Black Woods Blue Sky By Eowyn Ivey

The writing, however, is beautiful and the story is haunting. Black Woods, Blue Sky is a dark and sad book, exploring relationships and trust...

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Fun Facts Friday: J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur

Hector St. John de Crèvecœur was a French-American author, diplomat, and farmer. He is remembered mostly for his book Letters from an American Farmer...

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I Escaped From Auschwitz The Shocking True Story Of The World War II Hero Who Escaped The Nazis And

I Escaped from Auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba, originally published in the 1960s, is an important testament to courage, honesty, and selfless bravery...

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The Girls Of The Glimmer Factory By Jennifer Coburn

While the book started slowly, I thought the insights into life at Theresienstadt were well written, and the character studies were very interesting...

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Fun Facts Friday: Pierre Beaumarchais

Pierre Beaumarchais (24 January, 1732 – 18 May, 1799) was a French playwright, inventor, diplomat and many other evolution over his life...

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Blood Sweat Chrome The Wild And True Story Of Mad Max Fury Road By Kyle Buchanan

Blood, Sweat & Chrome by Kyle Buchanan is an oral history of the decades it took to make the award winning movie Mad Max: Fury Road. ...

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The 007 Diaries Filming Live And Let Die By Roger Moore

The 007 Diaries: Filming Live and Let Die is honest. Moore loses his temper at the productions, argues with his wife but appreciates his hand in life...

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Fun Facts Friday: Pedro CalderĂłn de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca (17 January, 1600 – 25 May, 1681) was a Spanish poet and writer. He is one of the premier poets of Spain’s Golden Age...

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Tunnel Of Hope Escape From The Novogrudok Forced Labor Camp By Betty Brodsky Cohen

This book, more than anything, is a tribute to those who crawled to freedom, the Bielski brothers, and the Christians who helped the survivors...

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In The Company Of Knaves The Lost Years Of William Shakespeare Book 3 By Anthony Wildman

I enjoyed the nuances of Shakespeare, making him a real character, a struggling playwright and actor. I found the author’s historical research to be excellent...

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Greed vs. Library eBook Lending
Opinion / March 14, 2011

In the news last week it was announced that certain publishers decided that eBooks which have been sold to libraries will have a license to allow a book to be loaned 26 times before the embedded DRM (Digital Rights Management system) kicks in so the library will have to buy a new copy....

Self Published Success Story
Opinion / March 8, 2011

Amanda Hocking (blog | Amazon Page) is from Minnesota, she is 26, self published and … sold 900,000 copies of her books (and no, she doesn’t have a reality TV show). While I usually don’t read the paranormal genre I have to admire what Ms. Hocking has achieved and, what I believe to be, a big trend which I hope will continue. That trend is that us, book consumers, will decide who will be the next best seller, not some marketin...

Guest Post: 5 Essential Ingredients for Romance
Guest Posts / March 2, 2011

5 Essential Ingredients for Romance by Kameron Lo who also writes for online accounting degrees and sonogram tech among other fine sites I love a good romance novel: it’s a great escape from the troubles and boredom of everyday life to fantasize about exciting, romantic adventures worlds away. Having read so many of these exciting detours from reality, I’ve boiled down 5 essential ingredients for romance. This is what every ...

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