Some interesting from the popular author Suzanne Collins
26 Aug 2010 01:53:15
In her 48 years Collins read a couple of pages from the second book of the series, "Catching Fire." Then she switched to the opening section of "Mockingjay. As you know her novels become the bestsellings book.
At Books of Wonder, fans stood for hours outside under mist and drizzle, each greeted personally by store owner Peter Glassman, a longtime supporter of Collins whose loyalty was rewarded with her appearance early Tuesday, a special outing for an author who cares little for publicity. "Wh... Read Full Story
Goldman Sachs Conspiracy is the new bestseller!
26 Aug 2010 01:49:02
New bestseller from China, the "Goldman Sachs Conspiracy," has sold over 100,000 copies. This book comes in the list of 10-top follows another by author Li Delin, become the most popular book on the website Sina and etc.
Li, a financial journalist, appears to have hit pay dirt among Chinese readers with an appetite for the would-be exposes that get prominent display in downtown bookstores, such as "Who Killed Toyota: the Truth of America's Attack" and "Currency War."
The nearly 300-page, ... Read Full Story
The conception of limited people from the novelist Amanda Craig
26 Aug 2010 01:43:18
Amanda Craig has got a suggestion which may suppress Iain Duncan Smith and the Chancellor, George Osborne. How it is known, the controversy theme is welfare reform. Amanda says that the number of children should be limited from poor people because the ecological doesn’t needs a lot of people on the World.
Craig, who has two teenage children by her husband, Rob Cohen, an Old Etonian economist, says: "Surely, this is something that the new Government could look at. The benefits system active... Read Full Story
Will public library survive in future?
25 Aug 2010 11:48:55
In our days public libraries become not very popular because in the internet there are a lot of electronic books. Popularity has fallen from 48.2 per cent in 2005/06 to just 39.4 per cent in 2009/10 according to Government statistics.
The number of people who visit a library on a weekly basis has dropped by 32 per cent in five years to just 5.4 per cent.
Libraries are expected to face significant cuts as councils are told to reduce their budgets.
In some rural areas, such as Hudswell in the Y... Read Full Story
Another one story about animals or Dog Tags by David Rosenfelt
25 Aug 2010 02:09:36
In Irag Billy lost his leg in a terrorist attack when he was an ex-cop. Billy and Milo understand that they need to survive. When his former military commanding officer is murdered in an exchange of vital intelligence, Milo runs off with the papers. Later, Billy ends up in jail and Milo lands in a kennel with a 24-hour guard.
Billy first taps Carpenter to take on the case to free Milo, assuming he himself will be easily acquitted. When he realizes that the evidence overwhelmingly proves his gui... Read Full Story
A Young Man's Passage by Julian Clary
25 Aug 2010 01:54:12
“A Young Man's Passage” become a bestseller in a Julian Clary's schooldays, but the attraction of the Metropolitan Police wasn’t ran into debt.
Mandrake hears that detectives investigating new allegations of child abuse at one of Britain's top Roman Catholic schools are keen to speak to the comedian about his years as a pupil there.
It can be disclosed that Father David Pearce, a former teacher at St Benedict's School, in Ealing, who was convicted last year of abusing eight pupils, features i... Read Full Story
Elie Wiesel with new work “The Sonderberg Case"
24 Aug 2010 11:06:18
In all bookshops we can see new novel from Elie Wiesel, which was translated by Catherine Temerson, its name "The Sonderberg Case," Yedidyah is the child of survivors. From the actor he turned to the theater critic, assigned by his New York newspaper editors to help cover the murder trial of a young German accused of killing his uncle. On the first day of the trial, Yedidyah hears Werner Sonderberg declare himself both guilty and innocent.
This perplexing statement eats at Yedidyah throug... Read Full Story
"The Great Typo Hunt" to the people mistakes
24 Aug 2010 11:01:16
In our days there are a lot of people who have got problems with grammar in English. That is why two young Americans took it upon themselves to correct public typos during a three-month road trip across the country. They have written about the trip in a book that exposes deficits in both public education and attention to detail.
"The Great Typo Hunt" describes a nationwide mission by Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson, both 30, to rid America of signs that add an extra "n" to "dining", or insi... Read Full Story
Backwash of the bankruptcy of Brown Publishing
24 Aug 2010 10:53:27
Now the insiders try to complete its bankruptcy auction purchase of the Ohio-based newspaper chain Brown Publishing Co but they cannot do it because the group's lender withdrew, the company said in a court filing.
Last month in New York a federal bankruptcy judge ruled that the newly formed Brown Media Corp., led by current Brown Publishing president and CEO Roy Brown, could buy the majority of the chain for $22.4 million.
The company said in a court filing Friday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court... Read Full Story
Amazing name of the most popular book from Canadian poetry
23 Aug 2010 01:49:56
The best seller book in Canadian poetry was the book called Eunoia. This book the best from all the time. It is a deeply clever volume: each of its five chapters uses only one vowel (the first chapter uses only 'a’, the second chapter 'e’, etc). The title, in contrast to the text, presents a word engorged with vowels: 'eunoia’ is the shortest word that contains all five vowels, and means in Greek 'beautiful thinking’. I asked Christian Bök how he had come across it, and he told me: 'The word “... Read Full Story
Something new about literature
23 Aug 2010 01:45:44
Something new about thrillers…again…It was a nomination in of top 'killer thrillers’ six hundred titles were nominated and more than 100,000 votes cast is a recent survey conducted by National Public Radio in America to identify the top 100 'killer thrillers’. Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs topped the poll, followed by Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and James Patterson’s Kiss the Girls. Two contributions from (long-dead) British authors made it into the top 10: Agatha ... Read Full Story
Metropolitan Police interesting in “A Young Man's Passage”
23 Aug 2010 01:41:06
It wasn’t so hard to make a bestseller the book which was written by Julian Clary's, because “A Young Man's Passage”, was interested by the Metropolitan Police. Interesting why?….
Mandrake hears that detectives investigating new allegations of child abuse at one of Britain's top Roman Catholic schools are keen to speak to the comedian about his years as a pupil there.
It can be disclosed that Father David Pearce, a former teacher at St Benedict's School, in Ealing, who was convicted last... Read Full Story
