Education Week News (blog)
Monterey Trail High School, in Elk Grove, Calif., offers a Forbidden Book Display, and puts a question in its daily school bulletin about banned books. Others get more creative, as with the San Francisco-based event "Naked Girls Reading Banned Books.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's tell-all book takes bad taste to a new level
Los Angeles Times
And yet, after putting his family through all of that, after Maria filed for divorce and his family exploded, the 38th governor of the great state of California still thinks it's appropriate to memorialize the whole thing in book form and blab about it ...
Book review: Lois Lowry just keeps on giving in 'Son'
The Detroit News
Book 3 is the most convoluted section of "Son," taking place in yet another community and melding characters from the previous three books in "The Giver" series into an entirely new environment. Although the last page of "Son" is heartwarming, readers ...
Bill Walton signs book deal
ESPN
The book is tentatively called "Back From the Dead." It will cover everything from Walton's triumphs with UCLA to his overcoming a stutter and becoming a broadcaster to the collapsed spine that left him hardly able to move for three years. The book ...
Lena Dunham's million-dollar book proposal and more lit links
Los Angeles Times
What kind of girl is Lena Dunham? A million-dollar one, if her literary agency gets its way. According to Slate, the 26-year-old writer-director-star of HBO's "Girls" is shopping a book deal this week, asking for $1 million (although they'll take more ...
BOOK REVIEW: 'Ecoliterate'
Washington Times
As an aside, books that provide stark alternative views to “Ecoliterate,” and in many cases, more objective data on the environment from which young students would benefit, include “Human Nature: A Blueprint for Managing the Earth — By People, For...
Washington Times
McChrystal's book to be delayed
Foreign Policy (blog)
Indeed, Situation Report reported recently on the worries of another author, Pete Mansoor, whosebook isn't coming out for awhile but who learned the hard way on his last book that the 30-day timeframe the Pentagon is supposed to have to review ...
New cookbook from Mila chefs is the local cookbook of the fall ...
By Judy Walker, The Times-Picayune
They will take the baby on their book tour to several Southern cities, plus New York City, where they operated in high-profile kitchens ending with Jack's Luxury Oyster Bar which helped Vines-Rushing earn the James Beard Rising Star Award in 2004. ... Chef recipes in their coffee table books tend to run too long, sometimes, he added. .... Red Mass is celebrated at the beginning of the judicial year and is attended by judges, lawyers and officials of all faiths More News Photos » ...
New Orleans Book News and Reviews
Today's Latest Author & Book News - October 1st 2012 - Maryse's ...
Sooo much good news today!! And I MEAN GOOD! Indie authors getting signed, authors teasing us about their book releases, books on SUPER sale, this was a ...
www.maryse.net/.../todays-latest-author-book-news-october-1s...
Robert Hoffman, Kate Gosselin Tell-All Book Author: 'More Explosive ...
Huffington Post
The e-book, penned by Robert Hoffman, a friend of Kate's estranged husband, Jon Gosselin, was pulled from Amazon just two days after its release following charges of inappropriately obtained confidential documents. A friend of Gosselin's, who had not ...
JK Rowling's 'Casual Vacancy' Sells 375000 Copies in Six Days
Wall Street Journal (blog)
8 on the Kindle e-book best-seller list. “The book is doing really well for us,” said Mitchell Kaplan, who owns three Books & Books stores in Florida. “There's a lot of interest and people are buying it. Some reviews were really harsh, but word of ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Book: Obama hoped to try bin Laden, if captured
Boston.com
In a book on the raid that killed bin Laden, author Mark Bowden quotes Obama as saying he thought he could make a strong political argument for giving bin Laden the full rights of a criminal defendant, to show U.S. justice applies even to him. In the ...
From the Author of AcaPolitics: How Do I Feel About the Upcoming Pitch Perfect ...
Huffington Post
And then there were text messages like, "You know the Pitch Perfect movie is nothing like his book, right? Actually more like yours." 'His book' referring to Mickey Rapkin's nonfiction Pitch Perfect, released 2009. A similar sentiment was recently ...
'Netflixed' author talks Hastings' glory, hubris, white lies (Q&A)
CNET
Gina Keating, the book's author and a former reporter for Reuters, spent two years researching the project, which offers an insider's view of the strategy, chaos, and hand-wringing that went on behind the scenes at Netflix and Blockbuster during their ...
