Another one story about prophet Muhammad’s life
21 Sep 2010 01:20:17
This story was written by Deepak Chopra. Countless books have been written about the life of Muhammad, Islam's prophet. Spirituality guru Deepak Chopra has added another to the mix: A novel generally rooted in facts but liberally embellished.
In "Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet," Chopra employs a wide cast of narrators to tell the story of how an orphan boy raised in a pagan society grew up to lead a nation of believers in the oneness ofGod. All the usual highlights are here: Muhammad's ... Read Full Story
John Sandford's new book "Bad Blood"
21 Sep 2010 01:17:06
John Sandford's fourth Virgil Flowers novel opens with three deaths: one clear-cut case of premeditated murder and two suspected murders done up to look like suicides.
Only one of them is an actual mystery, and even that gets solved fairly early on. It's an intriguing start, and it works, because it turns out that all three are somehow related to a year-old unsolved murder case of a teenager who had, by the look of it, been sexually abused by more than one person in the time leading up to her d... Read Full Story
The novelist from Mexico Carlos Fuentes will give a lecture
21 Sep 2010 01:15:12
A stomach problem forced Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes to abandon plans to give a lecture in Geneva on Thursday, Mexico's embassy here said, saying he was otherwise "in perfect health".
Earlier, a UN official in Geneva said he had been taken to hospital and was unable to attend a conference hosted by the United Nations in the Swiss city.
"Regrettably, Carlos Fuentes is unable to join us because he has been hospitalised," said Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the head of the United Nations office in Gen... Read Full Story
Hachette Book Group is aware about new job from Susan Lehman
20 Sep 2010 01:52:38
Writer, editor, producer and attorney Susan Lehman will run the publishing imprint Twelve, where authors have included Sen.Edward Kennedy, Christopher Hitchens and Sebastian Junger.
Twelve's parent company, the Hachette Book Group, announced Wednesday that Lehman will start her new job Sept. 27. She was most recently the director of communications and strategy at theBrennan Center for Justice.
She succeeds Jonathan Karp, who founded Twelve in 2005 and left in June to head the flagship trade ... Read Full Story
There is a sensation: new book from Jonathan Franzen become in Oprah Winfrey’s book club
20 Sep 2010 01:45:52
Television talk show queen Oprah Winfrey chose Jonathan Franzen's best-selling novel "Freedom" for her book club on Friday, calling the book "a masterpiece" and setting aside a previous contretemps with the author.
"I am really betting that 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, will end up being for you, as it is for me, one of the best novels you have ever read," Winfrey said as her staff handed out copies to her studio audience in Chicago.
"This book is a masterpiece spanning three decades," Winfr... Read Full Story
It is a new amazing book from one of the popular writer Daniel Silva
20 Sep 2010 01:42:10
Silva has agreed to write three novels for HarperCollins. The publisher announced Wednesday the first book comes out next summer. Silva says it has a "big surprise" for his fans.
Silva is the author of such hit thrillers as "The Defector" and "The Rembrandt Affair," featuring art restorer and Israeli spy Gabriel Allon. Harper spokeswoman Tina Andreadis won't comment on whether the upcoming novels will include Allon.
Silva's recent work was released by G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin ... Read Full Story
It’s all about great person Micky Burn
16 Sep 2010 02:07:08
Micky Burn was a British journalist, novelist and World War II commando who flirted with fascism, embraced communism and helped save the life of Audrey Hepburn, has died at the age of 97.
Burn died Sept. 3 at his home near Porthmadog in north Wales after suffering a stroke, his friend James Dorrian said Monday.
Capt. Michael Burn took part in one of the war's most daring raids, an amphibious assault on the French port of St. Nazaire in March 1942 code-named Operation Chariot. The plan was for ... Read Full Story
Obama become a writer?
16 Sep 2010 02:05:35
Coming two weeks after Election Day, a book from President Barack Obama for some of the nation's nonvoters: inspirational stories for children about American pioneers.
"Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters" is a tribute to 13 groundbreaking Americans, from the first president, GeorgeWashington, to baseball great Jackie Robinson to artist Georgia O'Keeffe. It will be released Nov. 16 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, which will official... Read Full Story
Soon we will see David Foster Wallace’s new book
16 Sep 2010 02:04:32
This novel set in an Internal Revenue Service office in Illinois will be issued posthumously next April 15, Tax Day.
"The Pale King" was unfinished when the author committed suicide two years ago at age 46. It was edited by Little, Brown and Co. publisher Michael Pietsch (peech).
Little, Brown announced the release Tuesday.
Wallace was known for his epic 1996 novel "Infinite Jest" and for the story collections "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" and "Oblivion."
"Infinite Jest" cemented Walla... Read Full Story
If you dislike animals, read this book!
15 Sep 2010 01:34:15
"Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals" by Hal Herzog: Consider the cockfighter. Pampered with high-end feed and plenty of room to strut in the sun, these roosters might even get regular massages before the day they are fitted with slashing spurs and thrown into a pit for a barbaric fight to the death.
Now consider the chicken on your plate. There's a good chance it never saw the sun or sky but was jammed in some dark coop stinking of ammoni... Read Full Story
New amazing story "Zero History" from William Gibson
15 Sep 2010 01:32:01
It's fitting that the latest novel from the man credited with coining the word "cyberspace" is littered with references to the cyber-toys of 21st-century life.
In William Gibson's "Zero History," a thriller about the search for the designer of a mysterious, highly sought-after underground clothing brand, characters flash iPhones, do Google searches, communicate through Twitter and rely on GPS tracking devices with almost addictive fervor.
Gibson has created a world that seems futuristic yet is... Read Full Story
"On Second Thought" book wrote by Wray Herbert. That is it about?
15 Sep 2010 01:30:16
Some seem to be inherited from the needs of primitive humans struggling for survival eons ago on the savannas of East Africa. Inapplicable to the 21st century, they can sometimes make trouble unless a second thought outsmarts them.
Here's an imaginary example that the text seems to suggest, but doesn't explicitly adopt:
Thousands if not millions of years ago, when the ancestors of today's mothers began to cuddle their babies, the babies associated them with body heat, food and entertainment. T... Read Full Story
