The witty book took the overall prize, while author and Children's Laureate Jacqueline Wilson took the younger reader's award for her book Best Friends.
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Clicking on the Explore option allows you to track the popularity of a book amongst your friends list.
Just think, what if each group of friends, book clubs, soccer teams, etc. pooled small donations together and collectively decided on an organization or cause to donate to.
"We were doing things in Glasgow like odd gigs in pubs that we'd book and just invite friends along too and play some songs to see how they were going, " says Hardy.
Users in the private beta are using it to find deals on textbooks, to book flights and to follow friends.
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She is also the author of a 2007 book on Iran entitled Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S. and the Twisted Path to Confrontation.
He is the leader of a gang of "droogs" - the name given to his friends in the book's language Nadsat - a mix of Russian and English slang.
Chicago Tribune columnist Marla Paul wrote an entire book about the challenges of making friends in adulthood.
Her upcoming book is titled From Facebook to Friends with Benefits: Dr. Ruth's Guide to Parenting Teens Today (Teachers College Press).
So many people in the book were mocked by family and friends for what they were doing, yet they did it.
After giving the book as a gift to her friends and colleagues, McPartland sought to write a composition to honor the influential environmentalist.
Geffen has reportedly told friends that cooperating on the book was one of the worst mistakes of his life.
Jellybooks wants you to browse book excerpts and share them with your friends.
Moreover, the kingdom has more reason than ever to use cheque-book diplomacy in a bid to win friends and influence people throughout the region.
Kobo readers can use the site to share the books they are reading, see what their friends are reading, get book recommendations and compare reading statistics.
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Support friends and colleagues by buying their book or product.
Rieder also wrote, "The Word of the Lord is Upon Me, " a book that revealed King's backstage discussions with friends and colleagues.
If I had more time, I could even write a book from the amount of testimonies and my personal friends and my losses.
With an email to friends and family, I started a book drive and a year later in 1999, I returned to Bahundanda to deliver on my promise, bringing with me 3, 000, books via a convoy of yaks.
Privacy concerns over the issue were touched off last week when a Web developer blogged about his discovery that Path, an emerging social app that limits users to 50 friends, was uploading his iPhone address book to its servers.
Buy his book as a Christmas gift for one's religious friends?
What we learn from this is that some authors apparently check their Amazon ranking when friends tell them that they have bought the book, and some are deeply disappointed.
Mr McColghan told BBC Three Counties Radio he was travelling to Portugal from London Luton Airport to visit friends, but was told he could not book his case in "for security reasons".
You can have your own account and talk with your friends and the public about agenting, bookselling, book making, writing, criticizing, dreaming about fiction.
Sollecito's book draws heavily on diaries he kept and letters he wrote to friends, family and his hometown newspaper during his years in prison, the preface says.
Build the same application with Apple's tools, Atkinson figures, and not only will his program run faster--it might be able to communicate with other parts of the phone, such as the address book, and, say, enable forwarding an audio clip to friends.
Friends of Mr Chubais say that Mr Berezovsky whipped up the book scandal in revenge, using journalists in his pay.
But on the positive side, there have been many people who have taken the time to consider the book seriously and to work through the ideas carefully and to tell their friends.
Kirkpatrick's book shows the key aspects of Facebook's growth have been naming friends, tagging people in photographs, and later joining groups that ranged from sheep throwers and pretend gangsters, to a few select causes.
The book publisher is taking a page from its delay-happy movie industry friends when it comes to new releases, though: fresh titles won't show up at the library until they're six months out from first sale.
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