Latest and Breaking Books News and Top Stories - July 4
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Dear Ms Donnelly: Polly was delighted when the man she loved invited her to accompany him on an archaeological expedition in Scotland. But when she joined the party she discovered a fly in the ointment in the shape of Piers Hargreaves,.....
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France will redraw the nation's map
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A guest post by Jean Shorney When my son suggested that as a writer I should get myself ‘out there’ via the medium of Twitter, all I visualised was people either photographing partially eaten meals, or entertaining us with averaging innu...
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Five words from the blurb: WWII, Exeter, girls, school, destroyed Clare Morrall is a fantastic author. I’ve enjoyed all of her books – especially Astonishing Splashes of Colour, a book packed with wonderfully dysfunctional fa...
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While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our couches), we’re re-running some of our favorite posts of 2014. Enjoy this Best Of, and we’ll be back to your R...
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While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our couches), we’re re-running some of our favorite posts of 2014. Enjoy this Best Of, and we’ll be back to your R...
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While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our couches), we’re re-running some of our favorite posts of 2014. Enjoy this Best Of, and we’ll be back to your R...
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While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our couches), we’re re-running some of our favorite posts of 2014. Enjoy this Best Of, and we’ll be back to your R...
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A couple of years ago, one of my brightest, most driven students asked me a simple question for which I had no ready answer: “Do you know where I could find a list of the 100 or so most important … Continued You just finished...
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For Google, the ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Is an Unforgettable Fiasco – An interesting — and troubling — piece on the European Union’s “right to be forgotten” ruling that contemplates the absolute mess th...
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I read What I Thought Was True when I was in a reading funk and although it’s the kind of book I thought would pull me out of it, it didn’t really. And it was weird because I was liking the book pretty well but I just wasn&#...
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown Reviewed by John from Hood River, Oregon.
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Troika is my debut novel, but it's a debut only in the sense that it is the first of my novels that an editor acquired and published. The more complicated backstory is that during the twenty years preceding Troika, I wrote five novels --...
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By Mary Milliken LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Louis Zamperini, an American prisoner of war in World War Two and Olympic runner whose life inspired the book and upcoming feature film "Unbroken," has died at age 97. Zamperini died after a 40-da...
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The Onyx Boox Lynx is the latest generation e-reader and was just released in the last few weeks. This device pioneers the concept of open Android and has Google Play preloaded on it. Today, we compare the core reading experience between...
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The MP3 Album Deals of the Day are A Salute to America by 101 Strings Orchestra ($1.89) and American Celebration – The Ultimate Patriotic Music Collection (July 4th – Memorial Day – Labor Day) by Various artists ($5.00)...
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Today’s Featured New Release is Shaman Rises ($8.13 Kindle), the ninth novel in the Walker Papers urban fantasy series by C.E. Murphy [Harlequin MIRA]. Love the series and the author, but hate this cover! Book Description Joanne Wa...
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There is a global crackdown on organized crime manufacturing illegal student textbooks. A few weeks ago police raided a few locations in Madrid and Seville, seizing 10 professional book scanning machines and arresting three. Authorities ...
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1776 ($3.28 Kindle), by David McCullough [Simon & Schuster]; Publishers Weekly Starred Review Book Description America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force,...
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Why would flowers try so hard, to attract the bees? Why would raindrops transform themselves into a rainbow when they encounter the sun? Because nature is beauty Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible Inner beauty is the soul The eyes...
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It’s time for this week’s free audiobooks from Sync. I’ve linked in the info from the ebook or audiobook version of each title (Amazon has the best reviews), followed by the link to get your copies free, with directions...
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Despite the letter circulated by some well-known authors that urged Amazon to behave itself in its ongoing dispute with Hachette, a new open letter and petition has surfaced. This time, nearly thirty indie authors signed the letter thank...
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Like Abraham Lincoln, the greatest statesman of the 19th century, Winston Churchill, the greatest of the 20th, had a genius for language. But unlike Lincoln, Churchill made a lucrative living as an author, inflating both his bank balance...
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Is it possible to find humor in the interval between a soldier’s crippling encounter with a roadside bomb and his first confident steps on a pair of new limbs? In her new memoir, therapist Adele Levine puts this question under the micros...
