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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsThe Edinburgh International Book Festival begins its formal program for 2014 today with “over 900 internationally-renowned writers and thinkers from 47 countries around the world” and a theme of “Let’s Talk” which...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Ereader News Today
Stock up on more books this weekend…..here are 4 bargains and 2 freebies for your reading pleasure. You can read Kindle books wherever you are and on any device with the Free Kindle App – you don’t even have to own a Ki... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Ereader News Today
Happy Saturday! Here are 4 bargain books and 2 free books for you to check out. You can read Kindle books wherever you are and on any device with the Free Kindle App – you don’t even have to own a Kindle to use the app! BARGA... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksA study is looking into how readers hear (or dont) the voices of the characters in their heads when they read and going beyond that by examining the medical, scientific and spiritual aspects of hearing voices. Whats your experience? Rese...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsAccording to a press release, Karen Brodie, a former British Council senior official in the field of arts and literature, has just joined the UK literacy charity The Reading Agency as its new new head of publisher partnerships. The Readi...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksId never go back to acute wards today, says Nathan Filer, ex-nurse who won Costa book prize Continue reading...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Poetry | The GuardianOur man with the cam goes behind the scenes to snap Mark Watson playing darts, Carol Ann Duffy reading Tennyson and Simon Callow talking up the Roman poet Juvenal also featuring Richard Herring rewriting Rasputin, theatre in the icy Scot...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited Books'Katniss now faces the threat of losing her loved ones when President Snow realises that some people have taken Katniss's survival as an act of defiance' Continue reading...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksAs writers' wives are spotlit at a festival event, we look for the husbands in the distinguished tradition of 'other spouse' literature Writers' wives - quiz Continue reading...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > BooksIn an open letter to readers, the retailer cited George Orwell in its fight with the publisher Hachette over e-book pricing, but it may have undermined its own argument.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comWhat Steve Doman has done with what was previously a one-room, 26-feet-by-26-feet cabin is truly out of this world. Doman, 69, has lived in the Guffey, Colorado cabin for 26 years. He has spent the last 14 of them adding on seven rooms -...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comWhat does it mean to love a book? Should it be relatable ? Beautiful? Must you share common interests? Is it not just as exciting to curl up with one you don't fully understand? Today is National Book Lovers Day, so what better time to r...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comA beloved children's book is about to get a questionable facelift. Earlier this week, Penguin Books teased a new cover for a "tasty tale" that is being published under the Penguin Modern Classics banner for the first time this fall. Afte...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksHearing the Voices project draws on scientists, writers and readers for survey of 'wrongly stigmatised phenomenon' Continue reading...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited Books'Katniss must face up to the terror of the games and the traumatising possibility of having to kill a person in order to survive' Continue reading...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Digital Book WorldIn a long note directed at readers, Amazon tells its version of the story of its protracted and sometimes bitter negotiation with Hachette over ebook prices at a new website, ReadersUnited.com. In the note, Amazon details its negotiating...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
Spend your days off reading 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.'
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Daily Express :: Books FeedMARK Beech has interviewed everyone from Ozzy Osbourne to Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga and Adam Ant. His new book All You Need Is Rock spills the beans on music's biggest and barmiest stars.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsIn the wake of the financial crisis, we need to close the gap between those who understand money and those who don't. Let's start with a few useful phrases
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsJohn Lanchester reveals how the mysterious language of finance - from the dead cat bounce to the Laffer curve - has helped the bankers make a killing
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsIn the wake of the financial crisis, we need to close the gap between those who understand money and those who don't, says John Lanchester
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsThe award-winning author on the perils of Infant Cynicism Syndrome
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsIt's about time we celebrated the English radical whose writings lit the fuse for American independence, says Melvyn Bragg
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksRobots are turning up more and more in YA fiction, but as author Jack Heath argues, there has never been a better time for readers to explore what it means to be human Continue reading...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited Books'Charlie has no friends until he meets Sam and Patrick, a step-brother and sister in their last year of high school who welcome Charlie into their world of misfits and troubles' Continue reading...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsAmazon’s PR push in the Hachette negotiation seems to have moved beyond simply posting announcements to forums. I just had a rather lengthy email show up in my inbox from “Kindle Direct Publishing,” which begins with the salutation “Dear...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksAs the Edinburgh book festival opens, Val McDermid explains why it made the perfect location for her update of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey Continue reading...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksAutumn is always the busiest time in the publishing calendar this year more than ever, with new books from many of the best-known authors Continue reading...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Nook Blog
