Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2010
For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.”
As a result, more emphasis is placed on [...]
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Award-winning writer Maile Meloy’s return to short stories explores complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers.
Meloy’s first return to short stories since her critically acclaimed debut, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It is an extraordinary new work from one of the most promising [...]
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Author Sherman Alexie was recently on the Colbert Report, and he knocked it out of the park. He touches on book piracy, and how reading culture is dying faster than anyone realizes.
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Posted in author interviews, book news, book recommendations, book reviews, book sightings, books, hardcover, historical, memoir, news, non fiction, videos on Nov 23rd, 2009
Today I found out about this super rad book. Yes, I just used the words “super rad” as a superlative of sorts. This book sounds like something that many different people will love. This story began with Jake Adelstein asking the question: “How does a Yakuza crime boss get a liver transplant without doing something [...]
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Bam Margera has penned a new book about his life up to this point and it’s gaining some popularity. Bam Margera is a professional skateboarder and overall crazy kid with a knack for making music videos, and so much more. Check out this new book “Serious as Dirt” by Bam Margera and check out [...]
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You may have remembered me posting about a news piece where parents and faculty were trying to get Sherman Alexie’s award winning novel banned from the required reading list. Well, out of another field comes yet another stupid story about someone trying to ban books. This time it’s even worse.
The Black Dossier by Alan [...]
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Stephen King has come forth with a 1,000 page whopper. Under The Dome by Stephen King is now being sold online and will hit stores like a powder keg. It’s going to be an incredible thing to check out.
Here is a review of Under The Dome by Stephen King from Amazon.com:
On an entirely normal, [...]
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Posted in audio books, book news, book recommendations, book reviews, book sightings, books, memoir, news, non fiction, travel on Nov 3rd, 2009
Did you know that you can get high without drugs? Oh yeah, there’s so much about ourselves that we can explore, but don’t. Here’s a solid book to help you get a lease on life…seriously….
Check out Get High Now (Without Drugs) by James Nestor:
Get High Now is an illustrated, mind-blowing magic carpet ride of more [...]
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Posted in book news, book sightings, books on Oct 30th, 2009
Recently, a lot of the media out there has been saying that there is going to be a book war in regards to selling books. If you aren’t aware of t his new war, you need to understand that big box stores are now going to try and compete with amazon.com and other online book [...]
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True Grit by Charles Portis is the latest book to get the movie treatment. That’s right, they are making a movie adaptation of this book. It’s going to be interesting to see what Matt Damon and Josh Brolin bring to this film. The Coen brothers are going to enjoy this one and is interesting to [...]
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