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Art Beat talks to Phillip Hoose, who last week won the National Book Award for young people's literature for "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice."
The winner of this year's National Book Award for nonfiction tells the story of Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, who rose from humble means to amass a vast fortune, build the country's largest fleet of steamships and control a railroad empire.
Best-selling author Lilian Harry will be attending a book fair in Callington Town Hall on Saturday, November 28, where she will be signing copies of her latest books.
Naomi Klein says her next book delves into the simmering debate over how best to rein in carbon emissions, a highly divisive issue she predicts will explode at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference, set for Copenhagen next month.
A YORKSHIRE author has won a prestigious sports writing prize for the second time in three years for his biography of controversial cricketer Harold Larwood.
by Cassandra Szklarski TORONTO - Naomi Klein says her next book delves into the simmering debate over how best to rein in carbon emissions, a highly divisive issue she predicts will explode at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference, set for Copenhagen next month. read more
"U Is for Undertow" (A Marian Wood Book/Putnam, 403 pages, $27.95) by Sue Grafton: Can it really be 27 years since Kinsey Millhone sifted through clues in "A Is for Alibi?"
Lanette Gruits-Sheppard of Centerpoint knew God's protection personally before she ever wrote a book about it.
Irish novelist Colum McCann has won the prestigious 2009 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel “Let the Great World Spin,” a remarkable meditation on September 11, seen though the prism of an earlier decade.
Newton author, UMass-Dartmouth professor Alan Hirshfeld pens mathematical pot-boiler about the life and science of Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor and astronomer Archimedes.
Miss some of the weekend's book reviews? We're back again to catch you up with a book review round-up of the newest in fine literature and in... well, Al Roker murder mysteries.
TRUCKEE, Calif. - A couple of weeks ago I had the good fortune to pick up a book from local Incline Village author Diane Inman. She had called and asked me if I would like to review a book of hers entitled, "The Fine Art of Angling." Inman had produced a book by gathering 10 of the most prestigious modern-day sporting (angling) artists in the country. In the book she tells us all about the ...
Will County prosecutors are taking the first steps toward forcing the Canadian author of a book about Drew Peterson to turn over audio recordings of his interviews with the Bolingbrook police sergeant charged with killing his third wife.
Not since judges of the Whitbread Prize shrugged off accusations of sentimentality to name Ted Hughes as the posthumous winner in 1998 has there been a dead author in line for a major book award.
In his new book, award-winning author, business consultant and performance veteran, Randy G. Pennington discusses the critical need for effective leaders to earn and maintain the trust and respect of others. Recently released by PenlandScott Publishers, On My Honor, I Will: The Journey to Integrity-Driven Leadership builds on the timeless principles founded in the venerated, century-old Scout ...
Columnist and book author Van Craddock has spent decades researching the history of Longview and East Texas. He says he's nowhere near running out of things to write about.
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