World Book Night 2013, featuring James Patterson and Ann Patchett

World Book Night 2013, featuring James Patterson and Ann Patchett
Los Angeles Times
World Book Night books are generally geared toward adult readers, with just a few for kids or teens, even in countries like the U.S. that don't have the corresponding daytime events. On U.S. WorldBook Night, 25,000 volunteers sign up to give away 20 ...

Book Buzz: 'Call the Midwife' headed to US, World Book Night announced
USA TODAY
40 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list with The Safe Man: A Ghost Story, an e-book single. Published ... Sarah Dessen reveal: Check out the cover and first chapter of young adult author Sarah Dessen's new book, The Moon and More, out in June 2013.

Nate Silver's book sales skyrocket post-election
Christian Science Monitor
New York Times political statistician and FiveThirtyEight blogger Nate Silver celebrated his own victory: successfully predicting essentially all 50 states correctly, then seeing sales of his recent book, “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many ...

Christian Science Monitor

Mississippi author Ellen Douglas dies at 91
Boston.com
(AP) — Ellen Douglas, a Mississippi native whose novel ''Apostles of Light'' was a 1973 NationalBook Award nominee, died Wednesday in Jackson. She was 91. ... She wrote 11 books, including six novels and several collections of short stories and essays.

The book on Bond! How real is NBC's comeback? Dish beats injunction.
Los Angeles Times
The book on Bond. The latest James Bond movie "Skyfall" opens this weekend and is expected to deliver big numbers. But what if you are like me and have never really been a Bond guy? Will you be completely lost if you decide to see "Skyfall?" The Wrap ...

Bram Stoker books: The 5 best movie adaptations of 'Dracula'
Christian Science Monitor
Bram Stoker books: The 5 best movie adaptations of 'Dracula'. Bram Stoker's book'Dracula' seized the public's imagination in 1897 with its elegant, deadly vampire who fights a group of Englishmen while preying on one of their wives, Mina Harker. The ...

Christian Science Monitor

2 brief Bradbury works out this fall
Huffington Post
"In the past they (the introducers) have ranged from Beck to Guillermo Del Toro to Judy Blume," Eggers, a National Book Award finalist for his novel "A Hologram for the King," wrote in an email Thursday. "Last year the kids voted to ask Ray Bradbury ...

A New Era for Books: The Random House-Penguin Merger Is Just the Start
The Atlantic
The best of them became destinations for author appearances, book groups, and other specialized services. What was clearly a historic development took place in 2007, when the share of books to be read in e-book format began its rise to a mass market ...

Book Talk-Dinosaur digger disappearance sparks murder mystery
Reuters
The author of 19 previous Scarpetta novels and five non-Scarpetta books, the Miami-born Cornwell lives in Boston with her partner and their four-year old British bull dog "Tram". Cornwell talked to Reuters about her affection for Scarpetta and the ...

Book News: Studying Marginalia, Explaining Hallucinations : The ...
By Rachel Arons
Jennifer Schuessler reports on a Harvard conference devoted to the art and history of note-taking. Emily Eakin on how the “Cloud Atlas” movie makes literal the spiritual connectedness among characters that the book leaves “playfully ...
Page-Turner

Book publisher earnings roundup: HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster ...
By Laura Hazard Owen
Stack of books in library; book stacks photo: Shutterstock / Carlos Andre Santos. CBS, parent company of Simon & Schuster, and News Corp, parent company of HarperCollins, and , both released earnings Wednesday. Here's what they had to ...
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Romney Staffers Publish Sad Victory Website by Mistake
By Mario Aguilar
Romney Staffers Publish Sad Victory Website by Mistake On Tuesday, President Barack Obama was re-elected, which means, of course, that Mitt Romney lost. But if Romney had won, the president-elect would have needed a website.
Gizmodo

Book Review: About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of ...
By Kristopher Poskey
When introducing his book “About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang,”author Adam Frank tells us that he is setting out to “unfold the grandest conception of the universe we human beings have been able. ... Upon first receiving this book, I was hopeful that Frank would present the material of thousands of years of science in a unique and interesting way; setting his writing apart from the hundreds of other astronomy books I've read. Frank, being a seasoned ...
Universe Today

Free Bram Stoker Books for His Birthday - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
Follow these links to explore more free eBooks at Project Gutenberg: our massive Free eBookFlowchart, our Free Books for Halloween collection, our Free Herman Melville books list, our Free Edgar Allan Poe books collection, our Downton ...
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