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06.23: An Evening of Dzanc Authors
2015-05-18 22:04:43| Powells Books Events Calendar
Join us for a special event featuring four Dzanc authors. In The Words and Wisdom of Charles Johnson, National Book Award–winner Charles Johnson, author of Middle Passage, muses about a wide range of topics, from Buddhism to race relations in America and everything in between. In Shya Scanlon's The Guild of Saint Cooper, an obscure author, drawn in by the mysterious Guild of St. Cooper, must rewrite the history of a dying city. Patrick O'Neil's memoir, Gun, Needle, Spoon, follows a punk rock pioneer on his slide into drug abuse and life as an armed robber, all the way through life in recovery and what it's like to look back on those times. Jen Grow's debut story collection, My Life as a Mermaid, stares down the dark side of what it means to live 'happily ever after.'
Research paper with 2,863 authors expands knowledge of bacteriophages
2015-05-11 20:17:15| Biotech - Topix.net
An American undergraduate science program delves deeply into the bacteriophage genome, and publishes a paper with the second-highest number of authors in history, most of them students. GEP staff member Wilson Leung working with junior Sarah Swiezy to find motifs that regulate gene expression or silencing by comparing the DNA of different fruit fly species.
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Favorite Children's Authors Come Together To Get Kids Reading This Summer
2015-05-04 15:45:43| Electronics - Topix.net
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Straight To Audiobook: Authors Write Original Works Meant To Be Heard
2015-03-09 22:27:24| IT Services - Topix.net
In recent years while e-books were plowing their way through the publishing industry like a big noisy steam engine, audiobooks were chugging along in the background like the Little Engine That Could. These days, that sometimes overlooked segment of the book business is growing at a rapid pace and the industry is looking for new ways to catch listeners' ears.
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Local authors have books optioned, adapted for film
2015-01-06 02:36:11| Furniture - Topix.net
Heather Hildenbrand, Virginia Beach author of more than eight young adult science fiction romance novels, recently announced that "Imitation," the first book in her Clone Chronicles series, has been optioned by broadcast network NBC for television adaptation. In "Imitation," Ven, a clone of 18-year-old Raven Rogen, has been designed to look and act like her real-world counterpart, to be available if and when needed.
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