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Sunday, January 29, 2012
 
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Frank Dikötter's Book Wins the BBC's Samuel Johnson Award
Mao's Great Famine

Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikötter has won the BBC Samuel Johnson Award for Non-Fiction 2011!

"[A] vivid catalogue of horrors...[a] bold portrait."—New Yorker

"Astounding...a critical contribution to Chinese history."—Wall Street Journal



Leningrad Gives Voice to Seige
Leningrad

"With access to candid diaries, police records, and government and military archives, [Reid] gives a detailed and harrowing account of life and death in Leningrad. 'The end,' Ms. Reid writes, 'like the end of all great conflicts, left a vast silence...of facts falsified or left unsaid.' Now the people themselves have regained their voices." — Wall Street Journal Read full review.



Praise for The Sugar Barons:
The Sugar Barons "an engaging journey to a mercifully vanished world."—The Wall Street Journal

"Mr Parker tells an extraordinary, neglected and shameful story with gusto and a keen eye for the telling contemporary quotation."—The Economist

Read our excerpt of The Sugar Barons.



Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands
Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands

"the bibliography continues to grow with smaller volumes that fruitfully focus on facets on this dynamo's life. So be it with Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands, whose authors, a senior editor at National Wildlife, worked as a lad on a ranch in Nebraska's Sand Hills, a realm kindred to the vast barrens of the Dakota Territory, and knew a life that resonated with the once-dwindling frontier."—American Heritage.



The Story of Charlotte's Web by Michael Sims
The
Story of Charlotte's Web

"In this lovingly rendered portrait, Sims details a life of careful listening, insatiable curiosity, and empathy toward all living creatures from people to spiders to pigs. The final line of Charlotte's Web is one I had long forgotten but immediately remembered upon reading: It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both. It could also be said that E.B. White was both a true friend and a good writer. So is Sims, who has opened the doors and windows in his gentle and wise biography about a man who gave us Charlotte, Wilbur, Stuart, and so many beautiful stories."
Los Angeles Review of Books

Listen to Michael Sims's terrific NPR's Science Friday interview.




Dave Sobel's New Book A More Perfect Heaven available in the U.S. in October 2011
A More Perfect Heaven

Dave Sobel, author of the New York Times Bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, will be publishing her newest book, A More Perfect Heaven: How Nicolaus Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos, in October 2011. Here's a wonderful review in the UK's Financial Times.




 
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Dava Sobel

Dava Sobel is the bestselling author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter, and The Planets, coauthor of The Illustrated Longitude, and editor of Letters to Father. She lives in East Hampton, New York.

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James Sallis
James Sallis is the author of more than two dozen volumes of fiction, poetry, translation, essays, and criticism, including the Lew Griffin series, Drive, Cypress Grove, Cripple Creek, and Salt River. His biography of the great crime writer Chester Himes is an acknowledged classic. The Killer is Dying is his new book.
"After decades of toiling in relative obscurity, building a small but fiercely devoted readership, James Sallis, 66, may have finally made it to the big time."—Publishers Weekly.
Sallis lives in Phoenix with his wife, Karyn, and an enormous white cat.

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The Story of Charlotte's Web

The Man of Numbers

The Killer is Dying

The Sugar Barons

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