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New book for young adults

Monday, 26 January 2015, 15:29 Last update: about 10 years ago

At the age of 12 or so - even younger, at times - children stop identifying themselves as children and begin their search for their own identity, somewhere between childhood and adulthood. This is...

Malta Poema Viżiva – new style

Monday, 26 January 2015, 15:28 Last update: about 10 years ago

Horizons, the local publishers, have just released a new-style book entited Malta Poema Viżiva  by Victor Fenech. The book is a paean to the Maltese islands through selected episodes from...

The nine lives of the tugs

Monday, 26 January 2015, 15:25 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

Noel Grima There are, I expect, two ways how to approach the history of anything. One way is to list the bare facts. The other is to describe the context.When this book was launched, at the...

'The Girl on the Train' has realistic plot

Sunday, 25 January 2015, 16:13 Last update: about 10 years ago

How many times have you been on a train and wondered about the people who live near the tracks and leave their curtains open so that passersby can watch them? That voyeuristic view of lives as...

Publisher seeks 'understanding' of facts in North Korea book

Saturday, 24 January 2015, 16:11 Last update: about 10 years ago

The publisher of an authorized best-seller about North Korean defector and human rights activist Shin Dong-hyuk, who has retracted substantial parts of his story, said Sunday that it is anxious for an...

'Unquiet Dead' is outstanding debut by Ausma Zehanat Khan

Friday, 23 January 2015, 16:10 Last update: about 10 years ago

  The Unquiet Dead" (Minotaur Books), by Ausma Zehanat Khan War atrocities reverberate for generations, affecting those who fought on the battlefield and the civilian victims who were...

Novel by Nobel laureate Modiano set for US in 2015

Thursday, 22 January 2015, 16:09 Last update: about 10 years ago

A recent work of fiction by Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano will be published in the U.S. late next year. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Sunday that it has acquired "So You Don't Get Lost in...

Zuckerberg's next book pick: Pinker's 'The Better Angels'

Wednesday, 21 January 2015, 16:04 Last update: about 10 years ago

The Facebook CEO announced Saturday he would take on Steven Pinker's "The Better Angels of Our Nature," a widely discussed and occasionally criticized 2011book that contends violence has...

'Five' by Ursula Archer is intriguing

Tuesday, 20 January 2015, 16:03 Last update: about 10 years ago

Geocaching - the contemporary treasure hunt in which a GPS is used to find hidden objects - lends itself to an intriguing melding of a gripping police procedural and an exciting update of the puzzle...

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