Oliver Stone's new book rips President Obama

Oliver Stone's new book rips President Obama - Katie Glueck - Politico
A new book from filmmaker Oliver Stone offers a scathing critique of President Barack Obama's time in office. ... Search by Author ... The 618-page book, slated for release Tuesday - a week before Election Day - from Gallery Books, slams ...
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Book News: Random Penguin, Survival Beans : The New Yorker
By Andrea DenHoed
Penguin and Random House announce that they will merge in 2013. Sylvia Plath would have turned eighty last weekend. Here's a recording of her reading her poem “A Birthday Present.” An Indiana librarian finds a gold gun hidden in...
Page-Turner

Author Nicholas Sparks Sets Up Three Cable Dramas (Exclusive)
Hollywood Reporter
Carter also scripted the 2004 feature Little Black Book. She is managed by Rob Golenberg at Scripted World. The projects are the first to come from a two-year deal that Sparks signed in April with Warner Horizon. Seven of the author's books have been ...

Hollywood Reporter

Coe book: Blatter said 'idiots' run English soccer
FOXSports.com
LONDON (AP). FIFA President Sepp Blatter once described English soccer as being ''run by idiots,'' according to Sebastian Coe's new book. Coe, who headed the London Olympics, worked with Blatter as chairman of FIFA's ethics committee before taking a ...

New book details Rangers-Devils 1994 series
NHL.com
Everyone knows that New York Rangers captain Mark Messier made "The Guarantee." Few might know how Messier felt right afterward. A new book, "Battle on the Hudson," sheds some light on that. "He looked at me, and there was a bit of concern on his ...

Goodreads launches its 2012 awards [updated]
Los Angeles Times
Write-in votes may be cast for eligible books with any average rating, and write-in votes will be weighted by the book's number of ratings to determine the top five books to be added as official nominees in the Semifinal Round. A book may be nominated ...

After scandal-ridden book is published, Belgian royals complain to media ...
Fox News
BRUSSELS – The royal palace has lodged a complaint with a media ethics group over the publication of a book highlighting alleged dalliances and private family information about leading members of Belgium's monarchy. Wednesday's rare move by the ...

New book captures excitement of election night
NBCNews.com
election night broadcasts have been a national tradition since 1948 , and we're now just six days away from another one. the thrills, the disappointments, all captured in a new enhanced e-book from nbc publishing called "election night, a ...

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Book review: Carlin's 'Bruce' reveals a 3-dimensional Springsteen
Chillicothe Times-Bulletin (blog)
GHNS -- As you read “Bruce” (Touchstone, $28) it quickly becomes clear that author Peter Ames Carlin understands something a lot of Bruce Springsteen biographers seem to forget: What a great personal story the man is. It's not your typical rock 'n ...

5 Books Every Sophisticated College Man Should Read
Huffington Post
This book about three friends being super fabulous and high on pills in NYC is so dear to my heart because I wish I could just wander around NYC being fabulous and slightly inebriated. This book is important because it'll show any classy man how crazy ...

Ten Books Every Child Should Own
Sacramento Bee
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- First Book, a nonprofit that provides new, high-quality books to children from low-income families, is asking the public to choose which iconic children's title they will give away as their 100 ...

Myst linking book replica goes on sale with full PC inside, won't quite ...
By Jon Fingas
He just spent the past six years building a replica of the Cyan game's signature, Age-traveling linkbooks that includes a full Windows XP PC with a 1.6GHz Atom, a 2-hour battery, a 5-inch touchscreen and every playable game from the Myst ...
Engadget

Finding A Gun In A Donated Library Book Is Okay When It's A Cool ...
By Mary Beth Quirk
Finding a historic-looking old-timey cool gun hidden inside a hollowed out book? Awesome. A library employee at a branch in Valparaiso, Ind. made the discovery last week after opening up the book, which had been donated to the library's ...
The Consumerist

Balzer Designs: Book Club: The Art & Elegance of Beadweaving
By Julie
I also own Carol's first book (and one of my bead bibles): Creative Beadweaving: A Contemporary Guide to Classic Off-Loom Stitches. Without reservation, I highly recommend both books. They are both so well done with excellent instructions ...
Balzer Designs

Author Aaron Overfield: “Nina Simone Would Slap The Black(er ...
By Kirsten West Savali
As the controversy continues to spin out of control over the selection of Afro-Latina actress, Zoe Saldana, to play the role of The High Priestess of Soul, Nina Simone, in an unauthorized film, authorand web content manager of ...
Breaking News for Black America
Imagine Nation Books Recalls Double Dazzler Light Show Toys Due ...
Importer: Imagine Nation Books, of Louisville, Colo. ... Sold by: Imagine Nation Book dealers nationwide at corporate offices, hospitals and schools from March ...
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Book Review: Trucker Ghost Stories: And Other True Tales of ...
Home Books Book Review: Trucker Ghost Stories: And Other True Tales of Haunted Highways, Weird Encounters, and Legends of the Road, Edited by Annie ...
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Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: New Philosophy Books in October
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books: Adorno by Brian O' Connor ... Routledge Philosophers (book series edited by Brian Leiter) ...
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Books Are Better Than Ice Cream Group (5 Members)
'Books Are Better Than Ice Cream' is a group where you can talk about your favorite books, chat ...Goodreads: Book reviews, recommendations, and discussion ...
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Chinese Author Da Chen's Eternal Forbidden City

Chinese Author Da Chen's Eternal Forbidden City
Wall Street Journal
Chinese-born author Da Chen is known for exposing China's social ills—from his breakout book "Colors of the Mountain" that recounted his family's tribulations under Mao to "Brothers," his searing satire on local corruption. But "My Last Empress," Mr ...

