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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
www.c-spanvideo.org/program/FestivalSunda

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