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Where Can Self-Published Books Get Reviewed?

2013-06-19T16:18:02Z

By Sabrina Ricci for IndieReader

With few exceptions, major news publications do not review indie books, even though more than 235,000 titles were ...

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Nick Jefferson: Kevin Allen's The Buoyant Leader : A Review

2013-06-18T04:04:34Z

"You are now dinner conversation." And with these words, that will resonate with every leader, Kevin Allen opens his latest, stunning book: The Buoyan...

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Leah Singer: Ann Marie Houghtailing Shows How to 'Create a Dollar out of Thin Air'

2013-06-17T17:50:54Z

Most people living in the United States in 2009 would agree that was not the time to start a new company.

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Josh Fleet: A Psychospiritual Odyssey Among Two Lost Tribes Of American Pop Culture

2013-06-14T12:15:30Z

Documenting two years of following Phish and the Insane Clown Posse to the farthest reaches of his sanity and soul, Rabin's new book is a chronicle of repentance from the sin of the Golden Cliche.

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Fabio Parasecoli: Weighing In : Assessing the Heaviness of Obesity

2013-06-11T15:56:33Z

Julie Guthman's position is clear: She does not deny that many American citizens are getting bigger, but wants to tease out the factors behind obesity that for political, economic and cultural reasons are often underestimated or outright ignored.

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Yvonna Russell: My Summer Reads

2013-06-09T13:36:20Z

Perhaps one of the greatest pleasures of summer is lying on a beach or in the grass reading a good book (Kindle, Nook, Tablet, iPad, whatever) that ...

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Alison Winfield Burns: Galliano's Addiction -- Death by Dior: Part Two, The Vanity Fair Scoop

2013-06-04T22:51:51Z

Galliano describes "hearing the rustle of the taffeta" and "being able to smell the perfume on the girl." The glee that once was Galliano's shines through still, alive and well. Galliano brings fairy tales to life, although he's been very close to losing his own.

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Lelia Nebeker: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo: Prepare to Be Seized by This Book

2013-06-04T15:51:47Z

Siege and Storm is somehow even better than its prequel -- a feat I did not think was possible. The dialogue is so clever and sharp that I found myself pausing to marvel at it.

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Michael_Levin: What to Give Your Grad This June: A Taste of Reality

2013-06-03T09:39:26Z

Parents want two things of their newly-minted college graduate offspring: that they get a job, and that they don't move back home. Here's a short list of books guaranteed to get them off your couch and into the working world.

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Greg Woodburn: Wooden & Me Reads Like Coach & You

2013-06-02T21:34:08Z

In 1987, as a young sports writer and newlywed, my dad met John Wooden while covering a talk Coach gave. A thank-you note from Wooden for the column my dad wrote led to a shared morning walk.

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Lev Raphael: Responding to Fans Isn't Always Easy

2013-05-27T08:07:14Z

When you start publishing, nobody prepares you for the weird experience of being praised in person by a stranger. The moment is both heartening and a bit embarrassing, even when you're an extrovert.

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Lindsey Mead: The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan

2013-05-23T17:22:06Z

Individually, each marriage is multi-faceted, honest, full of both flaws and beauty -- not unlike a diamond. Collectively, they show us that even when things go badly, even in times of heartbreak and sorrow, people persevere, family bonds endure and love lasts despite all odds

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Emma Jenner: Les Enfants Fantastiques! A Review of Pamela Druckerman's Bébé Day by Day'

2013-05-21T18:57:21Z

They say that those who fight the hardest are those who are the most alike, so perhaps it shouldn't have surprised me that when it comes to parenting, the English and the French have quite a bit in common.

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Monica Edinger: Joydeb Chitrakar and Gita Wolf's The Enduring Ark From Tara Books

2013-05-21T11:05:58Z

After seeing many tantalizing mentions of Tara Books over the last few years, I was delighted to receive Joydeb Chitrakar and Gita Wolf's The Enduring Ark and get a firsthand look at one of their creations.

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Brian Penny: The Power of a Yoga Book

2013-05-20T18:33:31Z

Many yoga teachers seem to be afraid of imparting all of their knowledge. Kino MacGregor does the opposite, proving both her teaching ability and business savvy by explaining everything in as much detail as possible.

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Mike Sandler: Supply Shock Reveals a Serious Problem: Economic Growth

2013-05-15T10:55:31Z

Economic growth is the real third rail of American politics. Question it and you are immediately branded an outsider (or even a Marxist). Who doesn't want a rising tide that lifts all boats? Well, this is a good question to ask, and author Brian Czech bravely asks it, and many others.

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Michael Varrati: To VJs, With Love

2013-05-14T16:21:39Z

The release of the book has allowed, in an easy way, the opportunity for me, and fans the world over, to say thank you to those five VJs. For we, the pop culture inclined, they changed everything.

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Brandon Zarzyczny: 'My Dad Reviewed 10,496 Books'

2013-05-06T10:39:40Z

My Dad started to keep track of all of the books that he read in an Excel Spreadsheet. When he died on Wednesday, he had accumulated review scores for 10,496 books.

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Rob Asghar: Panic or Profit: Two Distinct Approaches to the Literary Revolution

2013-04-30T16:14:47Z

A less-well known group of literary figures have taken an opposite approach to championing books -- by capitalizing on the very changes that have even spooked thriller novelist James Patterson.

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Ilana Teitelbaum: Deathly Innocence: NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

2013-05-01T14:38:01Z

Named for the license plate on Manx's murderously sentient Rolls Royce, NOS4A2 is Joe Hill's homage to traditional horror after two novels that did not adhere as clearly to genre conventions.

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Monica Edinger: Neil Gaiman's Fortunately, the Milk

2013-04-30T14:25:06Z

After receiving an advanced reader's copy of Neil Gaiman's Fortunately, the Milk, I asked my class if they'd like me to read it aloud. Now keep in mind that while Neil Gaiman may have a huge adult fan base, he isn't particularly well-known among young kids. Actually, I'd say he isn't known at all.

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Peter Clothier: The Devil's Company : A Book Review

2013-04-24T16:09:38Z

I'm a big fan of Benjamin Weaver, the Jewish prize-figher turned "thief taker," who is the hero of David Liss's The Devil's Company, the third in the series of crime novels set in 18th century London.

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How NYT Decides What Books To Review

2013-04-23T15:28:24Z

If you've ever wondered how to get a book reviewed in the New York Times, or why it is that some books receive several reviews over different editions...

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Dora Levy Mossanen: The Comfort of Lies

2013-04-12T14:09:10Z

In The Comfort of Lies, Randy Susan Meyers explores such modern-day themes of love and obsession, motherhood and adoption, trust and infidelity, and above all, the resiliency of the human spirit and the intrinsic need to forgive.

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James Franco: Some More Books: Part 2

2013-04-08T11:03:29Z

Larry Brown's final story/novella at the end of Big Bad Love, "92 Days," is essentially a story about a struggling writer, Barlow, trying to get published. The drive to be published acts as a reprieve from the rambling life of squalor that Barlow lives.

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