Wall Street Journal

Book Review: Facing Redemption by Kimberly McKay
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
In her first book Finding Kylie , author Kimberly McKay introduced us to 25-year old Chastity Wayne, who, after laying her mother Kylie to rest found out about a terrible secret that she had been hiding from Chastity, all of her life. The secret was ...

'Kite Runner' author Khaled Hosseini will release a new novel this spring
Christian Science Monitor
“The Kite Runner” author Khaled Hosseini will release a new novel this May, according to publisher Riverhead Books. Skip to next paragraph ... The book, which will be titled “And the Mountains Echoed,” will focus on family, a theme Hosseini said he is ...

Christian Science Monitor

What If We Sent 1 Million Books to The Gambia?
Huffington Post
Tom Warth, the founder of Books For Africa (BFA), has done a lot of unusual things to promote charity and education including walking across Minnesota and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. But nothing has been as important to him as his "African Book Walk: A ...

Mexico City Book Fair Ends After Drawing Over 1M Visitors
Fox News
"We can say that we exceeded book sales, with respect to the 2011 event, with both the Culture Secretariat and the book fair being able to say mission accomplished," book fair director Maria Cortina said. This year's edition of the Zocalo International ...

Justin Bieber Supports Mom, Author Pattie Mallette
New Times Broward-Palm Beach (blog)
"Around the house we always had music," Justin Bieber's mother, author Pattie Mallette told us in a back room at Books and Books in Coral Gables. She'd just arrived from the Women of Faith event in Fort Lauderdale. "I would sing and play the guitar and...

New Times Broward-Palm Beach (blog)

5 Books Dictated From Beyond the Grave - Mental Floss
By Stacy Conradt
5 Books Dictated From Beyond the Grave. ... It's really hard to write a book; it's even harder to sell one. Add a dead author into the mix (it's pretty difficult to outline plot points and dictate precise punctuation from six feet under) and you've ... When really inspired, the Patience-Pearl duo could spell out about 1500 words an hour, which is how she came to be the author of books including The Sorry Tale and Hope Trueblood. Even spirits have their critics, though: Atlantic Monthly essayist ...
mental_floss

Average Weekly Top-10 Bestseller Book Cover | Visual.ly
By jradavenport
... look like? Using every book cover from the weekly top-10 list from 2000-2011, I have found this to be the average cov. ... See also my full viz of the weekly top-10 here: http://visual.ly/weekly-top-10-best-seller-books-2000-2011. Credits ...
Visual.ly

White Privilege in YA Book Covers, Characters and Film Adaptations
By ninjacandy
What is sad about this predicament is that when fans of a book series imagine the author'scharacters, they automatically imagine them as “white,” and any attempts at creating explicit ethnic descriptions are completely lost, or, featuring any ... were shocked to learn Magnus' Asian heritage, and instead had explicitly imagined him as a White Male Character even after extensive, forthright attempts to describe Magnus as an Asian character written throughout all her books by Clare.
Oh No They Didn't!

Rajiv Gandhi assassination video suppressed, claims book - The ...
NEW DELHI: The chief investigating officer of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, K Ragothaman, has alleged that the then IB chief, M K Narayanan, had ...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Rajiv.../17012933.cms

Parenting Study Author Regnerus Admits Faults With Data ...
The researcher behind a controversial family structure study released earlier this year has admitted that the tactics used to analyze his data, which initially ...
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The Horn Book Magazine — November/December 2012 — The ...
What the [Very Bad Swearword] Is a Children's Book Anyway? The author's 2012 Zena Sutherland Lecture. Susan Cooper, 25, Remembering Margaret Mahy ...
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Penguin Books - Random House merger creates giant

Penguin Books, Random House merger creates giant
USA TODAY
Two of the largest book publishers -- Penguin, home to Patricia Cornwell and Nora Roberts, and Random House, which publishes E.L. James and and George R.R. Martin -- are planning to merge into the world's largest publisher in a deal announced Monday ...

Pippa Middleton's book is here but Pippa is not
USA TODAY
2012 - Pippa Middleton's long-awaited party-planning book is here; alas, Pippa herself is not. The younger sister of a future queen got a six-figure payday to write Celebrate: A Year of Festivities for Families and Friends, a 400-page, lavishly ...

Oliver Stone's new book rips President Obama
Politico
The 618-page book, slated for release Tuesday - a week before Election Day - from Gallery Books, slams Republicans and Democrats alike, and the authors' assessment of Obama's presidency is tinged with disappointment. Continue Reading ...

