Anoher word in memour: "The book of Joel" written by Billy Joel
05 Mar 2011 04:44:14
HarperCollins announced details Thursday about Billy Joel's "The Book of Joel," coming out June 14. The memoir will take fans on an "emotional ride" from the writing of such favorites as "Just the Way You Are" and "New York State of Mind" to his broken marriage to Christie Brinkley and his struggles with depression and substance abuse.
Joel's editor at HarperCollins, David Hirshey, said in a statement that "there is a lot in this book that he has never revealed before." HarperCollins also relea... Read Full Story
'100 Words' - all interesting in the internet
04 Mar 2011 03:31:22
It isn't a secret that the internet becomes the most popular source of news, books, films and information. That is why more and more people are trying to add their creations in the global web. And the author of '100 Words' wasn't an exception.
DC Comics said Wednesday that the seven-page work by the pair can be downloaded through its DC comic’s app for mobile devices and on its website for 99 cents. All of DC's proceeds from the sale of the comic will go to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Th... Read Full Story
"The Lost and found" from Shaun Tan - story with secomd life
04 Mar 2011 03:26:09
This story is very funny, sweet and very kind...or positive? It is tough, awful and turn away? Judge you, because it has the second life again.
The Academy Award victory in the short animated film category for Australian Shaun Tan's "The Lost Thing" coincides with its release this month in "Lost & Found," a collection of three stories primarily by Tan from the Scholastic imprint Arthur A. Levine Books.
Tan, 37, co-directed the movie and was only 25 when he wrote and drew "The Lost Thing," the... Read Full Story
"Bringing Adam Home" written by Les Standiford with detective Sgt. Joe Matthews - the victim of kidnapping may become everyone
04 Mar 2011 03:21:55
What do you know about kidnapping? You think that this happens with special sort of people? Don't be naive, because the victim of kidnapping may become everyone.
This story is about the most insolent and unprecedented kidnapping in American history because — largely through the efforts of Adam's parents, John and Reve Walsh — it revolutionized the way in which local, state and federal authorities investigate cases involving missing and murdered children. Because it is such a famous case, you mi... Read Full Story
Ice ice...no, it is "Pym" by Mat Johnson
03 Mar 2011 05:34:53
Recently fired American literature professor Chris Jaynes is obsessed with Poe's only novel, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket." It's a strange tale of shipwrecks, mutiny and a mysterious island inhabited by black-skinned people whose teeth are even black, and it ends abruptly at the South Pole with Pym facing haunting white figures.
When Jaynes discovers a manuscript of a memoir that seems to confirm Poe's story and the location of the island, Tsalal, he sees it as the key to hi... Read Full Story
This book doesn't contains fairy tales it about history in humor: "Behind the Palace Doors" by Michael Farquhar
03 Mar 2011 05:33:02
Author Michael Farquhar is a writer and editor at The Washington Post who specializes in history. He has produced books about royal scandals, American scandals, liars, misleaders and forgotten Americans such as pirates and skinflints.
George VI, Britain's World War II monarch, is an exception among a score of sinners, clowns and mediocrities in "Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly From Royal Britain." He won not only the battle against his youth... Read Full Story
"Gideon's Sword" the book written by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
03 Mar 2011 05:31:30
The cliffhanger ending of "Gideon's Sword" sets up what's promised to be a series featuring new lead character Gideon Crew. And he's a fascinating study in contradictions that would delight any good therapist. When he was 12, he watched his father gunned down by police, accused of a crime he didn't commit. Eight years later, on her deathbed, Gideon's mother tells him the truth about his father, and Gideon's quest for justice — and revenge — begins.
"Gideon's Sword" is more than just a spellbind... Read Full Story
"Modigliani" by Meryle Secrest
02 Mar 2011 03:24:19
This book is one of those sorts of book, which become popular after author death. Nobody knows how these books become popular and how the editors make them to bestsellers, and if they are interesting - nobody care about the question: why it becomes popular now.
Since the author death at 35 of tubercular meningitis, he has assumed a mythic stature — but not for his art. Rather, he is known in the popular imagination as a drunken, drug-addicted, womanizing exhibitionist whose long-suffering comp... Read Full Story
Do you know this girl? It is a Bristol Palin and maybe very soon she will become a writer
02 Mar 2011 03:19:10
Why this charming lady took in her head an idea to write a book - nobody knows. But in the nearest future, if everything will be ok, she may become a famous writer. Why? Maybe , because she is a good writer of maybe the reason is more dapper that it may seems.
"Bristol gives readers an intimate behind-the-scenes look at her life for the first time, from growing up in Alaska to coming of age amid the media and political frenzy surrounding her mother's political rise; from becoming a single moth... Read Full Story
The author of "The Night Season" is the Chelsea Cain
02 Mar 2011 03:13:26
"The Night Season" - what it is a book. It is about one place called Portland, Ore., in that place huge and leaden clouds brings rains with melanholic and sad mood. Hover and torrential rains cause the Willamette River to draw ever closer to flood stage. A skeleton from a long-ago flood turns up (by coincidence) just before a string of dead bodies begins appearing. Did these new victims drown? A careful medical examiner notices a tiny dot on their palms that leads him to a different — and highl... Read Full Story
"Agent X" written by Noah Boyd
01 Mar 2011 03:21:04
Boyd introduced Vail in "The Bricklayer." Vail, a disgruntled former FBI agent who preferred the building trade to the bureau's red tape, agreed to help his old employer if he answered only to the director and had no interference.
The arrangement didn't make a lot of the FBI brass happy, the same ones who love proper procedures, but it got results.
In "Agent X," Vail, who has happily returned to his new profession, refuses to accept that he's been dumped by the FBI's Kate Bannon, who has decid... Read Full Story
"Life, on the Line" by Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas
01 Mar 2011 03:19:56
This book isn't funny book about anything. It is a book that full insightful conclusions that summarize you to new thoughts. It isn't easy to fight with hard situation, but not to fight - it is more harder and frightener.
Achatz decided to reject treatment. Even if he survived, he wouldn't have a life he wanted. He couldn't be a chef without a tongue; he couldn't cook if he couldn't taste.
It many ways, it was his business partner who saved him. Nick Kokonas researched treatments and pushed A... Read Full Story
