Books
Award-winning children's authors to headline UK conference
Three award-winning children's writers and illustrators will be the lead presenters at the University of Kentucky's School of Library and Information Science's annual McConnell Youth Literature Conference next month.
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The Romance Reader: 'Sudden Attraction'
"Sudden Attraction" by Rebecca York; Harlequin ($5.25, paperback)
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4 good reads from National Book Critics Circle awards' finalists
Every year for the last six years, this has been my routine in January and February: I shut myself in a room with a jar of peanut butter and a box of crackers, say goodbye to my family, and read the finalists for the National Book Critics Circle awards.
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Harlem Renaissance collection contains surprising groundbreakers
"Harlem Renaissance Novels: The Library of America Collection," edited by Rafia Zafar; Library of America ($70 for set or $35 per volume)
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'A Good American': A family's history, set to music
"A Good American" by Alex George; Amy Einhorn Books ($25.95)
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Eleanor Brown finds universality in our peculiarities
Readers are fond of asking author Eleanor Brown which of her fictional, Shakespeare-loving sisters she's most like: capable, responsible Rose (named for Rosalind in "As You Like It") ; independent, prickly Bean (formally Bianca, named for Kate's sister in "The Taming of the Shrew"); the baby of ...
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'The Miseducation of Cameron Post': Author tells of a 12-year-old Montana girl whose awakening homosexuality gets her in trouble
"The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by Emily M. Danforth; Balzer & Bray ($17.99, for readers age 14 and up)
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Tony Judt's complex and passionate views of 20th century live on in retelling
"Thinking the Twentieth Century" by Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder; Penguin Press ($36)
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Liked 'Presumed Innocent'? Love 'Defending Jacob'
"Defending Jacob" by William Landay; Delacorte Press ($26)
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A computer world designed for military training goes frighteningly awry in 'The Demi-Monde: Winter'
"The Demi-Monde: Winter" by Rod Rees; William Morrow ($26.99)








