On the Nov. 17, I drove to Richmond after my classes to meet one of my favorite authors, Jeff Kinney, and get a few books signed by him. For those of you who are unacquainted with the work of Kinney (and I know there are those who will scoff at my decision to read books which are intended for ...
It's that time of year again! The time of the year when Jack Frost likes to nip at your nose and there's cheer abounding in the air. Now also comes the time of the year when families flock together and expect good food, so here are a few recipes which are both inexpensive to make and delicious. ...
If you thought that the world of book awards is incapable of yielding high drama, you are sadly mistaken. An author was, for the first time in the history of the National Book Awards, asked to withdraw her book, which had been shortlisted for the award after being mistakenly named as a finalist ...
Many changes awaited students when they returned for another year at Longwood University. Many of these changes were apparent, such as the construction of new steam pipes behind Blackwell, and some were not so apparent, such as the new Dean of the Greenwood Library, Ms. Suzy Szasz Palmer. Palmer ...
On a highly overcast Saturday morning, I got in my car, drove up to the Springfield-Franconia Metro Station and rode the Metro up to Washington D.C. for what many of my peers regard as an excessively nerdy thing to do early on a Saturday morning; I was headed to Washington D.C. for the National Book ...
Title: "The Bully Book" Author:Eric Kahn Gale, Nick Lang, and Matt Lang Publisher:Publish Green Price: $9.99 From the creative team that brought to the Internet "A Very Potter Musical," "A Very Potter Sequel," and "Starship" comes a small theatre troupe's first foray into the world of writing ...
Title: "Love Struck" Author: Melissa Marr Publisher:HarperCollins Price: $1.99 for Kindle "Love Struck" by Melissa Marr is a short story that was first seen in the anthology, "Love is Hell" (published in 2008). The short story was recently released as a Kindle Single. A Kindle Single simply refers to ...
The Name of the Star / By Maureen Johnson / 384 pages / Putnam Juvenile / $16.99 When Maureen Johnson, author of "13 Little Blue Envelopes", "The Last Little Blue Envelope", and the "Suite Scarlett" series, announced her newest book, "The Name of the Star", her entire fan base was set atwitter (quite ...
