Baseball when the grass ? and everything else ? was real (AP)
AP - "But Didn't We Have Fun? An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870" (286 pages, Ivan R. Dee, $27.50) by Peter Morris: Any institution that endures in American culture passes through an interesting transitional period ? the time when it straddles the line between an informal practice and a more structured, formal activity.
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USA TODAY BEST-SELLERS (AP)
AP - Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback
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WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS (AP)
AP - 1. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
yahoo.com Thu, 15 May 2008 17:41:38 GMT
Books of The Times: Hit Man's Dilemma: Sly Widow, Nasty Boss
In Thomas Perry's new mystery a killer frets over a job that's gotten out of hand.
The New York Times Thu, 15 May 2008 02:49:35 GMT
Newly Released
May's list of new books comes weighted with accolades, from within publishing and without. Reviews of works by Inger Ash Wolfe, Aleksandar Hemon, Chris Knopf, Stephenie Meyer, James Meek and Elizabeth George.
The New York Times Thu, 15 May 2008 02:43:31 GMT
Domestic Lives: A 30,000-Volume Window on the World
The author of "The Library at Night" writes about finding a place to keep his library of some 30,000 books.
The New York Times Thu, 15 May 2008 07:54:10 GMT
Poison Sleep by T.A. Pratt
Genevieve Kelley, an apprentice magician who retreated into a coma of sorts after she was raped, has been kept in the Blackwing Institute, a sanatorium for mentally disturbed magicians. Genevieve is a "reweaver" -- she can rearrange reality to match her dreams. But she has escaped, and she is more or less randomly reweaving reality in Felport, transporting people to a world of her dreams every so often. Marla needs to track her down and eliminate her threat to her city, hopefully without killing her.
sfsite.com Thu, 1 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT
A Conversation With Rob Schrab
'This is early 90's and Scud is being thrown around all over the place because of the Gulf War. And I was like "You know that kind of sounds like a detergent." It was like something you would buy to clean your tub. I thought, you know, what would be real neat is to have an assassin that had this pop art detergent box-like look to it. I though what if there was a robot bought out of a vending machine, like a disposable razor or lighter.'
sfsite.com Thu, 1 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT
Nexus Graphica: a column by Rick Klaw and Mark London Williams
During the annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) business meeting, some discussions took place as to what kinds of works qualify professional science fiction/fantasy writers for membership. Rick Klaw has some thoughts on what was said, what they should do to update their definitions and what is happening in the rest of the world when it comes to graphic novels.
sfsite.com Thu, 1 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT
Nonfiction review: Zaid's 'Secret of Fame'
The Secret of Fame The Literary Encounter in an Age of Distraction By Gabriel Zaid, translated by Natasha Wimmer Paul Dry Books; 182 pages; $14.95 What is that voice that haunts writers huddled at their cafe tables, gulping coffee, tapping at keyboards? "...
San Francisco Chronicle Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Writer Oakley Hall dies at age 87
Oakley Hall, a prolific author and influential writing teacher best known for the novels "Downhill Racers" and "Warlock" and as co-founder of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, died yesterday in Nevada City (Nevada County). He was 87. His death was...
San Francisco Chronicle Wed, 14 May 2008 00:07:04 PDT
Ariel Schrag: Comic books of Berkeley High
As Berkeley's only public high school, Berkeley High has produced no shortage of luminaries over the years (including Phil Lesh, Nina Hartley, Ursula K. Le Guin and Miranda July). But none have sought to chronicle their time there the way Ariel Schrag, class...
San Francisco Chronicle Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT
How to Defuse Explosives in Iraqi Heat
Chris Hunter served in the British military in Iraq in 2004, performing arguably one of the most dangerous jobs out there. He was a bomb-disposal operator — responsible for taking apart IED's before they exploded. He discusses why, though he left the military 18 months ago, he plans to go to Afghanistan.
NPR Thu, 15 May 2008 08:04:00 -0400
Suze Rotolo: Of Dylan, New York and Art
Artist Suze Rotolo — the woman walking beside Bob Dylan on the album cover for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan — was Dylan's girlfriend in the '60s. She's written about the relationship, and about that era's New York, in a new memoir.
NPR Wed, 14 May 2008 10:29:00 -0400
In 'Spies for Hire,' U.S. Security Gets Outsourced
It's become a $50 billion a year industry: Corporations like Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, and IBM are being paid to do things the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Pentagon usually do, including analysis, covert operations, electronic surveillance and reconnaissance.
