day), I asked the authors of the military-related anthology For Love and Honor to join us. (For Love and Honor comes out on June 5.) ...
USA TODAY
Lit Life: Books by local authors have Expo publishers excited
The Seattle Times
Local authors G. Willow Wilson, Sherman Alexie, Amanda Coplin, Jonathan Evison, Gregg Olsen and Ivan Doig are getting lots of attention from publishers preparing for next week's BookExpo in New York. By Mary Ann Gwinn No comments have been posted to ...
Book Review: What America's Banana King Teaches Us About Capitalism
TIME
The book, by Rich Cohen, is called The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life And Times Of America's Banana King. It usefully reminds us of some of the wonderful things about capitalism, and some of the dangers, too. There is the opportunity it offers for ...
TIME
First lady's book: On growing seeds, healthy kids
Washington Examiner
Now, the first lady has added a 271-page book to her gardening resume, and Americans can read all about the planting misses that came with the hits, get tips on gardening at home, and, Mrs. Obama hopes, draw some inspiration that just might change ...
Book details how swindler duped Ulysses S. Grant in gilded-age scam
Chicago Daily Herald
Until now, Ferd Ward has been seen as only “a stock villain” in Grant's personal tragedy, the authorwrites. The focus shifts in this deeply researched and elegant narrative, putting the young Iago center stage and giving the noble Othello a walk-on ...
Treasury secretary's wife pens young-adult novel
New York Daily News
While some politician's wives might be dying to write scathing tell-alls or thinly veiled accounts of their time in Washington, a new book from Carole Geithner, wife of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, is anything but scandalous.
New York Daily News
Book of memories connects boy, soldier dad he never knew
The Tennessean
Son talks about his late father: Tristan Baker Willis, 10, talks about his dad, the late Spc. Ryan Travis Baker. Tristan Baker Willis lost his dad, Spc. Ryan T. Baker, in a copter crash in 2003, when Tristan was 2. Trying to create memories of the ...
Malibu Author Uses WWI to Unravel Dark Secrets in New Novel
Patch.com
By Jessica E. Davis Longtime Malibu resident David Stansfield's new book "One Last Great Wickedness" has made the best seller list at Diesel Book Store in Malibu. The novel starts with a 13-year-old boy who discovers letters written by his father in ...
Book chronicles a career, life spent fighting cancer
Winston-Salem Journal
The author, Lynn Hamilton Ellis, was an undergraduate student at Wake Forest University in 1971. She had no interest in dating a doctor when Mark Ellis asked her to dinner. "I just didn't see a future in it. I felt like they were married to their work ...
Michelle Obama's corn soup with summer veggies
The Seattle Times
Michelle Obama, the nation's first lady and a high-profile spokeswoman for healthy eating, has added a new book on growing and cooking nutritious food to her resume. Here's an easy soup recipe from "American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen ...
Track Baby's Development Right from the Beginning! BabyTrakker from Author ...
Albany Times Union
This Baby Book will help her to monitor and track her own health and the health of her baby. The early part of development is the groundwork for a healthy pregnancy and the birth of a healthy baby. These early weeks are such a complex process an ...
Maeve Binchy reveals her tough schooldays in upcoming book essay
IrishCentral
In what has been described as a "literary coup" by the Irish Independent, a group of inner-city students has persuaded author Maeve Binchy to write the introduction to their book of short stories, entitled 'Yet to Be Told.' "I would love to know what I ...
Fidel Castro, spy master, bedeviled US, says former analyst
Reuters
By David Adams | MIAMI (Reuters) - For almost three decades after Fidel Castro took power, Cuba's budding intelligence service fielded four dozen double agents in a world-class operation under the nose of the CIA, according to a new book by a veteran ...
Decatur veteran publishes book of experiences serving as medic in Vietnam War
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
By Fritz Klug | fklug@mlive.com DECATUR, MI — The book started in 2009 with an e-mail: A woman asking if any 101st Airborne veterans had information about her uncle, who died in Vietnam in 1968. Leo Flory didn't know Robert Malecki — he came to the...
