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Quirky and unusual
Awkward Family Pet Photos
Mike Bender and Doug Chernack
Three Rivers Press, $15, paper
The guys who brought us "Awkward Family Photos" are back with an edition devoted to cruel and unusual punishment to animals. Sort of. It's not that we don't love our...Tags: Bible, Holidays, Politics, Easter, Apple iPad
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Leonardo da Vinci gets his first museum show of paintings
Culture MonsterLeonardo da Vinci's first museum show of paintings is on view in London.... -
A working mother's guide to writing a novel
Los Angeles Times Television CriticA dozen years ago, my editor at the Los Angeles Times asked if I wanted to interview novelist Mary Gordon, who was in Los Angeles on a book tour. Enormously pregnant, I said yes, partly because I love Mary Gordon and partly because her hotel was two...Tags: Children, Celebrity Parents, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Book, Starbucks Corp.
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Ebook sales headed for $1 billion
Jacket CopyA report by Forrester Research predicts that ebook sales will total $966 million in 2010. In 2011, the $1 billion line for total ebooks sales will be crossed. In 2009, ebook sales were $169.5 million -- not a big portion...... -
Impac Dublin's long, long, longlist
Jacket CopyLonglists make strange fellows, Monday's announcement of the Impac Dublin Literary Prize longlist proves. Dan Brown, author of the mega-bestselling yet critically panned "The DaVinci Code" and Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, have... -
The Siren's Call: Bigfoot and secret societies
Remember Robert Bly's bestselling 1990 book "Iron John: A Book About Men"? It was the manifesto for a movement -- a call for men to get back in touch with their primal selves. Go out in the woods, strip off your shirt, bang on a drum and howl at the moon....Tags: Marco Polo, Fiction, Gaming, Periodicals, Northwestern University
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The Siren's Call: An epic poet as Mary Shelley's co-author
How did Mary Shelley come up with the idea for "Frankenstein"? Did that spooky storytelling contest at the Villa Diodati in 1816 -- you know, the one with Byron, John Polidori and Mary's husband Percy -- send her imagination into high gear? Was it all the...Tags: Fiction, Henry Kissinger, European Union, Death, Science
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Random House will adopt agency ebook pricing model
Jacket CopyRandom House adopts agency pricing model for ebooks on the eve of the iPad 2 launch.... -
Book review: 'Adam & Eve: A Novel' by Sena Jeter Naslund
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe clash between science and faith is a subject that bestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund returns to in her new novel "Adam & Eve," but, unlike her previous books "Ahab's Wife" and "Abundance," her latest demands a suspension of disbelief that is...Tags: Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Genesis (music group)
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Stieg Larsson's 'Girl' is an international publishing phenomenon
Special to the Los Angeles TimesMassive, worldwide success often remains a bit enigmatic, but this publishing breakthrough seemed especially unlikely. The first novel begins with the dull thud of a family tree full of foreign names: The book starts slowly — digging into arcane...Tags: Computer Crime, Norway, Charlie Rose, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes
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Book review: 'The Thousand' by Kevin Guilfoile
If you like Scott Turow, Stan Lee, Dan Brown or Michael Crichton, then you are in the target audience for Kevin Guilfoile's novel "The Thousand." Unfortunately, like smoked duck ravioli with wasabi-tomatillo sauce, Guilfoile has fallen under the sway of...Tags: Marvel Entertainment, Inc., Music, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Murder
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The L.A. Times book review: Dan Brown's 'The Lost Symbol'
Jacket CopyThe book won't hit shelves until Tuesday and hasn't been distributed to reviewers; nevertheless, our Nick Owchar has been among the few to have seen and read "The Lost Symbol," the follow-up to Dan Brown's mega-bestseller, "The Da Vinci Code."......
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