Coming up, our summer book series: a fresh new take on immigrant life in America.
Rachel Pastan's novel, Lady of the Snakes, came out in February, but I've been saving it, because I had a hunch that it would be my idea of the perfect summer book and was I ever right.
Over the summer, the book Strategy from Outside In, Profiting from Customer Value came out and in case you missed it, it has some very sage advice about utilizing customer insights to turn a company around.
If you like fast planes, cool technology, heroic entrepreneurs who joust with the old guard and tale-telling worthy of Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff, then Free Flight is the book for your summer reading.
The government plans to get the bill onto the statute book before the summer recess, giving every school in England the chance to convert to an academy and giving parents new rights to create their own schools outside of local authority control.
Puzo even wrote a children's book called The Runaway Summer of Davie Shaw.
Superstars Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake had to team up to book 14 stadium shows this summer.
Another fun summer read is Leigh Montville's book on Babe Ruth, The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth.
She and her husband are still shopping around for a literary agent and a publisher but are hoping the book will come out this summer.
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He partnered with stock trader Mark Messier and pharmacist Mike Havrilla, who both generated impressive short-term gains on Profit.ly, to publish a book and DVD series this summer about trading biotech stocks.
Summer Street Research Partners will act as sole book-running manager for the offering.
Even those who feel that Hugh Wheeler's slightly vulgar book coarsens "Smiles of a Summer Night, " the Ingmar Bergman film on which the show is based, will likely come away thinking that all you need do to purge the show of its occasional verbal excesses is to perform it with the subtlety that is the hallmark of this production.
The book is scheduled for release in late summer.
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The project began in the summer of 2010, when Rodrigo Corral, a book designer who has created covers for Junot Diaz, Jeffrey Eugenides and Jay-Z, began to toy with the idea of a visual novel that used images, rather than words, to tell the story.
Could he recommend one book for Mr. Romney to read this summer?
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As for e-book sales, Amazon did say earlier this summer that it sells 143 e-books for every 100 hardcover books (Of course, e-books are much cheaper than hardcover).
At any rate, I read this book once per year as the seasons change from Summer to Fall, and this year is no exception.
"Amazon has the distinct combination of having a terrific video service with a huge fan base among their customers for Stephen King's book, making them the perfect partner for this summer programming event, " said Scott Koondel, Chief Corporate Content Licensing Officer, CBS Corporation.
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Salon book critic Laura Miller picks novel Bangkok Tattoo as her top summer read.
Educated in Switzerland, she holds two university degrees and has a couture book, The Art of Setorii, due out this summer.
Why does it seem like summer movies are always just a bunch of cheesy blockbusters, packed with comic book characters and explosions?
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My friend and colleague, John Gregory, was teaching a short non-credit summer class at Pasadena City College on the history of rock songs based on his book Making Music.
There are, for instance, the low-tech rewards of reading a book, magazine or newspaper: I hoped my daughter would continue her summer reading of Treasure Island and dip into other urban-island treasures of the literary kind.
With Saturday's headliner Phoenix, the French alt-rock group, and the beloved-but-familiar Red Hot Chili Peppers closing the three-day weekend on Sunday, it seemed as if Coachella had settled on lesser acts after failing to, or choosing not to, book the recently rejuvenated David Bowie or the Rolling Stones, who will headline this summer's Glastonbury Festival in England.
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This book was the result of a stint the essayist and philosopher spent at Heathrow in the summer, after its owner, BAA, installed him as a temporary writer-in-residence.
Identified, a book I've authored about the global rise of digital identification systems, will be out Summer 2013.
Yu's appearance at this summer's San Diego Comic-Con won him a slew of new fans and generated buzz for the book.
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