Topic: Rebekah Denn
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Could the Flipback be the new Kindle?
“If a smartphone & a paperback book had a baby, it would be a Flipback,” claim the makers of new, pocket-sized books being touted as "Kindle slayers."
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Amazon faces a spam attack
Spam is cluttering Amazon's Kindle bookstore in the shape of "spam-books."
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Is there a statute of limitations on "Harry Potter" spoiler alerts?
Maybe I'm being unreasonable, but I really don't want my kids to learn all the secrets of the "Harry Potter" books before they read them.
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5 lovely Father's Day books for new dads
Why do so few children's books give equal billing to dads? Here are five great choices that do.
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Why I'm not upset that Seattle is ninth on Amazon's 'best-read' list
The number of books we buy is not the same thing as the number of books we read.
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3 George R.R. Martin books that I like better than "Game of Thrones"
"Game of Thrones" is compulsively readable, it's true, but I prefer the kinder, gentler, early works of George R.R. Martin.
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Why this season's most popular baby-shower gift has an obscene title
Adam Mansbach's “Go the [expletive deleted] to Sleep” tickles the funny bones of parents – precisely because the struggle to get your child to sleep can be anything but a laughing matter.
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"Poisoned" author Jeff Benedict examines the current state of food safety in the US
Nearly 20 years after a fatal e. coli outbreak at Jack in the Box restaurants, is our food system any safer?
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Message From An Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Love and Loss
The unbearably sad stories of China's abandoned baby girls.
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Harper Lee speaks – or not?
"To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee may – or may not – have cooperated with a new biography.
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6 questions for Marcella Hazan, queen of social media
Is that really the Marcella Hazan commenting on my blog? Turns out it is!
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The Wilder Life
A Chicago book editor sets out to retrace the footsteps of beloved “Little House” author Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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How seven “lost stories” by Dr. Seuss surfaced on eBay
Dr. Seuss's publisher says these "lost" stories originally published in magazines are “as good as anything in the already-published canon.”
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In appreciation of Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones wrote about a young wizard at a magical academy 20 years before J.K. Rowling picked up the same topic.
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A new book from Maurice Sendak
Award-winning children's author Maurice Sendak will release a new book this fall, the first he has both written and illustrated in 30 years.
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Michelle Obama: Who will she write with?
A suggestion for Michelle Obama: Jamie Oliver would make a great co-author.
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In 'Tweets from Tahrir,' Twitter posts tell the story of Egypt's revolution
'Tweets from Tahrir,' a book of Egyptian Twitter posts, records history in a novel way.
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A new "Captain Underpants" book coming this summer
"The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby No. 2" is finally on its way.
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Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land
Kurt Timmermeister talks about his new memoir, his life on the land, and why he chose to build a farm from the ground up.
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"Books for Christmas – what da heck is that?!?"
Have books really become the gift that kids don't want to find under the Christmas tree?
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The Dirty Life
What happens when a Manhattanite in a white designer blouse meets an exasperatingly idealistic organic farmer.
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Oprah's book club picks falling short
Sales of Oprah's 2010 Book Club picks, Charles Dickens's 'A Tale of Two Cities' and 'Great Expectations,' are falling short of the the 'Oprah effect.'
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Color e-readers: boon for or bane of children's books?
Apple is making a leap into illustrated books today, adding more than 100 children’s book, photo, and cookbook titles to its iBookstore.
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NaNoWriMo: Should you love it or hate it?
A NaNoWriMo critic kicked up some dust this year, suggesting that all those striving authors might be better off keeping their books to themselves.
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Sarah Palin and her publisher win Round 1 of "fair use" dispute
It's become common practice for the press to excerpt from embargoed books – but is it legal?
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