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
Monroe author's book of essays gets River Read nod
Monroe News Star
"Amid the Swirling Ghosts and Other Essays," which is Caverlee's first book, is a collection of literary essays and feature articles that covers an array of subjects, including William Faulkner, Pistol Pete Maravich and Bonnie and Clyde.
languagehat.com: DOOMSDAY BOOK: HALFWAY THENCE.
By languagehat
I'm about halfway through Doomsday Book , by Connie Willis, a very well regarded author who's won just about every award you can win in the field of science fiction. I used to read science fiction continually and omnivorously, but that was ...
languagehat.com
Author Neil Gaiman's Inspirational Commencement Speech to The ...
By Rusty Blazenhoff
Award-winning author and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman recently delivered this inspirational keynote commencement speech to the 2012 graduating class at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... he carried a clipboard, in my head, but he did) would be there, to tell me it was all over, and they had caught up with me, and now I would have to go and get a real job, one that didn't consist of making things up and writing them down, and reading books I wanted to read.
Laughing Squid
War document: Iliad, Book XVI, verses 297 – 341 « naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether
War document: Iliad, Book XVI, verses 297 – 341. By lambert strether. For Memorial Day Weekend, I thought I'd curate a few documents on war. Here's the second: The translation is Richard Lattimore's. The Trojans have set fire to the Greeks' ...
naked capitalism
Medeia Sharif: Books Recently Read
By Medeia Sharif
Books Recently Read. *THE MAPMAKER AND THE GHOST by Sarvenaz Tash Goldenrod Moram is on a quest to map her town. Along the way she makes several discoveries: a ragtag bunch of hoodlums who've kidnapped her brother, an old ...
Medeia Sharif
Flavorwire » 10 Famous Authors' Fascinating Alter Egos
By Kim Parker
10 Highbrow Books to Read on the Beach ... They were collected into a book, The Nick Adams Stories, in 1972, and cover a large chunk of Hemingway's life from his childhood in Michigan through his adult wartime experiences. One of the ...
Flavorwire
InfoQ: Interview with Simon Baker, Author of No Bull
By Marta Jasinska
InfoQ has interviewed Simon Baker, cofounder of Energized Work and the 2009 recipient of the Agile Alliance Gordon Pask Award, author of the "No bull" publication on the past 12 years of Agile.
InfoQ Personalized Feed for Fergus Neff
Book Chick City | MONDAY MASHUP: Waterstones/Amazon Deal ...
By Laura
The big news last week in the UK book world was the deal giant bookstore chain Waterstones has made with Amazon Kindle. Which means that you will be able to download books onto your kindle whilst browsing in store. They will also be ...
Book Chick City
Backreaction: Book Review: "Imagine" by Jonah Lehrer
By Bee
Jonah Lehrer's book promises to address the question how creativity works. Lehrer begins with the discussion of some insights from the field of neurobiology, brain scans and so on, and moves on to the social sciences and some more or less ...
Backreaction
GreenBeanTeenQueen: So You're Looking for Books to Read This ...
By GreenBeanTeenQueen
A Note to Authors/Publishers: I am not currently accepting new titles to review at this time. I would be happy to read and review your book. If I you have a book that you would like to share with me, please contact me at greenbeanteenqueen (at) ...
GreenBeanTeenQueen
A tale of two books: digital transformations are creeping across the ...
By Blog Admin
In the past, we only trusted books published by professional publishers, because any other books – such as ones published by their own authors – were obviously hopeless, unpublishable cases. That insight, in itself, ... Therefore, it was a context where any sane person obviously would try to get theirbook published by a professional publisher, and self-published works were immediately revealed as failures. Today, it's a .... But academic e-books could be much cheaper. And this is ...
Impact of Social Sciences
Read It: The Future of Books en Español | Joe Kutchera
By Joe Kutchera
Over 67000 people attended the second Spanish-language book fair in Los Angeles May 11 – 13, known as “LeaLA,” or “Read It” in Spanish, nearly twice the attendance of the previous year. The organizers of the ... may portend the event's future. The first, BajaLibros.com (literally “downloadbooks” in English) launched one year ago in Argentina and now sells to readers across Latin America and the U.S. It offers a variety of Spanish-language eBooks in Adobe Digital Editions format.
