Greenlaw's new book describes her experiences going - Kennebec Journal
Fishing for swordfish is what made Linda Greenlaw famous, and what launched her lucrative writing career. Greenlaw, of Isle Au Haut, had been catching swordfish her whole adult life when she was included in Sebastian Junger boat captains on the

Plano book wins two publishing honors - Star Community Newspapers
From rolling plains to thundering locomotives and finally the silicon corridor, Plano has constantly re-imagined itself to survive through the years. In “Translating the Prairie: Plano, Texas in Words and Pictures,” Texas Poet Laureate Alan

Book Review: 'Lemon Cake' finds sadness in child's special gift - Mineral Daily News-Tribune
"The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" (Doubleday, 292 pages, $25.95), by Aimee Bender: Rose Edelstein is nearly 9 when she bites into the lemon cake with chocolate icing that her mother made for her birthday and discovers she has developed an undesirable skill -- she can taste the cook's emotions

Tintin lawyers denounce 'book burning' trial over Congo comic - Big Hollywood
Lawyers for the publishers of the controversial "Tintin in the Congo" on Monday compared a legal attempt to ban the comic book, for racism, to book burning. "I cannot accept racism but I consider it equally lamentable that we burn books. To ban books is to burn them," Alain Berenboom, lawyer for

Bill Clinton Inspired Monogamy-Bashing Book - News Busters
Most Americans believe the concepts of fidelity and marriage go hand in hand. However, with the help of a former president, one married couple has set out to prove otherwise. "It was Bill Clinton who first got Christopher Ryan thinking about monogamy

Book picks from local authors and booksellers - Gainesville Sun
In North Central Florida, summer means many things: time off for school children, lazy beach days for adults and sizzling temperatures for all. It also marks the end of the traditional network television season and increased travel — factors that combine to make summer reading a popular pastime as

Guillermo del Toro Bows Out, But 'Hobbit' Movie Still - HispanicBusiness.com
Wellington (dpa) - Oscar-winning New Zealand moviemaker Peter Jackson said the film of the JRR Tolkien book The Hobbit would still be made despite the departure of Mexican director Guillermo del Toro. Jackson, who directed the smash-hit trilogy The

Palin biographer says he moved to Wasilla to research book, not to spy on ex-governor's family - Daily Press
WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — A writer working on a book about former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says he moved to her hometown to talk to her longtime acquaintances, not to spy on the family. Joe McGinniss said Tuesday on NBC 's "Today" show that the price was right on the house next door to the Palins. He

New book explores Hemingway’s Michigan connection - Mining Journal
MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) — Ernest Hemingway spent many summers as a child and teen with his family at their simple clapboard cottage on a northeast bank of Walloon Lake, south of Petoskey off Highway 131. And just like thousands of children who travel ‘‘up north’’ in Michigan with their