Chinese Author Da Chen's Eternal Forbidden City

Chinese Author Da Chen's Eternal Forbidden City
Wall Street Journal
Chinese-born author Da Chen is known for exposing China's social ills—from his breakout book "Colors of the Mountain" that recounted his family's tribulations under Mao to "Brothers," his searing satire on local corruption. But "My Last Empress," Mr ...

Wall Street Journal

Book Review: Facing Redemption by Kimberly McKay
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
In her first book Finding Kylie , author Kimberly McKay introduced us to 25-year old Chastity Wayne, who, after laying her mother Kylie to rest found out about a terrible secret that she had been hiding from Chastity, all of her life. The secret was ...

'Kite Runner' author Khaled Hosseini will release a new novel this spring
Christian Science Monitor
“The Kite Runner” author Khaled Hosseini will release a new novel this May, according to publisher Riverhead Books. Skip to next paragraph ... The book, which will be titled “And the Mountains Echoed,” will focus on family, a theme Hosseini said he is ...

Christian Science Monitor

What If We Sent 1 Million Books to The Gambia?
Huffington Post
Tom Warth, the founder of Books For Africa (BFA), has done a lot of unusual things to promote charity and education including walking across Minnesota and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. But nothing has been as important to him as his "African Book Walk: A ...

Mexico City Book Fair Ends After Drawing Over 1M Visitors
Fox News
"We can say that we exceeded book sales, with respect to the 2011 event, with both the Culture Secretariat and the book fair being able to say mission accomplished," book fair director Maria Cortina said. This year's edition of the Zocalo International ...

Justin Bieber Supports Mom, Author Pattie Mallette
New Times Broward-Palm Beach (blog)
"Around the house we always had music," Justin Bieber's mother, author Pattie Mallette told us in a back room at Books and Books in Coral Gables. She'd just arrived from the Women of Faith event in Fort Lauderdale. "I would sing and play the guitar and...

New Times Broward-Palm Beach (blog)

5 Books Dictated From Beyond the Grave - Mental Floss
By Stacy Conradt
5 Books Dictated From Beyond the Grave. ... It's really hard to write a book; it's even harder to sell one. Add a dead author into the mix (it's pretty difficult to outline plot points and dictate precise punctuation from six feet under) and you've ... When really inspired, the Patience-Pearl duo could spell out about 1500 words an hour, which is how she came to be the author of books including The Sorry Tale and Hope Trueblood. Even spirits have their critics, though: Atlantic Monthly essayist ...
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Average Weekly Top-10 Bestseller Book Cover | Visual.ly
By jradavenport
... look like? Using every book cover from the weekly top-10 list from 2000-2011, I have found this to be the average cov. ... See also my full viz of the weekly top-10 here: http://visual.ly/weekly-top-10-best-seller-books-2000-2011. Credits ...
Visual.ly

White Privilege in YA Book Covers, Characters and Film Adaptations
By ninjacandy
What is sad about this predicament is that when fans of a book series imagine the author'scharacters, they automatically imagine them as “white,” and any attempts at creating explicit ethnic descriptions are completely lost, or, featuring any ... were shocked to learn Magnus' Asian heritage, and instead had explicitly imagined him as a White Male Character even after extensive, forthright attempts to describe Magnus as an Asian character written throughout all her books by Clare.
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Rajiv Gandhi assassination video suppressed, claims book - The ...
NEW DELHI: The chief investigating officer of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, K Ragothaman, has alleged that the then IB chief, M K Narayanan, had ...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Rajiv.../17012933.cms

Parenting Study Author Regnerus Admits Faults With Data ...
The researcher behind a controversial family structure study released earlier this year has admitted that the tactics used to analyze his data, which initially ...
www.advocate.com/.../parenting-study-author-regnerus-admits...

The Horn Book Magazine — November/December 2012 — The ...
What the [Very Bad Swearword] Is a Children's Book Anyway? The author's 2012 Zena Sutherland Lecture. Susan Cooper, 25, Remembering Margaret Mahy ...
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