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‘Shaving is tricky with an owl on your right shoulder.” So writes Martin Windrow, a British bachelor who in the spring of 1978 decided to adopt a month-old tawny owl as his flatmate in a London high-rise. During the course of their 15-ye...
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The civil rights revolution of the 1960s is much remembered, especially in this 50th-anniversary year of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. But the other transformational political revolution of the 1960s is almost entirely forgotten. Between 19...
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In 1997, Sylvia Jukes Morris published the first volume of her exhaustive biography of the remarkable woman born Ann Clare Boothe. “Rage for Fame” portrayed the coming of age of a smart, beautiful and desperately ambitious girl, torn bet...
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I’ve been testing a bunch of different Android reading apps on the Onyx Boox T68 Lynx. The Play Books app is up for review this time around. At first the app seemed to work okay, but the more I use it the more it continues to crash...
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Fireworks won’t be the only things flaring in America’s backyards on this Fourth of July. You’d think after centuries of cooking with fire, man would have it down. But so many backyard chefs still scorch that precious steak or salmon....
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By Jeffrey B. Roth GETTYSBURG Pa. (Reuters) - The author of the "The Star-Spangled Banner," which will ring out at thousands of baseball games and parades across the United States this Independence Day weekend, may have been tone deaf, a...
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After Henry Miller married his second wife June Mansfield and, at her urging, gave up his job as the employment manager of Western Union, he vowed never again to hold a job, never again to march in lockstep with the rest of humanity. Wri...
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Johansson was awarded about $3,600 Cdn. in damages after suing a French author for including a character in his novel that is described as bearing a remarkable resemblance to the Lost in Translation and The Avengers actress.
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The BiblioTech digital library in Bexar County Texas has officially opened their doors to the public. Patrons will be able to access to over 10,000 eBooks and residents will be able checkout 600 E-readers, 9 laptops and 40 tablets to ...
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Samuel Beckett’s “Echo’s Bones,” a short story, is being published eight decades after his editor rejected it.
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FRIENDSHIP By Emily Gould Farrar Straus Giroux. 258 pp. $26 Emily Gould likes to write about herself. Perhaps her most famous autobiographical treatise is the one that appeared in 2008 on the cover of the New York Times magazine, in whic...
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Lee Grant discusses her new memoir, “I Said Yes to Everything”
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Backlash against fears about dumbing down of art misses the point: The poetic and abstract are healthy forms of political questioning
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Just in time for the Independence Day holiday: New books and ARCs that have arrived at the Scalzi Compound this week. Let me know in the comments which works here appeal to you.
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Before writing the poems that make up Hustle , Martinez was hustling for a long time. His work dips into his teenage years running with a gang, his enlistment in the Navy, and his turn to poetry.
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Christopher Benfey In art, it is generally more interesting to bend the rules (bend them like Beckham) than to break them. Bend is evolution. Break is revolution. In retrospect, however, what once seemed revolutionary (Whitman, Impressio...
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Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B, optioned the rights to the critically heralded story about a group of journalists when it became an international bestseller and made the Scotiabank Giller Prize long list in 2010
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American children’s and young adult author Walter Dean Myers died Tuesday following a brief illness, his publisher announced Wednesday. He was 76.
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We discussed the CBC Books 100: 100 novels that make you proud to be Canadian during the July #canlit chat. Read the replay.
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Since there’s a holiday weekend coming up, this feels like a particularly appropriate time to talk about Kelly Link — and more specifically Magic for Beginners , one of the best short story collections to come out in the last...
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Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally. $ 1.99 From the Jacket Copy: What girl doesn’t want to be surrounded by gorgeous jocks day in and day out? Jordan Woods isn’t just surrounded by hot guys, though–she leads them as the cap...
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The fundamental philosophical problem of Christology
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Zarqa Nawaz is best known for creating Little Mosque on the Prairie. Now she's written a memoir about her own experience of being Muslim in Canada.
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When Louis Zamperini's WWII bomber went down over the Pacific Ocean, he probably didn't think my story will become a huge best seller and be made into a movie. Survival was central to his mind as he sat in his...
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Jordan Ellenberg, whose “How Not to Be Wrong” is No. 15 on the hardcover nonfiction list, recently said about math: “We know nothing. Right now we are standing in a tiny circle of light around our feet.”
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