Pics of the Week, 4/25
-- Publishers Weekly, 4/25/2005
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This week our pictures present the winners of the Kentucky Literary Awards; Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury reading to kids; a book donation from Pearson Education; and a novel dedicated to memory of murdered young Mexican women. | |
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KENTUCKY FRIED LIT
Western Kentucky University in partnership with Barnes & Noble and the Bowling Green Public Library presented the $1,000 Kentucky Literary Awards earlier this month. Left to right: Nonfiction winner Jo Anna Holt-Watson for A Taste of the Sweet Apple (Sarabande), poetry winner James Baker Hall for The Total Light Process (Univ. Press of Kentucky) and fiction winner Silas House for The Coal Tattoo (Algonquin), pictured here with awards chairman Jonathan Jeffrey.
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NEW YORK KNICKS READING OFFENSIVE
New York Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury stopped by PS 329 in New York City to read from Claudia Mills's Gus and Grandpa at Basketball (FSG), as part of Cablevision's Power to Learn initiative. Marbury is pictured with a student from PS 329. Photo by Avi Gerver/MSG Photos |
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BOOKS FOR KIDS
Pearson Education donated more than 2,000 kids' books to Orange Country, Fla., schools at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum's annual conference, held in Orlando, Fla. Pictured (l. to r.) are Pearson Education senior v-p Kathy Hurley; Southeastern University dean Wayne Driscoll; Orange County superintendent Ronald Blocker; student Andrea Carreno; ASCD president Martha Bruckner and ASCD executive director Gene Carter.
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BLOOD IN THE DESERT
Novelist Alicia Gaspar de Alba gives a talk in El Paso, Tex., about her new novel, Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders (Arte Público Press), based on research into the brutal killings of more than 350 young women along the El Paso/Ciudad Juárez border since 1993.
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