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Author and historian Phillip Hoose’s true story about a brave African-American teen who defied Jim Crow laws in March 1955 by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman in Montgomery, AL, is the recipient of the 2009 National Book Award in the category for Young People’s Literature.
``Going Rogue: An American Life'' (HarperCollins, 413 pages, $28.99), by Sarah Palin -- There should be a feeling of palpable glee running through Sarah Palin's memoir: Now, finally, she gets to talk, unfiltered and unedited.
A former Austin American-Statesman writer talks about his new book. "Tinsel" is set in Frisco, Texas, a town full of 100,000 people and 7 million square-feet of chain retail space.
The Men Who Stare at Goats, starring George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges and Ewan McGregor, opens on Friday. Author Jon Ronson wrote the book the film is based on
Reno author David Sundstrand's second book, "Shadows of Death" (Minotaur Books, 2009; $25.95), is a nice little thriller about animal-loving gun nuts who kill animal-hunting gun nuts in the Southwest, and the Bureau of Land Management hero caught in the middle. It's a beach read.
Despite being the country that invented the Internet, America lags far behind nations like Japan and South Korea in broadband speed and access. Guy Raz checks in with Thomas Bleha, author of the book Overtaken on the Information Superhighway, to find out why.
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Colum McCann wins the fiction prize in the 60th annual National Book Awards, while Portlander Laini Taylor loses out in young people's literature.
Employee briefs Donald “Doc” Elder III, Eastern New Mexico University professor of history, wrote a book review for the September/October issue of the journal “Space Times.” He reviewed “Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight”...
Renowned Chinese literature translator Yang Xianyi has died at the age of 94, China's official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday.
Marian Snow was living out a successful career as a financial planner until the mortgage crisis hit in the summer of 2008. Her best-selling book, "Stop Sitting on Your Assets," wasn't popular anymore ...
Author Pat Conroy, whose latest novel, "South of Broad," is on the New York Times best seller list, is the featured speaker at a Dec. 3 benefit book-signing for the S.C. Autism Society.
The Canadian Children's Book Centre and TD Bank Financial Group announced this evening that author Nicola I. Campbell and illustrator Kim LaFave are this year's recipients of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for the book, Shin-chi's Canoe.
Marina Hunt is known as "The Bubbly Girl" and she's the author of the book, "The Bubbly Bar". She shows us how to make fun drinks that complement holiday meals.
(Reuters) – A copy of the book “Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There” that belonged to the British girl who inspired author Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” will be sold at an auction next month, the company behind the sale said on Monday.
others also read... Television news reporter and bestselling author Mike McCardell will attend a book signing for his newly-released book, The Expanded Reilly Method Saturday, Nov. 28 at Black Bond Books, Royal City Centre in New Westminster at 1 p.m.