The Children's Author Who Actually Listens to Children
New York Times
Since that book's 1994 Newbery Medal, it has become a classic — selling millions ofcopies worldwide, landing on the curriculum of countless schools (and being challenged or banned at many more for its message of distrust for authority) and leading a ...
Book buzz: Rowling reigns, Bill Walton to write memoir
USA TODAY
Rowling reigns: The mega-selling author of Harry Potter is officially back on top. J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy will land on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list at No. 1 Thursday. Publisher Little, Brown announced the book sold 375,000 copies in ...
Book news: Ah-nuld, hairy women and cowboy hats
Houston Chronicle (blog)
BOOK NEWS. He's Back: Ah-nuld Schwarzenegger is a cheater. The former bodybuilder, former governor of California and former partner of Maria Shriver pimps his personal life in his juicy new autobiography, “Total Recall.” (What else would it be called?) ...
Houston Chronicle (blog)
NORTH SHORE BOOK NOTES: 'When America First Met China'
Wicked Local
The struggles detailed in his books, especially his newest — “When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail” — exemplify both the potential of capitalism and the downsides. China has not forgotten what ...
Boston Public Library announces October author talks, lectures
Boston.com
The events, at the central library in Copley Square and the library's neighborhood branches, feature notable authors and scholars discussing their books that range from novels to home buying advice, public art and architecture, hearing loss, and ...
FastPencil, Auto-Graphics Team for Library Publishing Platform
Publishers Weekly
Technology company Auto-Graphics has partnered with publishing platform FastPencil to bring FastPencil's book publishing engine Library Management Platform to libraries around the country. Library members will have the ability to use FastPencil's ...
Santorum cites unsung heroes of the American Revolution
NBCNews.com
former pennsylvania senator rick santorum is a former republican presidential candidate and author of the new book " american patriots , answering the call to freedom." senator, good to see you. >> thank you, david. >> talk about the book in a minute ...
NBCNews.com
Official book trailer for 'Beautiful Redemption' makes its online debut
Examiner.com
The atmospheric book trailer features line-drawing animation that traces through each of the books in the series: Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness, and Beautiful Chaos, before teasing readers about what to expect in Beautiful Redemption. Playing...
Examiner.com
Colombian Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez Receives Mexican Fine Arts Medal
Fox News
The Mexican government announced Tuesday that it had awarded the country's Fine Arts Medal to Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who has been living in Mexico since the 1970s. "On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the awarding of the ...
Books | Memoir has plenty of Heart
Columbus Dispatch
The briskly paced book arrives during a busy year for the sisters, who, in addition to writing the memoir, compiled a Heart boxed set; recorded Fanatic, a solid new album of heavy rock due this month; and embarked on a tour. The various projects ...
Columbus Dispatch
Andrew McCarthy's new book takes on marriage, traveling
Mother Nature Network (blog)
The deep emotional stuff that he examines isn't easy to do, much less write about, and McCarthy does so in the form of a travel memoir, since he books back-to-back trips to in the months prior to his wedding. Since his movie-star days in the '80s, when ...
Mother Nature Network (blog)
New book battles tiger mom syndrome with laughs
The News-Press
Alicia Ybarbo, left, and Mary Ann Zoellner, two of four authors of "Sh*tty Mom," pose with their book Sept. 11 in New York. The latest in irreverent parenting books is part parody and part painful truth. It's written by four very busy, often tired ...
'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' author Maria Semple talks about her new book
Christian Science Monitor
It's the question her daughter Bee is trying to answer in the new book "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" by Maria Semple, author of "This One Is Mine" and former TV writer for shows like "Mad About You" and "Arrested Development." Skip to next paragraph ...
Christian Science Monitor
JK Rowling, 'Harry Potter' Author, Not Going Into Space With Virgin Galactic
Huffington Post
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has declined a trip into space that was offered to her for £2 million ($3,222,600,) reports the Irish Independent. "I was offered a seat. For a mere £2 million I could have been on the shuttle, but I turned it down ...
New Book Captures Artist Muses (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post
Farid Abdelouahab recounts the stories of thirty-two women who, through their temperament, beauty, talent, and pure magnetism, enthralled society's artistic geniuses and inspired the creation of some of the greatest works of the past centuries in his ...
Bakerella releases cake pop set and new book
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Atlanta native and cake pop inventor Angie Dudley can help with her new book of designs and a pop-making kit. Dudley ... Dudley's first book on the pops, appearing two years ago, contained instructions for more than 40 themed (and shaped) treats. On Oct.
