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Review by Juanita Sherwood “Half Broke Horses” is listed as a true-life novel. That designation is used because the book is based on experiences of the author’s grandmother, which are true, but to tie them altogether, the author has added dialogue and information that she cannot substantiate. Thus, she has designated it as a novel.
Kathy Charles’ debut novel Hollywood Ending was recently released by Text Publishing. In my review for the October issue of Australian Book Review I said: ‘Kathy Charles creates a world both familiar and strange … Despite being highly, if darkly, entertaining, the book hints at deeper issues, such as the extent of superficial distraction in contemporary [...]
NEW YORK It’s nothing new for aggrieved authors to write letters to the highly influential New York Times Book Review, protesting a negative review, or one rife with errors. Sometimes the protest relates to the unfair choice of reviewer.
Hillary Jordan, the Bellwether Prize-winning author of “Mudbound,” will bethe guest of honor at the Nov. 22 event.
When Mary T. Ficalora wrote “Choosing Honor: An American Woman’s Search for God, Family and Country in an Age of Corruption,” she knew some of her ideas would spark criticism that she was anti-religious or unpatriotic. The attacks came her way, but nothing could be further from the truth, said Ficalora, an Agoura Hills mother of three whose first book is winning some positive reviews and ...
BEVERLY SHORES | The Save the Dunes Shop will host a book signing from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday for a new book on Indiana's State Parks by Glory-June Greiff.
ELGIN – National Book Award finalist Bonnie Jo Campbell will read from her latest book, “American Salvage,” and other works during an event Thursday.
Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) need more time to revise the proposed settlement of the copyright infringement lawsuits the author and publisher organizations brought against Google over its Book Search program.
LIT By Mary Karr Harper. 386 pp. $25.99 The poet Mary Karr has produced three provocatively titled memoirs -- " The Liars' Club ," " Cherry " and now "Lit" -- to tell her life story, or at least her story up to the point when she published the first installment in 1995. With every new book, she must...
Author visit do's and don'ts By Audra Otto | Monday, Nov. 8, 2009 The proper etiquette for organizing and hosting an author visit to your book club isn't etched in stone, but a few rules should eliminate any awkwardness and ensure a satisfying experience.
"Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War" (Crown Publishing, 448 pages, $30), by Terry Brighton: During a dinner in Saigon with some news correspondents in 1971, Gen. Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander in Vietnam, was asked his opinion of the movie, "Patton."
Barbara Kingsolver would like to thank you, Miami. As part of what she calls ``evangelizing for literature,'' the author of the beloved novels The Bean Trees and The Poisonwood Bible told a full house...
courtesy of Deekens family “Christmas at Miller & Rhoads: Memoirs of a Snow Queen” author Donna Deekens will be at a book signing at “Feathernesters” on Lakeside Ave. on Friday, Nov. 13. The event is an “Open House” where Deekens will be signing books from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. that evening.
Chelsea resident and author James L. Schardein has painstakingly presented popular music during the 1890s to 1920s from the perspective of John Phillips Sousa in his book “The Legendary Sousa Band: 40 Years from Plainfield to Atlantic City.”
To some, food storage may seem overwhelmingly complex, but Manti resident Debbie G. Harman wants it to seem simple. Harman, 47, is the author of the new book, "Cooking with Food Storage Made Easy
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | (MCT) WASHINGTON — A federal judge has taken the rare step of ordering self-described anti-terrorism investigator Paul David Gaubatz to remove from his Web site some of the 12,000 documents that his son allegedly stole from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
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