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Q&A: T. Greenwood By Andrea Tarr, Corona P.L., CA - 11/01/2009
T. Greenwood is an author on the rise, garnering critical acclaim for her sensitive, beautifully written fiction. Her second and third novels (Nearer Than the Sky, Undressing the Moon) were both Booksense 76 picks, and her fourth book, Two Rivers, published earlier this year, was an IndieNext selection. More
Prepub Exploded: April 2010, Pt. 1 By Barbara Hoffert - 11/05/2009
Yes, we have thrillers—from the likes of Mary Higgins Clark and Martha Grimes—but with Pearl Abraham’s American Taliban and Ian McEwan’s Solar, fiction gets topical. In nonfiction, check out the good science titles and cheeky memoirs by Wendy Burden and Anna Fields.
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Q&A: Lynne Rienner By Mirela Roncevic - 11/01/2009
Back in the summer of 1984, Lynne Rienner—an ambitious young woman with a publishing background and a history major—founded an independent publishing company in Boulder, CO, that would specialize in high-quality political science books. At the time, she employed fewer than three people, who covered editing, marketing, and everything in between.
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Behind the Mike: Dion Graham By Ophelia Lo - 11/01/2009
Dion Graham won an Audie Award for his reading of Athol Dickson's River Rising (Recorded Bks., 2006), and his recordings of George Pelecanos's The Turnaround (BBC Audiobooks America) and Marcia Ann Gillespie and Richard A. Long's Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration (Brilliance Audio) were both LJ Best Audiobooks of 2008.
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The Future of Reading By Tom Peters - 11/01/2009
The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for learning, for work, and for pleasure may be slowly dying out as a widespread social practice. Only at living history farms will we see people reading.
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Behind The Mike: Scott Brick By Lance Eaton - 10/15/2009
Since recording his first audiobook in 1999, Audie Award winner Scott Brick (Dune: The Butlerian Jihad) has become one of the most recognized voices and highly regarded figures in the industry. He's recorded some 500 audiobooks to date and in 2007 was named Publishers Weekly's Narrator of the Year. Forthcoming titles include John Lutz's Urge To Kill (Books on Tape, Oct.
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In the Bookroom Margaret Heilbrun, Social Sciences Editor, Library Journal September 25, 2009 English Vacation, English Reading
Here are some bibliographic gleanings from my vacation earlier this month in Eng... More
In the Bookroom Wilda Williams, , Library Journal August 14, 2009 Happy Birthday, Julia Child!
August 15 marks what would have been Julia Child's 97th birthday. And what better gif... More
Design Institute 2007 December 11, 2007 at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center:Design Institute 2007
Learning Gardens New York's GreenBranches program links the library to the street.
Green Picks: LBD May 2007 Want to reduce your library's carbon footprint? Join the Cradle-to-Cradle revolution. Helen Milling shares the green products her firm is using.
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