Joe Kutchera
Juliet Eilperin: Book review: Michael Mann's 'The Hockey Stick and ...
By Editor
Juliet Eilperin: Book review: Michael Mann's 'The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars'. Posted on May 28, 2012 by Editor | Leave a comment. Extraordinary post from the unreal world. Actually it is so far from the known facts you're going to ...
JunkScience.com
Getting the Book Invented Properly
Long before we actually had e-readers, Douglas Adams recorded the audio portion of this video in 1993 for his publisher, Voyager Expanded Books.
www.neatorama.com/.../getting-the-book-invented-properly/
SBPRA Authors Win Honors at 2012 International Book Awards ...
The winners and finalists of the 2012 International Book Awards (IBA) were announced ... StrategicBook Publishing is proud to have four authors among the honorees. ... book marketing, and ebookservices to over 10000 writers around the world, ... Our books are available through Ingram, the largest book distributor in the ...
www.prlog.org/11885955-sbpra-authors-win-honors-at-2012-...
Books 2012
Linda Hooper Book 35 of 2012 ... Linda Hooper Book 34 of 2012 ... The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows ...
pinterest.com/lyndalu_fla/books-2012/
How Authors Can Take Charge Of Their Marketing
Business 2 Community
While it has become easy to put a book up on Amazon or Barnes and Noble, it won't sell unless you promote it. A publisher would have taken on this task for you, but when you self publish, you become your own marketing department.
Follow @jmichaelpoole
Jerusalem Post
By JEREMY SHARON Investigations against rabbis who approve book will also be closed; Weinstein: Not enough evidence of intention to incite racism. The Attorney General's Office announced on Monday that the authors of the book Torat Hamelech, ...
Book Review: Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
ORG Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit by Eric L. Haney is a memoir of the author as one of the founding member of the Army's elite Delta Force. This is a gripping book which is hard to put down.
Interviews: The authors of 'For Love and Honor'
USA TODAY
By Joyce Lamb, USA TODAY As we remember what our troops do for us (as we should every day, not just on Memorial Day), I asked the authors of the military-related anthology For Love and Honor to join us. (For Love and Honor comes out on June 5.) ...
USA TODAY
Lit Life: Books by local authors have Expo publishers excited
The Seattle Times
Local authors G. Willow Wilson, Sherman Alexie, Amanda Coplin, Jonathan Evison, Gregg Olsen and Ivan Doig are getting lots of attention from publishers preparing for next week's BookExpo in New York. By Mary Ann Gwinn No comments have been posted to ...
Book Review: What America's Banana King Teaches Us About Capitalism
TIME
The book, by Rich Cohen, is called The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life And Times Of America's Banana King. It usefully reminds us of some of the wonderful things about capitalism, and some of the dangers, too. There is the opportunity it offers for ...
TIME
First lady's book: On growing seeds, healthy kids
Washington Examiner
Now, the first lady has added a 271-page book to her gardening resume, and Americans can read all about the planting misses that came with the hits, get tips on gardening at home, and, Mrs. Obama hopes, draw some inspiration that just might change ...
Book details how swindler duped Ulysses S. Grant in gilded-age scam
Chicago Daily Herald
Until now, Ferd Ward has been seen as only “a stock villain” in Grant's personal tragedy, the authorwrites. The focus shifts in this deeply researched and elegant narrative, putting the young Iago center stage and giving the noble Othello a walk-on ...
Treasury secretary's wife pens young-adult novel
New York Daily News
While some politician's wives might be dying to write scathing tell-alls or thinly veiled accounts of their time in Washington, a new book from Carole Geithner, wife of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, is anything but scandalous.