NPR Tue, 13 May 2008 16:28:00 -0400
The General's Chain of Blame in Iraq
WISER IN BATTLE A Soldier's Story By Ricardo S. Sanchez
The Washington Post Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT
Crime Fiction's Familial Shadows
QUIVER By Peter Leonard Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Minotaur. 276 pp. $24.95 Life, as our leaders keep reminding us, is unfair, and that's true in spades in the book review game. To start with, roughly a zillion books are published for every one that is reviewed. What's more, even if you do get rev...
The Washington Post Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT
Stories About Real Lives -- Both Animal and Human
In his newest book, How I Learned Geography (Farrar Straus Giroux, $16.95; ages 4-8), Caldecott medalist Uri Shulevitz recalls how his family fled the Nazis in Warsaw and ended up in the Central Asian city of Turkestan.
The Washington Post Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT
Disgraced author James Frey rebounds with messy 'Morning'
Give the bloodied but clearly unbowed James Frey points for unbridled ambition. His new novel, Bright Shiny Morning,reveals a ...
USATODAY.com Thu, 15 May 2008 21:35:13 GMT
Book buzz: Walters' view from the top
Since USA TODAY began its Best-Selling Books list in 1993, only four memoirs have entered the list at No 1: Hillary Clinton's ...
USATODAY.com Thu, 15 May 2008 18:22:58 GMT
New voices: Bill Folman
Bill Folman's debut novel, The Scandal Plan: or: How to Win the Presidency by Cheating on Your Wife, tells the tale of a straight-arrow ...
USATODAY.com Thu, 15 May 2008 11:58:30 GMT
'China's Great Train' superbly chronicles Beijing's cultural assault on Tibet
Abrahm Lustgarten examines the onrushing transformation of Tibet in his compelling new book, "China's Great Train." He discusses it Friday evening in the Seattle area.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Thu, 15 May 2008 06:00:00 EST
Rick Bragg's second memoir embraces the male side of his family
Best-selling memoirist Rick Bragg looks at the male side of his family for the first time in "The Prince of Frogtown." The Southern storyteller discusses it Wednesday and Thursday in Seattle.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Thu, 15 May 2008 06:00:00 EST
Read It: 'The Post-American World'
Best-selling memoirist Rick Bragg looks at the male side of his family for the first time in "The Prince of Frogtown." The Southern storyteller discusses it Wednesday and Thursday in Seattle.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Thu, 15 May 2008 06:00:00 EST
New On-Line Publisher Offers DRM-free Digital Audio Short Stories
SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 8 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Local author Jim Musgrave is featured on Sniplits' beta test site. Anyone with a digital music player, smart phone or laptop understands the hunger for new content. Now, with the launch of Sniplits.com, there's a new source for entertainment on the Internet. Sniplits(SM) is publishing audio short stories, packaged as DRM-free MP3 files and playable on virtually any device capable of playing digital music.
Send2Press Thu, 08 May 2008 11:43:16 GMT
Thomas D. Mangelsen's Best Selling Book The Natural World is a Quiet Call to Action as the Earth Battles Global Warming
OMAHA, Neb., May 7 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Wondrous and enchanting yet fragile and at risk, 'The Natural World' (ISBN: 978-189031042-4), as seen through the eyes of celebrated nature photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen, chronicles ten distinct ecosystems that serve as islands of refuge not only for Earth's diversity of life but for the human spirit as well.
Send2Press Wed, 07 May 2008 07:31:44 GMT
Nurse Gives Dragons A Shot
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 30 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Keeping the forces of darkness away from his patients for the past twelve years has given cardiac nurse and published author, Paul Genesse an insight into what it takes to be a hero. Genesse writes fantasy novels about dragons and the heroes who face them. 'The Golden Cord, Book One of the Iron Dragon Series' (ISBN: 1594146594) is his debut novel. (VIDEO)
Send2Press Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:49:32 GMT
Hot on the paper trail to the Iraq war
Douglas Feith's Pentagon memos trace the origin of the current US predicament.
Christian Science Monitor 16 May 2008 0100:00:00 EST
Memoirs: whose truth - and does it matter?
Two years after the James Frey scandal, a still-roiled genre thrives.
Christian Science Monitor 09 May 2008 01:00:00 EST
The frisky art of Cynthia Ozick
In four lively tales, Ozick takes a playful route to serious points.
Christian Science Monitor 06 May 2008 01:00:00 EST
Cooking up a best-seller
Already one of the best-selling vocalists in the history of country music, Trisha Yearwood is now a best-selling author as well. Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen, a book of family recipes that Yearwood, her mother and sister coauthored, recently debuted at No. 3 on the New York Times best-seller list. It's just another accomplishment for the 43-year-old Georgia native, who has had nine No. 1 hits, sold more than 10 million albums, and won three Grammys.
