Poet's Showcase Noir by Sinéad Ballagh
Sinéad Ballagh, Lawrence native and ESU library science student, presents a noir poem titled Poet's Showcase Noir. The piece evokes a Sunday scene with smoke, rain, and loneliness, asking what remains after what is past. Submissions invited via email or mail to Mindie Paget with specific address details and teen submissions to the 18 & Under page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinéad Ballagh
Lawrence
Emporia State University
Paat
Jworld.com
Mindie Paget
N.H
Iiworld.com
Best Selling Books List Items Collide Across Two Pages
A mixed catalog of top titles and authors from The New York Times lists several bestsellers. Entries include Sue Grafton’s R is for Ricochet, Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, Carl Hiaasen’s Skinny Dip, James Patterson’s Sam’s Letters to Jennifer, and Ian Caldwell with Dustin Thomason’s The Rule of Four. Additional entries cover Bill Clinton’s My Life, Robert Kurson’s Shadow Divers, David Sedaris’s Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Lynne Truss’s Eats Shoots and Leaves, Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter with Kansas, Arthur Agaston’s The South Beach Diet, Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life, Phil McGraw’s The Ultimate Weight Solution Cook Book, and related cook book volumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sue Grafton
Marian Wood
Putnam
Kinsey Millhone
Dan Brown
Doubleday
Louvre
Leonardo
Carl Hiaasen
Knopf
Sam
Jennifer
James Patterson
Little, Brown
Ian Caldwell
Dustin Thomason
Dial Press
Princeton
Bill Clinton
Robert Kurson
Random House
New Jersey
David Sedaris
Lynne Truss
Gotham
Kansas
Thomas Frank
Metropolitan
Holt
America
South Beach
Arthur Agarston
Rodale
Miami
Rick Warren
Zondervan
Phil McGraw
Free Press
Phil
Better Off author Brende promotes low tech, simple living
MIT graduate and Kansas native Eric Brende argues society should drop many labor saving devices. He lived 18 months with Minimites, Amish-like locals, to test a slower life with less reliance on cars phones and computers. He will sign copies at Borders in Topeka and discuss his book.
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Eric Brende
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brende
HarperCollins
Mary
Kansas University
Borders
Eng
St. Louis
Eric
MIT
Tips for a slower tech driven life in the city
Practical guidance from Eric Brende to reduce reliance on cars and screens. Emphasizes walking or biking to work, relocating to walkable areas, living in older affordable neighborhoods, swapping TV for reading or live events, reading bedtime stories, listening to radio or books on tape, handwriting letters, using library services, cooking at home, and supporting family and local eateries. Encourages limiting upgrades and engaging in community activities.
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Garrison Kelllor
Books confront prejudice in three children’s titles
Lois Henderlong reviews three kids books tackling bias. Russell Freedman profiles a Black singer who faced discrimination and civil rights barriers in The Voice That Challenged a Nation. Julie Anne Peters’s Luna follows a transgender teen and family loyalties without sensationalism. David Macaulay’s Mosque uses a 16th century construction to illuminate Muslim culture, inviting middle school readers to thoughtful, unbiased insight.
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Russell Freedman
Mary Ian Anderson
Clarion Books
Daughters of the American Revolution
Anderson
Constitution Hall
Little, Brown and Company
Julie Anne Peters
Sept. l
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin Company
Macaulay
Six authors vie for Coffin Memorial Book Award
Six authors are nominees for the J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award honoring Kansas authors in the past two years. Anne McCourtie Mayetta for The Haunting of Emily Joan McAfee Derby for The Road to El Dorado Mark Bouton Carbondale for Max Conquers the Cosmos Phyllis Lewis Yates Center for Leg end of Aneeka Sandra Detrixhe Concordia for the Everything Quilt Book and Lloyd Ballhagen Hutchinson for Love Endless Love The Oct 23 awards banquet at the Kansas Authors Club Centennial Convention in Topeka. For info call 785 267-0985. Eldridge House Disappearances third in a dime novel series by Napoleon Crews was released. He is Pueblo native and author of The Man Who Tamed Lawrence and Last Lynching On Mount Oread. Fireside Novels published Eldridge House Disappearances available for 3.50 at M M Office Supplies 623 Mass The Raven Bookstore 6 E Seventh SE Borders 700 N H Odessa’s Café 409 E 12th Hastings 1900 W 23rd St Watkins Community Museum of History 1047 Mass and Dread Book shop Level 2 Kansas Union For more information call 856-118 or visit firesidenovels.com
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Brende
Yale University
Topeka
Washburn University
MIT
St. Louis
Honda
J. Donald Coffin
Kansas
Anne McCourtie
Lloyd Ballhagen
Hutchinson
Kansas Authors Club
Call
Oread
Fireside Novels
Eldridge House
M&m
Raven
N.H
Odessa
12Th St
Hastings
W. 23Rd St
Watkins Community Museum of History
Mass
Dread
Kansas Union
Firesidenovels.com
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Csinet
Avi Macaulay
Phyllis Lewis
Yates Center
Aneeka
Sandra Detrixhe
Concordia
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