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cleispress: Pretty much how we feel here at Cleis.

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:00:28 -0400

cleispress:

Pretty much how we feel here at Cleis.

Bibliolexicon, A Passion for Books (x)

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:00:36 -0400

Bibliolexicon, A Passion for Books (x)

A Workout For Book Nerds

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:13 -0400

epicreads:

All you need for this workout is a stack of hardcovers and some yarn or rope to tie them together!

Workout #1: The Book Curl

Workout #2: The Book Up

Workout #3: The Brunch (Book Crunch) - Just like brunch this can be done alone or with a friend!

Cool Down

Calling all power readers! BEA, the largest book event in the...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:41:57 -0400

Calling all power readers! BEA, the largest book event in the U.S., is now open to the public!

Saturday, June 1 is Power Readers day, YOUR day to get free goodies, meet your favorite authors, and bask in the glory of books, everywhere you look. Here’s what you can find if you visit HMH in booth 1657:

Joelle Charbonneau, author of THE TESTING, will sign copies from 10-11 a.m.

Elinor Lipman, author of THE VIEW FROM PENTHOUSE B and I CAN’T COMPLAIN will sign copies of both books from 12-2 p.m.

You can also learn about great reading group picks at the BEA Speed Dating for Book Club Members and Power Readers,in room 1E12/1E13 from 11-11:45 a.m.

AND, if you’re not already attending, don’t fret, because we have FOUR FREE TICKETS for Saturday up for grabs. Enter to win here.

Introducing Take Five! Each month, our bookish experts will...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:00:38 -0400

Introducing Take Five!

Each month, our bookish experts will choose five e-books, some old, some new, that surround a particular theme (this month’s theme is reading groups). These books will be available for just $2.99 all month long, from Amazon, Apple, B&N, Google, Kobo, and Sony. Take a look at this month’s titles and get reading!

cinderellainrubbershoes: -Joyce Carol Oates

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:00:18 -0400

cinderellainrubbershoes:

-Joyce Carol Oates

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Thu, 16 May 2013 13:00:14 -0400

writersflow: My motto :)

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:47 -0400

writersflow:

My motto :)

"I would never want to snap my fingers and not be autistic, because I like the logical way I think."

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:00:19 -0400

“I would never want to snap my fingers and not be autistic, because I like the logical way I think.”

- Temple Grandin

urban-librarian: “A room without books is like a body without a...

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:00:39 -0400

urban-librarian:

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

Two mysteries, one, in fiction form, from Elly Griffiths, the...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:00:30 -0400

Two mysteries, one, in fiction form, from Elly Griffiths, the other, an all too true-life mystery from Ken Ilgunas: how do pay off student debt?

A ROOM FULL OF BONES by Elly Griffiths. In this thrilling installment of the Ruth Galloway mysteries, Ruth investigates a collection of Aboriginal skulls that seems to be cursed, causing people to die from a mysterious fever - one that threatens to claim Det. Inspector Harry Nelson.

WALDEN ON WHEELS: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedomby Ken Ilgunas. Inspired by Thoreau, Ilgunas set out on a Spartan path to pay off $32,000 in undergraduate student loans by scrubbing toilets and making beds in Coldfoot, Alaska. Determined to graduate debt-free after enrolling in graduate school, he lived in an Econoline van in a campus parking lot, saving—and learning—much about the cost of education today.

Happy reading!

tetragona: 6 things you’ll never hear from an english major

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:00:38 -0400

tetragona:

6 things you’ll never hear from an english major

Jessica Soffer, author of TOMORROW THERE WILL BE APRICOTS, a...

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:00:42 -0400

Jessica Soffer, author of TOMORROW THERE WILL BE APRICOTS, a satisfying debut about two women adrift in New York, and the ways they help each other (hint: FOOD), picks ‘3 Books That Are More Filling Than Food,’ for NPR Books.

We want to give a BIG, HUGE congratulations to HMH editor Drenka...

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:00:14 -0400

We want to give a BIG, HUGE congratulations to HMH editor Drenka Willen, who is the first recipient of the James H. Ottaway Jr. Award for the Promotion of International Literature, presented by Words without Borders, a nonprofit and online magazine.

Drenka joined HMH in the 1960s and has been an advocate for literature in translation for close to 50 years. Among the authors and translators she has worked with are Nobel laureates Günter Grass, Octavio Paz, José Saramago, and Wisława Szymborska, as well as Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, and Stanisław Lem.

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Mon, 13 May 2013 17:00:27 -0400

slightlyignorant: WANT NEED.

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:00:13 -0400

slightlyignorant:

WANT

NEED.