New York Daily News
Book of memories connects boy, soldier dad he never knew
The Tennessean
Son talks about his late father: Tristan Baker Willis, 10, talks about his dad, the late Spc. Ryan Travis Baker. Tristan Baker Willis lost his dad, Spc. Ryan T. Baker, in a copter crash in 2003, when Tristan was 2. Trying to create memories of the ...
Malibu Author Uses WWI to Unravel Dark Secrets in New Novel
Patch.com
By Jessica E. Davis Longtime Malibu resident David Stansfield's new book "One Last Great Wickedness" has made the best seller list at Diesel Book Store in Malibu. The novel starts with a 13-year-old boy who discovers letters written by his father in ...
Book chronicles a career, life spent fighting cancer
Winston-Salem Journal
The author, Lynn Hamilton Ellis, was an undergraduate student at Wake Forest University in 1971. She had no interest in dating a doctor when Mark Ellis asked her to dinner. "I just didn't see a future in it. I felt like they were married to their work ...
Michelle Obama's corn soup with summer veggies
The Seattle Times
Michelle Obama, the nation's first lady and a high-profile spokeswoman for healthy eating, has added a new book on growing and cooking nutritious food to her resume. Here's an easy soup recipe from "American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen ...
Track Baby's Development Right from the Beginning! BabyTrakker from Author ...
Albany Times Union
This Baby Book will help her to monitor and track her own health and the health of her baby. The early part of development is the groundwork for a healthy pregnancy and the birth of a healthy baby. These early weeks are such a complex process an ...
Maeve Binchy reveals her tough schooldays in upcoming book essay
IrishCentral
In what has been described as a "literary coup" by the Irish Independent, a group of inner-city students has persuaded author Maeve Binchy to write the introduction to their book of short stories, entitled 'Yet to Be Told.' "I would love to know what I ...
Fidel Castro, spy master, bedeviled US, says former analyst
Reuters
By David Adams | MIAMI (Reuters) - For almost three decades after Fidel Castro took power, Cuba's budding intelligence service fielded four dozen double agents in a world-class operation under the nose of the CIA, according to a new book by a veteran ...
Decatur veteran publishes book of experiences serving as medic in Vietnam War
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
By Fritz Klug | fklug@mlive.com DECATUR, MI — The book started in 2009 with an e-mail: A woman asking if any 101st Airborne veterans had information about her uncle, who died in Vietnam in 1968. Leo Flory didn't know Robert Malecki — he came to the...
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
Monroe author's book of essays gets River Read nod
Monroe News Star
"Amid the Swirling Ghosts and Other Essays," which is Caverlee's first book, is a collection of literary essays and feature articles that covers an array of subjects, including William Faulkner, Pistol Pete Maravich and Bonnie and Clyde.
languagehat.com: DOOMSDAY BOOK: HALFWAY THENCE.
By languagehat
I'm about halfway through Doomsday Book , by Connie Willis, a very well regarded author who's won just about every award you can win in the field of science fiction. I used to read science fiction continually and omnivorously, but that was ...
languagehat.com
Author Neil Gaiman's Inspirational Commencement Speech to The ...
By Rusty Blazenhoff
Award-winning author and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman recently delivered this inspirational keynote commencement speech to the 2012 graduating class at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... he carried a clipboard, in my head, but he did) would be there, to tell me it was all over, and they had caught up with me, and now I would have to go and get a real job, one that didn't consist of making things up and writing them down, and reading books I wanted to read.
Laughing Squid
War document: Iliad, Book XVI, verses 297 – 341 « naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether
War document: Iliad, Book XVI, verses 297 – 341. By lambert strether. For Memorial Day Weekend, I thought I'd curate a few documents on war. Here's the second: The translation is Richard Lattimore's. The Trojans have set fire to the Greeks' ...
naked capitalism
Medeia Sharif: Books Recently Read
By Medeia Sharif
Books Recently Read. *THE MAPMAKER AND THE GHOST by Sarvenaz Tash Goldenrod Moram is on a quest to map her town. Along the way she makes several discoveries: a ragtag bunch of hoodlums who've kidnapped her brother, an old ...
