Nonfiction News

St. Martin's Press's Kathy Huck inked a deal for a nonfiction work set during one of the worst crime waves in American history, about an infamous kidnapping scheme gone awry.

February is Black History Month, a popular time for novels and nonfiction about African-Americans. Here are four new titles for young readers.

Local HARDBACK FICTION 1. "The Fault in Our Stars," John Green. 2. "Night Rounds," Helene Tursten.

The Volkswagen Beetle has a unique and colorful history, with principal characters that include the Nazi dictator who personified evil, the legendary designer of Germany's most celebrated race cars and the Jewish advertising executive who pioneered a creative revolution on Madison Avenue.

"It makes you feel small, and it is meant to. It also makes you feel big, because the nobler parts of it were raised by members of your own species.

A father recounts his 3-year-old son's encounter with Jesus and the angels during an appendectomy.

There's plenty of news and activities from the local schools. Here's a roundup of what's been happening in the Herricks School District for the past week.

There's the problem of telling a story that is 100 percent nonfiction. Lynn Schooler's memoir of his time guiding photographer Michio Hoshino in Southeast Alaska -- hoping to see a rare glacier or "blue" bear -- reveals no serious conflict between the two, the only characters seen on stage.

Bucknall, Harry. In the Dolphin's Wake: Cocktails, Calamities and Caiques in the Greek Islands.

"Raylan: A Novel" by Elmore Leaonard 11. "The Fear Index" by Robert Harris 12. "A Dance with Dragons" by George R.R. Martin 13.

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The year's contenders for adapted screenplay attacked an extraordinary range of material: a work of nonfiction; a children's graphic novel; a stage play; a classic spy thriller; and a modern seriocomedy of manners.

In this Feb. 2, 2012 photo, archived editions of the Brown University Herald used by Brown senior Malcolm Burnley, 22, sit on a shelf at the John Hay Library on campus in Providence, R.I. Burnley discovered a long-lost tape recording of a 1961 address by Malcolm X at Brown while Burnley was combing through archived editions of the Herald conducting ... (more)

What: Winter Book Sale organized by the Friends of Morrisson-Reeves Library When: 12:30-4:30 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday Where: The Bard Room, Morrisson-Reeves Library, 80 N. Sixth St., Richmond Cost: Free admission; charge for purchases Info: 966-8291 Morrisson-Reeves Library and the Friends of the Library organization are again giving ... (more)

Internet users don't have to walk into a local bookstore to scan the shelves for a good read.

The American Library Association recently announced the winners of that country's most prestigious awards in children's and young adult literature.

In the 1950s, there was this great upwelling of criticism of what was called "midcult" and "masscult." Civil War history as we know it today continues in the midcult/masscult of that era.

Join local authors Larry Sherman and Cheryl Kashuba for a reading and book signing on Saturday, February 11th at 1 PM at Library Express .

Six of the top 10 Most Wished For titles on Amazon are nonfiction, and of the four fiction titles, three of them are the Hunger Games trilogy.

I work in a public library system, and a staff member recently voiced concerns about fictionalized dialogue in graphic novel biographies.