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Ebook sales headed for $1 billion
Jacket CopyA report by Forrester Research predicts that ebook sales will total $966 million in 2010. In 2011, the $1 billion line for total ebooks sales will be crossed. In 2009, ebook sales were $169.5 million -- not a big portion...... -
Impac Dublin's long, long, longlist
Jacket CopyLonglists make strange fellows, Monday's announcement of the Impac Dublin Literary Prize longlist proves. Dan Brown, author of the mega-bestselling yet critically panned "The DaVinci Code" and Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, have... -
Chicagoland book club: Novel Approach
![Our group, “Novel Approach,” formed as an interest group with the <a href="http://aauw-il.org/schaumburg/">Schaumburg Branch of AAUW</a>. We have a diverse age group with backgrounds in education, medicine, engineering and business. We try to read an equal number of fiction and nonfiction books. We’ve been meeting and reading as a group long before Oprah Winfrey made book clubs fashionable.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-09/56015983-07095326-187105.jpg "Our group, “Novel Approach,” formed as an interest group with the <a href="http://aauw-il.org/schaumburg/\">Schaumburg Branch of AAUW</a>. We have a diverse age group with backgrounds in education, medicine, engineering and business. We try to read an equal number of fiction and nonfiction books. We’ve been meeting and reading as a group long before Oprah Winfrey made book clubs fashionable.")
Our group, “Novel Approach,” formed as an interest group with the Schaumburg Branch of AAUW. We have a diverse age group with backgrounds in education, medicine, engineering and business. We try to read an equal number of fiction and...Tags: Jane Austen, Chicago Tribune, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Clubs and Associations
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The Siren's Call: Bigfoot and secret societies
![Remember Robert Bly's bestselling 1990 book "Iron John: A Book About Men"? It was the manifesto for a movement -- a call for men to get back in touch with their primal selves. Go out in the woods, strip off your shirt, bang on a drum and howl at the moon.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-08/48923733-28105938.gif "Remember Robert Bly's bestselling 1990 book "Iron John: A Book About Men\"? It was the manifesto for a movement -- a call for men to get back in touch with their primal selves. Go out in the woods, strip off your shirt, bang on a drum and howl at the moon.")
Remember Robert Bly's bestselling 1990 book "Iron John: A Book About Men"? It was the manifesto for a movement -- a call for men to get back in touch with their primal selves. Go out in the woods, strip off your shirt, bang on a drum and howl at the moon....Tags: Forestry and Timber, Stranger Than Fiction, Sociology, Nevada, Mystery (genre)
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The Siren's Call: An epic poet as Mary Shelley's co-author
![How did Mary Shelley come up with the idea for "Frankenstein"? Did that spooky storytelling contest at the Villa Diodati in 1816 -- you know, the one with Byron, John Polidori and Mary's husband Percy -- send her imagination into high gear? Was it all the result of a nightmare? Sort of, but not exactly.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-10/49747950-09115445.gif "How did Mary Shelley come up with the idea for "Frankenstein\"? Did that spooky storytelling contest at the Villa Diodati in 1816 -- you know, the one with Byron, John Polidori and Mary's husband Percy -- send her imagination into high gear? Was it all the result of a nightmare? Sort of, but not exactly.")
How did Mary Shelley come up with the idea for "Frankenstein"? Did that spooky storytelling contest at the Villa Diodati in 1816 -- you know, the one with Byron, John Polidori and Mary's husband Percy -- send her imagination into high gear? Was it all the...Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, Philosophy, Science Fiction (genre), Michael Crichton, Sociology
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Random House will adopt agency ebook pricing model
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Movie Review: There Be Dragons
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelThe last time we took any note of Roland Joffe, the director of “The Mission” and “The Killing Fields,” it was through his take on the ugly genre “torture porn” titled “Captivity” back in 2007. To be fair,... -
Javier Bardem offered lead role in Ron Howard’s film of King’s ‘The Dark Tower’
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelHe's up for an Oscar, and now Deadline.com says Javier Bardem has been offered the lead in Ron Howard's adaptation of Stephen King's “The Dark Tower.” It's a horror-sci-fi Western and Bardem would play Roland Deschain. Several other names have... -
Book review: 'Adam & Eve: A Novel' by Sena Jeter Naslund
![The clash between science and faith is a subject that bestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund returns to in her new novel "Adam & Eve," but, unlike her previous books "Ahab's Wife" and "Abundance," her latest demands a suspension of disbelief that is difficult to provide.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-10/57112977-27153230.jpg "The clash between science and faith is a subject that bestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund returns to in her new novel "Adam & Eve,\" but, unlike her previous books \"Ahab's Wife\" and \"Abundance,\" her latest demands a suspension of disbelief that is difficult to provide.")
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe clash between science and faith is a subject that bestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund returns to in her new novel "Adam & Eve," but, unlike her previous books "Ahab's Wife" and "Abundance," her latest demands a suspension of disbelief that is...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, France, Crimes, Armed Forces, New York City
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Stieg Larsson's 'Girl' is an international publishing phenomenon
Special to the Los Angeles TimesMassive, worldwide success often remains a bit enigmatic, but this publishing breakthrough seemed especially unlikely. The first novel begins with the dull thud of a family tree full of foreign names: The book starts slowly — digging into arcane...Tags: The Girl Who Played With Fire (movie), Movies, John Grisham, Stephen King, Iceland
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Chicagoland book club
Things to know about our club: Women Who Read has been in existence for 14 years, beginning as a small group of co-workers who then brought along friends and neighbors. We're a diverse group, with careers ranging from artist to scientist, but our love...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Anne Tyler, Wilkie Collins, Book, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Book review: 'The Thousand' by Kevin Guilfoile
![If you like Scott Turow, Stan Lee, Dan Brown or Michael Crichton, then you are in the target audience for Kevin Guilfoile's novel "The Thousand." Unfortunately, like smoked duck ravioli with wasabi-tomatillo sauce, Guilfoile has fallen under the sway of one influence too many.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-08/55861697-30102700-187109.jpg "If you like Scott Turow, Stan Lee, Dan Brown or Michael Crichton, then you are in the target audience for Kevin Guilfoile's novel "The Thousand.\" Unfortunately, like smoked duck ravioli with wasabi-tomatillo sauce, Guilfoile has fallen under the sway of one influence too many.")
If you like Scott Turow, Stan Lee, Dan Brown or Michael Crichton, then you are in the target audience for Kevin Guilfoile's novel "The Thousand." Unfortunately, like smoked duck ravioli with wasabi-tomatillo sauce, Guilfoile has fallen under the sway of...Tags: Stan Lee, Hospitals and Clinics, Human Interest, Michael Crichton, Sociology
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