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Book Scene -- Kids are reading, and they're reading a lot
Yakima Herald-Republic
Real paper books. Inklings just expanded its children's book offerings because kids of every age are reading a lot. I ran some reports to see what they are reading and it is truly staggering and wholly encouraging. Young adults, spanning approximately ...
Eric Hobsbawm's final book to be published in 2013
The Guardian
His publisher Little, Brown said today that Hobsbawm handed in his final book, Fractured Spring, three months ago, and it will be published in March. Described as a collection of studies on "the history of the 'classical' arts and culture in the 19th ...
The Guardian
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
NPR
The tops of the shelves loom high above, and it's dark up there — the books are packed in close, and they don't let any light through. The air might be thinner, too. I think I see ... Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review ...
NPR
Book & Movie Club announces fall season
Utica Observer Dispatch
The Colgate Bookstore and the Hamilton Theater recently announced the fall 2012 season of the Hamilton Book & Movie Club which will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25. The theme of the season is “Experience India.” The first selection for the ...
eBook review: Blue Skies, Atopia Chronicles - Boing Boing
By Jason Weisberger
The Golden Dawn, Greece's ultra-right thug club, used to come out only at night. Making the BookTalismanic: An Interview with Robert Ansell. Robert Ansell is the Director of Fulgur Press, which has published the work of esoteric artists for 20 ...
Boing Boing
Sooo much good news today!! And I MEAN GOOD! Indie authors getting signed, authors teasing us about their book releases, books on SUPER sale, this was a ...
www.maryse.net/.../todays-latest-author-book-news-october-1s...
Robert Hoffman, Kate Gosselin Tell-All Book Author: 'More Explosive ...
Huffington Post
The e-book, penned by Robert Hoffman, a friend of Kate's estranged husband, Jon Gosselin, was pulled from Amazon just two days after its release following charges of inappropriately obtained confidential documents. A friend of Gosselin's, who had not ...
JK Rowling's 'Casual Vacancy' Sells 375000 Copies in Six Days
Wall Street Journal (blog)
8 on the Kindle e-book best-seller list. “The book is doing really well for us,” said Mitchell Kaplan, who owns three Books & Books stores in Florida. “There's a lot of interest and people are buying it. Some reviews were really harsh, but word of ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Book: Obama hoped to try bin Laden, if captured
Boston.com
In a book on the raid that killed bin Laden, author Mark Bowden quotes Obama as saying he thought he could make a strong political argument for giving bin Laden the full rights of a criminal defendant, to show U.S. justice applies even to him. In the ...
From the Author of AcaPolitics: How Do I Feel About the Upcoming Pitch Perfect ...
Huffington Post
And then there were text messages like, "You know the Pitch Perfect movie is nothing like his book, right? Actually more like yours." 'His book' referring to Mickey Rapkin's nonfiction Pitch Perfect, released 2009. A similar sentiment was recently ...
'Netflixed' author talks Hastings' glory, hubris, white lies (Q&A)
CNET
Gina Keating, the book's author and a former reporter for Reuters, spent two years researching the project, which offers an insider's view of the strategy, chaos, and hand-wringing that went on behind the scenes at Netflix and Blockbuster during their ...
The Children's Author Who Actually Listens to Children
New York Times
Since that book's 1994 Newbery Medal, it has become a classic — selling millions ofcopies worldwide, landing on the curriculum of countless schools (and being challenged or banned at many more for its message of distrust for authority) and leading a ...
Book buzz: Rowling reigns, Bill Walton to write memoir
USA TODAY
Rowling reigns: The mega-selling author of Harry Potter is officially back on top. J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy will land on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list at No. 1 Thursday. Publisher Little, Brown announced the book sold 375,000 copies in ...
Book news: Ah-nuld, hairy women and cowboy hats
Houston Chronicle (blog)
BOOK NEWS. He's Back: Ah-nuld Schwarzenegger is a cheater. The former bodybuilder, former governor of California and former partner of Maria Shriver pimps his personal life in his juicy new autobiography, “Total Recall.” (What else would it be called?) ...
Houston Chronicle (blog)
NORTH SHORE BOOK NOTES: 'When America First Met China'
Wicked Local
The struggles detailed in his books, especially his newest — “When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail” — exemplify both the potential of capitalism and the downsides. China has not forgotten what ...
Boston Public Library announces October author talks, lectures
Boston.com
The events, at the central library in Copley Square and the library's neighborhood branches, feature notable authors and scholars discussing their books that range from novels to home buying advice, public art and architecture, hearing loss, and ...
