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Party Pictures: 2008 Edgar Awards
Posted by Wilda Williams on May 9, 2008
Industries: Book News/Interviews, Book Reviews, Collection Development, Genre Fiction, People, Prepub Alerts Annoying Casting Alert: Juno to play Jane Eyre
Posted by Wilda Williams on May 8, 2008
Industries: Book News/Interviews, Book Reviews, Collection Development, Genre Fiction, Prepub Alerts, Video/DVD Reviews Subway Sighting: Succubus in the City
Posted by Heather McCormack on May 7, 2008
Highly Recommended: Ron Carlson’s Five Skies
Posted by Michael Rogers on May 7, 2008
Once again dipped into my Penguin pile and plucked out Ron Carson’s Five Skies. Terrific! It received a rave It follows three men on hired to construct a ramp for a motorcycle stunt jump over an Idaho river. All three suffer from guilt stemming from their pasts. Living in a tent at the job’s location, the combination of hard work done well, bonding with other walking wounded, and seeing...Read More Industries: Book News/Interviews, Book Reviews, Collection Development, Genre Fiction, Prepub Alerts Invasion of the Body Snatcher: Stephenie Meyer's The Host
Posted by Wilda Williams on May 6, 2008
For those of you who have been living on another planet, young adult author Stephenie Meyer is a one-woman publishing phenomenon. In just two years, her "Twilight" saga about a young girl and her vampire boyfirend has sold over three million books in the U.S. alone. The latest title in the series, Eclipse, sold 150,000 copies on its first day on sale and knocked Harry Potter off the number one slot in USA Today's best-seller list. Meyer is also huge in Europe, and Little, Brown has one publicist, Elizabeth Eulberg, solely dedicated to Meyer's global publicity. (By the way, the film adaptation of Twilight, the...Read More
Industries: Book News/Interviews, Book Reviews, Collection Development, Genre Fiction, Prepub Alerts Tag Team Review No. 4: Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage
Posted by Heather McCormack on May 6, 2008
...Read More Geeky Friday: Iron Man, Hulk, and Free Comics Day
Posted by Michael Rogers on May 2, 2008
Comics fans, there’s a new sheriff in town and his name is Jon Favreau. Just got back from seeing Iron Man and it lived up to all my hopes. It really was a good as it looked and was fun, fun, fun from beginning to end. Grea Hulk, Hulk Hart, French Take Top Honors at 2008 Edgar Awards
Posted by Wilda Williams on May 2, 2008
At the 62 annual Edgar Awards Banquet, held last night at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City, former attorney John Hart's second novel, Down River, was named the Best Mystery of the year. His haunting tale about a prodigal son's return to his North Carolina hometown only to be accused of murder beat out Benjamin Black's Christine Falls, Ken Bruen's Priest, Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and Reed Farrel Coleman's Soul Patch. Taking the prize for Best First Novel by An American Author was Tania French's Dublin-set debut novel of psychological suspense, ...Read More Industries: Book News/Interviews, Book Reviews, Collection Development, Genre Fiction, People, Prepub Alerts Reviewer Profile: Alternate Historian Robert Conroy
Posted by Wilda Williams on May 1, 2008
As Anna Katterjohn's excellent series of reviewer profiles reveal, Library Journal's reviewers are a talented bunch. Many are librarians, of course, but quite a few are writers as well. Probably our most famous alumna is Kathleen Norris who reviewed for LJ early in her writing career before the publication of the acclaimed Dakota: A Spiritual Geography and The Cloister Walk brought ...Read More
Industries: Book News/Interviews, Book Reviews, Collection Development, Genre Fiction, People, Prepub Alerts Clinton-Obama-Lincoln-Douglas
Posted by Margaret Heilbrun on May 1, 2008
Last weekend, Hillary Clinton's campa"This year marks the 150th anniversary of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, a series of public debates across Illinois where two candidates put their ideas, their visions, and their values before the American people. I have no doubt that Senator Obama, who hails from that great state, understands how valuable and vital these national conversations were to the heart of America....We can surely meet the standards our forbearers ...Read More Memoir Will Bleed
Posted by Heather McCormack on May 1, 2008
Best-Selling Dogs
Posted by Anna Katterjohn on April 30, 2008
Pets & Pet Care best sellers appear in the May 1 issue, a subject we haven't done a list for since 2003. When I Industries: Book News/Interviews, Book Reviews, Collection Development, Genre Fiction, Prepub Alerts
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