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• Book Excerpt: Sensitivity 101 for the Heterosexual Male

  
  The Cuckleburr Times — Authority: 125
  Introduction Every journey has a beginning; this one starts out in a small town southwest of St. Louis , Missouri back in the early 1960’s. Times were different back then; it seemed like everything was easier, more enjoyable, and everyone was a lot less competitive. In this town you knew all of your neighbors. ...
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• FOR THE LOVE OF ST. NICK by Garasamo Maccagnone

  
  Between the Covers — Authority: 405
    Author : Garasamo Maccagnone Title : For the Love of St. Nick Publisher : BookSurge Genre : Fiction/Christmas Fiction Language : English PURCHASE HERE Two California boys, coping with the loss of their mother, find themselves uprooted when their father, a Navy Commander, is transferred to a base in ...
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• Book Excerpt: Emperor Can Wait by Emma Chen

  
  Pan Macmillan — Authority: 118
  Restauranteur Emma Chen’s memoir, Emperor Can Wait , was launched last week in Johannesburg. Here’s an excerpt from the book that takes us back to Taiwan: Beer houses became popular in Taiwan around the time I started at university in the late 1970s. They sprang up like bamboo shoots after the spring rain. ...
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• Read an Excerpt from William Kamkwamba’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

  
  Jonathan Ball — Authority: 120
  William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind has taken the literary world somewhat by storm. Here’s an excerpt from this inspiring book: THE next day after lunch I began putting everything together. I took the fan, blades, bolts, and the dynamo outside behind our kitchen and arranged ...
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• Chapped excerpt first week

  
  @ngie — Authority: 119
  On November 1st I began writing ‘Chapped’. Unless inspiration strikes I plan on taking the weekends off from this creative project. Gives the story time to stew and brings the flavors out. My goal is an average of 12,500 words a week for four weeks. At the end of this first week I have 13,179 words logged. I ...
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• HUFFINGTON POST: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Part 2 of 7

  
  Everything Warren Buffett — Authority: 441
  Alice Schroeder Author, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life Posted: November 5, 2009 03:44 PM Read Part One With the stock market so expensive, for the past several years Buffett had continued to buy mostly whole businesses. Berkshire bought Iscar, a highly ...
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• A PRECIOUS JEWEL by Mary Balogh

  
  Between the Covers — Authority: 405
    Author : Mary Balogh Title : A Precious Jewel Publisher : Dell Genre : Regency Romance Language : English PURCHASE HERE She was unlike any woman he’d ever met in the ton or the demimonde. But Sir Gerald Stapleton frequented Mrs. Blyth’s euphemistically dubbed “finishing school” for pure, ...
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• A Virtuous Woman

  
  The Enchanted Cottage — Authority: 130
  "Imagine my surprise when I arrived at Hectors aunts home and stepped into the most peaceful paradise Id ever experiened anywhere in the world. Our hostess, Beatriz Duenas, was the picture of beauty, elegance, and ease as she welcomed us, showed us to our rooms, and then gave us a tour of the breathtaking grounds. We ...
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• One Holy Night by Joan Hochstetler

  
  The Plot — Authority: 414
  An unforgettable story of forgiveness and reconciliation, One Holy Night retells the Christmas story in a strikingly original way—through the discovery of a baby abandoned in the manger of a church’s nativity scene. Destined to become a classic for all seasons, One Holy Night deals compassionately with the ...
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• MOONBEAM DREAMS by Gina Browning

  
  Between the Covers — Authority: 405
    Author : Gina Browning Title : Moonbeam Dreams Publisher : Eloquent Books Genre : Children’s Fantasy Picture Book Language : English PURCHASE HERE Moonbeam Dreams is an intricately rhyming bed-time story written and illustrated by Gina C. Browning. It takes the reader and listeners on a ...
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• Book Excerpt: Begging to Be Black by Antjie Krog

