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We hear it all the time: "the window for reviews is shrinking." And yet we still see reviews appearing everywhere. So how can you capture a share of this market?
A day at Texas Stadium is more than enough time for 19-year-old, Silver Star-winning Billy Lynn to see all that's wonderful and troubling about America.
In men there is something that is not well understood or accepted by the more gentle aspects of modern society. Few writers have captured the full-bodied compulsive pull of it as well as Deni Béchard does in Cures for Hunger.
Julie Kagawa didn't plan on writing a vampire book. She felt there were so many good vampire books already out on the market and didn't think she had anything to add. Boy, does she now!
Robby Auld came onto my radar when he reviewed my book for The Nervous Breakdown, writing one of the most thoughtful assessments of my memoir to date. I couldn't help wanting to know more about the kid who cracked the literary scene.
Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys have never gone out of style, nor have mysteries for young people. In fact, a new mystery series by Kim Harrington called Sleuth or Dare debuts this week with the first novel, Partners in Crime.
Jose Rodriguez's book, Hard Measures, does not seem so much deluded as willfully misleading, an apologia for some of the most controversial choices made by the Bush administration and the CIA.
There's no denying the popularity of reality dating programs like The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. So when I heard about a new YA book described as The Hunger Games meets The Bachelor, my interest peaked.
It is my pleasure to introduce you to new books recently published by two fascinating, well-respected eating experts -- Barbara Rolls and Marion Nestle.
In Temptation, it's easy to flip pages and get close to the end. There, you will be unsurprised to learn, David learns his lesson and acquires virtue second only to Mother Teresa.
Is the free market really free? Or does it come at the expense of civic values we neglect at our peril? That's one of many questions I found myself pondering after reading What Money Can't Buy by Michael J. Sandel.
The book demonstrates that meditation can affect not only the minds of long-term meditators. Even short-term practice, it shows, can produce dramatic results in the rawest of novices.
From the nuns to the royals to the scoundrels, the characters in Grave Mercy are colorful and leap off the page.
Lindy Hough's Wondrous Child is an engaging and very personal look at how love weaves itself through generations, gender, class, race, and age.
When this book was released, as a great fan of Dr. Sanjay Gupta, I immediately marched down to my local Barnes and Noble and picked up a copy of his novel. Yes, a novel -- not a medical guidebook.
You Are So Not Smart, based off of a popular blog of the same name, helps orient us towards the blind spots and the hidden assumptions of our day-to-day lives, while using humor to explain our sometimes puzzling behaviors.
