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What's On April 2016
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Thursday, March 31, 2016
What's on in the April school holidays - Auckland Public Libraries
THE STEEL KISS - the latest crime fiction from one of my favourite authors featuring two of my favourite sleuths
Published by Hachette New Zealand, March 2016 TPB $34.99
RRP/EBK $19.99 RRP
Number one bestselling author and master of suspense
Jeffery Deaver returns with the twelfth Lincoln Rhyme thriller.
Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer, chasing him
through a Brooklyn department store when her pursuit is fatally interrupted. An
escalator gives way, forcing Sachs into the machine to help those trapped in
its depths.
But was it simply freak accident? Could the killer's presence
in the store just before the disaster really be a coincidence, or is there a
deeper connection? Sachs and forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme must find out,
before more people die. Because machinery malfunctions every day, and in the
hands of someone smart enough, every piece of technology can become a murder
weapon.
About The Author: Jeffery Deaver is the award-winning
author of thirty-three internationally bestselling novels, including the 2011
James Bond novel Carte Blanche, and three collections of short stories.
He is best known for his Lincoln Rhyme thrillers, which include the number one
bestsellers The Vanished Man, The Twelfth Card and The Cold Moon,
as well as The Bone Collector which was made into a feature film
starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. The first Kathryn Dance novel, The
Sleeping Doll, was published in 2007 to enormous acclaim.The House on the Hill
Great book, well described by the back cover blurb:
'Tis a cold, dark night, and deathly still. Dare two ghosts brave the night-time chill? Pray follow, dear reader ...read on if you will, to uncover the secret of the house on the hill. An award-winning author and illustrator combine their talents in this deliciously spine-tingling story, with its lyrical text and just the right touch of spookiness.
Kyle Mewburn/Sarah Davis - Scholastic - Hardback NZ$27.00
Events at Takapuna Library - you are invited
Murder in the
library
When: Wednesday 6 April, 6pm - 7.30pm
Where: Takapuna Library
Cost: Gold coin donation
Where: Takapuna Library
Cost: Gold coin donation
Sit back and relax as authors, shortlisted for the Ngaio
Marsh Award, tell us how they plot their crime scenes.
Hear
Linda Olsson, one half of Adam Sarafis, author of Something is rotten
speak, along with local north shore author Ben Sanders (American blood),
and Ken Smith, up for best first novel with Hoodwinked.
Copies
of these titles will be available for purchase and signing, courtesy of
Glenfield PaperPlus.
To
reserve your place at this event, call (09) 890 4903 or email
Refreshments
will be served from 6pm, the author event begins at 6.30pm.
From monkey to moth
When: Saturday 9 April, 4pm- 5.30pm
Where: Takapuna Library
Cost: Free
Where: Takapuna Library
Cost: Free
Papawai Press and the Friends
of the Takapuna Library invite you to celebrate the recent publication of Hugh
Major's From monkey to ape: an imaginal evolution.
Hugh's book charts the pathway
from rational patriarchal thinking and materialistic values to feminine
principles of imagination, holism and the power of the inner self.
Copies of Hugh's book will be
available for purchase and signing.
There will also be a
performance of Carol-Ann Duffy's The
world's wife, presented by Lucy Duffield.
To reserve your place at this
event, call (09) 890 4903 or email Helen.woodhouse@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz.
Light refreshments will be
served from 4pm, talk begins at 4.30pm.
Playful, poised debut from poet Lynley Edmeades
By
Lynley Edmeades
ISBN
978-1-927322-25-3, $25
www.facebook.com/OtagoUniversityPress
As the Verb Tenses is the work of a reflective and sensitive poetic
talent: one run with gleaming wires of joy. In poems that gather together the
vivid details of childhood memory, the surreal juxtapositions of life in the
contemporary West, the wry observations of a temporary expatriate, the deeply
lodged pain of historical and personal loss, Lynley Edmeades speaks to us in
delicately spun lines that press out ironies, dissonances and profound
formative experience.
From playful, rhythmical poems about the art of dinner conversation, to
warm glimpses of intimacy, she lays poetry’s table with the knife of light
satire, the bright salt of wit, the heady wine of love, the bread of knowledge.
This quietly poised, confident first collection has a musical, emotional
and thematic range of a substantial new talent.
‘What a fine reminder this collection is,
of how language is what memory is played on, and gives the moment its flair,
its resonance, its abiding form. I admire As
the Verb Tenses for how the past and the present so vividly ring in lines
of such clarity and precision and deft witty assessing. As wine buffs like to put
it, I was held by its immediate impact, as much as by its maturity and depth.’
