In Blogging Naked, Britain holds their first masturbate-a-thon and in China they put an end to funeral stripteases And in Bookadoodle Nancy Callahan continues her Getting Published series, while Starbucks sells childrens books and publishers contine to make billions Next up in Boomer 2.0 scientists try to map our neanderthal genes The unemployed…
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The Sobol Award is a new literary prize but only writers who are both unpublished and who do not have an agent can try to get it. The winner will recieve $100,000 and for second and third place, they will recieve $25,000 and $10,000 while 7 others will recieve $1,000 each. Participants must enter through…
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Paul Burrell’s “The Way We Were” will be another gossip filled novel that speaks about Princess Diana and her not so private life. You may remember Burrell, Diana’s ex-butler who wrote “A Royal Duty” in 2003, his first novel about Diana. The book was billed as a must read, and “shattering”. Readers were also urged…
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Starbucks will start offering reading material along with their beverages. One of the first to be added will be For One More Day by author Mitch Albom. The large coffee seller has been offering music and movies for a time and would like to branch out into novels very soon. The coffee chain Starbucks has…
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Some of the best selling non-fiction novels are still doing great offline as well as on. In the case of Godless I definitely have to say controversy works but it is not a book that I would read. Below is the top 4 books that have sold the most online copies recently. Freakonomics by Steven…
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Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little…
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Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Siochana-The Guards, Ireland’s police force-and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to. In his sober moments Jack aspires to become Ireland’s best private investigator, not to mention it’s first-Irish…
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Lily is haunted by memories-of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women…
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“Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim’s burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the…
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On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down’s syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second…
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