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YALSA strikes again! This time the nominees for the 2011 Morris awards are out: Hush, by Eishes Chayil Guardian of the Dead, by Karen Healey Hold Me Closer, Necromancer, by Lish McBride Crossing the Tracks, by Barbara Stuber The Freak Observer, by Blythe Woolston The winner will be announced at the Midwinter Meeting in San [...]

Google launched its eBookstore this morning, bringing another big player into the rapidly expanding e-book world. Google’s e-books are stored in the cloud, so there’s nothing to download, and can be read on your Smartphone, Web browser, or e-reader–except Kindle, of course.  Books can be purchased from the Google eBookstore, or from other retailers, including a  number of independent [...]

Zodiac, the excellent 2007 movie directed by David Fincher, was adapted from two books, Zodiac (1986) and Zodiac Unmasked (2002). Both were written by Robert Graysmith, who was a political cartoonist at the San Francisco Chronicle in the late 1960s, when an anonymous killer began taunting the newspaper with letters and coded messages, bragging about [...]

Here is the 2011 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults shortlist: Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing, by Ann Angel They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Spies of Mississippi:  The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights [...]