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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf | October 14th 2008 by Ron Kaplan
To Tom Stanton, author of Ty and The Babe, The Final Season and The Road to Cooperstown, for winning the 2008 Michigan Author Award from the Michigan Center for the Book. The Award will be presented at the Michigan Library Association “Shaping read more
Cybils kidlit book nominations are now open: how can you particip…
My Readable Feast | October 2nd 2008 by Anne-Marie Nichols
Nominations for the 2008 Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards, also know as The Cybils, are now open! Founded by two wonderful kidlit bloggers, Anne Boles Levy and Kelly Herold, the goal of the Cybils team (some 100 blogge read more
The Outlander: awards
icedtea - books, tv, etc. | October 2nd 2008
I can’t remember exactly when I read The Outlander by Gil Adamson - it was either late 2007 or early 2008, but it’s one of my favourite reads of the last year. Great prose, well paced (I stayed up till the wee morning hours to finish it), read more
Nobel Literature Head: US too Ignorant to Compete
(Mis)readings | September 30th 2008 by Karlo Mongaya
Breaking news! As if slowly losing grip politically and militarily around the World and the Wall Street financial meltdown were not enough, the once all-powerful United States of America is in for another let-down, the Associated Press reports: Bad read more
Kids’ Choice Book Awards from Abunga Online Bookstore
Genre: Fiction | September 15th 2008 by Sally Andersen
Abunga.com, a family-friendly, Christian-affiliated online bookstore, has announced the results for its first Kids’ Choice Book Awards. The honors were decided upon by an online poll of school-age children from pre-k to 12th grade. The store wa read more
Tuesday Meme Things: Reading award winners and stuck in London
Just A (Reading) Fool | September 9th 2008 by unfinishedperson
Today’s Tuesday Thingers: Today’s question: Awards. Do you follow any particular book awards? Do you ever choose books based on awards? What award-winning books do you have? (Off the top of your head only- no need to look this up- it woul read more
Tara Paterson, Founder of the “Mom’s Choice Awards” Intervi…
Mydoggiesays | September 7th 2008 by Fred Haney
Why do readers of “My Doggie Says…” feel closer to their dogs? What’s unique about the “dogs’-actions-speak-louder-than-words” approach of “My Doggie Says…?” How did the behavior of Jamie, read more
Authentic, close to her feelings, a compelling debut novel
The Chronicles of a Lost-in-Life Soul | September 3rd 2008 by Mel Mathews
by Mel MathewsAuthentic, close to her feelings, honest, true to self . . . this is what makes Nora Caron’s Journey to the Heart so compelling. Not comprised of the flash-in-the-pan ditzy gibberish that is so readily available to the masses, Journey read more
A Rant on Publishing & Writing
R.W Ridley | August 20th 2008 by R.W. Ridley
To say the world of publishing is in a constant state of change is a lot like saying the sun is hot. The ever-advancing realm of technology has not only transformed the method of production and delivery of books, it has also changed the buying habits read more
Children’s Book Council Awards
Planning With Kids | August 19th 2008 by PlanningQueen
The winners of the Children’s Book Council Awards were announced on Friday. My older two children read with anticipation the winners in Saturday’s morning’s paper. Like most Australian school children they had voted from the sh read more
TD Canadian Children's Literature Awards Finalists Announced
Lori Calabrese Writes | August 7th 2008 by lcalabrese
Finalists were announced for the coveted TD Canadian Children's Literature Award."This year's nominated titles will captivate the hearts and imaginations of children and adults everywhere. Readers will be introduced to characters such as the young S read more
Cluck Wins Award: A Bronze "IPPY" for the Rooster King
Cluck: Website Most Fowl | May 22nd 2008 by Eric D Knapp
Cluck might be a Murder Most Fowl but it's also a Book Best Written: announcements were sent out last night by Independent Publisher and Cluck was on the list! This is a big award for independent authors: IP is a respected organization, and over read more
Best of the Bookers
Blogging Librarian | May 13th 2008 by Isaak
The shortlist of Best of the Bookers award has been announced and it pits six past winners of the Booker Prize to determine which novel is the best winning one since the prize began in 1969. It is a one-off celebratory award to mark the 40th annivers read more
Edgar Awards
3Rs Reading Den | May 12th 2008 by RJ
WITHOUT FURTHER ADO - THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED……. The Edgar Awards The Mystery Writers of America give these awards to honor the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction produced the previous year. The awards began in 1954 and ar read more
"Best Medical Book Of The Year" Confirms World Ready For Preventi…
Avoiding Cancer One Day At A Time | May 11th 2008 by David Wick
(Beverly Hills, California) May 11, 2008 - With medically grounded prevention advice for even the most health conscious consumers, Avoiding Cancer One Day At A Time by Lynne Eldridge, MD, and David Borgeson MS, MPT was a double winner read more
Indie Excellence Book Awards
PublicLiterature.Org - Read Books Online | May 8th 2008 by Jack Dale
Dear friends, I’m very proud to announce that my romantic suspense ‘Relocating Mia’ has been recognized with its second award. Besides being named a Finalist at the 2007 USA Book News Best Book Awards “Relocating Mia” wa read more
Shortlist for UK’s Oldest Book Award
Blogging Librarian | April 28th 2008 by Isaak
The shortlists for James Tait Black Memorial prizes for non-fiction and biography have been announced yesterday. The James Tait Black Memorial prizes were founded in 1919 by the widow of Edinburgh publisher James Tait Black. The book award is also q read more
Diane Ackerman Wins The 2008 Orion Book Award
Eco-Libris: Moving Towards Sustainable Reading | April 3rd 2008 by Eylon Israely
The Orion Book Award was for one of those great finds you sometimes stumble upon while doing research on-line. It is given annually by the Orion Magazine “to a book that has achieved excellence in addressing a growing ecological awareness and the n read more
Egrets to the Flames by Barbara Anton
3Rs Reading Den | March 21st 2008 by RJ
A passionate saga of love, lust, and greed, set amid the burning sugar cane fields of south Florida, in the early 1980s. read more
An Adventure Not to be Missed—SamSara!
Fisher King Press | December 7th 2007 by Jackson Fisher
—by Darren Rose "Malcolm Clay is a profoundly honest and brave man who chases a beautiful woman from Carmel to Ireland, and at the end of the rainbow he finds hidden treasure within his own soul. SamSara is a work of fiction, but it is deeply authe read more
"Malcolm Clay is the story of everyman."
The Chronicles of a Lost-in-Life Soul | December 7th 2007 by Mel Mathews
"Malcolm Clay is the story of everyman. He is every man who ventures into life and love. The every man who experiences the vicissitudes of the ecstasy yet fear and pain that life and love may bring. Author, Mel Mathews, brings to light the engaging e read more
Nat’l Book Award Winners!
3Rs Reading Den | November 16th 2007 by RJ
NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS - 2007 Finalists were announced October 10 and last night, with writers actively picketing outside the hotel, the winners were announced. A Brief History of NBA March 16, 1950 publishers, editors, writers and critics gather read more
My bet's on the Timekeeper!
Fisher King Press | November 10th 2007 by Jackson Fisher
If the TIMEKEEPER was running in the Kentucky Derby, I’d throw all I had down on him, arrange for the winnings to be electronically transferred to my bank account, and I’d leave the day before the race, on the holiday of a lifetime! I just finish read more
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