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Xpress Reviews for Week of May 15, 2007
It's about time for me to show my face again! So here are the titles reviewed in our web-only, freely-accessible Xpress Reviews section. Xpress Reviews for Week of May 15, 2007 FICTIONCussler, Clive...
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I've been editing the audio reviews column for the last nine years, and I'm a judge for The Audies® awards competition for the Audio Publishers Association. This summer I'll be listening to Good...
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Xpress Reviews for Weeks of June 5th & June 12th, 2007
I like to play catch-up – will you play catch-up with me? Here are the titles reviewed in our web-only, freely-accessible, Xpress Reviews section from the last two weeks. Xpress Reviews for Week of...
View ArticleBlack Books & Beyond
Now in its ninth year, the annual Harlem Book Fair, held July 20-22, was a welcome break from the Harry Potter mania. The event drew hundreds of onlookers and bookbuyers from the community and...
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Free Star Wars Novel Download
This just in from Del Rey: As a special gift to Star Wars fans, Del Rey will be offering Book One in the series, Star Wars: Legacy Of The Force: Betrayal, as a free downloadable PDF, audio book, and...
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Introducing E-Reference Ratings
Remember when Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah’s couch and proclaimed he couldn’t contain himself? Did you think he was nuts, or were you like me and thought that the man could just be genuinely happy? I’m...
View ArticleNot Just Chick Lit
Library Journal‘s sister company Publishers Weekly sparked a literary tempest two weeks ago with its now notorious Top 10 Best Books of 2009 list, which did not feature any women writers. As the intern...
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The Magazine Rack: Commercial Publishers’ Forays into Open Access
By Steve Black, Coll. of Saint Rose, Albany, NY Conflict between rising subscription rates and academic libraries’ limited budgets has generated lively discussion since the early 1980s. The emergence...
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Booked Solid | Fall Finds from BEA 2011
By Bette-Lee Fox, Margaret Heilbrun, Barbara Hoffert, Anna Katterjohn, Heather McCormack, Mike Rogers, & Wilda Williams Photo by Mike Rogers Coming full circle If you read the fine print in this...
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A Talk with Random House’s Marcia Purcell, VP, Director of Library Marketing
When Marcia Purcell, VP, director of library and academic marketing at Random House, announced at the Random House/Library Journal breakfast at BookExpo America last May that she would retire at the...
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Help Yourself! Self-Help Books on GVRL
It can be hard to maintain a positive outlook and self image in a world that places so much emphasis on material wealth and physical beauty rather than how we feel and think. We underestimate the...
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Erotica, January 2017 | LJ Reviews
As we say goodbye to 2016 and embrace the promise of a new year, this month’s titles see folks making deliciously risky resolutions of their own. Penthouse’s two new erotic anthologies are bursting...
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