Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip. Jordan Sonnenblick. 2012. Scholastic. 304 pages. The first picture is a wide-angle shot, taken through the chain-link fence of the backstop behind home plate. There’s a boy standing on a pitcher’s mound in full uniform: green and gold. His cap is pulled low over his eyes, and his [...]
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Daily Deals: Lament and My First Tangrams
Posted by on February 29th, 2012
Today Amazon advertises debut novel by Maggie Stiefvater ”Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception (Gathering of Faerie)“. This book has many positive reviews (140) and average mark is 4.2 What is very good for Amazon. The price within Kindle Daily Deals is $ 0.99. Sixteen-year-old Deirdre Monaghan, a gifted harpist who regularly plays for weddings and other events, has the [...]
Awaken (YA)
Posted by on February 28th, 2012
Awaken. Katie Kacvinsky. 2011. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 320 pages. My mom gave me an old leather-bound journal for my seventeenth birthday. At first the blank pages surprised me, as if the story inside was lost or had slipped out. She explained sometimes the story is supposed to be missing because it’s still waiting to be [...]
Daily Deals: A Noble Cause and Whiteboard Pro
Posted by on February 28th, 2012
For thrillers lovers Amazon offers a good chance to get the following book: A Noble Cause by J. Gregory Smith just for $ 0.99. Mark Noble plans a surprise proposal to his beautiful girlfriend during a romantic Caribbean vacation. But before he can pop the question, his girlfriend disappears, and his father–a world famous celebrity doctor who [...]
Sunday Salon: Watching In Name Only
Posted by on February 27th, 2012
In Name Only is a 1939 black and white movie starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, and Kay Francis. Morally–or ethically speaking–the movie isn’t perfect. Cary Grant plays Alec Walker a man trapped in an oh-so-loveless marriage. Before meeting the actual woman of his dreams, a Miss Julie Eden, a widow with a young daughter, he [...]
Daily Deals: Slumberland and Radiant HD
Posted by on February 27th, 2012
Today Amazon unveils a new Kindle book deal: Slumberland: A Novel by Paul Beatty just for $ 1.99. Critical darling Paul Beatty’s highly original, widely praised novel of race, identity, and underground music. After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, a little know avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His [...]
Daily Deals: Gold Box Deal of the Day: “Best American” Series 2011 and Aces Traffic Puzzle Pack
Posted by on February 26th, 2012
Today Amazon shares with set of books - ”Best American” Series 2011. The “Best American” series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Today only, the 2011 anthologies of short stories, science & nature writing, essays, “nonrequired reading,” mystery stories, travel writing, and sports writing are just $ 1.99 each. Here [...]
Library Loot: Fourth Trip in February
Posted by on February 25th, 2012
New Loot: The List by Martin Fletcher (historical fiction) Until the Dawn’s Light by Aharon Appelfeld; translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green (historical fiction) Hellie Jondoe by Randall Platt (historical fiction) The Invisible Brdige by Julie Orringer (historical fiction) The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott (historical fiction) The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of [...]
Kindle Touch Will Launch Amazon’s eBook Efforts in Japan This April
Posted by on February 24th, 2012
Recent reports via The Nikkei indicate that Amazon will finally be bringing their bestselling Kindle eReader line to Japan in April of this year with their newest model, the Kindle Touch 3G. It will carry a 20,000 yen price tag (~260USD), which seems a bit high compared to what the same model is going for [...]
Never Forgotten
Posted by on February 24th, 2012
Never Forgotten. Patricia C. McKissack. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. 2011. Random House. 48 pages. Never Forgotten by Patricia C. McKissack won a 2012 Coretta Scott King Author Honor. It is a picture book for older readers, a collection of poems focused on the slavery experience from Africa to the Americas. While the book [...]
