Three Cups of Tea co-author Relin commits suicide

Three Cups of Tea co-author Relin commits suicide
Wall Street Journal
David Oliver Relin, co-author of the best-selling book "Three Cups of Tea," said in legal filings about a year before his recent suicide that his career suffered from allegations of lies in the story of a humanitarian who built schools in Pakistan and ...

Book traces odd journey of Cohen's song
The Associated Press
Author Alan Light reflected upon that while at Yom Kippur services in Manhattan two years ago, as he saw congregants in tears when the choir sang "Hallelujah." His curiosity led him to write "The Holy or the Broken," about the song's trajectory, about ...

Boston church will sell rare 1640 book to fund building repairs
Chicago Tribune
The book was among 1,600 copies used as common hymn books in the 17th century, only 11 of which are known to exist today and are owned by Harvard and Yale universities and other institutions, she said. A copy of the book has not been offered for sale ...

Book Buzz: 'Fifty Shades of Grey' inspires baby names
USA TODAY
The book's accuracy was undermined last year when both when 60 Minutes and author Jon Krakauer in an e-book titled Three Cups of Deceit reported that it contained numerous fabrications. 'Wild' oversight: What did you think of The New York Times' most ...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt's book on the future to be released April 23
CNET (blog)
Eric Schmidt's treatise on the future will soon be hitting the bookshelves. Alfred A. Knopf said today that the book by Google's executive chairman and his co-author, Google Ideas director Jared Cohen, would be published on April 23. The book, which ...

These books log Lincoln's life, presidency
USA TODAY
Here is a sampling of great books about the president, as well as his wife. A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C. White Jr. (Random House). Looking for a comprehensive birth-to-death bio? This is the answer. White is particularly strong in his ability ...

Mexican book fair ends with solid growth
Fox News
The book fair's 26th edition drew 20,363 professionals from the world of books, including publishers, editors, distributors, librarians and translators, a figure that was up 14 percent from last year, when the event drew 17,800 professionals. Only 1 ...

'Far From The Tree' By Andrew Solomon: The Book We're Talking About
Huffington Post
Quotes on the dust jacket from President Clinton and Malcolm Gladwell only reinforce the fact that this is a significant work about parenthood, society and nature vs nurture, combined with the author's personal story of becoming a parent. Who wrote it ...

'Books for Bill' fundraiser to stock library of new Arlington school
Boston.com
The “Books for Bill” campaign is being led by friends and colleagues of Shea, who died in July after years of public service in Arlington, including tenures as members of town meeting, the human rights commission and the permanent building committee.

Book by 2 From Google Takes a Deep - Media Decoder - The New ...
By By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Alfred A. Knopf publishers, a Random House imprint, said it would publish the book, titled “The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business,” in April. While the book is not about Google, it does hope to benefit from ...
Media Decoder

Bay Psalm Book Sale: Old South Church To Sell First Book ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Members of the Old South Church in Boston authorized the sale of one of its two copies of the Bay Psalm Book, which was published in 1640. It is among the first books ever published in North America, and only 11 copies remain. Board of ...
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Best Science Books 2012: Amazon.ca – Confessions of a Science ...
By John Dupuis
Deciding what is and isn't a science book is squishy at best, especially at the margins, but in the end I pick books that seem broadly about science and technology rather than something else completely. Lists of business, history or nature ...
Confessions of a Science Librarian

Book News: Chatting with Churchill, Sandy's Newspaper Victims ...
By Andrea DenHoed
R. Kelly is working on a book version of his hip-hopera “Trapped in the Closet.” Evidence that the first use of “OMG” occurred in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill. Parnassus Books, the bookstore started by Ann Patchett after...
Page-Turner

Books - Flavorwire
2012 has been a pretty great year for book lovers — this fall, in particular, was filled with fantastic ...A treat for any fan of the Nobel Prize-winning author's work.

A Book About Everything By Eric Schmidt Comes Out April 23
Eric Scmidt is writing a book about the internet and everything called The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of Emerging Technologies. It's not like he's ...

Three Cups of Tea co-author Relin commits suicide - WTOP.com
David Oliver Relin, co-author of the best-selling book "Three Cups of Tea," said in legal filings about a year before his recent suicide that his career suffered from ...

'Three Cups of Tea' co-author Relin dies at 49 | Comcast
David Oliver Relin, co-author of the best-selling book "Three Cups of Tea" that drew allegations parts of it were fabricated, has committed suicide in Oregon, ...

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