Archive for July, 2009
Ambushed by a Drug War Mormon Clans in Mexico Find Themselves Targets of the Cartels
By William Booth Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, July 23, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/22/AR2009072203738_pf.html COLONIA LEBARON, Mexico — Mormon pioneer Alma Dayer LeBaron had a vision when he moved his breakaway sect of polygamists to this valley 60 years ago: His many children would live in peace and prosperity among the pretty pecan orchards they would plant in [...]
Economic downturn for Bookstore Comic
Woodchester’s Roman pavement revealed
Visitors to Stroud this summer will have a rare opportunity to see spectacular 212-year-old book, which documents the discovery of Woodchester’s world famous Orpheus Pavement. Produced in1797 by pioneer field-archaeologist Samuel Lysons, who discovered the roman pavement by accident four years earlier, it will be on show at the Inprint bookshop in Stroud’s High Street [...]
Library fight riles up city, leads to book-burning demand
By Jason Hanna CNN http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/22/wisconsin.book.row/index.html (CNN) — A fight over books depicting sex and homosexuality has riled up a small Wisconsin city, cost some library board members their positions and prompted a call for a public book burning. The battle has stirred much of West Bend, a city of roughly 30,000 people about 35 miles [...]
Rare Book Summer School
Summer School 2009 Week 1: 20-24 July Week 2: 27-31 July Course Director: Professor Simon Eliot In 2009, the Institute of English Studies in the University of London will run the London Rare Books School (LRBS), a series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects to be taught in and around Senate [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-20
Just set up the Confetti Antiques & Books twitter account! Follow us! # Big brother is watching. Maybe. http://bit.ly/8nT4V # Book signing starts today. The first ten authors will be here! Come on in for some great deals! # Lots of curious book readers in for the signings. schedule at http://bit.ly/laedy #
Eborn Books 2nd Annual Mormon Book Event
Eborn Books 2nd Annual Mormon Book Event Location: South Towne Exposition Center, 9575 South State Street, Sandy, Utah 84070 When: Thursday, August 6, 2009, Time: 9:00 AM to 6:45 PM Tickets: $20 — All Day Pass; $5 — Per Presentation. Questions: Eborn Books — Valley Fair Mall — 801-965-9410, ebornbk@doitnow.com — www.ebornbooks.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8:45 Registration 9:10 [...]
Trigger by Todd Durrant
Title: Trigger Author: Todd Durrant Publisher: Outskirts Press Genre: Science Fiction Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 380 Binding: Large format paperback ISBN10: 1432711520 ISBN13: 978-1-4327-1152-8 Price: $18.95 Reviewed by Trevor Holyoak Todd Durrant has been known for a number of years for his “synthpop” music store and publishing business, A Different Drum. With Trigger, [...]
Aspire! Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words by Kevin Hall
Title: Aspire! Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words Author: Kevin Hall Publisher: Book Wise Publishing Genre: Inspirational/Self Help Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 243 Binding: Hard ISBN10: Not Listed – See Body of Review ISBN13: Not Listed – See Body of Review Price: $24.95 Reviewed by Andrew Hamilton I must admit that [...]
Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others
Friday, July 17, 2009 http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/ This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for—thought they owned. But no, apparently the publisher changed its mind about offering an electronic edition, and [...]