Politico

Book buzz: Publishers merge, spooky Halloween reads
USA TODAY
Halloween: Who knows all things spooky and scary if not Goosebumps author R.L. Stine? Read about a Sunday in the life of the author in The New York Times. For another spooky throwback, listen to three audio books of the kids' horror series Scary ...

Book Review: Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal
Blogcritics.org (blog)
The emphasis on Mr. Churchill's Secretary is certainly more on the fiction part and less on the history, which makes it a fun ride (even though I like my books to be historically accurate). When reading this book keep that in mind--it is not ... choice ...

Blogcritics.org (blog)

'Kite Runner' author Khaled Hosseini to publish a new book
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
Khaled Hosseini, the best-selling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, willpublish a new novel on May 21, 2013. And the Mountains Roared (Riverhead) will be Hosseini's first new book in six years. He said in a statement, “I am ...

Review: 'Room' author imagines snippets of history
Huffington Post
"Astray" is obviously not a book Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue wrote to build on the audience she gained from that chilling piece of 2010 fiction about a captive 5-year-old and his mom. But it is a book that shows her confidence as a writer ...

Book Review: Eighty Days Blue by Vina Jackson
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Although this book wasn't quite as enjoyable as the first in the series, it was still very good. ... Overall, if you're looking for a new erotic romance series to get your teeth into, you should check out the Eighty Days books--but make sure you read ...

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Book Review: Sustainable Wellness: An Integrative Approach to Transform Your ...
Blogcritics.org (blog)
A new book packed full of suggestions for improving your mind, body, and spirit called Sustainable Wellness: An Integrative Approach to Transform Your Mind, Body and Spirit (New Page Books, 2012) by Matt Mumber, MD and Heather Reed. Each chapter of ...

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Is This the Very First Book Bought by an Amazon Customer?
By Josh Ong
Well, profitable or not, the company revolutionized the way we buy stuff and read books along its way to becoming the world's largest online retailer. How's that for a fluid concept? I don't know about you, but the fact that one of Hofstadter's ...
The Next Web

Moglue Lets Authors Create And Publish Interactive Ebooks On iOS ...
By Serkan Toto
New York- and Seoul-based Moglue (last year's TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing finalist) has rolled out a few changes to make it easier to create and publish i.. ... For example, selling an ebook created and distributed via the Moglue platform in the App Store costs US$199 for one title or US$999 for an unlimited amount of book apps for one year. (Note these prices will ... The books can be published to the Apple app store and Android,markets as a stand alone app, using MoglueBuilder.
TechCrunch

Profiles In Cronyism: RNC "Ten For Ten" eBook Series - GOP
By John Horneman
The second part of our eBook series highlighting the ten things you should read about Obama in the last ten days of the 2012 campaign. Profiles In Cronyism looks at the payoffs, donor influence, and backroom deals in the Obama White ...
GOP

'The Kite Runner' Author, Khaled Hosseini Releases New Novel
By Lauren Tyler
The Kite Runner author, Khaled Hosseini, will be releasing his third novel, And the Mountains Echoed, on May 21. The novel from the pen of The Kite Runner author will be published by RiverheadBooks, which is part of their parent company, ...
The Inquisitr

Extreme Weather Investing Author Has a Tip on How to Trade the ...
By Patrick Clark
Larry Oxley was scheduled to appear this afternoon on Bloomberg Television to discuss his recent book, Extreme Weather and Financial Markets. As late as Friday, when The Observer spoke to theauthor, it seemed like perfect timing.
Observer

On Monday's NewsHour: Bill Ivey, Former NEA Chairman, Author of ...
On Monday's NewsHour: Bill Ivey, Former NEA Chairman, Author of ... and is the author of ...
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Times Book Club Selections: 1997-2007 (26 books)
26 books based on 1 votes: Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem, A Regular Guy by Mona Simpson, Water, Carry Me by Thomas ... Goodreads: Book reviews, recommendations, and discussion ... by Mona Simpson (Goodreads Author) ...
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Texas Book Festival: Legend Tim O'Brien lives up to his reputation

Texas Book Festival: Legend Tim O'Brien lives up to his reputation
Dallas Morning News (blog)
Several out-of-state authors had to cancel their Texas Book Festival appearances this year. Luckily, one genuine legend from Texas showed up. Tim O'Brien, author of the modern classics Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried, was given the ...

Books: New and Noteworthy
USA TODAY
2012 - We scope out the hottest books on sale the week of Oct. 28. 1. Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin (Touchstone, non-fiction, on sale Oct. 30). What it's about: That's Bruce, as in Springsteen. A biography by the author of books about Paul McCartney and ...

Cultural historian, author Jacques Barzun dies
New York Daily News
Praised by Cynthia Ozick as among "the last of the thoroughgoing generalists," the tall, courtly Barzun wrote dozens of books and essays on everything from philosophy and music to baseball and detective novels. In 2000, he ... The length topped 800 ...

Book Review: On The Waterfront: A Novel by Budd Schulberg
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Originally, the book was titled simply Waterfront. It was no simple novelization of the film, “that bastard word for a bastard byproduct of Hollywood success,” as Budd Schulberg states in his Introduction in the 1987 edition. The book was compared to ...

