Tampabay.com
In a full-page ad in last Sunday's New York Times Book Review, in this week's Kirkus Reviews and on the four glossy pages of the front and back covers of the current issue of Publishers Weekly, Patterson asked, "Who will save our books? Our bookstores ...
Tampabay.com
F. Scott Fitzgerald's handwritten ledger online
Boston Herald
Researchers from the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library put a digital version of the famed author's handwritten financial ledger on their website last week, making it available for the first time for all readers, students and scholars ...
Feminist author Mary Thom, 68, killed in NY motorcycle crash
Reuters
An accomplished author, editor and journalist, Thom devoted her career to giving voice to women's rights issues in books, magazine columns and through her work within the women's movement, which mourned the loss over the weekend. ... Thom, an Akron ...
Meet the author
MiamiHerald.com
Trust McCorkle, author of six novels and four short story collections, to get right to the big, generous heart of Life After Life (Algonquin, $24.95), a book set in the Pine Haven retirement center in Fulton, N.C., that accomplishes the most miraculous ...
MiamiHerald.com
Book review: Letters not so ordinary
Hindustan Times
and this book stands out from the rest of the crowd like an apple in a box of mangoes. And a fresh one at that. Author Madhumita Mukherjee's debut novel is a story of two people told through letters. Abhi and Uma, the protagonists in the book, share ...
Book award renamed in honour of Margaret Mahy
TVNZ
Mahy was a previous finalist and winner of the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards and is a finalist in this year's picture book category for her book Mister Whistler. She died in Christchurch last year at the age of 76. Sam Elworthy, Chair of the ...
Winners of Zayed Book Award honoured
gulfnews.com
The other six winners of the seventh annual SZBA include Elizabeth Kassab from Lebanon for Contribution to the Development of Nations' Award; Adil Hadjami from Morocco, Young Author award; Tunisian Fat'hi Meskini, Translation Award; Abdullah Ebrahim ...
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Book publisher Quercus hopes for further twist in its fairy tale
Financial Times
If they do it is usually because they have had a push from a book-trade benefactor in the form of a publisher. Such businesses might be a better bet for investors than a struggling author but even then it takes more than one bestseller to make a ...
Saudi pavilion at UAE book fair draws crowd
Arab News
The 23rd International Book Fair Abu Dhabi drew a large crowd from the Kingdom. Many visited the Saudi pavilion, which participated with a large number of books and traditional and cultural exhibitions. These included the photo exhibition “Two Holy ...
Arab News
The Odd Collection of Books in the Guantanamo Prison Library ...
By Dan Colman
gitmo books You don't hear much about Guantanamo these days, unless you keep an eye on the writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage. Last week, Savage reported on a hunger strike involving 93 prisoners that's now in ... Harry Potter series (I imagine the Prisoner of Azkaban volume hits home); some more serious works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien and Charles Dickens; an assortment of religious books; and the occasional self help book like ...
Open Culture
Scandinavian Graphic Design - Book Suggestion | Abduzeedo ...
By abduzeedo
The book suggestion of this week is titled Scandinavian Graphic Design by Sand Publishing. The book shows the history of the Scandinavian design featuring works Denmark, Finland, Iceleand, Norway and Sweeden. Books about design ...
Abduzeedo Design Inspiration & Tutorials
James Patterson Thinks That Books are Precious Snowflakes That ...
By Nate Hoffelder
Last weekend Patterson bought full page ads (at right) in major newspapers which called for the government to take steps to rescue books, the publishing industry, bookstores, and libraries from the scourge of technological progress. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to me ... Bookstores aren't suddenly going out of business as a result of increased ebook sales; they've been under attack by the major bookstore chains and Walmart for the past 30 years. It was big box retailers and their ...
The Digital Reader
Book Review: Modern Italy in Historical Perspective | EUROPP
By Blog Admin
The author, Head of History at the University of Wales, has published on subjects such as Anglo- Italian relations in the 19th Century and the collapse of the Italian post- war Republic in the 1990s, as well as New Labour and the Euro. He sets ...
EUROPP
Chicagoland book clubs
Chicago Tribune
Mokena Library Adult Book Discussion Group. In March we celebrated our 15th anniversary with our 181st book, "Behind the Scenes at the Museum" by Kate Atkinson. We read two nonfiction books a year and a wide variety of fiction. People often say that ...
Weekend picks for book lovers - USA Today
USA TODAY
The author of the hit Wicked Plants and co-founder of the blog Garden Rants, Stewart has written abook less about liquor and more about those magical sprouting things. "Every great drink begins with a plant," Stewart writes. Although brimming with ...
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