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Fast Scans | May 15, 2013
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Video Reviews | May 15, 2013
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Barbara’s Picks, Nov. 2013, Pt. 3: Fiction from Albom, Baldacci, Banks, Child/Preston, Griffith, Hammett, Lynch, Miles, & Smith
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Albom, Mitch. The First Phone Call from Heaven. Harper: HarperCollins. Nov. 2013. 272p. ISBN 9780062294371. $24.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062294395. lrg. prnt. CD: HarperAudio. POP FICTION Phones are ringing off the hook in little Coldwater, MI, but the callers are all deceased, stirring emotions from joyous relief to uncertain fear as they report being happy in [...]
Cooking Reviews | May 15, 2013
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Poetry Goes (Sort of) Viral, Undying Love for Nick Carraway, and an Unlikely Roadtrip | What We’re Reading
By on May 20, 2013
This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers are reading some books very much of the moment: the follow-up to Code Name Verity and the genesis of Baz Luhrmann’s fizzy film. Others are stuck in the past, or someplace in the middle.
Dan Brown’s Dante: Positioned to Dominate Best Sellers
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LJ reviewer Jeff Ayers on the king of the historical thriller, he’s back!
A Battle Joined: Gettysburg | May 15, 2013
By on May 16, 2013
To coincide with the 150th anniversary of Gettysburg, check out these recent titles.
Q&A: Jay Bushman, Co-Creator of Welcome to Sanditon
By on May 16, 2013
In Jane Austen’s unfinished novel, Sanditon, a group of people set out to build their own town on the English seaside. Welcome to Sanditon is a modern, multiplatorm adaptation of the novel from the team behind the wildly popular Pride and Prejudice–based videoblog series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. Jay Bushman was the transmedia producer and a writer for the Lizzie Bennet Diaries and is Welcome to Sanditon’s showrunner and creator.
Because Life’s Too Short | Books for Dudes
By on May 16, 2013
May is for manful titles, courage and resolution, old crime stories and new thrillers. Read Hobbs’s debut novel Ghostman, Kerr’s A Man Without Breath, Hillerman’s (1986) Skinwalkers, and more.
Graphic Novels Reviews | May 15, 2013
By on May 16, 2013
Reviews of Aya: Love in Yop City, Siegfried, and Agent Gates and the Secret Adventures of Devonton Abbey: A Parody, plus a full list of Graphic Novel titles from the May 15 issue.