Book Review: Jason Kelly Writes About "The New Tycoons" of Private Equity
Forbes
Graduated from college in the early '90s, my first job involved a fair amount of travel such that I was quickly a top level frequent flyer on Continental Airlines. As frequent flyers know, the payoff for dealing with airport security (even then) and ...

Forbes

New book 'the best Bruce Springsteen biography I've ever read'
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Simply titled "Bruce" by Peter Ames Carlin, this is the book Springsteen fans have long been waiting for, a behind-the-curtain look at the journey a kid from Freehold took to became one of the most famous rock stars in the world. Full disclosure: I was ...

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Book Review: Dinner With a Vampire by Abigail Gibbs
Blogcritics.org (blog)
I admit that this is a guilty pleasure book, especially because of how it treats its female counterparts. I did my best to read straight through the disempowerment of female characters and the cliches that sprinkled the pages. For the most part, I ...

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Ketchikan mom, daughter offer lesson with book
San Francisco Chronicle
KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — Joyce and Bonny Autrey looked forward to presenting their new baby at the Ketchikan Public Library last week: A bright, autobiographical beginning chapter book titled, "Can I Kayak, Daddy?" Joyce Autrey, Bonny's mother, said ...

The Book Club at Victory Centre
Chicago Tribune
We discuss the book for about 45 minutes, then break to have refreshments. In September and May we go out to dinner after our discussion. Each month we celebrate birthdays and have a gift raffle related to the book we are discussing. Books we've ...

Chicago Tribune

Plight of Chinese orphans inspires author
Baltimore Sun
What's surprising is that these challenging issues are presented not in a novel for adults, but in a children's book targeted at youngsters ages 8 to 12. In a phone interview, the 64-year-old author and psychologist, who now lives near Boston, spoke...

Baltimore Sun

USA TODAY
USA TODAY
Emma Donoghue's last book, the best-selling Room, chronicled a mother and her young son living a cramped, claustrophobic and disturbingly precarious existence — in a single chamber. In her new work, Astray, a beautifully rendered collection of ...
Top 10 Food Related Books
By JFrater
... food facts - many of my lists are indeed food related. Another of my loves in life is books - so it seemed a good idea to combine the two and produce a list of the best books out there for people who appreciate food. ... But the reason I have selected this book for the list is not the principles of eating that he advocates but rather the fact that it is the result of an extensive compilation of all of the diet and food studies done in recent times. He proves (with a large number of citations) that the ...
Listverse

Texas Book Festival: Tony Danza is an author worth hearing. No ...
By Michael Merschel / Editor
And his book — I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High – has all the makings of a formerly famous actor's stunt for a reality TV show (which it was). The first sign that I was mistaken about Danza came before he and moderator Skip ... This entry was posted in Author tours, Uncategorized and tagged authors, books, education, Texas BookFestival, Tony Danza by Michael Merschel / Editor. Bookmark the permalink.
Center Stage

Book: Patton fought with 'blood, guts and prayer' | Conservative ...
By Neil W. McCabe
In an exclusive interview with Guns & Patriots, the author talked about his new book “Patton: Blood, guts and prayer,” which examines the general's leadership, warrior ethos and lifetime of Christian devotion. “For this guy, faith was part of his ...

Hollowed-Out Book With Gun Inside Donated To Ind. Library « CBS ...
By Mike Ramsey
Click "Log in" to publish what you read to Facebook. See what your friends have read on CBS Local sites. Use "Remove" or "Turn off" to disable at any time. Rare and antique books line the shelves at Chetham Library, which was founded in ...
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Celebrate by Pippa Middleton – digested read | Books | The Guardian
Celebrate; by Pippa Middleton; Buy it from the Guardian bookshop. Search the Guardian bookshop. Tell us what you think: Star-rate and review this book ...
www.guardian.co.uk/books/.../celebrate-pippa-middleton?...
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2012 Texas Book Festival, Sunday - C-SPAN Video Library
The Man Who Saved the Union 308978-2 12:00:00 - 12:45:00. Drugs and Border Panel 308978-3 13:00:00 - 14:00:00 500 Days 308978-4 14:15:00 - 15:00:00 ...
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Book Review Podcast: Pete Townshend's Rock Memoir

Book Review Podcast: Pete Townshend's Rock Memoir
New York Times (blog)
This week in The New York Times Book Review, Robert Christgau reviews Pete Townshend's memoir “Who I Am.” Mr. Christgau says the driving force behind the Who is particularly qualified to write about a life in music because his “I.Q. has always seemed a ...

New York Times (blog)

Pippa Middleton Book Tour: Girl Tells Her 'I Hate Princesses'
ABC News
Alert icon. Loading... Published on Oct 26, 2012 by ABCNews. The Duchess of Cambridge's sister got a little surprise at the start of her book tour. For more, click here: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/pippa-middleton-publishes-book-.

