Banned Books Week

Bill Moyers on Banned Books Week from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
On the 30th anniversary of Banned Books Week, Bill explains why censorship is the biggest enemy of truth.

American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression: "ABFFE is urging booksellers to participate in the 30th annual celebration of Banned Books Week (Sept. 30 - Oct. 6) with a new video. There are many ways booksellers and their customers can support Banned Books Week. ABFFE provides resources and tools to make joining the celebration easy on its website, which includes a Banned Books Week Handbook.  More resources are available at BannedBooksWeek.org."
Events | Banned Books Week: "Are you wondering what you should do for Banned Books Week? If so, click on your state to check out the events taking place in your area. . . . "

Banning Books Is Censorship
Huffington Post (blog)
Among our early releases were the novels of William Styron, including Sophie's Choice, a bannedbook; and multiple titles by Alice Walker, whose novel The Color Purple tops all the banned-bookslists. We published most of the works of James Jones ...

Book buzz: Arnold's memoir, Banned Books Week
USA TODAY
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'The Casual Vacancy' Movie: Casting JK Rowling's New Book
Huffington Post
If the book is adapted, it'll be a doozy to cast, as it features nearly 20 intergal characters, including a pair of romantic, angsty teenage boys, a secretly OCD high school administrator, and an underprivileged athlete struggling to remain optimistic ...

Author events this week: History Lessons with Robert K. Massie
Los Angeles Times
With millions of books sold worldwide, historian, Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Robert K. Massie has devoted the majority of his career to studying the House of Romanov, Russia's royal family from 1613 to 1917. ... Although Americans don ...

Chilean Author Isabel Allende Receives Denmark's Literature Prize
Fox News
Chilean author Isabel Allende received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize from Denmark's Prince Frederik at a ceremony held at the Danish city of Koncerthus on Sunday. According to the judging panel, Allende was selected to receive the award, ...

Book review: Quilt it with Love: The Project Linus Story by Mary Balagna and ...
Blogcritics.org (blog)
The book contains over 20 quilt patterns and the stories of the volunteers who created them and the special children who received them. Quilt It With Love starts out with quilting basics for those new to quilting. You will learn about basic quilting ...

Blogcritics.org (blog)

New book battles tiger mom syndrome with laughs
CBS News
"The target audience is women who are tired of books coming out that tell you you're kind of doing everything wrong and if you only did this, this and this you would be doing a better job and your kids would turn out better," Kilmartin said. "I think ...

Schwarzenegger's book and '60 Minutes' confirm secrecy, numerous affairs ...
Examiner.com
Although Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared on the "60 Minutes" season premiere episode on Sunday night, and among the topics discussed was the huge 800-pound gorilla in the room: his affair with housekeeper Mildred Baena, and the son he fathered...

Examiner.com

Author Lucy Monroe: Proud to be a book geek
USA TODAY
2012 - Lucy Monroe, author of Not Just the Greek's Wife, which comes out today, likes to spread the love by writing in several different romance genres, including paranormal, short contemporary, single title and historical. Here, she shares her love of ...

'Kate Gosselin: How She Fooled the World' book release blocked for now
Examiner.com
Her good mood is likely due to the fact that the scathing tell-all book "Kate Gosselin: How She Fooled the World" by Robert Hoffman seems to have been successfully blocked by her and TLC's attorneys on Monday. The book, which accuses Kate Gosselin of ...

Examiner.com

When a Woman's Word Is Gold: How Women Are Redefining the Publishing World
Huffington Post (blog)
If you're a woman, this is your time: to get your book published, if you're an aspiring author, or to find a good one to read, if you're a bookworm. Or even to set trends, if you're a publisher and you want to tell people about the great books you ...

Jimmy Hoffa author to benefit from tipster and search
Gather.com
There are a lot of good reasons a Jimmy Hoffa book author might want a tipster to come forward in the missing man's case, and for police to search a Roseville, Michigan home for the missing teamster's body. And it all adds up to free publicity and book ...

Poem of the week: Among His Books by Edith Nesbit
The Guardian (blog)
An outstanding children's writer, whom most of us probably first met as E Nesbit,author of the much-dramatised The Railway Children, she produced 21 collections of poetry and numerous adult novels and story collections too. She was a political radical...

The Guardian (blog)

The ALA Ebook Standoff
Library Journal (blog)
You put a lot on us and it's created a lot of chaos and clearly it's [e-book library lending] broken. We have twelve different models….You have to come back to us with more than just 'equitable access at a fair price.” Ay, there's the rub. Publishers ...

How To Self-Publish Your Novel on the Amazon Kindle
PC Magazine
The latter means the author pays someone else to publish his or her work, with little or no consideration for marketing or distribution. Paying to ... The major ebook sellers have their own platforms, making it a breeze for any author to self-publish ...

Book by one hero affirms another
Buffalo News
The mother of former Amherst resident Aaron M. Kenefick, the Marine gunnery sergeant slain with four other servicemen in a 2009 ambush in Afghanistan, offered appreciation for a book written about the tragedy by fellow Marine Dakota Meyer, who received ...

