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59 min ago | Publishers' Weekly

Deals: Week of February 13, 2012

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Journalism

Sun Feb 12, 2012

St. Cloud Times Online

Black History Month: Books for young children on notable African-Americans

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

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Related Topix: Arts, New York, University of Georgia

St. Cloud Times Online

Best-sellers

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

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Related Topix: Arts, Unbroken, Kansas

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Nonfiction review: Thinking Small

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.

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Related Topix: Volkswagen Beetle, Volkswagen, Hatchback, Convertible, Arts, World News, Germany, Entertainment

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Nonfiction review: Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History

"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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Entertainment

FiveThirtyEight

Combined Print and E-Book Nonfiction

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

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Related Topix: Arts, Appendicitis, Health

Sat Feb 11, 2012

Patch.com

Herricks School News: Searingtown Happenings and Art Show

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.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Arts, Long Island, KS

Fri Feb 10, 2012

Anchorage Daily News

'Blue Bear' puts emotional edge on literary meditation

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Theater

Thu Feb 09, 2012

Library Journal

Xpress Reviews: Nonfiction | First Look at New Books, February 10, 2012

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

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Related Topix: Arts, Theater, Greece Travel, Massachusetts

SFGate

Publishers Weekly Best-Sellers

"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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Related Topix: Books, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, 11/22/63, The Litigators, The Best of Me, Arts, Entertainment

The San Diego Union-Tribune

Wall Street Journal Best-Sellers

Data providers include all major booksellers and Web retailers, and food stores .

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Related Topix: Killing Lincoln, Books, Arts, US Politics, US News

Variety

Scripters searched for contrast and color

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, The Descendants, Drama Movies, Election, Comedy Movies, Citizen Ruth, Hugo, The Ides of March

Wed Feb 08, 2012

Daily-Jeff.com

Brown U. student uncovers lost Malcolm X speech

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)

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Related Topix: African-American, Brown University, Arts, Providence, RI

Palladium-Item

Curl up with a good book sale

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)

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Related Topix: Arts

Examiner.com

Check out a book online for free - Literature, fiction, self-help, romance

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

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Related Topix: Arts, Literature

The Hamilton Spectator

Librarian tells how to raise a book lover

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

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Related Topix: Libraries, Arts, Family, Kids

Tue Feb 07, 2012

Civil War Bookshelf

Notes from the Great Outside

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.

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Related Topix: Arts

Reference Department, Albright Memori...

Library Express to Host Two Readings/Book Signings Saturday, February 11th

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

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Related Topix: Arts, Scranton, PA

Publishers' Weekly

Tracking Amazon: Nonfiction Dominates Most Wished For List

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.

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Related Topix: Arts

School Library Journal

Question Tuesday: Graphic Biographies too fictional?

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

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Related Topix: Libraries, Arts, Family, Kids

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