– Vincent
O’Sullivan
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Lynley
Edmeades was born in Putaruru. Her poetry, reviews and
academic writing have been
published in New Zealand, the US, Europe
and Australia. In 2011 she completed an MA at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at
Queen’s University, Belfast. She is currently completing a doctoral thesis at
the University of Otago, looking at sound in avant-garde poetics. She lives
in Dunedin with her partner and her cat.
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Women Apart: Life in the Wild Catlins
Women of the Catlins
Life in the Deep South
By
Diana Noonan & Cris Antona
Release
Date: April 2016
ISBN
978-1-877578-97-7, $49.95
The
wild Catlins is a remote and intense environment: extraordinarily beautiful and
challenging to live in. Women of the
Catlins lifts the lid on women’s day-to-day reality in this outpost of the
south. This book is the first in-depth look at the lives of people from the
area.
‘We
have followed 26 Catlins women into their homes and workplaces and invited them
to speak for themselves on topics as diverse as family, employment, hopes,
challenges, and their relationship with the environment,’ says editor Diana
Noonan.
Women of the Catlins
is a revelatory and collaborative work. Photographer Cris Antona has engaged
with the women in their everyday settings to produce a series of powerful
photographs that give insight into each of their stories. The black and white
images dynamically capture individual character.
‘The
women’s emotions and attitudes, their connections with the land and can-do
attitudes were what I tried to capture in the photography,’ says Cris.
This
cross-generational documentary is an inclusive, rich account of how women
navigate their lives in this isolated region (where it rains more than in
anywhere else in New Zealand and is subject to Antarctic weather).
‘The
process of being interviewed was a process of discovery for many, says Diana.
‘The first time they’d reflected on their working lives, family, their
relationship to the community and to the land.’
A
sumptuous testament to ordinary women doing extraordinary things Women of the Catlins is a stunning
close-up look at life in this far-from-the-mainstream region.
Diana
Noonan
is a freelance journalist and author of many highly acclaimed books for young
people. She has won numerous national and international awards for her
writing. Diana lives on the Catlins coast with her husband Keith Olsen, an
illustrator.
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Born
in Catalonia and now living in New Zealand, Cris Antona has always been fascinated by the way photography can
tell stories. She has worked on social documentary photography, and also as an
exhibition concept developer, commissioner and digital creative director of a
range of multimedia projects. Currently, she is a senior lecturer at Otago
Polytechnic leading e-learning and digital solutions.
Latest news from The Bookseller including David Bowie biography to Hodder
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The Roundup with PW
'A
Child's First Book of Trump' Due from S&S
Just in time for this year’s Republican National Convention, author and comedian Michael Ian Black has written 'A Child's First Book of Trump,' illustrated by Marc Rosenthal. more »
2016 Lukas Prize Winners Announced
The winners of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Project Awards include Susan Southard, Nikolaus Wachsmann, and Steve Luxenberg. »
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Just in time for this year’s Republican National Convention, author and comedian Michael Ian Black has written 'A Child's First Book of Trump,' illustrated by Marc Rosenthal. more »
2016 Lukas Prize Winners Announced
The winners of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Project Awards include Susan Southard, Nikolaus Wachsmann, and Steve Luxenberg. »
A Rise in
Exercise Memoirs: Here is a rundown of the latest books that
blend creativity with action, including Catriona Menzies-Pike's 'The Long Run.'
Marilynne
Robinson on Her Latest Award: The 'Home' author reflects on her
Library of Congress Prize and this year's presidential race.
Mysterious
Stacks of Books Appear in NYC: Stacks of free books left
throughout the city by the Reading Project are helping New Yorkers make
connections.
The Truth Behind
'Luckiest Girl Alive': Author Jessica Knoll revealed the true
events that inspired the bestselling book.
