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The Snowball Shortlisted for 2008 Business Book of the Year Award
Alice Schroeder’s The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life was shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. The winner will be announced October 14 in New York City at a dinner.
Time.com, The New York Observer, and Portfolio.com Applaud New Buffett Biography
The Snowball goes on sale Monday, September 29.
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Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun ‘live on stage, on film’
A new film version of Dalton Trumbo’s classic anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun, premiered Sept. 22, starring Ben McKenzie (The O.C. and Junebug). McKenzie plays Joe Bonham, a WWI veteran and quadruple amputee who has also lost his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth and must struggle to communicate with those around him. The movie is a new play-on-film version of the 1939 novel, adapted from the 1982 Off-Broadway play. View the full tour information and check out the movie trailer for a sneak peek.
Read the suspense novel, A Season For The Dead, for free
From now until October 15, the entire text of David Hewson’s acclaimed first Nic Costa novel, A Season for the Dead, is yours to read free.
Click here to view the book or download the PDF.
A Season for the Dead introduced Detective Nic Costa. The series includes The Garden of Evil, The Seventh Sacrament, The Lizard’s Bite, The Sacred Cut, The Villa of Mysteries and coming in March 2009, Dante’s Numbers.
In the heat of a Roman summer, Nic Costa, a young, optimistic detective is faced with a crime that reaches deep into the heart of the Vatican.
The Dallas Morning News called it “A suspenseful, fascinating mystery.” The Washington Post praised it as “Intelligent entertainment…Hewson, far more than most thriller writers, has a serious concern for character.”
Click here for an interview with the author about A Season for the Dead.
Esquire Names Slaughterhouse-Five and Moby-Dick Essential Reading
In celebration of their 75th anniversary issue, Esquire Magazine has created a list of the 75 books every man should read. Included in the list was The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Deliverance by James Dickey, Dubliners by James Joyce, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, and Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, all available from Bantam Dell. For the full list, pick up Esquire’s 75th anniversary issue.
Chapter 3 of Karen Marie Moning’s Faefever available for free
The last free excerpt from Karen Marie Moning’s forthcoming novel, Faefever (on sale September 16th) is now live. You can read Chapter Three by clicking on the animated book image below (click here if you cannot see the flash animation).
If you missed any of the previous excerpts, you can read them here.
Surprise Summer Blockbuster: Unusual Film Deal for Bestselling Guernsey Novel
The film rights to one of the most buzzed about debuts of the summer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, written by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, have been optioned by a most unlikely pair: noted bookseller Mitchell Kaplan, owner of Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida and award-winning film writer-producer Paula Mazur.
With more than 220,000 copies in print, the book will mark its fourth week as a top five New York Times bestseller when it hits the list at #3 on Sunday, September 7th.
The Good Thief Finalist For Sargent Prize
Hannah Tinti’s The Good Thief is a finalist for the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize. The Sargent Prize was created by the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction as part of its mission to promote the art of fiction in the United States. The winner will be announced later this fall.
Chapter 2 of Karen Marie Moning’s Faefever available for free
The second free excerpt from Karen Marie Moning’s forthcoming novel, Faefever (on sale September 16th) is now live. You can read Chapter Two by clicking on the animated book image below (click here if you cannot see the flash animation).
If you missed the excerpt of the Prologue and Chapter 1, you can read it here.
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