  
  BOOK SA - Magazine — Authority: 106
  Antjie Krog’s new book, Begging to Be Black , is styled by its publishers as the completing work in an unexpected trilogy that began with her seminal Country of My Skull and continued with A Change of Tongue . In 1992, a gang leader was shot dead by a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe in Kroonstad. The murder ...
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• Joost: All the Links that Created an Overnight Bestseller (Including the Book Excerpt)

  
  Zebra — Authority: 464
  As reported yesterday , Joost van der Westhuizen’s biography, The Man in the Mirror / Spieëlbeeld , sold out the day it was released. Here’s a summary of the links that drove the controversial book to its number one position - plus reports of fresh revelations from this morning - starting with the Sunday ...
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• Lessons From the Wicked One

  
  The Cuckleburr Times — Authority: 125
  This book excerpt is from Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do. Lifers seem to sense — seem to have learned, from years of hard-won experience — that the wicked stepmother has much to teach us about who we are and, counterintuitively perhaps, that she has a lesson or ...
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• Federer’s Basel Debut

  
  TennisGrandstand — Authority: 468
  Roger Federer hits the courts this week in his hometown of Basel, Switzerland for the Swiss Indoor Championships. Roger is the three-time defending champion at the event, but it was, at one time, an elusive title for him as it was not until 2006 that he won his first “hometown” title. Rene Stauffer, the author ...
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• Notes from TNT’s Coverage of the NBA – Thursday, October 29, 2009 Carmelo Anthony Goes Alex English

  
  The Starting Five — Authority: 421
  TNT’s NBA Thursday coverage continues Thursday, November 5 at 8 p.m. ET with an exclusive doubleheader featuring the Chicago Bulls @ Cleveland Cavaliers followed by the San Antonio Spurs @ Utah Jazz. (AP Photo/Don Ryan) CLIP OF THE DAY (click on link below to watch) TNT NBA studio analyst ...
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• Special Guest, Dariel Raye!

  
  Susan Macatee Romance Writer — Authority: 120
  Author Dariel Raye is guest blogging with me today with a blurb and excerpt from her new novella in the Got Wolf? Volume 2 anthology, taming of the Wolf! Dont you just love that cover? And the stories sound extremely delicious and just in time for Halloween! And if you come back tomorrow, I have the privelege ...
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• The Sari Shop Widow by Shobhan Bantwal

  
  The Plot — Authority: 414
  Pungent curry, sweet fried onions, incense, colorful beads, and lush fabrics – THE SARI SHOP WIDOW is a novel set on the streets of Edison, New Jersey’s Little India, where a young businesswoman rediscovers the magic of love and family. When Anjali Kapadia’s posh sari boutique in New Jersey is on the verge of ...
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• Book Excerpt: The Elephant in the Room by Maya Fowler

  
  BOOK SA - Magazine — Authority: 106
  Serendipty strikes Maya Fowler , whose The Elephant in the Room was (a) scheduled for BOOK SA’s magazine feature slot today, and (b) simultaneously made the object of Colleen Higgs ‘ eight lashings of carrot juice . And we didn’t even call each other, Colleen and I. How about that? Her notes on ...
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• Norman Rockwell: The Original King of the Photoshop [Photography]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 897
  Back when Norman Rockwell ruled Saturday evenings, Adobe wasnt even a gleam in some nerds eye, but a new book shows that the painter was, nevertheless, a photoshop god. Very few Gizmodo readers were even born when Rockwell painted his last Saturday Evening Post cover, but we all know them. You hear that name and ...
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• Sunday Read: Excerpt from Borges and the Eternal Orangutans by Luis Fernando Verissimo

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 542
  “Why this book? Why this excerpt? Why now?” I can practically hear, dear BOOK SA reader, your quizzical, ahm - what’s the word? um, -ness maybe? - as you squint at the screen over your Sunday morning coffee. It’s free association, really, the critical prompt in this case being: Parreira. Parreira. ...
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