FastPencil, Auto-Graphics Team for Library Publishing Platform
Publishers Weekly
Technology company Auto-Graphics has partnered with publishing platform FastPencil to bring FastPencil's book publishing engine Library Management Platform to libraries around the country. Library members will have the ability to use FastPencil's ...
Santorum cites unsung heroes of the American Revolution
NBCNews.com
former pennsylvania senator rick santorum is a former republican presidential candidate and author of the new book " american patriots , answering the call to freedom." senator, good to see you. >> thank you, david. >> talk about the book in a minute ...
NBCNews.com
Official book trailer for 'Beautiful Redemption' makes its online debut
Examiner.com
The atmospheric book trailer features line-drawing animation that traces through each of the books in the series: Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness, and Beautiful Chaos, before teasing readers about what to expect in Beautiful Redemption. Playing...
Examiner.com
Colombian Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez Receives Mexican Fine Arts Medal
Fox News
The Mexican government announced Tuesday that it had awarded the country's Fine Arts Medal to Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who has been living in Mexico since the 1970s. "On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the awarding of the ...
Books | Memoir has plenty of Heart
Columbus Dispatch
The briskly paced book arrives during a busy year for the sisters, who, in addition to writing the memoir, compiled a Heart boxed set; recorded Fanatic, a solid new album of heavy rock due this month; and embarked on a tour. The various projects ...
Columbus Dispatch
Andrew McCarthy's new book takes on marriage, traveling
Mother Nature Network (blog)
The deep emotional stuff that he examines isn't easy to do, much less write about, and McCarthy does so in the form of a travel memoir, since he books back-to-back trips to in the months prior to his wedding. Since his movie-star days in the '80s, when ...
Mother Nature Network (blog)
New book battles tiger mom syndrome with laughs
The News-Press
Alicia Ybarbo, left, and Mary Ann Zoellner, two of four authors of "Sh*tty Mom," pose with their book Sept. 11 in New York. The latest in irreverent parenting books is part parody and part painful truth. It's written by four very busy, often tired ...
'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' author Maria Semple talks about her new book
Christian Science Monitor
It's the question her daughter Bee is trying to answer in the new book "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" by Maria Semple, author of "This One Is Mine" and former TV writer for shows like "Mad About You" and "Arrested Development." Skip to next paragraph ...
Christian Science Monitor
JK Rowling, 'Harry Potter' Author, Not Going Into Space With Virgin Galactic
Huffington Post
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has declined a trip into space that was offered to her for £2 million ($3,222,600,) reports the Irish Independent. "I was offered a seat. For a mere £2 million I could have been on the shuttle, but I turned it down ...
New Book Captures Artist Muses (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post
Farid Abdelouahab recounts the stories of thirty-two women who, through their temperament, beauty, talent, and pure magnetism, enthralled society's artistic geniuses and inspired the creation of some of the greatest works of the past centuries in his ...
Bakerella releases cake pop set and new book
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Atlanta native and cake pop inventor Angie Dudley can help with her new book of designs and a pop-making kit. Dudley ... Dudley's first book on the pops, appearing two years ago, contained instructions for more than 40 themed (and shaped) treats. On Oct.
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Book Scene -- Kids are reading, and they're reading a lot
Yakima Herald-Republic
Real paper books. Inklings just expanded its children's book offerings because kids of every age are reading a lot. I ran some reports to see what they are reading and it is truly staggering and wholly encouraging. Young adults, spanning approximately ...
Eric Hobsbawm's final book to be published in 2013
The Guardian
His publisher Little, Brown said today that Hobsbawm handed in his final book, Fractured Spring, three months ago, and it will be published in March. Described as a collection of studies on "the history of the 'classical' arts and culture in the 19th ...
The Guardian
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
NPR
The tops of the shelves loom high above, and it's dark up there — the books are packed in close, and they don't let any light through. The air might be thinner, too. I think I see ... Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review ...
NPR
Book & Movie Club announces fall season
Utica Observer Dispatch
The Colgate Bookstore and the Hamilton Theater recently announced the fall 2012 season of the Hamilton Book & Movie Club which will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25. The theme of the season is “Experience India.” The first selection for the ...
eBook review: Blue Skies, Atopia Chronicles - Boing Boing
By Jason Weisberger
The Golden Dawn, Greece's ultra-right thug club, used to come out only at night. Making the BookTalismanic: An Interview with Robert Ansell. Robert Ansell is the Director of Fulgur Press, which has published the work of esoteric artists for 20 ...
