The Categories feature offers up some more options, if top selling books aren't your thing.

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Here are some more items for young girls, from books and electronic LEGOs to free iPad games, created by engineers who want to help change the ratio in math, science and computer classes everywhere.

FORBES: Connect

The girls leaf through books, talk, talk some more, and putter about until past midnight.

FORBES: Taking Our Leave Of Moosepoo

As an evangelical writer, he stands out with more than 10 million books sold, some of which are extremely critical of the Catholic Church and a number of Brazilian Afro-religions.

FORBES: The Richest Pastors In Brazil

Mr Marr, a former political editor of the BBC and author of some shrewd books on modern Britain, sets himself a more ambitious task: to explain what the queen's role and position tell us about her subjects.

ECONOMIST: Why the queen has to be seen to be believed

They looted everything, but not before he had returned to make one mad effort to save some of his academic books - an effort to preserve something from a more sane past.

BBC: Studying history at Kabul University

With the latest quarter in the books and showing some serious improvements, we would have expected East West to be more aggressive towards the third quarter.

FORBES: Price Might Be Right On East West Bancorp

Some of these efforts have been less about making interesting apps, and more about ways to drive sales back to books, still the bread and butter for publishers.

FORBES: Book Publisher HarperCollins Releases Kids' IPhone Apps

Some journalists, such as Thomas L. Friedman, of the Times, earn more if one factors in speeches and books, but when, recently, Mossberg signed a four-year contract, two Journal sources told me, his annual compensation approached a million dollars.

NEWYORKER: Critical Mass