Charlesbridge Acquires Mackinac Island Press List By Lynn Andriani - 11/17/2009
Watertown, Mass., children’s publisher Charlesbridge has acquired the rights to the 30-book backlist and several forthcoming titles from Mackinac Island Press of Traverse City, Mich. MIP will continue to operate as a book developer, producing between eight and 12 children’s titles, and one and two series a year.
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Nonfiction Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 11/16/2009
This week: stars for Lynne Olson's Citizens of London, Daring Young Men by Richard Reeves, Susan Krauss's The Search for Fulfillment, and David Kynaston's Family Britain: 1951-1957. Plus: Daniel Menaker, Kathleen Rooney, Larry McMurty, Mikhail Chekhov, Ellen Sandbeck, and more.
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Children's Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 11/16/2009
In this week's children's book reviews: picture books from Peter McCarty, David McPhail, Sandra Boynton, and Arnold and Adrianne Lobel; fiction from Iain Lawrence, Mike Lupica, James Patterson, and Peter Lerangis; and a round-up of the latest pop-up books to hit the market.
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LaHaye Pens New Series for Zondervan By Marcia Z. Nelson - 11/12/2009
Tim LaHaye, co-author of the megaselling Left Behind series of apocalyptic novels, has switched publishers and will partner with lawyer-author Craig Parshall on a new apocalyptic series. Zondervan said it had signed LaHaye and Parshall to produce The End.
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Little, Brown Inks Snicket Deal with Handler By Jim Milliot - 11/11/2009
Daniel Handler, who had a long and successful run with his Lemony Snicket-penned A Series of Unfortunate Events series at HarperCollins, is moving to Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in a five-book deal. Under the agreement, Handler will write four Lemony Snicket titles in a new series, with the first due out in 2012. Before that series hits, LBYR will release a Handler young adult novel in 2011 that will feature full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman.
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Nonfiction Reviews 11/09/2009
Starred reviews for: Still Life by Melissa Milgrom; Paper Fortunes by Roy C. Smith; Our Times by A.N. Wilson; The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattio; Love & War by John and Stasi Eldredge;
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Riordan Sets His Sights on Egypt By Karen Springen - 11/05/2009
Like his Lightning Thief star Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan is a demigod—at least in the eyes of his readers. With the release next May of the first title in his new middle-grade fantasy series, about ancient Egypt, he is set to become a pharaoh, too. In The Kane Chronicles, Book One: The Red Pyramid, kids will meet Carter Kane, 14, and his sister, Sadie, 12, descendants of Egyptian magicians who battle gods accidentally released in the present...
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