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... pop science takes a fascinating look at a fundamental, and almost-forgotten, moment in Space Age history. (May) NONFICTION Being Armani: A Biography Renata Molho . Baldini Castoldi Dalai (IPG, dist.), $26.95 (242p) ISBN 9788860732965 Before he ...
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... trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Knopf, $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-307-26919-5 Murakami's latest is a nonfiction work mostly concerned with his thoughts on the long-distance running he has engaged in for much of his adult life. Through a mix ...
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Baker's novel take on WWII is sure to outrage many
... Baker, a best-selling novelist, takes a radically different narrative approach from most historians for his nonfiction tale, "Human Smoke" (Simon & Schuster: $30): He knits his story together out of hundreds of small vignettes or scenes, most of ...
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Proceeds from book benefits Argyle groups Argyle resident and writer Lynn Sheffield Simmons will donate proceeds of her nonfiction book The Place Is Argyle, Historical Facts and Recol lec tions to the ...
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... will meet on Monday, May 12, 4-6 p.m. at the Rice Public Library in Kittery. Participants may read fiction or nonfiction covering the period leading up to World War I. The group's meetings alternate between the William Fogg Library in Eliot and the ...
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Food Crisis Really Could Happen Here
... not much. Taleb is a former Wall Street trader who has become a philosopher of probability. He wrote a terrific nonfiction best-seller last year, "The Black Swan." The title is his term for a totally unexpected, utterly game-changing event, like ...
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Julie Andrews writes autobiography of early life
... of her new autobiography, Home, which hit No. 1 in its second week on The New York Times list of best-selling nonfiction. The origin of the book's title came from when young Julie and her parents arrived at a new residence and the child uttered her ...
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... authors Meet the authors of works ranging from youth pictures books (self discovery, Plymouth history) to adult nonfiction (college math, careers, journaling, diet & exercise, sports car) to adult fiction (historical, Christian) to poetry at the ...
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Digital Resources: Are Graphic Novels Giving you a Headache?
... queries by Recommended Levels, Document Types, Year of Publication, DDC Range, Categories (such as fiction, nonfiction), and Grade Level. Through the Browse option, users can employ 18 different search options to locate titles, including by author, ...
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Ebooks (and More) for young readers
... BookFlix is an online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction ebooks from Scholastic. By linking nonfiction titles with fiction, BookFlix reinforces early reading skills and introduces children ...
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... Graf, Alyson and Harrington Park Press - in recent years the most energetic publishers of gay/lesbian fiction and nonfiction - have all either failed, drastically reduced their list of GLBT titles, or have been undergoing serial management/ownership ...
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NEA writers' workshops to include veterans
... Officials said they've received more than 1,200 submissions since 2004, about 100 of which were featured in a nonfiction anthology two years ago. All of the work will be preserved in both the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration and the ...
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... and ideologically impartial documentary journalism of Unsettled admirably attest to the fact that contemporary nonfiction filmmaking is often one's best bet for a truly memorable and provocative trip to the local multiplex." "When the Israeli ...
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... to thriller author Douglas Preston, Richard Preston's writing on exotic epidemics makes for equally frightening nonfiction as novels. "When You Are Engulfed in Flames," by David Sedaris (Little, Brown, $25.99, June 3). New essays from a twisted ...
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Expelled the Movie and the History of the Eugenics Movement
... Jonah Goldberg explores this in a chapter of Liberal Fascism , which was recently No. 1 on the NY Times hardcover nonfiction list. A recent review of that book notes this: Turning to what he calls liberal racism, Mr. Goldberg offers readers his ...
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Literary Inspiration: Meet Gail Jarrow
... I wrote one novel for young readers, "Beyond the Magic Sphere," with an Ellis Hollow setting. When I work on nonfiction, I use the Cornell library for research. When do you get most of your writing done? For the most part, I stick to a weekday, ...
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Book briefs: Writers Institute; Holocaust biography on Saul Nitzberg
... today through Saturday at the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College. Workshops on fiction, nonfiction, poetry, playwriting and publishing will be featured. For information on fees, call 305-237-3940 or visit flcenterlitarts.com. ...
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... ), Hunter S. Thompson ( Hell's Angels ), and, at The New Yorker , Truman Capote ( In Cold Blood ) had created nonfiction "novels" that upended the staid conventions of newspaper and magazine writing by injecting strong subjective voices, ...
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
... comb through hundreds of book reviews and consider hundreds of new titles in the categories of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Selection criteria include literary excellence, uniqueness of concept and command of subject matter. The goal: Choose 25 ...
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... Eisenman, Aidan Dobson, Gabriel Barkay, Robert Howells, Gino Sandri. (English, French dialogue) An ostensibly nonfiction companion piece to "The Da Vinci Code," "Bloodline" jumps all too eagerly to conclusions that, as it never tires of reminding ...
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