The Philadelphia Inquirer Tue, 13 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT
OCLC offers Digital Archive service for long-term storage of libraries' digital collections
OCLC is now providing a Digital Archive service for long-term storage of originals and master files from libraries' digital collections.View full article
oclc.org Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:00:00 EDT
OCLC and Orbis Cascade Alliance to develop new consortial borrowing solution
The Orbis Cascade Alliance and OCLC are working together to migrate the Alliance's Summit union catalog to a consortial borrowing solution based on the integration of WorldCat.org, VDX, WorldCat Resource Sharing and a new circulation gateway in time for the beginning of the 2008-2009 academic school year.View full article
oclc.org Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:57:00 EDT
OCLC releases EZproxy 5.0 authentication and access software
OCLC has released a new version of EZproxy, the leading software solution for serving library patrons remotely, that offers new features as well as support from the world's largest library service and research organization that acquired EZproxy in January.View full article
oclc.org Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:04:00 EDT
Today Is Birth Date of Author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Author L. Frank Baum was born on May 15, 1856. His children's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in 1900. Since then, it has become a classic. According...
About Thu, 15 May 2008 06:00:00 EST
It's Reading Is Fun Week: Reading Is Fundamental
Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the largest nonprofit literacy organization in the United States, invites everyone to celebrate Reading Is Fun Week. In addition to its literacy programs across the...
About Thu, 15 May 2008 06:00:00 EST
What's Coming? More Diary of a Wimpy Kid Books
If your 'tweens and teens loved Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid and it sequel Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, they'll be delighted to know that there...
About Thu, 15 May 2008 06:00:00 EST
High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
All of this pales in comparison to the obscene madness that has now become the fate of Base Camp at Mount Everest. The 8,000-meter peaks of the Himalayas have become the unfortunate repositories for what is repugnant about human nature with very little innate goodness surviving. Dying climbers pushed aside, ignored and denied medical help while their equipment is stolen, greedy guides unethical to the point of criminal, drugs, alcoholism, prostitution - hell this could just as well be inner city New York or Saigon as 20,000 feet above sea level in what used to be one of the most remote landscapes on earth. Everest has become the poster child for this debauchery.
Calitreview.com Thu, 15 May 2008 13:52:26 +0000
Curses on You, White Men!
The inhumane acts committed by both sides in this war equal the most heinous crimes of history. The hate was uncontrollable. The Indians sought revenge and a return to their way of life before colonization, and the New Englanders felt they had God on their side. The renowned Puritan preacher and scholar Cotton Mather asserted that ". . . the Evident Hand of Heaven appearing on the Side of a people whose Hope and Help was alone in the Almighty Lord of Hosts, Extinguished whole Nations of Savages."
Calitreview.com Mon, 12 May 2008 14:06:04 +0000
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right direction. She doesn't say much about what he did in the 48 hours of rehearsal that he devoted to her, but she does include one of his most memorable lines. When asked by his wife how the session had gone, he replied, "Oh she'll be fine. She has that terrible British strength that makes you wonder how they ever lost India." My Fair Lady was a hit and she belted it, day in, day out, both on Broadway and in London, fitting in her twenty-first birthday and a marriage to Tony Walton in the meantime.
Calitreview.com Wed, 07 May 2008 12:45:10 +0000
Stories to Explore Someone Else's Skin
"The Boat" is Nam Le's first book, but it is already receiving the kind of praise usually reserved for far more accomplished writers.
The New York Times Wed, 14 May 2008 04:41:49 GMT
Books of The Times: How Abu Ghraib Became the Anything-Goes Prison
In this companion volume to Errol Morris's new movie, Philip Gourevitch and Mr. Morris look at how Abu Ghraib became the anything-goes prison.
The New York Times Thu, 15 May 2008 07:56:48 GMT
Cookbook Publishers Try to Think Small
The children's cookbook genre is enjoying a new life, as parents who have a keen interest in cooking encourage their young children to spend time in the kitchen.
The New York Times Wed, 14 May 2008 14:17:38 GMT
Pretty Little Things To Fill Up The Void
In a nightmarish urban dystopia five very different people search for what matters most to each of them.
warpcoresf.com Thu, 15 May 2008 06:00:00 EST
Jeff Hawke: Overlord
In this collection of stories first published in the 1960s, can Jeff Hawke talk his way out of trouble with the Overlord?
warpcoresf.com Thu, 15 May 2008 06:00:00 EST
Ancient Appetites
Nate Wildenstern hunts for his brother's murderer in a historic version of Ireland populated by living machines.
warpcoresf.com Thu, 15 May 2008 06:00:00 EST
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