August 9, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is FIFTEEN MINUTES – a novel that explores the cost of fame and celebrity set against the backdrop of America’s favorite singing competition – for just $2.99. Overview From the #... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NewsObserver.com -- BooksThe Two Hotel Francforts, by David Leavitt. (Bloomsbury, $16.) In Leavitt’s atmospheric novel of 1940 Lisbon, two couples are thrown together while awaiting passage to New York: Pete and Julia, Click to Continue »
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NewsObserver.com -- BooksDaniel Silva… Click to Continue »
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > BooksMs. Davis promoted female mystery writers and explored the dark side of human nature in her award-winning career.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
The Amazon Kindle DX has been one of the most popular large screen commercial e-reader of all time. Its been out for a number of years, and has been getting a little bit long in the tooth. Today, we compare the DX against the brand new S... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > BooksLooks at a book about how the F.B.I. broke up a spy ring during World War II, the Hudson Valley, and a collection of photographs of recognizable New York City sites taken from unique angles.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
If the idea of playing a courtroom adventure game on your Apple device sounds appealing, stay tuned: Capcom Unity has released Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies into the Japanese App Store –and all expectations ar... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
According to a new study by Flurry, industry leaders when it comes to mobile analytics, females spent more time and money on mobile games than their male counterparts. To find their numbers, Flurry reviewed games that had an install base... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
For DISH subscribers, the DISH Anywhere app has become indispensable. Using the app, you can watch every TV channel covered by your subscription on your Android devices –whether it is live or recorded, putting a full-featured DVR i... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from The Digital Reader
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsThe Bookseller is devoting headline space to the contribution by UK authors – most of them neither Scottish nor resident in Scotland – to an open letter signed by “over 200 great names” on behalf of the Let’...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NYT > BooksAmerican readers are discovering the Hungarian novelist Laszlo Krasznahorkai, known for his absurdist stories and lack of periods.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostPlaying on the title of the 1973 Wings album “Band on the Run,” the title of Tom Doyle’s biography implies that this portrait of Paul McCartney in the 1970s is of a man fleeing his fame. But the author soon pulls his punches. “If any wor...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostAs I look up from the pages of this book, there’s nothing between me and the horizon but water. The only sounds are the hypnotic hiss of stones as they are dragged back by waves and the occasional call of a gull. Fresh air gusts over the...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostThe lives of journalists are rarely as interesting as journalists imagine them to be, largely because we spend much of our time chronicling and commenting upon the activities of others rather than doing anything of note ourselves. But fr...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comSometimes we’re at a loss for words, not because we’re speechless, but because no English term lends itself to the situation (or snack) at hand.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostArchitecture THE HOUSE WITH SIXTEEN HANDMADE DOORS A Tale of Architectural Choice and Craftsmanship By Henry Petroski Norton. 297 pp. $27.95 Henry Petroski really likes his summer house. Read full article >>
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Readers in the UK have not been swayed by the rise of eBooks to give up on their print collections. According to a new report 84% of UK adults have a bookshelf full of books with the average being 86 titles. When it comes to book ownersh... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comSo that selfie book that Kim Kardashian was making for Kanye West's eyes only , well it's coming to a book store near you. Because really it was only a matter of time before the reality star attempted to monetize what she does best -- ta...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from GalleyCatThere is an arbitrary division between “literature” and “genre,” according to legendary sci-fi author Ursula Le Guin . In a new interview with Le Guin conducted by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Michael Cunningham , produced by Diversion...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsThe open letter against Amazon from Authors United, the group steered by founding author Douglas Preston, seems to be getting a lot of column inches. And just to make sure, Authors United is buying its own. That is, a full-page ad in the...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
The 'Fault in Our Stars' author said on Twitter that he's doing better.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsOver 100 years after his birth in print, Bob, Son of Battle is seeking a new audience. He deserves one. Ollivant’s late-19th-century tale—invariably described as a children’s “classic”—tells ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedIn the latest chapter of Amazon’s escalating conflict with the publishing industry, hundreds of major authors have backed an open letter due to run as a full page ad in the New York Times on Sunday that accuses the internet giant of prev...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
