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Farewell to JD Salinger, Howard Zinn
Wed Feb 3, 2010 6:49 PM EST
It was announced today that beloved American novelist JD Salinger has passed away at the age of 91 in Cornish, NH.
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Tune In, Turn On, Turn Page
Seeded on Thu Jan 7, 2010 7:32 PM EST (The New York Times)
In the winter of 1960-61, when their lives began to overlap in Cambridge, Mass., Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Andrew Weil and Huston Smith resembled tweedy extras from "Mad Men." These future psychedelic pioneers were still buttoned-down intellectuals and careerists, men wh …
4 New Ways To Approach Divorce
Seeded on Mon Jan 4, 2010 4:39 PM EST (YourTango.com)
If the summer is for weddings , winter, unfortunately, takes divorce. For many Americans a new start in the new year means ending an old relationship, and this makes January a very busy month for divorce courts and lawyers.
50 notable Bay Area books of 2009
Seeded on Mon Dec 21, 2009 2:16 PM EST (The San Francisco Chronicle)
Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, by Huston Smith with Jeffery Paine. In this delightful book, Smith tells us how he became the dean of world religion experts.
Book Review: The Harvard Psychedelic Club
Seeded on Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:04 PM EST (Shelf Awareness)
Shelf Talker: A rousing tale of jealousy, drugs, betrayal, vengeance, careerism and academic intrigue with a Harvard accent--it also carries the moral that brains alone won't make you holy.
The Mask of Tiger Woods
Seeded on Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:19 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
Debbie Ford, author of Why Good People Do Bad Things, weighs in as Tiger Woods sheds his Nice Guy mask.
DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
Seeded on Fri Dec 4, 2009 1:59 PM EST (WORLDmag.com)
Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (Harper One, 2009) shows that the cell is incredibly complex and the code that directs its functions wonderfully designed.
A Memoir Of Pakistan, Islamic Fundamentalism
Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:39 PM EST (NPR Fresh Air)
Author Ali Eteraz of CHILDREN OF DUST, discusses his experiences growing up with Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan only to be uprooted to the United States. To call it culture shock would be putting it midly. Fresh Air's Terry Gross is a great interviewer as always.
Contest: AN ALTAR IN THE WORLD by Barbara Brown Taylor
Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 6:26 PM EST (GoodBooksInBadTimes.wordpress.com)
Share your endorsement for acclaimed writer and theologian, Barbara Brown Taylor author of An Altar in the World and Leaving Church. Submit your thoughts for a chance to win a copy of Altar in the World and more.
HarperOne Signs Psychic Sylvia Browne
Seeded on Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:23 PM EDT (Publisher's Weekly)
HarperCollins's San Francisco-based imprint, HarperOne, has inked psychic (and bestseller) Sylvia Browne to a three-book deal.
A Visit to a Buddhist on Death Row
Seeded on Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:50 PM EDT (Death Penalty Focus)
The guest post today is from Eric Brandt, Sr. Editor for HarperOne, on why HarperCollins decided to publish Jarvis Masters' new book That Bird Has My Wings.The first few pages of each chapter of the book have been made available HERE.
Oprah's Fall Reading List
Seeded on Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:04 PM EDT (O! Magazine)
Philip Roth! Stephen King! Zadie Smith! Jonathan Lethem! Outrageous opinions and real-life resurrections! Fasten your spectacles—you're in for some wild reads. Ali Eteraz's Children of Dust chosen.
Alone Together
Seeded on Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:46 PM EDT (Jewish Week)
In her poignant and insightful book "One and the Same," Abigail Pogrebin recounts her experience as an identical twin and explores the phenomenon of twinship. She explains how twins are similar, where they tend to differ, and the struggle to be both distinct and connected.
Eteraz's Children of Dust: Review [Part 1]
Seeded on Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:12 PM EDT (Sepia Mutiny)
Ali Eteraz is a name well known to the blogosphere, and of course, Sepia Mutiny.
Announcing My First Pick for the HuffPost Book Club: In Praise of Slowness
Seeded on Thu Oct 8, 2009 6:03 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Arianna Huffington: I'm reading (actually re-reading) and would love you all to read In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed, a terrific book by Carl Honore, published by HarperOne in 2004, in which a self-professed "speedaholic" advocates the need for a more balance …
Biblical Literacy: How well do you know the bible? Take the quiz.
Seeded on Mon Oct 5, 2009 2:40 PM EDT (The News Herald, Ohio)
That the Bible has shaped Western civilization is something that neither an atheist nor a church goer would argue. However, few people catch the biblical references in speeches made by leaders or even in the songs of artists from Bob Marley to Ozzy Osbourne.
Did Lewis & Tolkien Plan to Write Together?
Seeded on Fri Oct 2, 2009 6:18 PM EDT ()
Steven A. Beebe, professor and chair of communication studies at Texas State University, believes he has found a fragment of an unpublished work co-authored by Tolkien and CS Lewis.
Excerpt from Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World
Seeded on Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:13 PM EDT (ReligionDispatches.org)
Finally, something Christians, Jews, and Muslims can agree on: Apocalypse. But as the theological end-time visions of the three Abrahamic faiths converge, it is not the wrath of heaven that threatens life on Earth, but all-too-human fundamentalism and fearmongering
Inspiring Wisdom from Paulo Coelho's THE ALCHEMIST
Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:27 PM EDT
One of our favorite books here at HarperOne is Paulo Coelho's THE ALCHEMIST, the international bestseller about a shepherd boy who learns how to live his dreams.
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Guest Blog from author Jarvis Jay Masters of That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man
Seeded on Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:29 PM EDT (Death Penalty Focus)
Jarvis Jay Masters, author of THAT BIRD HAS MY WINGS describes his feelings about the publishing process of his recent autobiography in a guest post at DeathPenalty.org.
Debunking Dan Brown
Seeded on Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:20 PM EDT (The Daily Beast)
Brown's new book, The Lost Symbol, faces its toughest critic yet: Michael Baigent, the historian who accused Brown of lifting his material in The Da Vinci Code (and lost in court). Baigent's verdict: It's bloody awful.
GBiBT Guest Post from Curtis White, author of THE BARBARIC HEART
Seeded on Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:36 PM EDT (GoodBooksinBadTimes Blog)
In his new book, The Barbaric Heart:Faith, Money and the Crisis of Nature, author Curtis White proposes a unique, philosophical theory about mainstream environmentalism suggesting that spritual beauty and the arts will guide us to the solutions we seek.
Endorsements for THAT BIRD HAS MY WINGS by Jarvis Jay Masters
Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:13 PM EDT
A Note from the Author: "This title actually comes from a story in the book, 'Wings.' One day in the prison exercise yard, I found myself saving a seagull's life from the senseless violence of a fellow inmate.
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Advance Praise for CHILDREN OF DUST by Ali Eteraz
Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:42 PM EDT
This elegantly written memoir traces [Eteraz's] relationship with the religion of his birth, from his childhood in Pakistan, where he feared beatings at the madrassa, to adulthood in the U.S. . . . Thoughtful and wry, he offers glimpses of a changing Pakistan and a U.S.
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Fall is the season for turning over a new page, and this season's offerings are a book-lover's bounty
Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:51 PM EDT (NOLA.com)
The big books of fall are on the way! This is a stellar season, with new work to come from Mitch Albom, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Michael Connelly, Patricia Cornwell, Jeffrey Marx, E.L.
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