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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."
Fragmented representation is a disaster for the rural sector, says the Wairarapa author of a new book on the future of New Zealand farming.
NEW ORLEANS - "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...
Columbus author Justin Bauer brings censorship and media into the forefront with his second fiction book “Swicked Vol. I-II.” “A lot of people view the First Amendment as an end-all be-all protector,” 23-year-old Bauer said. “But it’s often not true, and I used that as the biggest inspiration.”
Among those who didn't win was an Allentown native who was in the running for the young literature honor. Colum McCann's ''Let the Great World Spin,'' a novel about daring, luck and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize Wednesday night at the 60th annual National Book Awards.
Review by Juanita Sherwood “In a Perfect World” is a timely novel. We should hope that it is not prophetic.
Grand Rapids author Jim Lewis’ book about his kayak trip down the Mississippi River has only been on book store and gift shops shelves a little over three weeks, but it has been selling fast.
Author David Mellott will speak and sign copies of his new book about the Penitentes of northern New Mexico 4 p.
Koontz's new book dealing with the creation of a new species doesn't quite manifest a miracle.
The National Book Award for fiction for 2009 has gone to Irish author Colm McCann who lives in New York for his book "Let the Great World Spin." The book is set in New York in 1974 when a French tightrope walker Philippe Petit walked between the two towers of the Twin Towers, creating a massive publicity stunt.
While Wordsworth and Byron were forging the age of Romantic literature, a burst of scientific discovery was happening that forever changed astronomy, chemistry, and physics. Author Richard Holmes reaches back to this period in history to understand the foundations of modern science.
Colum McCann, whose novel, “Let the Great World Spin,” won the National Book Award for fiction last week, finds inspiration by burrowing into lives unlike his own.
A new book tells a little known story of a teacher on the Aluetian Island of Attu, who was taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War Two. Attu is the last island in the Aleutian chain. It was invaded by the Japanese in June, 1942. Etta Jones was living there with her husband, [...]
BREWSTER: Dolores (Dodie) Beal Stephens brings her new book to life in a lecture at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 14 at the Southeast Museum.
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Philippine literature carves its mark in the hall of literary fame as Xlibris announces the release of author Dhen M. Torres' Paraisong Bundok, a poignant and intense tale of a young boy's enduring battle against life.
PARK HILLS — Graduation is in an hour and 45 minutes and the entire audience must pass a Western Literature class before they can graduate.
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