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Truss book tops Amazon bestseller list

The Spectator 17 Apr 2024
At the time of writing, Mr S notes that Truss’s colourful new tell-all has taken first place in Amazon’s ‘biography and memoir’ bestseller chart — and it is the fifth most popular book being bought on the site overall.
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Enzo Ferrari: The definitive biography of an icon

Business Line 17 Apr 2024
The book “Enzo Ferrari. the definitive biography of an icon” by Luca Dal Monte and the release of the movie “Ferrari” by Michael Mann are sweetly timed ... My Enzo Ferrari biography will confirm it ... I read Luca’s book before I saw Mann’s movie.
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Maddux Elementary School to host book presentation event

Evening Times 17 Apr 2024
Authors to appear jointly on the iconic Johnson Publishers Book Tour ... Brathwaite’s Miles of Style, her debut children’s picture book biography, was released on February 6 during Black History Month ... See BOOK TOUR, page A2. BRATHWAITE BOOK TOUR.
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Jami Attenberg on her book ‘1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and ...

The Virginian-Pilot 17 Apr 2024
If you began January certain this would be the year you finally wrote a book, and now it’s late March and you’re still frozen in fear, you understand ... She has this new book, “1000 Words ... Biographies, too ... After two weeks they’d have 50 pages of a book.
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Author Sophie Kinsella reveals that she’s had brain cancer since 2022: ‘All is stable’

The Los Angeles Times 17 Apr 2024
... 'greetings from sunny London.' The prolific author has at least 35 titles to her name (and her pen name) and has sold more than 45 million copies of her books, according to her official biography.
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Andrew O’Hagan’s maximum city

New Statesman 17 Apr 2024
O’Hagan’s satirical flourishes are sometimes triumphantly precise – particularly when he parodies the media and publishing industries (the New York Review of Books review of Campbell’s biography, for ...
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I’m still traumatized by this horrible Black restaurant experience

The Grio 17 Apr 2024
Oh ... He is also the host of the podcast “Toure Show” and the podcast docuseries “Who Was Prince?” He is the author of eight books including the Prince biography Nothing Compares 2 U and the ebook The Ivy League Counterfeiter ... .
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On the Shelf: April books for kids – Get ready for summer

Citizen Times 16 Apr 2024
Baseball Biographies for Kids” by Dean Burrell (Callisto Publishing) ... But it also helps to set the stage, and a funny, charming book is a great start ... These washable, chewable books are first-book favorites for a reason.
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Amazon is filled with garbage ebooks. Here’s how they get made. 

Vox 16 Apr 2024
Take, for example, when tech journalist Kara Swisher’s Burn Book came out this February. A host of other books hit the Kindle store along with it ... Silicon Valley’s Bulldog,’ and ‘Kara Swisher Book ... Swisher was less than flattered by the biographies.
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Liz Truss is getting what she wants

New Statesman 16 Apr 2024
Not just any book ... One of the most revealing lines about her comes not from her own book, but from the biography Out Of The Blue by journalists Harry Cole and James Heale, published shortly after her resignation in November 2022.
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To Salman Rushdie, a dream before his attempted murder ‘felt like a premonition’

The Spectator 16 Apr 2024
He wanted the life of a writer, and for his books – even ‘that book’ – to be read as books rather than as footnotes to an episode in his biography or tokens in some pre-digital culture wars ... This is an ‘I-book’.
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Rick Ross verbally smacked Drake in the face by calling him white boy

The Grio 16 Apr 2024
1 ... 2 ... He is also the host of the podcast “Toure Show” and the podcast docuseries “Who Was Prince?” He is the author of eight books including the Prince biography Nothing Compares 2 U and the ebook The Ivy League Counterfeiter ... .
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How a little-known clergyman studying worms by candlelight in the 1700s inspired Charles Darwin – ...

The Conversation 16 Apr 2024
Indeed, I was even inspired to write my own book, Worm ... A biography of Darwin also shows that, even as a student, he possessed a copy of White’s book (which, it must be remembered covered many aspects of natural history, not only earthworms).
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20 Taylor Swift songs with literary references you may have missed

Business Insider 16 Apr 2024
For three days, The Grove will display a selection of poems and books, curated by Swift, teasing the direction of her new music — and underscoring her lifelong commitment to the written word.
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Clifford Ray’s long arms: How a Warrior saved a dolphin

Chico Enterprise Record 15 Apr 2024
The 52-page book, a brief biography presented in rhyming verse, begins with a boy, learning to fish, imagining far-off oceans, and falling in love with “Flipper.” It concludes with Ray’s daring dolphin rescue ...Kids love this book,” said Ray.
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