From history books to award-winning literary fiction to memoirs, here are the books Barack Obama named as his favorites of 2023. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-12-22 21:06:46 UTC ]
For a limited time, Amazon is offering an Audible deal on its audiobook subscription with a price of up to 60% off the normal subscription cost. You can cancel at any time during the discounted period and not be committed to a longer subscription. With the discounted Audible... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2023-11-02 15:59:38 UTC ]
Barack Obama's 2023 summer reading list is out! This year's selections showcase his usual mix of nonfiction and fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-07-20 17:47:33 UTC ]
It's that time of year when we gather 'round and discuss former President Barack Obama's reading list for the summer! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-07-26 21:53:22 UTC ]
The L.A. Times Book Club dove into stories across the world and close to home in 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-12-16 15:00:17 UTC ]
Facing difficult comparisons to last year when Barack Obama's 'A Promised Land' was piling up huge sales numbers, unit sales still increased 9.7% last week over 2020 as adult fiction sales jumped 35.3%. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
Rock legend Bruce Springsteen and former President Barack Obama have written a book based on their podcast conversations, to be published globally by Penguin Random House in partnership with Higher Ground. The book chronicles, as Obama said in the book’s introduction, the men’s “shared... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-07-22 15:49:00 UTC ]
YA book Blackout (Electric Monkey) has been picked up in a nine-way auction by Netflix with Michelle and Barack Obama’s Higher Ground Productions and Temple Hill Entertainment. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-14 21:05:47 UTC ]
Katie Kitamura’s new novel follows an interpreter in The Hague who’s involved with a married man. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-07-13 05:17:24 UTC ]
Former President Barack Obama released his summer 2021 reading list and it's packed with outstanding books to pick up. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-07-12 11:42:22 UTC ]
The ALA Annual Conference will again be virtual-only in 2021—and for many ALA members, that’s actually great news, as it broadens access to one of the most ambitious and impressive programs of the Covid-19 era. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
Obama will close the 2021 ALA Annual Conference, which is virtual only, on Tuesday, June 29. He will appear in conversation with Lonnie G. Bunch III, the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian and first African American appointed to the role. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
Former President Obama joined filmmaker Ava DuVernay for a conversation about "A Promised Land," his legacy and activism during a Book Club event. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-04-22 04:32:01 UTC ]
Barack Obama and filmmaker Ava DuVernay will discuss the former president's memoir "A Promised Land" April 21 in a livestreamed event for the L.A. Times Community Book Club. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-04-16 01:25:03 UTC ]
CMA says it is considering whether Penguin Random House’s $2bn deal would lessen competitionAuthors fear the worst if Bertelsmann takes over Simon & SchusterThe UK competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Penguin Random House’s $2bn (£1.45bn) takeover of Simon & Schuster,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-03-22 09:00:30 UTC ]
Last March, amid the myriad upheavals and uncertainties that marked early pandemic life, various scientists and public health officials started to model out how many cases and deaths we might be looking at in the long run, and the press, unsurprisingly, took great interest in their work. A team... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-02-23 13:34:38 UTC ]
Winter Institute 16 kicked off yesterday as a virtual gathering of booksellers. Inspired by such high wattage speakers as Barack Obama and Amanda Gorman, booksellers celebrated their past while charting their future. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
You guessed it: A Promised Land, the first volume of Barack Obama’s presidential memoirs, was always going to lay waste to the competition. We called it back in September, and it has now been confirmed. Yes, as reported by Publishers Weekly earlier today, A Promised Land was the top print title... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-11 17:37:14 UTC ]
Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson's Pinch of Nom Quick & Easy (Bluebird) has weighed in in the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Non-Fiction number one, ending the seven-week streak of Barack Obama's A Promised Land (Penguin). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-05 13:42:46 UTC ]
New fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Barack Obama’s accent game, a Wilco frontman’s memoir and romance by Vonnegut. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-12-22 23:58:19 UTC ]