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

David Archuleta memoir 'Chords of Strength' hits book stores (VIDEO) - Examiner
David Archuleta has gone from singer to author, releasing his first book - a memoir - today (Tuesday) The 19 year old who found sudden fame as the 2008 American Idol runner-up not only released the book today, but had his first book signing. "The day is here! "Chords of Strength" is officially out

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

New devices could fire up e-book market - Financial Times
Competition in the e-reading market will proliferate from current devices which dominate the market – such as Amazon ’s Kindle, Sony ’s Reader and Apple ’s iPad – to as many as 20 devices, expanding the book market, according to senior executives at Penguin. “We think e-books are

Book Festival victim of budget cuts - Baton Rouge Advocate
The Louisiana Book Festival is canceled for 2010 because of state budget cuts, State Librarian Rebecca Hamilton announced today. The annual festival outside the State Capitol could be in doubt for 2011 as well because budget problems are only

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

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

2009 Top Product Lifecycle Management Engineered Solutions Vendors, Black Book 2009 Survey Results - PR Inside
2010-06-02 00:16:48 - Recently published research from Black Book of Outsourcing, "2009 Top Product Lifecycle Management Engineered Solutions Vendors, Black Book 2009 Survey Results", is now available at Fast Market Research In 2009, the Black Book PLM industry user survey investigated over 300

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