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Nonfiction Reviews
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend Larry Tye . Random , $26 (408p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6651-3 Tye, a Boston Globe reporter and author of The Father of Spin, offers the first biography on Satchel Paige, the premier pitcher of the Negro Leagues. Having interviewed more than 200 veteran fellow players of the Negro and Major Leagues, he is able to flesh out the Satchel Paige persona.
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Full Faith and Credit
Call it stewardship, prudence or just plain common sense—religion publishers are offering faith-based advice for coping with the current economic crisis. Much of that advice, in fact, varies little from what Christian financial authors have been preaching for decades: if you follow the money management principles found in the Bible, you will be protected during times of economic downturn.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 4/20/2009
Among this week's reviews: Rotten Ralph's latest rotten adventure, a pair of edgy YA novels sure to grab boys' attention, and a round-up of interactive titles for the younger set.
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Green Theology
With publishers singing the bottom-line blues, some are turning to green... green books, that is. Although they have long popped up on general trade publisher lists, environment-friendly titles are growing very visibly at religion and spirituality publishing houses. Is green theology their new buzzword? Aplentiful crop of new books may mean “yes,” as authors write books on what God&...
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 04/20/2009
This week's Web features real life stories from citizen-soldiers in Iraq, cancer survivors, a pioneering environmental ethicist, the producer of Blade Runner, and ants. Also: speculative history from JFK experts, the Skinny Bitches gets their man, an exceptional debut novel about family, Alzheimers and the African-American male.
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Flux Holds Steady Through Changes
Llewellyn Worldwide’s YA imprint, Flux, which has published teen fiction for the past three years, is moving in a new direction this fall with the release of its first graphic novel: Black Is for Beginnings (Sept.). The book is a continuation of Laurie Faria Stolarz’s Blue Is for Nightmares series of four novels, the first of which launched the Flux line in 2006.
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Simultaneous Pub for Takahashi Manga
U.S. manga publisher Viz Media and Japan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday will join forces to present Rin-Ne, a brand new series by international manga superstar Rumiko Takahashi, simultaneously in the U.S. and Japan beginning April 22.
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Math, Philosophy, Comics and Bertrand Russell’s Search for Truth
In October Bloomsbury will publish Logicomix: An Epic Search For Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou with the art team of Alecos Papdatos and Annie Di Donna, a work of serious nonfiction that, among other things, is a biography of the noted mathematician/philosopher Bertrand Russell.
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Comic Books, Fetish Art and the Co-Creator of Superman
Craig Yoe’s new book Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-creator Joe Shuster, sheds light on a seminal comics creator while unearthing illegal works that played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Comics Code Authority
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Top Shelf Gets Sweded
Top Shelf is helping to bring Sweden's blossoming comix scene to the US.
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CTL+ALT+DEL Moves to Bookstores
Already collected in self-published form, the popular webcomic CLT+ALT+DLT is getting a new bookstore push via a series of new editions.
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April Comics Bestsellers
Jeff Kinney’s Last Straw rules the top slot; Naruto takes slots 2-6; Bone: Crown of Horns is #10 and Watchmen tops backlist.
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Comics Briefly
Secret Identity Caught in #amazonfail; CBLDF, Stumptown Benefit; New York Anime Festival Registration; Green Lantern Movie Release; Marvel Marketing Tool; Viz Unveils Virtual Merchandise; and Smith Comic Goes Melville
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 4/13/2009
This week on the Web: literature's greatest misses, the war stories of a reformed drug smuggler, a real-life WWII spy worthy of Bond and Bourne, hunting in China for a human kidney, math as if it didn't matter, and tips from the Farm Chicks. Plus: a rigorous, geological fact-checking for the Exodus story, with potentially earth-shaking results.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 4/13/2009
This week's reviews include picture books from Valeri Gorbachev, Samantha Berger and Yumi Heo; a round-up of titles for Mother's Day and Father's Day; and the return of a pair of spirited protagonists—Julia Gillian and Emma-Jean Lazarus.
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Gardening Publishers Set Spring Tour
Three Workman imprints are sending authors of some of their major gardening titles to visit indepedent booksellers to convince them to Get Gardening.
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Q & A with Graham Salisbury
Graham Salisbury’s books for middle-graders and young adults have won numerous accolades; his often dramatic tales of boyhood adventure in a rich Hawaiian setting are fan favorites. While continuing to work on a five-volume cycle of novels set during WWII, Salisbury has also created a new series for younger readers, beginning with Calvin Coconut: Trouble Magnet.
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DC Takes Jeremy Love’s Bayou from Web to Print
Zuda.com is releasing a print version of Jeremy Love’s Bayou in June—the first printed book-format work to be released by the online site.
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Emerald City Brings In the Green
Emerald City ComiCon, held at Seattle's Washington State Convention Center April 4 and 5, is rapidly becoming one of the staples of the comics convention circuit.
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Superman, Super Teacher: Using Comics to Teach Reading
Once in a while, you meet someone whose pure enjoyment of comic books is so uncomplicated that you're both delighted and envious. For me, one of those people is Gary Shapiro, who was a fellow student in the San Jose State University graduate creative writing program.
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