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Review of the Day, November 3, 2009
Seven Penguin Group (USA) Titles Nominated for Books for a Better Life Awards Seven titles from Penguin Group (USA) are among the finalists for the 14th Annual Books for a Better Life Awards, given by the New York City chapter of the National MS Society.
The nominees are:
The Curse o...f the Good Girl by Rachel Simmons (The Penguin Press) in the Childcare/Parenting category

Shop Class As Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford (The Penguin Press) in the First Book category

Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl (The Penguin Press) in the Inspirational Memoir category

Your Money Ratios by Charles Farrell, J.D., LL.M (Avery Books) in the Personal Finance category

Play by Stuart Brown, M.D. with Christopher Vaughan (Avery Books) in the Psychology category

The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow (Gotham Books) in the Relationships category
The Little Book on Meaning by Laura Berman Fortgang (Tarcher / Penguin) in the Spiritual category
The awards recognize authors of self-improvement books who impacted the second half of the 20th century more than any other genre. Five finalists are chosen from more than 500 entries for each of ten categories. The winners will be honored on Monday, February 22, 2010 at a gala ceremony at The Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City.Read More

Review of the Day, November 2, 2009
Penguin Press’ Christopher Benfey Wins 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Gauss Award Christopher Benfey’s A Summer of Hummingbirds (The Penguin Press) has been chosen for the 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Gauss Award. The Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards are given each year to outstanding scholarly books published... in the United States. The Christian Gauss Award is offered for books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism. The prize was established by the Phi Beta Kappa Senate in 1950 to honor the late Christian Gauss, the distinguished Princeton University scholar, teacher and dean who also served as President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. To be eligible, a literary biography must have a predominantly critical emphasis.Read More

Review of the Day, October 30, 2009 Penguin Author Randa Jarrar Named One of Beirut39’s “39 under 40”
Randa Jarrar, author of A Map of Home (Penguin), has been named one of ‘Beirut39’ Project’s “39 under 40,” it was announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair last week. Beirut39 is a Hay Festival project which aims to select a...nd celebrate 39 of the most interesting Arab writers under the age of 40 as a part of the Beirut World Capital festivities 2009/10. Beirut39 follows on from the extremely successful Bogotá39, which the Hay Festival launched in Bogotá in 2007 and which identified many of the outstanding upcoming Latin American talents, including Riverhead’s Junot Díaz and Juan Gabriel Vásquez.
Beirut39 will celebrate the best 39 Arab writers under 40 in Beirut in a festival to be held April 15-18th of next year. An anthology featuring the authors' work will be published simultaneously in English and Arabic by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc and Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing.Read More

Review of the Day, October 29, 2009
Dutton's Harlan Coben Named Favorite Crime Genre Author at the 2009 Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards
Dutton’s Harlan Coben was named this week as Britain's ITV3 viewers' favorite crime genre author as part of the 2009 Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards, sponsored in conjunction with the... Crime Writers Association. Coben was chosen out of a pool of five authors by viewers who voted via a six-week long online poll. The awards, which were held this past Wednesday in London, are the longest established literary awards in the UK, and are internationally recognised as a mark of excellence and achievement.Read More

Review of the Day- October 27, 2009
Penguin Press’ Karl Jacoby Wins Albert J. Beveridge Book Award
Penguin Press author Karl Jacoby has been selected by the American Historical Association as the winner of this year’s Albert J. Beveridge Book Award for his book, Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of... History. The Beveridge Award honors U.S. Senator Albert J. Beveridge (Indiana, 1899 - 1911), a longtime member of the Association and an active supporter of history as both a lawyer and a senator. It is given annually for the best book in English on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada from 1492 to the present.
Jacoby will be honored at the American History Association’s annual conference on January 8th in San Diego.Read More

Review of the Day- October 23, 2009
Berkley Author Julie Hyzy Wins Two Awards at the 2009 Boucheron
Berkley Prime Crime author Julie Hyzy has won two awards for her book, State of the Onion: A White House Chef Mystery: the Anthony Award and the Barry Award in the Best Paperback Original category. Both awards were presen...ted this past weekend in Indianapolis at Bouchercon, the largest annual meeting in the world for mystery lovers.
The Barry Awards are named for one of the most beloved ambassadors of mystery fiction, Barry Garner, and are voted on the readers of Mystery News and Deadly Pleasures. The Anthony Awards are named for Anthony Boucher, one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America, and are among the most prestigious awards in the world of mystery writers.Read More