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Bestsellers, Sept 26: The girl with the Franzen tattoo?
Jacket CopyJonathan Franzen and his new novel, "Freedom," top our fiction bestseller list for the third week running, keeping perennial bestseller Stieg Larsson at bay. Larsson's Millennium Trilogy is doing fine -- "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" is at...... -
April 6 Reading Between the Wines benefits Adult Literacy League
The Dish - Orlando SentinelBest-selling novelist and Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen is the guest speaker at Reading Between the Wines Wednesday, April 6 at 5:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Orlando Downtown (400 W. Livingston St). The event is a benefit for the Adult Literacy League.... -
Tight, blotto, sotted, sloshed: in other words, DRUNK [Updated]
Jacket CopyOut this week, just in time for Octoberfest, is "Drunk: the Definitive Drinkers Dictionary." A sleek, gray hardcover of manageable size, the book contains no less than 2,964 synonyms for drunk. "The English language includes more synonyms for the word....... -
2,964 ways to say 'drunk'
Brand XEver gone out and felt, well, not casters-up, not entirely not nearly blotto, but some kind of subtle gradation of drunk? Perhaps you'd find exactly the right turn of phrase in the new book 'Drunk: the Definitive Drinkers Dictionary,' out this week -- it'... -
Rothstein victim? FBI (and I) want to hear from you
Mayo on the Side: Broward news columnist Michael Mayo | Sun-Sentinel BlogsThe bizarre case of Scott Rothstein, the Fort Lauderdale attorney whom federal authorities suspect of orchestrating a $1 billion Ponzi scheme, keeps getting stranger. As if it isn???t odd enough that Rothstein -- seen around town this week drinking...Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Justice System, Virginia, Corporate Crime, Lawyers
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Tuesday's TV Talk Shows
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of July 25 - 30 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here The Early Show (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Zac Efron; Carl...... -
Book review: Carl Hiaasen's 'Star Island'
![In real life, good things happen to bad people, but Carl Hiaasen, an Old Testament moralist disguised as a comedian, arranges things differently in his novels. Retribution, hilarious but often gruesome, hounds the vacuous celebrities, crooked pols and environmental despoilers who populate his latest satire, "Star Island."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-08/55319640-02111249.jpg "In real life, good things happen to bad people, but Carl Hiaasen, an Old Testament moralist disguised as a comedian, arranges things differently in his novels. Retribution, hilarious but often gruesome, hounds the vacuous celebrities, crooked pols and environmental despoilers who populate his latest satire, "Star Island.\"")
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIn real life, good things happen to bad people, but Carl Hiaasen, an Old Testament moralist disguised as a comedian, arranges things differently in his novels. Retribution, hilarious but often gruesome, hounds the vacuous celebrities, crooked pols and...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Headaches, Dining and Drinking, Comedy (genre), Photography
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August events at Fairchild Botanic Gardens in Coral Gables
Postcards from FloridaHere are a couple of reasons to visit Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables: Free admission on Sundays: Enjoy Fairchild every Sunday in August for free. It's home to a tropical rainforest, view world class art and dining at an award win... -
'Eat, Pray' L.A. Times bestseller again
Jacket CopyElizabeth Gilbert, devastated after her marriage failed, went to Italy, India and Indonesia to recover and to try to rediscover something about herself. Her immersion in food, faith and the paradise of Bali sounds like a pretty good start at...... -
A word or two thousand on 'Drunk: The Definitive Drinkers Dictionary'
Out this week, just in time for Octoberfest, is "Drunk: The Definitive Drinkers Dictionary." The book contains no fewer than 2,964 synonyms for "drunk." "The English language includes more synonyms for the word 'drunk' than for any other word," writes...Tags: James Joyce, The New York Times, Book, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Margaret Mitchell
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'Vanilla Ride' by Joe Lansdale
![Like gold standard writers Elmore Leonard and the late Donald Westlake, Joe R. Lansdale is one of the more versatile writers in America. Over a span of 30 years, he's written well over a dozen mystery, suspense, western and sci-fi novels and short stories with detours into graphic novels and horror. The notice from critics has been impressive -- garnering Lansdale praise for prose "as tasty as a well-cured piece of beef jerky" (the Houston Chronicle) and awards as varied as multiple Bram Stokers for horror fiction and an Edgar for the moody, stand-alone mystery "The Bottoms."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-08/48655947-17181906.jpg "Like gold standard writers Elmore Leonard and the late Donald Westlake, Joe R. Lansdale is one of the more versatile writers in America. Over a span of 30 years, he's written well over a dozen mystery, suspense, western and sci-fi novels and short stories with detours into graphic novels and horror. The notice from critics has been impressive -- garnering Lansdale praise for prose "as tasty as a well-cured piece of beef jerky\" (the Houston Chronicle) and awards as varied as multiple Bram Stokers for horror fiction and an Edgar for the moody, stand-alone mystery \"The Bottoms.\"")
Like gold standard writers Elmore Leonard and the late Donald Westlake, Joe R. Lansdale is one of the more versatile writers in America. Over a span of 30 years, he's written well over a dozen mystery, suspense, western and sci-fi novels and short stories...Tags: Elmore Leonard, Assault, Mystery (genre), FBI, Drugs and Medicines
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UCF hosts inaugural book festival — Hiaasen, Collins to appear
Sentinel School Zone» Orlando Sentinel – Sentinel School ZoneAttention, book fans: UCF is hosting its inaugural book festival this week with dozens of events that are free and open to the public on Saturday. A ribbon-cutting ceremony kicks things off at 8:45 a.m. at the main festival site, UCF Arena. Book...
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