News & Notes – 8/27/16

News & Notes – 8/27/16

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Ancient Egyptian works to be published together in English for first time (The Guardian) Amazon plans to open bookstore in Chicago (Chicago Tribune) Navy Seal… Read more »

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Sharp Edges (Jayne Ann Krentz)

Sharp Edges (Jayne Ann Krentz)

Sharp Edges by Jayne Ann Krentz Published by Pocket Books on 2/01/1998 Genres: Romantic suspense Pages: 368 Format: Kindle or ebook Source: my personal collection Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Audible | Chirp Add to Goodreads Also by this author: Copper Beach, Dream Eyes,… Read more »

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Summer’s End (Sunday Post, 8/21/16)

Summer’s End (Sunday Post, 8/21/16)

The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures—I mean books! My Week With schools and colleges either back in session or starting soon, summer vacation is nearly… Read more »

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News & Notes – 8/20/16

News & Notes – 8/20/16

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Barnes & Noble fires CEO less than a year into his tenure. (Fortune) Bookstore Sales Up 6.1% in First Half of 2016 (Publishers Weekly) Amazon’s… Read more »

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Great World Religions: Christianity

Great World Religions: Christianity

Great World Religions: Christianity Series: Great World Religions Also in this series: Great World Religions: Judaism As the world’s largest religion, with more than two billion members, Christianity is “one of religion’s great success stories,” notes Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, himself a former Benedictine monk. But Christianity is more than… Read more »

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Family Tree (Susan Wiggs)

Family Tree (Susan Wiggs)

Family Tree on Aug. 9, 2016 Pages: 368 Purchase: Amazon Add to Goodreads For readers of Kristin Hannah and Jodi Picoult comes a powerful, emotionally complex story of love, loss, the pain of the past—and the promise of the future. Sometimes the greatest dream starts with the smallest element. A… Read more »

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News & Notes – 8/13/16

News & Notes – 8/13/16

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Mass Merchants Feel the Love from ‘Cursed Child’. (Publishers Weekly) And total sales in the first week topped 3.3 million copies. (GalleyCat) Rikers Island gets unofficial New York Public… Read more »

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