-
Access our Top 20
Books of 2024!
Apr 20 2006: Sebastian Junger and his publisher Norton are confronting angry claims from the daughter of a woman whose murder he examines in his newest book, A Death in Belmont (just released in hardcover), in which he examines the 1963 murder of Bessie Goldberg, ...
Apr 20 2006: Publishers Weekly (the USA's leading publishing industry trade magazine) recently published its annual summary of book sales for the previous year - and the overall winner in adult titles, with a massive 3.7 million hardcover copies sold, was not by Grisham, ...
Apr 07 2006: The 2006 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winner in the Children's Literature category is Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Scholastic/Chicken House), and the winner in the Children's Illustrated category is Zen Shorts by Jon J Muth (Scholastic).&#...
Apr 07 2006: Barnes and Noble plan to open 30-40 superstores in 2006 (including upgrades) and will close 15-20, for a net gain of about 20 stores. Borders plans to open 35 superstores in the USA and 10-15 overseas.
Apr 07 2006: The Campaign for Reader Privacy, the joint initiative of the American Booksellers Association, PEN American Center, the American Library Association, and the Association of American Publishers, is accusing President Bush of undermining the privacy safeguard amendments...
Apr 07 2006: April 12th is National Drop Everything and Read Day" in the USA, organized by Harper Collins and several other organizations, in honor of author Beverly Cleary's 90th birthday. The initiative is meant to encourage families to enjoy books together. Cleary's ...
Apr 07 2006: After enduring a months-long trial in London over claims that he had lifted the central idea for The Da Vinci Code from a non-fiction book, The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, Dan Brown and his publisher, Random House, have received the expected outcome - with the court ...
Apr 07 2006: April 13 is the 100th birthday of Samuel Beckett, the great Irish playwright, poet and novelist and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize.
.png)
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting
Click Here to find out who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!
Your guide toexceptional books
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
