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Fiction Book Reviews: 6/29/2009 06/29/2009
This week, reviews of new novels from James Ellroy, Jeff Lindsay, Philippa Gregory, Richard Russo and Mary B. Morrison. Plus, Dick and Felix Francis deliver another horse caper, Tilly Bagshawe channels Sidney Sheldon, senator Barbara Boxer weighs in with another Beltway thriller. More
Children's Book Reviews: 6/29/2009 06/29/2009
Reviewed this week: the latest picture book from the Emberley clan, a picture-book biography of the inventors of Day-Glo paint, new novels from Richard W. Jennings and Elizabeth Scott, as well as a round-up of concept books for younger readers.
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Men at War: PW talks with Evie Wyld by Brandon Proia - 06/29/2009
Repressed trauma trickles down through generations of Australian veterans, POWs and recluses in Evie Wyld's After the Fire, a Still Small Voice. Think Annie Proulx by way of North Queensland.
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Winning ‘Hunger Games’ Essay Announced By Sally Lodge - 06/26/2009
Scholastic announced today that 17-year-old Kayley Hyde of Seattle has won the publisher’s The Hunger Games essay contest. As grand prize winner, she will receive a trip to New York City, where she will be treated to lunch with author Suzanne Collins. Kaylee will also be given a signed, personalized copy of The Hunger Games, an autographed ARC of Catching Fire, and a collectible “mockingjay” pin.
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It’s the Dog Days of Summer at Square Fish By Sally Lodge - 06/25/2009
Square Fish Books is going to the dogs this season: Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group’s paperback imprint is featuring its six new canine capers in The Dog Days of Summer promotion. The cover of each book displays a crisp, close-up photo of a pooch on its cover, giving the middle-grade novels a uniform look and surefire appeal to young dog devotees. The promotion encompasses five reprints of books originally published by one of the group’s imprints, as well as one Square Fish original.
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Chicago School Keeps Alexie Novel on Summer Reading List By Claire Kirch - 06/23/2009
Despite public calls to do so from a group of parents, Sherman Alexie’s critically acclaimed YA novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, will not be pulled as required summer reading for 400 incoming freshmen students at Antioch (Ill.) Community High School. In a meeting on Monday night, school district 117 superintendent Jay Sabatino and the seven-member school board voiced their strong support for the book as an educational tool that engages young readers.
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PW profiles Charles Todd: the mother and son mystery writing team By Leonard Picker - 06/22/2009
Masters of psychologically complex detective stories set in the aftermath of WWI, the mother-son team of Caroline and Charles Todd, who write under the name Charles Todd, have a new series featuring a female detective set in the same period.
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Beyond Her Book Barbara Vey, Contributing Editor, Publishers Weekly June 4, 2009 What is Women's Fiction?
When PW first approached me to write a blog about Women's Fiction, I knew my defini... More
