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In a recent best Indie Book competition ShelfUnbound, which features books from the US and the world at large, has named Keeper of Reign, fiction for children ten to fourteen, as a favorite in the book cover category in the literary competition.

According to reports, a lawyer has been fined 1,000 pounds ($1,650) for blowing JK Rowling's cover when she wrote a detective novel under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

The Sister Gospels, the first published novel of Vera Jennings, was ten years in the making.

Being elected President of a country is not easy especially if both supporters and opponents are watching and criticizing his every move.

Like all the great religions, Vodou has an external, public practice of rituals and ceremonies, and also an internal, mystical dimension.

Saturday, January 4 1pm • Ed Teja • The Invention of Clay McKenzie and Under Low Skies Author living in southeast Asis writes intriguing mystery and novel of a junior editor's ruse.

Kuwana Haulsey, bestselling novelist and author of the recent Everything I Needed to Know I Learned From My Six-Month-Old: Awakening to Unconditional Self-Love in Motherhood, was recently interviewed on Motherhood Later.

The Laguna Playhouse will welcome local author Robert Hilburn, author of Johnny Cash: The Life, on Saturday, January 18, at 1 PM and 6:30 PM.

Stories and art from around the globe arrived to the contests in record numbers this year.

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Enrico Lamet recently released a revised and enlarged edition of A Gift from the Enemy: A True Story of Escape in War-Time Italy, a compelling childhood memoir of World War II.

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With the countdown to the Winter Games in full swing, Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, is calling all teachers and families to pledge January 2014 as 'Get Book Fit' Month, and encourage their kids to train their brains by reading more books.

Winter Haven, FL, January 2, 2014 – Author Allen Smith has been a lonely voice crying in the wilderness bearing unwelcome news about Ronald Reagan and the Great Social Security Heist: How Reagan Gave Birth to the Looting of Social Security (Ironwood Publications).

Author Solutions, LLC, the world leader in supported self-publishing, announced Thursday that seven titles have been selected as Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2013.

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Game World is a fast-paced thrill ride for middle-grade readers that tells the story of video gamer Dylan Rudee; whose skills unlock a real-life fantasy world inside the video game Xamaica.

'How is it possible that one minute I'm a wife, and the next I'm a discard?'-Changing Spaces, Nancy King Nancy King's new novel, 'Changing Spaces,' focuses on a runaway soon-to-be-divorced Midwestern wife who gets a 'makeover' in New Mexico.

Praise for The Church Builder:

The hilarious new blog-book Desperate in DC has been released at a discounted price of just $1.

'Invisible Witness: Healing From My Family's Legacy of Domestic Violence' was released on Kindle December 28, 2013 and is available as a free Kindle download until January 4, 2014.

In Rachel Kramer Bussel's collection Lust in Latex: Rubber Sex Stories (Cleis Press), top authors make the most of the sensual potential inherent in getting suited up.