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Romance novel model denies robbing banks, convenience store

Friday, 15 September 2017, 12:06 Last update: about 10 years ago

A tattooed romance novel cover model from California has pleaded not guilty to robbing two banks and a convenience store in Connecticut. The Hartford Courant reports (http://cour.at/2fmLhkh )...

Parenthood and tech meet in 'To Siri With Love'

Thursday, 14 September 2017, 12:05 Last update: about 10 years ago

Technology has often gotten a bum rap for ushering humans into their own private microcosms. But writer Judith Newman has a different take on the matter. Her teenage son, Gus, who is on the...

Novel removed from independent stores' best-seller list

Wednesday, 13 September 2017, 12:04 Last update: about 10 years ago

A fantasy novel removed from a New York Times best-seller list because of suspicious sales has been pulled from a chart compiled by the American Booksellers Association. The association announced...

Julia Keller tackles heroin in 24-hour crisis

Tuesday, 12 September 2017, 12:03 Last update: about 10 years ago

An ongoing theme in Julia Keller's superior series about Raythune County prosecutor Bell Elkins is how these West Virginia residents maneuver when jobs are scarce but drugs have overrun the area....

Release of Shortlist of National Book Prize 2017

Monday, 11 September 2017, 15:03 Last update: about 10 years ago

The National Book Council announces that the adjudication board of the 2017 edition of National Book Prize and Terramaxka Prize (for books published in 2016) has selected and communicated the...

Beyond the creaking reeds

Monday, 11 September 2017, 15:01 Last update: about 10 years ago

A poet is essentially a dreamer and many of his dreams thrive on hope, as his spirit floats restlessly all over, mostly in a metaphysical dimension of an idealism often shattered by grim...

The priest with two lives

Monday, 11 September 2017, 14:39 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

Horizons started its series of books about contemporary Maltese persons with the book about Dom Mintoff -which it subtitled Bejn storja u miti (Between history and myths). In the case of Mintoff, this...

Rob Reid's 'After On' is intriguing story

Saturday, 9 September 2017, 16:14 Last update: about 10 years ago

Author Rob Reid examines the world of social networking and how intrusive it can become in our daily lives in his latest sci-fi endeavor, "After On." A network called Phluttr seems harmless at...

"Paradise Valley" by C.J. Box is taut, suspenseful

Friday, 8 September 2017, 16:13 Last update: about 10 years ago

"Paradise Valley" reaches the same level of frightening realism that made C.J. Box's "The Highway" so terrifying. A sequel to that novel, "Paradise Valley," makes an excellent conclusion to Box's...

How Nora Ephron's comedies rebooted the rom-com

Thursday, 7 September 2017, 16:12 Last update: about 10 years ago

Did writer and director Nora Ephron really save the romantic comedy? Are the three movies detailed here - "When Harry Met Sally ...," ''Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail" - really...

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