Book sale to benefit Doylestown Library starts today
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
Leftover books are donated to charities, including the USO, A Women's Place, nursing homes, schools in underprivileged areas, Operation Santa, Purple Heart and Better World Books, which sends books to Africa. Last year's sale raised more than $11,000.

Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)

'Cloud Atlas': You're Better Off Reading The Book
NPR
First I need to talk about the book, because it's not as if Cloud Atlas the movie came from nowhere — and if you think it's only the movie you want to know about, I think you need a context for what's onscreen. Author David Mitchell writes exquisite ...

NPR

Cultural historian, author Jacques Barzun dies
Boston.com
Jacques Barzun, a pioneering cultural historian, reigning public intellectual and longtime Ivy League professor who became a best-selling author in his 90s with the acclaimed ''From Dawn to Decadence,'' has died. He was 104. Barzun, who taught for ...

Self-published books triple in production since 2006
Christian Science Monitor
What happens to all these self-published books, one may wonder? Do they mostly end up in boxes in the authors' garages? Not necessarily. Self-published author M. Leighton's e-book “Down to You” made it to No. 8 on The New York Times e-bookfiction ...

Christian Science Monitor

Fiction Books: Short History Collection
Wall Street Journal
It's the age-old exclamation of readers encountering a book that seems gallingly formulaic or derivative. Most of the time, though, it isn't true: James Patterson thrillers and Harlequin romances are assembled by highly proficient plot engineers. Same ...

"Goosebumps" Author Keeps Chills Going For Loyal Fans
NY1
Author R.L. Stine is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the scary children's bookseries "Goosebumps" by scaring the readers who grew up on his tales all over again. NY1's Stephanie Simon filed the following report. Author R.L. Stine gave young ...

NY1

Book Review-Mantel's second Tudor novel refreshes and regales
Ukiah Daily Journal
However, Mantel's genius in tackling such an overdone period lies in her choices as author: she uses the present tense, making the story urgent and surprising; all narration is through the singular viewpoint of Henry's chief advisor Thomas Cromwell; ...

Books | Picture book | SmartPlanet
By Jenna Marotta
In 1978, Polaroid employed 20,000 individuals. Today's staff of 30 barely outnumbers an overcrowded kindergarten class. Despite winning a milestone patent-infringement case against Kodak in 1986 – and a $925 million settlement – the ...
All Content on SmartPlanet

Book News: Theoretical Novels, Twitter Linguistics : The New Yorker
By Andrea DenHoed
The owners of Penguin and Random House are in talks for a merger that would create the world's biggest book publisher. “If novelistic realism aspires to be a history of the present, that present now includes—in the educations of...
Page-Turner

Libertarian Vote Ebook Shows Libertarian Growth | Cato @ Liberty
By David Boaz
Our new ebook, The Libertarian Vote: Swing Voters, Tea Parties, and the Fiscally Conservative, Socially Liberal Center, is No. 1 on Amazon's Practical Politics bestseller list (at least as of post time.) Get your own Kindle version at Amazon or a ...
Cato @ Liberty

Pippa Middleton: 'Celebrate' Book Launch Party! | Magazine, Pippa ...
By Just Jared
Pippa Middleton: 'Celebrate' Book Launch Party! Pippa Middleton holds her book, “Celebrate: A Year Of Festivities For Family and Friends”, with pride at the launch party held at Daunt Books on Thursday (October 25) in London, England.
Just Jared

Do You Like Scary Movies and Books? - NYTimes.com
By By KATHERINE SCHULTEN
What accounts for our continuing fascination with “the old dark house,” as John Tibbetts, a media studies professor at the University of Kansas and the author of “The Gothic Imagination,” calls it? In both literature and film, he said, it endures ...
The Learning Network

Nordic news publisher Schibsted buying in to ebook service Riidr ...
Nordic news publisher Schibsted buying in to ebook service Riidr. By Robert Andrews · No ...
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E-Book Review: The Lizard King - WSJ.com
In Brief: E-Books. A scurrilous satire imagines a world in which every single one of the conspiracy theories about President Obama is true. Article; Comments ...
online.wsj.com/.../SB10001424052970203897404578076992...

Book about developing civilization? - Yahoo! Answers
When I was in my elementary school gifted program (maybe 5/6 years ago), my teacher had this maybe 100-200 page book filled with worksheets to fill out used ...
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On Media Matters Radio, Eric Deggans, Author Of Race-Baiter ...
On Media Matters Radio, Eric Deggans, Author Of Race-Baiter, Discusses CNN's Quiet Suspension Of Dana Loesch. Video ››› 57 minutes ago ››› MEDIA ...
mediamatters.org/video/2012/10/26/on-media.../190960

"Goosebumps" Author Keeps Chills Going For Loyal Fans - NY1.com
Author R.L. Stine is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the scary children's book series "Goosebumps" by scaring the readers who ... So fans who read his books and watched the "Goosebumps" TV series in the 90's can now be scared again.
www.ny1.com/.../-goosebumps--author-keeps-chills-going-for...

Schlock Mercenary - Sailing to Sarantium
Sailing to Sarantium. People have been telling me for years that I need to read something -- anything -- by Guy Gavriel Kay. Then they describe his settings by ...
www.schlockmercenary.com/.../sailing-for-sarantium-book-re...

