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A
Mother’s
Memoir,
a Son’s
Anguish
The
writer
Julie
Myerson
is
braced
for
another
round of
recriminations
about
her
memoir
“The
Lost
Child: A
Mother’s
Story,”
about
her
teenage
son’s
descent
into
drug
addiction. |
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Gregory creates a 'Queen' for a new era
Philippa Gregory's new novel, The White Queen, raises the question: Will the best-selling Brit author do for 15th-century England what she has done for the 16th?
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The Rebel in the Writer
He’s a rebel, fiercely
independent, considered to
be too outspoken, and best
of all every word he writes
challengers us to look at
the world in ways that are
easier to ignore. Marcus
Blake has been successful so
far in his career as an
Indie Writer.... |
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Midpoint Inks Distribution Deal
with Mark Joseph
Media personality Mark
Joseph has signed a distribution
deal with Midpoint for to
release titles from his newly
formed imprint, Bully! Pulpit
Books.
New York
Center for Independent
Publishing Looks for New
Direction
A meeting of the NYCIP
advisory council in late June
discussed a number of ideas to
move the NYCIP forward. The
organization for indie presses
has been floundering since
executive director Karin Taylor
left in February and a number of
council members resigned.
Bleak
House Moving Forward As
Founder Moves On
By Claire
Kirch
Bleak House founder
Ben LeRoy is starting a new
house, while Big Earth
Publishing will continue to
release new titles under the
Bleak House imprint.
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Blue Marble
Celebrates
30 Years
The Blue
Marble, a
children’s
bookstore
located in
Ft. Thomas,
Ky.,
celebrated
its 30th
anniversary
with an
in-store
celebration
Saturday,
June 20.
Seventeen
local
authors and
illustrators
spent the
day mingling
with
customers.
The daylong
celebration
culminated
in a dinner
that
included the
day’s
featured
authors,
past and
present
store
employees, a
few sales
reps, and
friends of
the store
from the
community... |
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A first book of motion for kids, it shows a horse in full gallop and a turtle swimming up the page. A dog runs, a cat springs, an eagle soars, and a butterfly flutters. |
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Now Swing! does for kids what Gallop! does for animals—a boy rides a bike, a girl kicks her soccer ball, a swimmer cuts through the water, and a skater pirouettes on ice. |
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Spreading 'Fire’
Few words strike deeper dread in the heart of a writer than “orphaned manuscript”—a book acquired by an editor who leaves before seeing it to publicatio
"Still Alice," written by Lisa Genova, is a novel about a 50-year-old Harvard professor's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. It's also a book, Genova was told, that nobody would want to read.
Simon & Schuster on Friday opened a virtual storefront at popular online document-sharing website Scribd.
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Do You want more
money. Do you
want to find
success? Do You
want better
relationships?
The Answer: To
Getting Along
Better With
Yourself and
Others ----- The
one thing that
we all seem to
have in common
whether we are a
teacher,
healthcare
professional,
parent, partner
in a
relationship or
business person
is the need to
get along with
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Liberty and
Tyranny is Mark
R. Levin's
clarion call to
conservative
America, a new
manifesto for
the conservative
movement for the
21st century. In
the face of the
modern liberal
assault on
Constitution-based
values, an
attack that has
steadily
snowballed since
President
Roosevelt's New
Deal of the
1930s and
resulted in a
federal
government that
is a massive,
unaccountable
conglomerate,
the time for
re-enforcing the
intellectual and
practical case
for conservatism
is now. |
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