Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted in April during National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles […]
New book ... author Dan Brown, left, with US actor Tom Hanks. Photo: AP A mammoth 6.5 million copies of Dan Brown's new book will be printed in its first run. Six years after the release of his mega-selling The Da Vinci Code, Brown's publisher said The Lost Symbol, a thriller set during a 12-hour […]
When I learn about great opportunities that offer sensational quality and value, I love to share these with you and I’m so excited to tell you about this one. Earlier this year, Kurek Ashley released his new book ‘How Would Love Respond?’ and we are invited to join this exclusive ‘invitation only’ celebration and take […]
Step aside, aloof vampires with all your undead issues. The wolf pack is ready to howl. Unlike cold-blooded neck biters, these poster guys for animal magnetism are hot. So hot that their temperature runs a steady 108 degrees, as anyone who has read Stephenie Meyer's series of gothic romances knows. MEET THE WOLF PACK: Birth […]
Sea of Poppies By Amitav Ghosh Diaspora, myth and a fascinating language mashup propel the Rubik's cube of plots in Ghosh's picaresque epic of the voyage of the Ibis, a ship transporting Indian girmitiyas (coolies) to Mauritius in 1838. The first two-thirds of the book chronicles how the crew and the human cargo come to […]
"If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy." Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and there are no happy campers. HTML clipboard"It's a strange story, […]
"You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can." President Jimmy Carter Jr.
Success and Happiness is a feeling every human being on this planet desires in their heart of hearts. And yet most of us look for happiness in all the wrong places and end up causing ourselves more suffering. This is because we are looking outside of ourselves for some thing or some one to bring […]
The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists: JOURNALISM: Public Service: The Las Vegas Sun. Breaking News Reporting: The New York Times staff. Investigative Reporting: David Barstow of The New York Times. Explanatory Reporting: Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart of the Los Angeles Times. Local Reporting: Jim Schaefer, M.L. Elrick and staff of the Detroit Free […]
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