Earlier this year, an ad appeared on the Realtor.com site, in their celebrity listings section. Upon first reading the listing, it would appear that someone had gone to a lot of trouble to build a replica of Hogwarts and that … Con... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
This weekend’s giveaway is sponsored by Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid. Adi Alsaid‘s debut novel, Let’s Get Lost, delivers a captivating, coming-of-age cross-country road trip. A story about love, loss, and finding yourself, it... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
It’s time once again to topple your TBR stacks with some awesome newly-translated fiction! This month features two novels from Germany and one from Brazil. (And for everyone getting all “BUT WHAT ABOUT MURAKAMI WHAT ABOUT COL... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
Today, August 9, 2014, marks the one hundredth birthday of Tove Jansson (1914–2001), known to the world as the author of the children’s books about Moomin. The first Moomin-book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, was published in 19... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
Let’s take a look back at the week that was . . . Meryl Streep reading The Sign on Rosie’s Door by Maurice Sendack is among the 10 Sexy Celebrities Reading Children’s Books by Kate Scott ____________________ As ... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
And even for those who like the idea of seeing their favorite boy wizard on a stamp, the results leave much to be desired. The Harry Potter stamps certainly don’t show the commitment to design we’ve seen in other commemorative … Co... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Book News & FeaturesNPR's Petra Mayer sees the sights at San Diego Comic-Con with Magicians Trilogy author Lev Grossman — and discusses what happens when wizardly kids have to face an adult world, without mentors.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Dear Author
Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. You can ... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Powell's Books: OverviewThe Farm by Tom Rob Smith Reviewed by Barbara from Monroe, Washington.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Candace's Book BlogHappy weekend everyone! Welcome to Saturday Situation! If this is your first time stopping by here’s all the details for you: Saturday Situation is hosted by both Lori at Pure Imagination and myself. It’s a linky for you to link your boo...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Children's Book Council“It’s amazing to me that Weetzie is still as popular as it is, even way more so than in the beginning, that she continues to draw people to her. That fascinates me. I didn’t really expect the universal qualities. [...] It’s been &#...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from dovegreyreader scribbles
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedAilment: Coping with a hot British summer
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedHow to: Haggle
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedGame of Thrones may be blood-curdling and violent fare but its 65-year-old creator, George RR Martin, is a portly, softly spoken figure in black shirt and braces whose silver beard makes him look a little like Father Christmas as portray...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Book Portal Site
These 12 writers are ready to take the CanLit world by storm. Meet the future stars of Canadian letters. -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from OmnivoraciousA flight from Moscow to middle America. Passengers carry a flu virus that explodes “like a neutron bomb over the surface of the earth.” In a blink, the world looks like this: “No more ballgames played under floodlights. No more...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Book Portal Site
Now that everyone has the ability to turn their camera into a phone, photobooths are disappearing. Meags Fitzgerald became fascinated with this antique technology and has created a beautiful and moving tribute with this comic. Part memoi... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Stuck in a BookI'm back, the internet's back, and the Great British Bake Off is back! By popular demand - and demand really is the word - I have decided to do my recaps again this year. The caveat is that they will probably come out some days after eac...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Book News & FeaturesDouglas Preston wrote an open letter supporting book publisher Hachette in its dispute with Amazon, which has since spread among his readers and throughout the literary community. More than 900 other writers have signed on, including Joh...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Book Portal Site
The letter, which contains more than 900 signatures from authors as well-known as Stephen King and Suzanne Collins, will run as a full-page advertisement in the New York Times on Sunday. -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Book Portal Site
The cover for the new edition, which is part of the Penguin Modern Classics line, has been described online as "creepy" and "inappropriately sexualised." -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Dear Author
If I Were You by Lisa Renee Jones. $ 1.99 From the Jacket Copy: In the bestselling style of Fifty Shades of Grey, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones delivers sexy thrills and heart-pounding sensuality—in a tantalizing pag... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from dovegreyreader scribbles