Amazon's Move
Into K-12 Publishing: Find out what Amazon's Open Educational
Resources platform means for educational publishers.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS IN THE MEDIA
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From the Associated Press:
Author James Patterson is donating another $1.75 million to help school libraries. Click here  
From CBS News:
In their final White House Easter Egg Roll, the Obamas read Where the Wild Things Are and The Rainbow Fish. Click here
From the Huffington Post:
This Harry Potter Prequel Breathes New Life Into James Potter and Severus Snape's Backstory. Click here
From NPR:
NRA Rewrites Fairy Tales with More Firearms, Less Bloodshed. Click here
From OPB:
Five Things to Know About Beverly Cleary. Click here
From Book Riot:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let My Toddler Destroy His Board Books. Click here |
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From the Guardian:
J.K. Rowling posts letters of rejection on Twitter to help budding authors. Click here
From the Telegraph:
Hanya Yanagihara: "The first book that had a great effect on me was Goldie the Dollmaker by M.B. Goffstein." Click here
From 23ABC News:
A Bakersfield, Calif., family is in search of their little community library that was stolen. Click here
From the New York Times:
Author Chris Grabenstein, at Home on the Upper West Side. Click here
From CBS News:
The story of the real Winnie the Pooh. Click here
From Brightly:
Six Children's and YA Books That Would Make Great Netflix Series. Click here |
Independent bookshop Readings heads for the mall as onshore book sales rise
Readings books owner Mark Rubbo says he wants to bring the business to a new market "and see what happens". Photo: Eddie Jim Next month, the 47-year-old Readings, a stalwart of Lygon Street, Carlton and Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, moves into a shop near the David Jones department store in Westfield Doncaster.
Readings chief Mark Rubbo said Westfield first approached him about opening a store in the centre after Borders closed in 2011.
"The industry was in a slump then but we kept talking and finally last year, we came to an agreement," Mr Rubbo said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/property/independent-bookshop-readings-heads-for-the-mall-as-onshore-book-sales-rise-20160329-gnsw8t.html#ixzz44PY91G61
The Man Who Made The Study Of Language Cool
PEOPLE Posted:
“Noam Chomsky is the man who revolutionised linguistics. Since he wrote “Syntactic Structures” in 1957, Mr Chomsky has argued that human language is fundamentally different from any other kind of communication, that a “linguist from Mars” would agree that all human languages are variations on a single language, and that children’s incredibly quick and successful learning (despite often messy and inattentive parental input) points to an innate language faculty in the brain. These ideas are now widely accepted.”
50 Books Every Modern Teenager Should Read
With all the recent discussion about To Kill a Mockingbird, I was inspired to re-read the #2 Most Classic Novel for Teenagers (#1 is The Catcher in the Rye, of course). And, well, it’s great. But also, it’s not exactly the most relevant thing for teenagers in 2016 — at least not relevant enough that it should be the pinnacle of their reading list, promised to change their minds about everything.
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Patterson, Scholastic Renew School Libraries Pledge
Shelf Awareness
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Last year, Patterson pledged $1.75 million in grants to school libraries. Of the nearly 28,000 entries received, 467 schools were awarded grants ranging from $1,000 to $10,000.
"It was really incredible to see such an overwhelming response to last year's donations--and to see what school libraries across the country have done to improve and expand their programs with their grant dollars," he said. "Libraries are at the heart of every school, and I'm thrilled to be partnering with Scholastic once again to continue to underscore both the need to sustain them, and the vital role reading plays in children's lives."
Scholastic Reading Club president Judy Newman commented: "We love working with James Patterson whose personal commitment to school libraries is awe-inspiring. The powerful combination of Patterson and Scholastic shines a much-needed light on the vital role school libraries play in getting kids to read. It is a real honor to continue our partnership with Jim to bring attention and resources to the teachers, librarians, and communities working tirelessly every day for our children's literacy."
For 2016, the grants will be awarded on a rolling basis throughout the year. Anyone can nominate a school library. Patterson hopes that teachers and students will share their experiences in their communities using #pattersonpledge. Applications to nominate a school library for a donation must be submitted by May 31.
How To Start Blogging: A Definitive Guide For Authors
Book2BookTuesday 29 Mar 2016
This will be a strange way to begin a guide to blogging, but I want to save you time, trouble, and heartache: The average author does not benefit much from blogging.Yet blogging is still recommended to authors as a way to market and promote. Why? Because blogging does work, if certain conditions are met. The problem is that few authors meet those conditions. This post will delve into what it means to blog successfully and in a meaningful way for an author's long-term platform and book marketing efforts.
janefriedman.com
'I Seek Out the Nearest Bookstore'
Shelf Awareness
"I have always been an avid reader and lover of bookstores, especially small neighborhood independents. Wherever I travel in the world, I seek out the nearest bookstore and plant myself there. The creation of coffee shops in bookstores thrills me, because I can spend hours in one of my favorite places. I am delighted to say that I'm visiting many on my book tour. My launch on March 22 was at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, and that was a thrill.
"I live in Los Angeles and am a frequent customer at Skylight Books, which I can walk to (and was one of the things I loved about my house when we first saw it!), and Book Soup and the Last Bookstore."
--Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, whose debut novel, The Nest, is April's #1 Indie Next List Pick, in a q&a with Bookselling This Week.
Who Is Elena Ferrante?