Pippa Middleton Launches New Party-Planning Book



Pippa Middleton Launches New Party-Planning Book, Joins Kids for Crafting ...
E! Online
Kate Middleton's little sis took a hands-on approach with some teeny-tiny pals Thursday, swinging by a crafting workshop-turned-kiddie party in a London bookstore to help hype the launch of her new party-planning book, Celebrate. Dressed in a snug ...

E! Online

Bringing Up the Books
Wall Street Journal
The English author, whose career spans four decades, started writing at the age of 22.... She documented that time in her essay "Ink in the Blood: A Hospital Diary," first published in the London Review of Books and now available as an e-book. "It was ...

Wall Street Journal

Pearson, Bertelsmann in Talks to Merge Book Businesses
Wall Street Journal
Digital technology is also allowing authors to self-publish, while prompting a wide variety of newcomers and experienced professionals to start digital book companies. At the same ... "The big publishers have to reckon with lower gross margins and ...

'Cloud Atlas' Author David Mitchell: If the Movie Were Structured Like the ...
Anglophenia
“It's not only one of the most 'unfilmable' books I've ever written, this is also one of the most 'unfilmable' books I've ever read.” “Unfilmable” or not, the movie version of Cloud Atlas has been filmed, and it's ... after which the first five stories ...

Book Review: The Invisible Woman: The Story of Charles Dickens and Nelly ...
Blogcritics.org (blog)
When you've got a story about a middle aged, world famous author married with a herd of children who walks out on his wife and takes up in secret with a beautiful young actress half his age, you've got the makings of the kind of story worthy of ...

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Book Review: 'Why I Left Goldman Sachs,' by Greg Smith
Businessweek
For example, in his original article and in a corresponding section of the book, Smith related that traders in London sometimes called their clients “muppets.” This was not meant to convey that the clients were funny or that they often broke out in ...

Review: Edward Gorey's gothic tales from the vault
Los Angeles Times
In recent years, Gorey's eccentric shadow has only lengthened across pop culture, his influence apparent in Tim Burton's gothic whimsies; the Lemony Snicket books by Daniel Handler; the emergence of the Gorey tattoo as a hipster fad; crowds thronging ...

Book: Cartoonists are 'Mad' about sports
ESPN (blog)
James Bennett, Jack Rickard Here is a photo gallery of 10 sports covers of Mad in the new book, out Tuesday. Mad magazine has been around for 60 years and has published 518 issues -- but NBA legend Michael Jordan has never made the cover.

ESPN (blog)

New iBooks Author supports LaTeX and MathML | TUAW - The ...
By Mike Schramm
LaTeX is document markup system (similar to the popular Markdown) that's popular among high-level academia and mathematics authors. iBooks Author 2,
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

ValoBox Launches Pay-As-You-Go eBook Offering; O'Reilly Media ...
By Steve O'Hear
Not so crazy, it seems, that one UK startup is taking a stab: ValoBox launches its on-demand browser-based eBook service today, with publishers O'Reilly Media, Profile Books, Guardian Books, Constable & Robinson, and Snowbooks, signed on ... Founded by Anna Lewis and Oliver Brooks, who are also the team behind the online book publishing service, CompletelyNovel.com, ValoBox's pay-as-you-go model sets out to solve the problem of “how to get hold of expert content when ...
TechCrunch

Book Bench - Neatorama
By Brody
If I got to decide what books were in the bench I would probably choose Skippy Dies, Ender's Game, The Hobbit, Catch 22, Super Sad True Love Story (the book that I am currently enthralled with), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (trilogy), ...
Neatorama

Book News: Smoking Santa, Snobby Tablet : The New Yorker
By Rachel Arons
Barnes & Noble announced on Wednesday that PIN pad devices in sixty-three of its stores had been hacked, compromising customers' credit-card information. In an effort to reduce children's exposure to smoking, a Canadian publisher has ...
Page-Turner

New for You: Presidential Campaign Posters Book | Picture This ...
New for You: Presidential Campaign Posters Book ... Cover of Presidential Campaign Posters.http://www.loc.gov/publish/general/ presidentialcampaignposters.html ... of Congress Publishing Office produce fascinating new books each year by ... Many thanks to the Publishing Office for a lively book that also expanded the ...
blogs.loc.gov/.../new-for-you-presidential-campaign-posters-b...

Underwater Dog Photos Immortalized in New Book
To celebrate the release of one of our favorite blogs-turned-books, ... If you love them, you can find more in his book, which is available here and makes for much ...
thefw.com/underwater-dog-photos-book/



Back from Miami: Tom Wolfe is back with another big city novel

Back from Miami: Tom Wolfe is back with another big city novel - The Washington Post: " . . . You don’t have to ask what Wolfe’s been up to the past few years. For the most part, it’s in the book. Not just a strip club, but City Hall and Little Havana, the Miami Art Museum and Fisher Island. A favorite memory was when police let him ride on a “Safe Boat” around Biscayne Bay. “These things race across the water at 45 miles an hour, which is fast when you’re on the water, and these boats are unsinkable. Nobody has ever been able to turn one over. The bottom of the boat was like an enormous mattress. It was built for safety, and that gave me the idea for the whole first chapter of the book,” he says, adding that another highlight was witnessing the Columbus Day Regatta. “Unfortunately, when I went, the police had begun to crack down. It was no longer an orgy on the water. They used to line up boats, as many as 10-12 boats lashed together, so you had one enormous uneven deck. And they’d have really wild parties, ending with boys and girls down on the deck having at it, and pornographic movies on the big sails of the schooners. . .”