Boing Boing
Libboo Raises $1.1m for Book Publishing and Social Discovery ...
By Nick Summers
If you haven't stumbled across them already, Libboo is an online platform for readers not only to discuss the books they enjoy, but also to promote undiscovered authors looking to get that all important big break. Members, which Libboo refers to as “buzzers”, are given ... About the Author. Nick Summers is an intern at The Next Web, based in London, UK. A multimedia journalism graduate from Bournemouth University, he is passionate about technology, social media and photography.
The Next Web
Book: Obama Hoped to Put Bin Laden on Trial With Full Rights of a ...
By Madeleine Morgenstern
In a book on the raid that killed bin Laden, author Mark Bowden quotes Obama as saying he thought he could make a strong political argument for giving bin Laden the full rights of a criminal defendant, to show U.S. justice applies even to him.
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By Madeleine Morgenstern
In a book on the raid that killed bin Laden, author Mark Bowden quotes Obama as saying he thought he could make a strong political argument for giving bin Laden the full rights of a criminal defendant, to show U.S. justice applies even to him.
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Book clocks are analog clocks combined into the spines of vintage hardcover books. Book clocks can be made from almost any kind of book and can be eas...
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Your Take: Author who calls 'spiritual but not religious' a cop-out ...
By Dan Gilgoff
“The problem this author advocates is that of thinking anyone has the ONE COMPLETE TRUE WAY- and everything and everyone else therefore NOT advocating it completely must be wrong. This is dogmatic, archaic, leads to extremism and ...
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Linux Today - Publish a book with LyX
LyX is a structured documentation system that uses LaTeX, a typesetting system, as its back-end. This means that you enter the content and the system works out the best layout. As the user does not have direct control over layout, LyX isn't ...
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'The Giver' author Lois Lowry releases sequel to dystopian tale with ...
By Page Views
Lois Lowry's 1993 book "The Giver" remains one of the most challenged young adult novels in history, but fans of the dystopian tale will be happy to know that the story's famously ambiguous ending now has a conclusion. Lowry, who wrote two other books in the years since "The Giver" first debuted — 2000's "Gathering Blue" and 2004's "Messenger" — calls "Son" the only direct sequel to her original Newbery Medal winner. In the novel, which was released on Tuesday, Lowry returns ...
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J.K. Rowling's New Book BANNED In India?? | PerezHilton.com
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JK Rowling's new book ”The Casual Vacancy” is upsetting Indian's Sikh leaders because of her description of a Sikh character. ... The spokesperson added that its leaders would read the book carefully and said: “If deemed derogatory to the ...
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A Daily Dose of Architecture: Book Review: The Architect Says
By John Hill
Book Review: The Architect Says. The Architect Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom compiled and edited by Laura S. Dushkes Princeton Architectural Press, 2012. Hardcover, 160 pages book-quips.jpg. Even though architecture is a ...
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Moleskine and Milk's Personalized Photo Books Are Unsurprisingly ...
By Leslie Horn
Our love for Moleskin is very well documented. And now that adulation extends to a line of photo albums comprised of your own snapshots, thanks to a joint effort between Moleskine and picturebook publisher Milk.
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Notre Dame football inspires boy author - Spokesman.com - Oct. 3 ...
Like a lot of 10-year-old boys, Jacob Keyes likes football – especially Notre Dame football. But unlike most fifth-graders, Jacob, of Spokane, has written a book about his favorite team. “The Little Gipper's Welcome to Notre Dame Football” is ...
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Parents say children's books too sexual | KXAN.com
By Ignacio Garcia
Some children's books in the Georgetown Public Library are causing a bit of a stir with two local parents. They say several books are too graphic and explicit to be in the children's section of the library. It's taken a few weeks for Tami Brett and ...
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Book: Obama hoped to try bin Laden, if captured - Yahoo! News
A new book due out Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 says President Barack Obama hoped to put Bin Laden on trial if he had surrendered during a U.S. raid. Author Mark ...
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6 Great Books About School
This is a thoughtful, well-planned book to savor with your little one. ... The book highlights the challenges of unfamiliar languages in a positive way, and also ...
www.designmom.com/2012/10/6-great-books-about-school/
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This is a thoughtful, well-planned book to savor with your little one. ... The book highlights the challenges of unfamiliar languages in a positive way, and also ...
www.designmom.com/2012/10/6-great-books-about-school/
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