A new book "Started Early, Took My Dog" from Kate Atkinson
31 Mar 2011 05:20:57
When Tracy impulsively shoves a fistful of money at the prostitute in return for the child, when Jackson roughly rescues the dog from its owner, and when the New Zealand woman emails Jackson and asks him to investigate her true identity, they set in motion a series of events that eventually expose a 35-year-old murder and kidnapping, unmask an old police cover-up, trigger several beatings and deaths, and alter the lives of a host of memorable, superbly drawn characters.
As usual with an Atkinson... Read Full Story
Everybody are inviting to the club!
29 Mar 2011 03:19:04
Rosenberg's latest book, "Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World," profiles innovators who have used positive peer pressure — what Rosenberg calls "the social cure" — to tackle society's more intractable problems.
Her book contains over a dozen examples of the social cure at work: Fostering AIDS awareness through a lifestyles brand. Reforming the entrenched discrimination that India's "untouchables" face by teaching them valued nursing skills. Alleviating the problem of suburba... Read Full Story
How to get 2% extra in sport? Rea in new book written by Jonah Keri
29 Mar 2011 03:18:03
That's the biggest weakness in "The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team From Worst to First." It's the story of the Tampa Bay Rays, a small-market team that did the unthinkable in 2008: It outplayed the juggernaut Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees to reach the World Series.
Clearly there's a compelling story. How did a low-income team beat out such wealthy rivals? What was its secret? What can other bad teams learn from its example?
The title hints at the ans... Read Full Story
"The Use and Abuse of Literature" written by Marjorie Garber
29 Mar 2011 03:15:21
Garber sets the stage for her examination of literature by citing a report from the National Endowment for the Arts, which found that less than half the adults responding to the 2002 U.S. Census had read any novels, short stories, poetry or plays in their free time.
To her credit, she doesn't take this as a sign of the collapse of Western civilization; on the contrary, she acknowledges that someone who might not know the line "Do I dare to eat a peach?" — from T.S. Eliot's great poem, "The Love ... Read Full Story
Amanda Hocking is a e-book maker
28 Mar 2011 04:38:02
A little more than a year later, Hocking's novel "Switched" sits at No. 41 on USA Today's list of top 150 best-selling books — just a few notches below such major juggernauts as James Patterson and Maeve Binchy. Hocking's books also occupy slots 54, 57, 114 and 149 on the list, and on Thursday, the publishing world finally caught up when the 26-year-old college dropout signed a four-book deal with St. Martin's Press.
Hocking said the first book in a new "Watersong" series was slated for release ... Read Full Story
Charlie Sheen will show his book
28 Mar 2011 04:36:01
Sheen spokesman Larry Solters says the former "Two and a Half Men" sitcom star never hired literary agent Peter McGuigan, who has been contacting publishers in recent weeks about a possible Sheen memoir.
Several publishers have told The Associated Press they rejected the proposal, citing Sheen's high price tag and unpredictable behavior.
Sheen has boasted he could get $10 million for a book.
The 45-year-old Sheen has made headlines for his marital problems and wild partying. He was fired from hi... Read Full Story
"The Book of Mormon" will change you thoughts
28 Mar 2011 04:35:02
"The Book of Mormon," which opened Thursday at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, is inventive and slick and subversive. It is funnier and smarter than "Monty Python's Spamalot," managing to offend, provoke laughter, trigger eye-rolling, satirize conventions and warm hearts, all at the same time.
You might expect Parker and Stone, who forever changed cartoons with their foul-mouthed elementary students, and Lopez, who made it safe for puppets to swear on stage, to utterly disrespect traditional musica... Read Full Story
Have you got extra money? Write a book about yourself and be proud!
27 Mar 2011 01:30:51
An AuthorHouse spokesman told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Angle contracted the book with the leading self-publishing company this month, just days before she announced her campaign for the U.S. House.
Spokesman Kevin Gray says publishing packages can cost up to $15,000. Copies of the book would be printed by demand.
As a self-publisher, Angle has control over the design and editing of her book, titled "Right Angle." The Nevada Republican is hoping for an April release.
Angle lost a heat... Read Full Story
The winner of "The Golden Hat" become an actrise Kate Winslet
27 Mar 2011 01:28:04
Winslet organized the collection of self-portrait photos for the book titled "The Golden Hat" after becoming inspired by an HBO documentary she narrated called "A Mother's Courage: Talking Back To Autism" that aired last year.
The film shows Keli Ericsdottir, an Icelandic boy who suffered from severe non-verbal autism, eventually being able to communicate. He now composes poems, including one describing a magical hat that enables an autistic boy to communicate.
The book, which will be released l... Read Full Story
Total story about real coraption in law enforcement in the book "The Jersey Sting"
27 Mar 2011 01:26:25
The story of "The Jersey Sting" is meticulously, seriously — and humorously — told by Ted Sherman and Josh Margolin, two reporters at The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J. (Margolin now works for the New York Post.) Coverage of the investigation by Sherman and Margolin and The Star-Ledger staff was awarded the Jesse Laventhol Prize for Deadline News Reporting from the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and also was honored as finalists for the Pultizer Prize.
The tale is complex. It centers on the... Read Full Story
The book "Afraid of the Dark" from popular author James Grippando is the typic detective with a good plot
23 Mar 2011 05:34:50
Swyteck is asked to represent a suspected terrorist held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He quickly learns that his client, Jamal Wakefield, is wanted for the murder of his girlfriend three years earlier.
The murdered woman was the daughter of the best friend of police officer Vince Paulo, who discovered her after she had been stabbed. With her dying breath, she implicated Jamal in her death. A few seconds later, an explosion destroyed Paulo's eyesight.
Jamal claims to have been tortured for suspecte... Read Full Story
"You Think That's Bad" is a book of stories written by Jim Shepard
23 Mar 2011 05:33:16
Who is a women in Shepard's stories? Intereting question that is interested of many critics. On the other hand, are exemplars of moral and emotional intelligence. Like the men, they are very smart, empathic and not incidentally, sexy in an impossibly frank and uninhibited way. Once these women decide to have children with these damaged men, the usual ambivalence that everyone has about life, relationships and choices disappears. The children — their needs, their wants, their emotional and physic... Read Full Story
