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Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.
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Booklist Online, featuring over 120,000 book reviews, as well as audiobook, video, and database reviews, is the counterpart to Booklist magazine, published by the American Library Association.
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Blood Matters
News | www.ft.com | 22 hours 34 minutes ago
Twelve years after her mother died of breast cancer, 37-year-old Gessen – a war correspondent and mother at the time – discovered that she had inherited the “genetic mutation that kills women early”.
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Author Recounts 'The Buffalo Saga'
News | www.npr.org | Nov 22, 2009
The Buffalo Soldiers have been called the unsung heroes of World War II. James Harden Daugherty was only 19 when he was drafted in the U.S. Army. He left the United States, where he was still abiding by "Coloreds Only" Jim Crow laws, to help fight for freedom and liberation for those abroad.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120668822&ft=1&f=1033
Non-fiction: "Woodrow Wilson: A Biography," by John Milton Cooper Jr.
News | www.post-gazette.com | Nov 22, 2009
Franklin Roosevelt probably engendered more words about his career than any other 20th-century president, but I wager Woodrow Wilson isn't far behind.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014899-148.stm?cmpid=books.xml
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Young-adult nonfiction and novels
News | www.philly.com | Nov 21, 2009
Ah, fall. The season of spookiness, of football, and of leaf-peeping is about to give way to the interminable holidays, but readers of young adult books can hold onto autumn a little longer. The ever-growing genre continues to turn out interesting books, and this season gives us tons of new titles
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20091121_Young-adult_nonfiction_and_novels.html
Bainbridge Indie Hosts One Couple, Two Books
News | www.mediabistro.com | Nov 20, 2009
Jobs and recruiting for media professionals in journalism, on-line content, book publishing, TV, radio, PR, graphic design, photography, and advertising
Meanwhile, back in Dumbfuckistan …
News | mhpbooks.com | Nov 20, 2009
And speaking of that deal whereby Google privatizes the American (and English, and Australian, and Canadian) public library system, steals copyrights from authors and publishers, and decrees that it owns (and can charge you for) anything ever written in English that somebody doesnt step
Karl Rove memoir coming in March
News | seattletimes.nwsource.com | Nov 18, 2009
Karl Rove's memoir has a title, "Courage and Consequence," and a release date - March 9, 2010.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2010295536_apusbooksrove.html?syndication=rss
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Blog | oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com | Nov 18, 2009
Interesting reactions to my post yesterday on an apparent conflict of interest on the judging panel for the 2009 National Book Award for young peoples literature. An article by Motoko Rich the New York Times ArtsBeat blog, in which I am quoted, begins : Its not Olympic figure
