A Bank Street Children’s Book Committee Best Book of the Year, Children’s Crown Award Nominee, Land of Enchantment Book Award Nominee (NM) Surprises According to Humphrey A BookSense Pick, Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List Selection, Iowa Children’s Choice Nominee, Kansas State Reading Cir...
“Huh, that looks interesting, I’ve never read that series. Book 1 is already out, let me snag that now to see if I’ll like the series and read this new one when it comes out.” Boom, sale. And maybe more than one sale if they do like Book 1. ...
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Bogart, who got his break inPetrified Forest(1936) as a crazed heavy, is essentially book-ending his career with tough guy roles. Even if he’s over the hill for such roles, he still makes a good snarling approximation of his former self. One could argue that time has only made him m...
It’s the ERRATICA FICTION series. Each short, enthralling book has different characters and settings, but similar themes: the meaning and weirdness of humanity in these United States, told with wry humor and precision prose. Our already-published storyTHE MYRTLE OF VENUSis the first volume. ...
*Denny Ledger is a film historian and critic and his new book“A ReasonableAmount of Trouble…” The Films of John Huston and Humphrey Bogartcan be purchasedhere. You have to wonder how this film ever got made. Then again, with John Huston involved, I’d believe anything. ...
In the great tradition of “We’d Rather Sell It Than Move It” sales promotions, I’ve been auctioning pieces of my book collection on eBay. (Please go ahead and click here to look at what I’ve got up there today; I promise I’ll still be here when you get back.) I’ve been...
Recipe Time – #1, or the beginning of a series of recipe posts And, I promise to have tried out all the recipes that I will henceforth post here. The advantage for you, dear readers, will be my personal comments on the recipe found in whichever book or website that I get the recipe...
His book’s last line insists it’s a great time to be an American. I couldn’t agree more. MONDAY:Remembering when downtown retail wasn’t just for the gold-carders. ELSEWHERE: Annoying e-mails are everywhere these days, but the worst of the worst are all atSpam Roasters…. ...