Hollywood producer Brian Grazer lands book deal
Entertainment Weekly
Brian Grazer, a.k.a. the Hollywood mega-producer with the crazy hair, is moving into the publishing business. The New York Post reports that Grazer has landed a six-figure deal with Simon & Schuster for a book that will chronicle Grazer's 27-year ...

KU prof co-authors book about tenure, motherhood
Sacramento Bee
A University of Kansas professor has co-authored a book about raising children while seeking tenure. "Academic ... Her co-author, Kelly Ward, chairs the department of educational leadership and counseling psychology at Washington State University.

Family Tech: How to publish that e-book
Inside NoVA
Publishing companies receive a flood of unsolicited books “over the transom” as they call it. If they have time to look at each one, it is often a brand new employee who reviews it. The only thing standing between you and fame and fortune, if the book ...

Change Your Menopause - A Great Book
Huffington Post
The book starts out with the obvious which you will appreciate; each of you is different and though you are experiencing a universal transition, how you feel about it and how it makes you feel is not necessarily going to be the same for every woman ...

Hometown Author Releases Actors Edition of Song of My Childhood: A Play in ...
STLtoday.com
This week, Major released the first of the Actors Editions for his plays with the print and Kindle versions of Song of My Childhood, published by Carousel Books and available from Amazon/Kindle and other online retailers in North America, Europe, and ...

E-Books Expand Their Potential With Serialized Fiction
New York Times (blog)
Various ventures are trying to satisfy a common complaint about e-books: that they are simply black-and-white digital reproductions of long-form print books, flat and unoriginal in their design and concept. One variation ... The prettiest e-book was ...

Callista Gingrich talks new children's book
NBCNews.com
candidate newt gingrich , author of children's books, getting children excited about history with help from an doshl elephant named ellis . book of "land of the pilgrim's pride." >> thanks for having me. >> different from the first how? >> in the first ...

NBCNews.com

Mick Jagger vs. Spies: Book Claims FBI, MI5 Plotted to Set Up Rolling Stones
Spinner
An excerpt of the forthcoming Philip Norman book Mick Jagger -- published in The Daily Mail late Sunday -- claims the organizations used a failed actor named David Snyderman to befriend the band, establishing a means to try to ruin them through the ...

Books | Volumes help find perfect read
Columbus Dispatch
Former bookseller John Warner, now an author and professor, regularly appears as the Biblioracle in the Chicago Tribune: Tell him the past five books you've read, and he promises to tell you your next favorite. The new book Read This! (Coffee House ...

Columbus Dispatch

Kill Shelters Exploited by Long Valley Author
Patch.com
The author of eight books and admitted non-animal activist contacted her publisher, Barron's of New York, to talk about the idea. Barron's is not immune to animal-based books, as it has published breeding books in the past, but never signed on for a ...

National Book Foundation selects '5 Under 35' honorees
Examiner.com
“When the National Book Foundation introduced 5 Under 35 in 2006, we felt it was important to begin acknowledging the next generation of writers, and to do so by having our National Book Award Winners and Finalists pass the torch, in a sense, to the ...

Examiner.com

A Sea of Books - Neatorama
By Alex
Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus (featured before on Neatorama) has struck again! this time in Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia with a massive sidewalk art installation featuring 10000books that had been thrown away by public ...
Neatorama

Said the Gramophone: (Sailboat Books, 1976)
By Sean
The back of the paperback doesn't have any information, just a publisher. You wonder what the Librarian would say about this book. Would they know all about it, just from the author's name, the publication date? Would the Librarian be able to ...
Said the Gramophone

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the ...
By jgreen
Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned BooksWeek brings together the entire book ...
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All Hallow's Read--Book Blogger Style!
By Amy
You might just also get excited about sharing the joy of deliciously spooky books. And becausebook bloggers are, let's face it, some of the most fun people to share the joy of books with--we're organizing this little swap with book bloggers in ...
My Friend Amy

Pottermore Insider: Discover audio book excerpts in selected ...
By Pottermore Editor
Discover audio book excerpts in selected Moments of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. There is now even more to discover on Pottermore. Selected Moments in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone now contain excerpts from the ...
Pottermore Insider

Bobbi Brown's New Book 'Pretty Powerful,' More Than Skin Deep ...
By Megan Greenlaw
Bobbi Brown, makeup guru, is coming out with a new book, titled Pretty Powerful: Beauty Stories To Inspire Confidence. While Brown has been compiling and publishing books on makeup tricks and application for years, this one, she says, ...
The Inquisitr

Downton Abbey Creator Has Idea for Book Prequel - Paste Magazine
Deadline reports Fellowes' talked about a possible book that would focus on the relationship between the Earl and Countess of Grantham (played by Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern on the show) from that very first meeting.
Paste Magazine

World book's print standard gets new life: Solid Scholarship Meets ...
By SLJ
Options on the seamless “front page” include the research tools (such as a dictionary, atlas, and other pathfinders); up-to-the-minute Reuters headlines; links to the ebook center; the resource's most-viewed articles; and its world of primary ... More than 3,700 e-books, among them Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays, Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution, and Mark Twain's A Horse's Tale , are available and can be searched by author, title, language (including Dutch, French, Spanish , ...
School Library Journal