2Book Tuesday 29 Mar 2016
Ever since Italian publisher Edizioni E/O's best-selling Neapolitan novels series landed on bookstore shelves, readers everywhere have been asking: who is Elena Ferrante? For years, fans of Ferrante's writing have been exploring theories about who the pseudonymous author really is, and every time a new name surfaces — for example, professor Marco Santagata's theory, printed in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera earlier this month — it gets readers talking all over again.bustle.com
2016 Best Translated Book Award Longlist Announced
Posted at 3:20PM Tuesday 29 Mar 2016
Clarice Lispector, Elena Ferrante, Valeria Luiselli, and Abdourahman Waberi are a few of the authors included in this year's remarkably diverse Best Translated Book Award longlist for fiction and poetry.Announced this morning on the Three Percent website, these longlists represent the results of months of reading by fourteen judges tasked with deciding which were the "best" works of fiction and poetry in translation to be published in 2015. Over 560 eligible titles were published last year, written by authors from more than eighty countries and published by 160 different publishers.
rochester.edu
Awards
Publishers Lunch
The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize was awarded to Susan Southard for NAGASAKI: Life After Nuclear War (Viking) while the Mark Lynton History Prize was given to Nikolaus Wachsmann's KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (FSG). Finally, the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress award was given to Steve Luxenberg's SEPARATE: A Story of Race, Ambition and the Battle That Brought Legal Segregation to America (W.W. Norton)
The finalists for the NYPL Young Lions Award are:
Angela Flournoy, The Turner House (HMH)
Amelia Gray, Gutshot (FSG)
Alexandra Kleeman, You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine (Harper)
Helen Phillips, The Beautiful Bureaucrat (Holt)
Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas (Norton)
The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on June 9.
The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize was awarded to Susan Southard for NAGASAKI: Life After Nuclear War (Viking) while the Mark Lynton History Prize was given to Nikolaus Wachsmann's KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (FSG). Finally, the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress award was given to Steve Luxenberg's SEPARATE: A Story of Race, Ambition and the Battle That Brought Legal Segregation to America (W.W. Norton)
The finalists for the NYPL Young Lions Award are:
Angela Flournoy, The Turner House (HMH)
Amelia Gray, Gutshot (FSG)
Alexandra Kleeman, You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine (Harper)
Helen Phillips, The Beautiful Bureaucrat (Holt)
Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas (Norton)
The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on June 9.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
pipi at home - book launch invitation
Penguin Random House New
Zealand and Unity Books Wellington
warmly welcome you to the launch of
pipi at home
recipes by Alexandra Tylee
Photography by Richard Brimer
pipi at home
recipes by Alexandra Tylee
Photography by Richard Brimer
Monday
18th April 5.30pm – 7.00pm
Prefab
Café
14
Jessie Street, Wellington
Heart-warming home-cooked food
from the owner of iconic Hawkes Bay restaurant, Pipi.
In her second cookbook, Pipi
owner and chef Alexandra Tylee shares the recipes she cooks at home for her
family. These are the meals and special treats Alex makes at her Hawkes Bay
farmhouse when she's not working in her busy Havelock North restaurant. In addition
to lunches and dinners, recipes for breakfast, puddings and baking feature
alongside dishes suited to slightly more elaborate occasions.
As a busy working mother, Alexandra knows what it’s like to be tight on time or running low on ingredients and how the daily dinner rush can become a cooking a challenge. With the recipes in this book she wants to make cooking interesting, satisfying and, most importantly, fun. With readily available seasonal ingredients and her trademark rustic style of cooking, Alexandra transforms even the most humble dish into something a little bit special. As she says, 'as long as the food is healthy and tasty, it doesn't matter if it might not win a prize in a tricky cooking competition.' In Pipi At Home it's all about sitting down to share honest home-cooked meals with the people you love.
As a busy working mother, Alexandra knows what it’s like to be tight on time or running low on ingredients and how the daily dinner rush can become a cooking a challenge. With the recipes in this book she wants to make cooking interesting, satisfying and, most importantly, fun. With readily available seasonal ingredients and her trademark rustic style of cooking, Alexandra transforms even the most humble dish into something a little bit special. As she says, 'as long as the food is healthy and tasty, it doesn't matter if it might not win a prize in a tricky cooking competition.' In Pipi At Home it's all about sitting down to share honest home-cooked meals with the people you love.
Please RSVP by Friday 15 April
to jwheeler@penguinrandomhouse.co.nz
or 09 4427400
All welcome.
www.unitybooksonline.co.nz57 Willis Street, Wellington 6011
04 499 4245