Medeia Sharif
Flavorwire » 10 Famous Authors' Fascinating Alter Egos
By Kim Parker
10 Highbrow Books to Read on the Beach ... They were collected into a book, The Nick Adams Stories, in 1972, and cover a large chunk of Hemingway's life from his childhood in Michigan through his adult wartime experiences. One of the ...
Flavorwire
InfoQ: Interview with Simon Baker, Author of No Bull
By Marta Jasinska
InfoQ has interviewed Simon Baker, cofounder of Energized Work and the 2009 recipient of the Agile Alliance Gordon Pask Award, author of the "No bull" publication on the past 12 years of Agile.
InfoQ Personalized Feed for Fergus Neff
Book Chick City | MONDAY MASHUP: Waterstones/Amazon Deal ...
By Laura
The big news last week in the UK book world was the deal giant bookstore chain Waterstones has made with Amazon Kindle. Which means that you will be able to download books onto your kindle whilst browsing in store. They will also be ...
Book Chick City
Backreaction: Book Review: "Imagine" by Jonah Lehrer
By Bee
Jonah Lehrer's book promises to address the question how creativity works. Lehrer begins with the discussion of some insights from the field of neurobiology, brain scans and so on, and moves on to the social sciences and some more or less ...
Backreaction
GreenBeanTeenQueen: So You're Looking for Books to Read This ...
By GreenBeanTeenQueen
A Note to Authors/Publishers: I am not currently accepting new titles to review at this time. I would be happy to read and review your book. If I you have a book that you would like to share with me, please contact me at greenbeanteenqueen (at) ...
GreenBeanTeenQueen
A tale of two books: digital transformations are creeping across the ...
By Blog Admin
In the past, we only trusted books published by professional publishers, because any other books – such as ones published by their own authors – were obviously hopeless, unpublishable cases. That insight, in itself, ... Therefore, it was a context where any sane person obviously would try to get theirbook published by a professional publisher, and self-published works were immediately revealed as failures. Today, it's a .... But academic e-books could be much cheaper. And this is ...
Impact of Social Sciences
Read It: The Future of Books en Español | Joe Kutchera
By Joe Kutchera
Over 67000 people attended the second Spanish-language book fair in Los Angeles May 11 – 13, known as “LeaLA,” or “Read It” in Spanish, nearly twice the attendance of the previous year. The organizers of the ... may portend the event's future. The first, BajaLibros.com (literally “downloadbooks” in English) launched one year ago in Argentina and now sells to readers across Latin America and the U.S. It offers a variety of Spanish-language eBooks in Adobe Digital Editions format.
Joe Kutchera
Juliet Eilperin: Book review: Michael Mann's 'The Hockey Stick and ...
By Editor
Juliet Eilperin: Book review: Michael Mann's 'The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars'. Posted on May 28, 2012 by Editor | Leave a comment. Extraordinary post from the unreal world. Actually it is so far from the known facts you're going to ...
JunkScience.com
Getting the Book Invented Properly
Long before we actually had e-readers, Douglas Adams recorded the audio portion of this video in 1993 for his publisher, Voyager Expanded Books.
www.neatorama.com/.../getting-the-book-invented-properly/
SBPRA Authors Win Honors at 2012 International Book Awards ...
The winners and finalists of the 2012 International Book Awards (IBA) were announced ... StrategicBook Publishing is proud to have four authors among the honorees. ... book marketing, and ebookservices to over 10000 writers around the world, ... Our books are available through Ingram, the largest book distributor in the ...
www.prlog.org/11885955-sbpra-authors-win-honors-at-2012-...
Books 2012
Linda Hooper Book 35 of 2012 ... Linda Hooper Book 34 of 2012 ... The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows ...
pinterest.com/lyndalu_fla/books-2012/
How Authors Can Take Charge Of Their Marketing
Business 2 Community
While it has become easy to put a book up on Amazon or Barnes and Noble, it won't sell unless you promote it. A publisher would have taken on this task for you, but when you self publish, you become your own marketing department.
Follow @jmichaelpoole
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