Thrill Murray: A Bill Murray Coloring Book by Belly Kids - Design Milk
By Caroline Williamson
Nothing has made me want to bust out my markers and crayons more than this Bill Murray coloringbook. The UK-based Belly Kids sought out 24 illustrators to design images of the beloved Bill Murray and compiled them into this ridiculously ...
Design Milk

Sizzling Book Club Pick for October - Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
By sarah@smartbitchestrashybooks.com
Sizzling Book Club Pick for October: What I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne Long - Win a Copy! SBTB/DA ... Reviews by Author, Authors, A-C, Authors, D-G, Authors, H-K, Authors, L-P, Authors, Q-S, Authors, T-Z ... Growlypants…hope you don't mind my butting in on this conversation, but I hear your hesitation about other KA books. ... The rebate is on now, so if you buy at ARe between now and 15 October, you'll get 50% back in eBook Bucks if you use code SBTBARE at checkout. PLUS...
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

Bill O'Reilly talks about his new book 'Killing Kennedy'
Bill O'Reilly's new book looks at the assassination of JFK.
www.usatoday.com/videos/life/books/2012/10/01/1606545/

Fremont's Newest Book Store | Red Tricycle
Sure you could browse the cooking section of your local book megastore to feed your ... store in Fremont that also offers fun activities (and of course, books) for kids. ... the store doubles as an event space for cooking classes, author readings, ...
www.redtri.com/seattle-kids/book-larder-fremont

The Bane of Banned Books
Huffington Post
I even considered majoring in library science, so that I could be near those books. Which is one reason it pains me today that even in this modern day and age, some folks in communities across America are saying: "No. That Book ISN'T For You" and for ...

Book lovers descend on annual city festival
Baltimore Sun
For book lovers, it's an opportunity to stroll the streets of Mount Vernon, discover newbooks and authors, swap old books for other old books and enjoy the carnival atmosphere, complete with music, funnel cakes and quarter-pound hot dogs. "We love...

Baltimore Sun

Book Review: Who stole the American Dream?
USA TODAY
His two books about Russia (he served as a New York Times correspondent there) explained a foreign land in mesmerizing detail to English-language readers. His book The Power Game: How Washington Works exposed machinations in the nation's capital ...

Wong returns in `This Book Is Full of Spiders'
Huffington Post
Wong is also listed as the author of the book, and that adds an extra level of madness to the proceedings. The author is Jason Pargin, senior editor and columnist for Cracked.com, a humor website. The comedic and crackling dialogue also brings a ...

Book review of new JK Rowling novel
Bloomington Pantagraph
Though it's undoubtedly going to happen, it would be unfair to compare this novel to the Harry Potterbooks. They're worlds apart. Author J.K. Rowling's character development is stellar (as usual) and, perhaps because she doesn't have the luxury of ...

Book: Schwarzenegger kept many secrets from wife
7Online.com
LOS ANGELES -- Arnold Schwarzenegger says his lifelong penchant for secrecy and ability to put his emotions "on deep freeze" led him to keep many secrets from his wife Maria Shriver, eventually causing the dissolution of their marriage when he was ...

7Online.com

Tell-All Books. Must They All -- And What's the Point?
Huffington Post (blog)
So I find rumors that she might now issue a new book--more salacious, more detailed, more bitter -- alarming. (President Clinton, whom I can't help but like very much, appears to be indestructible.) Nobody seems to know if rumors of Monica's writing ...

Mamiverse Unveils Special Book Section
Fox News
Users can expect to find book recommendations in the form of reviews. There will also be features to help families integrate reading into their lives by addressing topics such as which books are appropriate for children and how much time should be ...

Q&A: Author Sherman Alexie on 'Blasphemy'
The Seattle Times
Those books were huge for me. Lorrie Moore and Junot Díaz. Oh: I have that with me, that's another travel book (Díaz's new story collection, "This is How You Lose Her"). I met him when he was an undergraduate. He's a (expletive deleted), but he's a ...

The Book We're Talking About: 'The Heart Broke In' By James Meek
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The Internet Newspaper: News, Blogs, Video, Community. Edition: U.S.. CA Canada · FR France · IT Italy · ES Spain · US United States · UK United Kingdom .... "Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories" by Sherman Alexie. Publisher: Grove Press, $27.00 Date: October 2, 2012 Fiction Summary: The famous chronicler of Native American life, best known for his placement among banned books lists, publishes new and old stories.
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Banned Books Week: 10 Books That Keep Censors ... - ABC News
For 30 years now, the sponsors of Banned Books Week have united in defense of ... PHOTO: "And Tango Makes Three," a 2005 children's book written by Peter ...
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Victim 1 in Jerry Sandusky case has book deal - CBS News
(AP) NEW YORK - A key witness against convicted child molester and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, known in court papers as ...
www.cbsnews.com/.../victim-1-in-jerry-sandusky-case-has-bo...

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