'Spider-Man' co-writer to pen tell-all book on Broadway musical
Los Angeles Times
A co-writer for the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" has reportedly accepted abook deal to tell his side of the story of the troubled mega-production. Glen Berger, who wrote thebook for the musical along with Julie Taymor, has inked a ...

Pippa Middleton's party book 'Celebrate' goes on sale in UK
Examiner.com
The 30-year-old first time author will not be going on a promotional book tour. Pippa reportedly turned down a handful of lucrative interviews over fears she would be asked about ... Pippa's book "Celebrate: A Year of Festivities for Families and ...

Examiner.com

Woman who claimed affair with Herman Cain plans a book
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Ginger White, the former metro Atlanta resident whose claims of an affair with Herman Cain helped force him from the GOP presidential race, now plans a book. In which she plans to describe the former candidate's “physical attributes, scars and marks.” ...

iBooks 3 rolls out with iCloud support and vertical scrolling
CNET
So your bookshelves can display any books stored on Apple's cloud along with books saved locally. You can ... You can then swipe the screen to move up and down page by page, an option I found quicker and easier than the default horizontal book layout.

Book buzz: James Cameron to direct 'The Informationist'
USA TODAY
Spider-Man tell-all: Playwright Glen Berger has signed a book deal for Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History. R.A. Dickey: The New York Mets pitcher talks about his new books for children in a USA ...

Younger Americans reading the most
Columbus Dispatch
WASHINGTON — The most likely book readers in the United States are high-school students, college-age adults and people in their 30s, with e-book use highest among 30-somethings, according to a survey released yesterday. Seventy-eight percent of ...

Columbus Dispatch

Author to Share Success Story at Westport Writers' Workshop
Sacramento Bee
She will also read excerpts from her memoir, a Barnes and Noble e-Book sensation. Previously ...Something I had never considered before writing the book," said Mandel. After countless rejections by agents, Mandel decided to self-publish her memoir ...

Video discussion: Author Margaret Atwood talks about her new novel
Los Angeles Times
Alert icon. Sign in or sign up now! Alert icon. Loading... Published on Oct 23, 2012 by losangelestimes. More at the Los Angeles Times: http://lat.ms/TA6jDS. Author Margaret Atwood on technology, storytelling, her serial novel "Positron," and other works.

Sharjah book fair to turn spotlight on Pakistan
New York Daily News
Twenty-five authors including popular writer Wasi Shah and about 23 publishers from Pakistan will be participating in the event," said Mohan Kumar, coordinator of the book fair. Internationally acclaimed Indian author and Man Booker Prize winner ...

Apple releases iBooks 3, iBooks Author 2 | TUAW - The Unofficial ...
By Megan Lavey-Heaton
Hours after announcing updates to iBooks and iBooks Author at Tuesday's iPad mini event, Apple has released iBooks 3 through the App Store and iBooks.
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Book News: Poetic Ladies, Hobbit Lifespans : The New Yorker
By Andrea DenHoed
A new Pew study shows that sixteen to twenty-nine year olds are still reading books and using libraries, despite knowing how to use computers. A look at the women who have shaped Poetry magazine during its hundred-year-long history.
Page-Turner

Writer of 'Spider-Man' Musical Signs a Book Deal - NYTimes.com
By By CHARLES MCGRATH
Simon & Schuster is slated to publish Glen Berger's "Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History" in 2013.
ArtsBeat

Steals and Deals: Kids' Books, Watches, Clothing and More ...
The second collection is “Junie B.'s Books In a Bus. ... Random House says their book set will be shipped in two weeks at an estimated shipping cost of $9.95.
hip2save.com/.../steals-and-deals-kids-books-watches-clothing...

The Book Bjorn Book Trailer - GalleyCat
In an interesting twist, a new book trailer from The Onion spends more time telling you ... All ...
www.mediabistro.com/.../the-book-bjorn-book-trailer_b59592

Flavorwire » 10 of Literature's Greatest Comeback Books
10 of Literature's Greatest Comeback Books ... some critics are heralding his new effort, Back to Blood, which hit bookstores this week, as his comeback book.
www.flavorwire.com/.../10-of-literatures-greatest-comeback-b...

MSN Movies | Unfilmable Books
It reminded me, interestingly, of a movie that i needed to read the book in order to ... Published in 2004, author David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas" featured intertwined ...
movies.msn.com/unfilmable-books/photo-gallery/feature/

Hit the books with this year's CNO reading list - Navy News | News ...
There are 17 other books appearing for the first time on the list, and 42 overall. ... Adapting to reader habits, the Navy also is offering more e-book and audiobook ...
www.navytimes.com/news/.../navy-CNO-reading-list-102412...