My thanks again to Barbara who managed to see the very thing at Port Eliot that I had been meaning to and kept missing, so I am very grateful to her for this report... "The Big Dining Room will be...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Bloggin' 'bout Books(Image from Barnes & Noble ) Ivy Darling enjoys all the trappings of a successful life. She's been married for three years, works at a job she likes, and thrives on the strength of her tight-knit family (if not her in-law...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Book Portal SiteIt wasn't the sport I would have chosen. That's the thing about being an Olympian, or any kind of serious athlete, musician, or artist. You don't decide. Maybe your parents do, or your teachers or your coaches or your friends. One well-t...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Book Portal SiteThe earliest sensation Raju remembers, about the time he started attending school at age three, was an ache, a longing for something he could not yet imagine. By the time he completed primary school, this ache had been transformed into a...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Book Portal Sitefriends her friends sit at her living room window curtain pushed aside to watch her brother get into a car they gawk in their young girl way they are a lot younger than they think they are they giggle she watches indifferent From North E...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Book Portal SiteEgg Murakami is eight years old and her feet are perfect. Not everyone can say that. She dangles her feet over the edge of the bed and clicks her tongue. The crisp autumn light spills over the ledge of her window, throwing shadows across...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Book Patrol
intelligent life magazine asked 4 companies to “create the bookshop of their dreams.” Each were given the same instructions: to design a general-interest bookshop, selling fiction, non-fiction and e-books, in store and onlin... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Whatever
Other excellent books and ARCs that have arrived at the Scalzi Compound over the last several days. What looks interesting to you? Share in the comments! -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books on the Knob
Kingdom of Diamonds ($1.99 Amazon), by Amigo Games, is this week’s Free Friday App from Barnes & Noble. App Description The Kingdom Of Diamonds is a classic match-3 game that takes you on a journey of a lifetime. Liz and Darre... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books on the Knob
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Volume 1: Episode 1 ($2.99 Amazon) is free from Barnes & Noble this weekend. Video Description Master Splinter allows the Turtles to visit the surface for the first time, where they’ll learn the i... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from The New York Review of BooksIan Johnson Why has the Chinese government relied so much on suppression in Tibet and Xinjiang? Wang Lixiong: Simply put, it’s due to their politics, but they can’t say that. They say it’s due to hostile foreign forces. After troubles st...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books on the Knob
Love at First Sight ($3.79 Kindle), the first Cupid, Texas novel by Lori Wilde, is free from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of publisher Avon [HarperCollins]. Book Description Welcome to Cupid, Texas, where every wish for love comes true…... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books on the Knob
Today on Amazon’s Gold Box, save 68% on the Full House: Complete Series Collection, which contains all 192 original episodes in a box shaped like the Tanner family house. If you are in the market for new Lighting Fixtures, be sure ... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from GotPoetry.com News"There was a lot of emotion. Though she teared up and was crying, she pushed through. The ...Link!
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsStaff/Jeff Stanton Trethewey, center, congratulates Cobb's poetry contest winners in the Mary Ellen Wright Poetry Contest. Pictured with Trethewey are, from left, grade 3-6 runner-up Timothy ...Link!
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books on the Knob
Thru August 19 only, Amazon has an exclusive giveaway of Sherlock: The Network – Official App of the Hit TV Detective Series by The Project Factory, regularly $1.99, with the first 6 cases free. Sherlock Holmes has an urgent messag... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Dear Author
Dear Ms. Milan: It seems very apt that the last book in the Brothers Sinister series is being promoted with a funny tumblr written by one of its characters, because it feels like a book that sprang from the Internet.... more -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from RT Book Reviews - RT Daily BlogDid you spend your whole week romancing a True Blue Cowboy ? Here's what you missed on the RT site! *** EROTICA: Read this hot excerpt from Terri L. Austin's His Every Need . Read More >> CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE: Read an excerpt from ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Books on the Knob
The Kindle Deals of the Day for those in the UK includes the first fifteen novels in the Inspector Banks Mystery series, several of which are currently marked under $5 for those of us in the US, plus three more £0.99 books. For some reas... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from RT Book Reviews - RT Daily BlogIf you're a little obsessed with Veronica Roth 's Divergent trilogy and fell in love with the rather satisfying movie adaptation of the first book (and, of course, Theo James as Four), then this week's Friday giveaway is just for you. To...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from RT Book Reviews - RT Daily BlogThe Internet is full of hilarious gems and memorable words of wisdom from the masses. Authors, readers and publishers on Twitter are no exception and continuously put smiles on the faces of Twitter users daily in 140 characters or less. ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Book Portal Site
Rachel Harry says if you liked Elizabeth Gilbert's blockbuster novel, you'll love The Pelee Project by Jane Christmas. Find out why. -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from The Bookshop BlogI hope the readers of the Bookshop Blog can help me out here. What is a bookseller’s job description, especially when the bookstore has a staff of one? Because I have young children, I try to limit my work days to Wednesday-Friday,...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Katie's Book Blog
Something Strange and Deadly was one of the series on my list to start and attempt to finish this year. I’ve had Something Strange and Deadly on my shelf since before the book was published but I never got around to actually readi...