Good mothers, bad mothers, revolutionary mothers, powerful...

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:41:00 -0400

Good mothers, bad mothers, revolutionary mothers, powerful mothers: it’s a mother’s day roundup to celebrate the woman who does it all.

TOMORROW THERE WILL BE APRICOTS by Jessica Soffer. Two women adrift in New York—an Iraqi Jewish widow and the latchkey daughter of a chef—who find each other and a new kind of family through their shared love of cooking.

THE CHOCOLATE MONEY by Ashley Prentice Norton. The story of the daughter of a glamorous chocolate heiress who must navigate a complex landscape of wealth, sex, and decadence through a privileged childhood in Chicago and an East Coast prep school, with only her narcissistic mother to guide her.

ARE YOU MY MOTHER? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel. From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a poignant and hilarious graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her gifted mother always wanted to be.

MARGARET FULLER: A New American Life by Megan Marshall. a fresh look at the trailblazing life of a great American heroine—Thoreau’s first editor, Emerson’s close friend, first female war correspondent, passionate advocate of personal and political freedom.

SEXY FEMINISM: A Girl’s Guide to Love, Success, and Style by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong and Heather Wood Rudúlph. A rallying call for a new brand of twenty-first century feminism—a feminism that is doable, cool, and, yes, even sexy.

THE UNRULY PASSIONS OF EUGENIE R. by Carole DeSanti. Love and war converge in this lush, epic story of a young woman’s coming of age during and after France’s Second Empire (1860–1871), an era that was absinthe-soaked, fueled by railway money and prostitution, and transformed by cataclysmic social upheaval.

WHEN WE WERE THE KENNEDYS by Monica Wood. Monica Wood’s moving memoir of the season in 1963 Mexico, Maine, as she, her mother, and her three sisters healed after the loss of their mill-worker father and then the nation’s loss of its handsome young Catholic president.

ALL THE LIGHT THERE WAS by Nancy Kricorian. Set amid the Armenian community in newly occupied Paris, All the Light There Was is a lyrical, finely wrought story about family loyalty, secret love, the many faces of oppression—and the many faces of resistance.

SHOUT HER LOVELY NAME by Natalie Serber. A collection of stories about the complicated and powerful ties between mothers and daughters.

Happy reading to all you mothers!

garance510: TENT : BOOK on BOOK | Sumally (サマリー) GENIUS.

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:47:33 -0400

garance510:

TENT : BOOK on BOOK | Sumally (サマリー)

GENIUS.

"He has no illusions about the fact that he is just a passing visitor (a privileged one at that), but..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:00:43 -0400

“He has no illusions about the fact that he is just a passing visitor (a privileged one at that), but that doesn’t make his observations, or exquisite writing, any less engaging. A-”

- Entertainment Weekly loves them some Paul Theroux. His latest travelogue, THE LAST TRAIN TO ZONA VERDE, is out today!

Travel. Travel to Africa, to the golf course, to a world of...

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:53:21 -0400

Travel. Travel to Africa, to the golf course, to a world of espionage and deception. Travel back in time, when a college degree was the ticket to success. Take a trip with this week’s new releases:

THE LAST TRAIN TO ZONA VERDE: My Ultimate African Safari by Paul Theroux. Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar, The Last Train to Zona Verde is an ode to the last African journey of the world’s most celebrated travel writer.

THE LOWER RIVER by Paul Theroux. Now in paperback. A taut, tense, darkly suspenseful novel about a man who flees to Africa after his marriage falls apart, only to be caught up in a precarious situation in a seemingly benign village.

AGENT GARBO: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day by Stephen Talty. Now in paperback. The little-known World War II espionage story of Spaniard Juan Pujol, who convinced Hitler’s Abwehr that he had a ring of spies in Britain, only to pull off one of the greatest feats of any double agent: he fooled Hitler and disguised D-Day.

ON PAR: The Everyday Golfer’s Survival Guide by Bill Pennington. Now in paperback. Inspired by his New York Times weekly column “On Par,” Bill Pennington has created a delightful compendium of all things golf that no golfer—whether a weekend duffer or a PGA pro—can afford to miss. Part instruction, part education, part hilarity, On Par is the go-to guide for the twenty-first-century golfer.

COLLEGE (UN)BOUND: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students by Jeffrey Selingo. Jeff Selingo, journalist and editor-in-chief of the Chronicle for Higher Education, argues that colleges can no longer sell a four-year degree as the ticket to success in life. College (Un)Bound exposes the dire pitfalls in the current state of higher education for anyone concerned with intellectual and financial future of America.

Happy reading!