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  • 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. More
  • 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. More
  • 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. More
  • 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. More
  • 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. More
  • 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;   More
  • 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... More
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The four winners of this year’s National Book Awards celebrated last night by tossing their books skyward at the conclusion of the ceremony. From left are T.J. Stiles, Nonfiction winner for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Knopf); Phillip Hoose, winner in the Young People’s Literature category for Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (FSG/Kroupa); Keith Waldrop, Poetry winner for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (Univ. of California Press); and Fiction winner Colum McCann for Let the Great World Spin (Random House).

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