E-book use highest among 30-somethings

Survey: E-book use highest among 30-somethings
Chicago Tribune
The survey covered books in print, in electronic formats and audiobooks. Among Americans who read e-books, those under 30 are more likely to read them on a cell phone, at 41 percent, or on a computer (55 percent) than on an e-book reader (23 percent ...

Pippa Middleton book: How good are these royal recipes?
Christian Science Monitor
Pippa's new book, "Celebrate," features seasonal themed parties with fashionable photos full of rosy cheeked children enjoying themselves and, of course, the perfect tresses and dimpled smile of the author herself. London's Daily Mail online offers a ...

Christian Science Monitor

Apple reveals updated iBooks Author with portrait-only orientation
Macworld (blog)
If ebook-making is your thing, you may be interested in the latest version of iBooks Author, revealed at Apple's media event on Tuesday. Apple CEO Tim Cook presented the updated ... an improved publication experience for publishers. Those interested in ...

Book buzz: Lemony Snicket is back, 'Divergent' casting
USA TODAY
Daniel Handler (AKA Lemony Snicket) is back with a new series of adventures for kids that serve as a prequel for the popular books. Marco R. della Cava interviews the wry writer at his home in San Francisco, and Bob Minzesheimer gives the new book, Who ...

Greg Smith Promoting Book, Dishing on Goldman Sachs
Bloomberg
Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- In today's "Movers & Shakers," Bloomberg's Betty Liu reports on former Goldman Sachs vice president Greg Smith promoting his book, "Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story." She speaks on Bloomberg Television's In The Loop.

Book Review: Steven Spielberg: A Retrospective by Richard Schickel
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
But the 79-year-old Schickel, a highly respected film critic who spent decades reviewing films for Life and Time, has ensured his book goes well beyond the sort of picture-book mentality of more superficial coffee table books. Devoting a chapter to ...

Author to condense 12 James Bond novels into 140 character tweets
New York Daily News (blog)
Good news for time-strapped fans of the suave British superspy James Bond: In celebration of the release of the new 007 movie — “Skyfall” — the author and comedian Charlie Higson is planning to turn 12 of Ian Fleming's original bond novels into 140 ...

New Obama book has 2nd-term plan
Politico
New Obama book has 2nd-term plan. 163. MTV +20 Pts; Email; Print. Barack Obama is pictured. | AP Photo. The campaign says 3.5 million copies are being printed. | AP Photo. Close. By MIKE ALLEN | 10/23/12 8:47 AM EDT ... Obama touts new book ...

Politico

Writing book helps Ariz. Border Patrol widow cope
San Francisco Chronicle
From there, the book evolves. It's a story of grieving, coping, accepting and letting go when your spouse dies in the line of duty. It's not 120 pages of self-pity. As the title suggests, it's a guide for widows of fallen officers. And perhaps, more ...

San Francisco Chronicle

A Conversation with: Author Shankkar Aiyar - NYTimes.com
By By NEHA THIRANI
Most major decisions in India have been reactions to crises, not the result of forethought and planning, author says. ... Shankkar Aiyar is the author of “Accidental India: A History of the Nation's Passage Through Crisis and Change.” An award- winning journalist and columnist, he has reported on the political ... The genesis of this book can be traced to when I reported on crates of gold from the Reserve Bank of India being furtively loaded on an aircraft. I thought that this was no different ...
India Ink

Book News: Orwellian Animation, Joycean Illustration : The New ...
By Rachel Arons
The Imaginarium, the performance-capture studio behind “Rise Of the Planet Of The Apes,” is planning a film adaptation of George Orwell's “Animal Farm.”...
Page-Turner

Today's Scuttlebot: Real Books, and Windows Confusion - NYTimes ...
By By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Monday's selection includes a comic that looks at artificial intelligence, a celebration of books that aren't electronic and the mystery ...
NYT Bits

Freakonomics » The End of Men Author Hannah Rosin Answers ...
By Stephen J. Dubner
We recently solicited your questions for Hanna Rosin, author of the new book The End of Men (and the Rise of Women). Here now are her replies, which include an explanation of the book's title and possible solutions to the wage gap. Thanks ...
Freakonomics

Tunnel of books - LA Observed
By Kevin Roderick
Tunnel of books. By Kevin Roderick | October 22, 2012 9:34 PM. tunnel-of-books.jpg. Photo from upstairs at The Last Bookstore, at 5th Street and Spring in Downtown. LA Observed photos. tunnel-of-books-more.jpg. More by Kevin Roderick: ...
LA Observed

R. A. Dickey talks about his new children books
Mets pitcher and Nashville Native R. A. Dickey talks about reading and his new children books.
www.usatoday.com/videos/life/books/2012/10/23/1652225/

Books of Wonder Needs To Raise $100,000 to Survive - GalleyCat
The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry ... Books of Wonder, a New York City-based ...
www.mediabistro.com/.../books-of-wonder-needs-to-raise-100...



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