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• I’ll Scream Later – Marlee Matlin

  
  S. Krishna's Books — Authority: 517
  Title: I’ll Scream Later Author: Marlee Matlin ISBN: 9781439102855 Pages: 336 Release Date: April 14, 2009 Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment Genre: Memoir, Non-Fiction Source: Library Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Summary: Marlee Matlin is an Oscar-winning actress who also ...
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• Live At The Fillmore East: A Photographic Memoir

  
  The Medium Format Camera Site The Medium-Format Photography Blog — Authority: 165
  Hey, check out these auctions: But That’s Another Story: A Photographic Retrospective US $47.23 End Date: Saturday Nov-21-2009 0:09:40 PST Buy It Now for only: US $47.23 Buy it now | Add to watch list Live at the Fillmore East: A Photographic Memoir US $30.50 End ...
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• Review: The Kings English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller

  
  B O O K L U S T — Authority: 517
  Title:  The Kings English:  Adventures of an Independent Bookseller Author:  Betsy Burton Publisher:  Gibbs Smith # of Pages:  301 (including appendices) Favorite Line:   But the real source of authorial star power is that reading a brilliant novel can be exactly like falling in love, *is* ...
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• Brief Review: In God’s Womb by Edwina Gateley [Vol. 2, #45]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 131
  A Brief Review of In God’s Womb: A Spiritual Memoir. Edwina Gateley. Paperback: Orbis Books, 2009. Buy now: [ Amazon ] Reviewed by Laretta Benjamin. I have written several book reviews over the past couple of years for the Englewood Review, and  I must confess this one has been the most difficult.  My ...
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• ‘Pearls’ of Wisdom While Talking Up a “Storm”

  
  Book Group Buzz - Discussion of Book Clubs, Reading Lists, and Literary News - Booklist Online — Authority: 423
  True life adventure stories are popular selections for book groups and usually get selected as “guy reader” bait. These adrenaline-rush narrative quests appeal to some male readers for the action and to some women readers for the soul-searching introspection. Last week I led a book group for Kansas City’s ...
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• NLA Seminars Online

  
  ANZ LitLovers LitBlog — Authority: 125
  In amongst all the dross, there’s some really valuable stuff online, and even a simple search can lead to really interesting resources. Tonight I discovered the NLA Seminars Online , and for a booklover these are some real treasures. My first discovery was Women Writing: Views and Prospects 1975-1995 .  I ...
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• Ann Donald on Stephen King and The Literary Journal

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 529
  Although Stephen King is not typically considered a “literary” writer, the advice embedded in On Writing is seminal. King notes the importance of the literary journal as a place for the novice writer to test the ground. South African writers are blessed in this regard and Ann Donald sings their praises. The ...
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• Stress Yoga, Anyone?

  
  Tote Bags 'n' Blogs — Authority: 467
  Ive always loved to exercise, though unfortunately my lifestyle has not lent itself to nearly the level I once enjoyed, nor the amount I now require, for that matter. One of the activities I have found most gratifying both physically and mentally is yoga. So much so that for a couple of years I practiced yoga ...
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• Percy Zvomuya Interviews Antjie Krog on Begging to Be Black

  
  Zebra — Authority: 124
  An in-depth look at Krog’s themes and thrusts in Begging to be Black , Zvomuya’s carefully-plotted interview is a must-read: The book asks whether it is possible to “make a moral decision within an immoral context”. How do you counter the grand national narrative that recognises two sets of morality: one ...
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• Review: My Invented Country, Isabel Allende

  
  Medieval Bookworm — Authority: 132
  With a careful touch of humor and her own personal subjectivity, author Isabel Allende takes her readers on a tour of the Chile of her childhood, the Chile that she knew for the earliest years of her life.  This memoir reads as a meandering journey throughout the history of Allende’s family and her own girlhood, ...
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• Maureen Isaacson’s Au Courant: Rian Malan, Antjie Krog and Ben Trovato

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 529
  The Sunday Independent’s books editor muses over three current books. The piece is worth the click-through for her email conversation with Ben Trovato alone: I accidentally slept through the launch of Rian Malan’s Resident Alien, his first published work since My Traitor’s Heart, written two decades ago, ...
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• Book Review: Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman

  
  The Book Lady's Blog — Authority: 494
  Published May 2009 by Doubleday (a division of RandomHouse) My friend Kristen wrote a guest review of this book back in the spring that prompted me to read Ayelet Waldman’s controversial essay in which she said that she loved her husband more than she loved her children , and that prompted me to make my own ...
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• Army limits media access at Palin event at NC base (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 517
  AP – The U.S. Army will allow the media limited coverage of Sarah Palin’s appearance at Fort Bragg, but will bar reporters from interviewing her or her supporters on the post, officials said Thursday. Continued here: (AP)"> (AP)">Army limits media access at Palin event at NC base (AP)
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• 2010 Online Memoir & Personal Essay Class: Creative Nonfiction Four by Four

  
  Lisa Romeo Writes — Authority: 121
  Here is information about my online creative nonfiction class for early 2010. Memoir and Personal Essay: Four by Four Four keys of creative nonfiction in four weeks: - Beginnings & Endings - A Strong "I" Narrator - Powerful Small Details - Dynamic Dialogue Work on writing high-impact openings and strong ...
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• A King-sized void

  
  Minnesota Reads — Authority: 422
  There is a place in my brain that had seized up and was unable recognize writers who produce book after book after book. It was nothing I ever thought about, just on some subconscious level I had created an equation that quantity diminished quality. In my adult reading years, I have completely ignored Stephen King. ...
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• I Like It Better When Youre Funny by Charles Grodin

  
  Fifty Books Project 2009 — Authority: 128
  If youve ever wanted to spend several hours listening to Charles Grodin, of The Heartbreak Kid , Beethoven and MSNBC fame, share anecdotes about various people--mostly unnamed--that hes worked with throughout his 30-odd years in show business, this is the book for you. Of course, if you read I Like It Better When ...
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• Sarah Palin Moving On From Newsweek Cover Controversy To Her New Book

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  By Meena KarNov. 19, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The “Newsweek” cover is not the only thing that is keeping former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin in news these days. The Republican candidate is on a big roll these days, what with so many things occurring in her life simultaneously and one among that is the discussions about ...
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• Book Review : Never Trust a Thin Cook

  
  My Mlange — Authority: 118
  By now, you know that I love reading books and memoirs that involve my twin passions, France and Italy. I have mentioned several other Italian books that I have read and loved, and even have a few recommendations in my Amazon store . The latest, that I will add to both of those lists, is the very enjoyable Never ...
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• Link Love: Phil Matibe’s Madhinga Bucket Boy and Mbedzi Publishing (Plus Excerpt)

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 529
  Philemon (Phil) Matibe’s memoir, Madhinga Bucket Boy: From Boyhood in Colonial Rhodesia to Manhood in Zimbabwe, A Native Son’s Story , is a fresh read from US imprint Mbedzi Publishing . Mdedzi is looking for a South African distributor or co-publisher for the book, which has its own comprehensive Facebook ...
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• Hundreds of Palin fans line up at book reading site

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 171
  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Hundreds of Sarah Palin fans lined up Wednesday at a Michigan book store to get the chance to meet the former Alaska governor as she kicked off a national tour for her book "Going Rogue." Some supporters camped out overnight to be among the first to get wristbands from the Barnes and Noble ...
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