[close] Every day a choice must be made between saving one child and treating thousands. www.NeurologyOfAngels.com [close]

[close] Did you ever have that moment in which your guy did something, or didn’t do something, that made you realize that he was a bad boyfriend? What was that moment? What did he do? Here 58 bad boyfriend stories in the new novel What Was I Thinking? Laugh, cry, commiserate or get angry, these stories are real, touching and sometimes shocking. What Was I Thinking? Bad Boyfriend Stories. Video adaptations from the book, "What Was I Thinking? 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories", edited by Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman. From St. Martins Press. [close]

[close] The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block book trailerBlending myth, science, and dazzling storytelling, Stefan Merrill Blocks extraordinary first novel, THE STORY OF FORGETTING, illuminates the hard-learned truth that only through the loss of what we consider precious can we understand the value of what remains. Available now wherever book are sold, from Random House. http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/displ... http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/displ... http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/displ... ...From:RandomHouseIncViews:87 1ratingsTime:02:50More inEntertainment [close]

[close] Lisa See, author Snowflower and the Secret Fan, tells us a Chinese ghost story and discusses her latest novel, Peony in Love. http://www.booklounge.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812975222&ref=video_yt_See [close]

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[close] The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrance into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment. When Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago's most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty. A first-year grad student hoping to impress his professors with his boldness, he never imagined that as a result of the assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under JT's protection, documenting what he saw there. Over the next seven years, Venkatesh got to know the neighborhood dealers, crackheads, squatters, prostitutes, pimps, activists, cops, organizers, and officials. From his privileg [close]

[close] In a true story of family ties, journalist Mei-Ling Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, comes face to face with her past when her Chinese birth family suddenly requests a reunion after more than two decades. [close]

[close] This dramatic video is intended to provide highlights of my book through video footage, music, and artifacts from the south pacific island where the story takes place.It is also an opportunity to meet the author during an actual radio intervview Told in the tradition of magical realism, Land of Men is an adventure-love story, alive with ghosts and structured through time travels among 1864, 1873, 1914, and 2007. [close]

[close] Lynn C. Tolson, author of Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor's Story, reads from her memoir. Chapter 1, Pills & Prayer, chronicles her suicide attempt. [close]

[close] Author Lynn C. Tolson is interviewed on TV about her memoir [close]

[close] Extract from the novel Redemption in Paradise [close]

[close] Book trailer for mysterious short story, Painting from Life [close]

[close] Maggie Ridgeway has lived a life filled with terrifying questions. Who is she really? Is she worthy of being loved? Maggie stands outside her life, looking in. Refusing to just exist, she is determined to shatter the chilling questions that haunt her. To do that, Maggie must open the door to Apartment 2A. Behind that door lies murder, ...blackmail and ..... poisoned secrets that change not only Maggie, but the sleepy college town of Seven Oaks forever. Visit Margaret at: http://www.MargaretDaley.com Video Produced by TRAILER TO THE STARS! http://www.trailertothestars.com [close]

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[close] Set in the hard times of the early 1900s in Appalachian coal country, Tom Quinn and the Otherworld is the story of a melancholy boy sent to live in the city after the death of his coal miner father. After Tom is driven away from his aunts house by her cruel caretaker, he falls in with a strange troupe of ragtag characters headed by the unscrupulous owner of a bar and brothel called the Madrigal. Interwoven with the story of Toms life is the story of a beautiful faery named Rhea. She lives in the magical otherworld existing parallel to Toms reality, a dying world that is jeopardized by destruction in the human world. When their paths finally cross, a unique love blossoms between them that transforms their lives and realities. Kim Canazzi writes in a lyrical fairytale style with dark Dickensian undertones. This is her first novel. [close]

[close] On October 26, 2004, Dominique Green, thirty, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Arrested at the age of eighteen in the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery outside a Houston convenience store, Green may have taken part in the robbery but always insisted that he did not pull the trigger. The jury, which had no African Americans on it, sentenced him to death. Despite obvious errors in the legal procedures and the protests of the victim’s family, he spent the last twelve years of his life on Death Row. When Cahill found himself in Texas in December 2003, he visited Dominique at the request of Judge Sheila Murphy, who was working on the appeal of the case. In Dominique, he encountered a level of goodness, peace, and enlightenment that few human beings ever attain. Cahill joined the fierce fight for Dominique’s life, even enlisting Dominique’s hero, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to make an historic visit to Dominique and to plead publicly for mercy. Cahill was so profoundly [close]

[close] Radio interview with L.A.'s Famous Peanut Man and Tony Delvecchio. [close]

[close] More than a friend...more than a lover...NOT QUITE A HUSBAND Their marriage lasted only slightly longer than the honeymoon--to no one's surprise, not even Bryony Asquith's. A man as handsome and sought after as Leo Marsden couldn't possibly want to spend his life with a woman who rebelled against society by becoming a doctor. Why, then, three years later and half a world away, does he track her down in the remotest corner of India? Leo has no reason to think Bryony could ever forgive him, but he won't rest until he's delivered an urgent message from her sister--and escorted her safely back to England. But as they risk their lives on the journey home, will the biggest danger be the treacherous war around them--or their rekindling passion? [close]

[close] Van Heerden gives his ideas on writing. [close]

[close] A man destined for 10 Downing Street. A woman who spends her life in the kitchen. A Cinderella story as you've never read [close]

[close] Follows on from previous video on being a writer, choosing your editor and the "perfect novel". [close]

[close] An excerpt from the short story "Rage" which is part of the short story collection Fringe Dwellers published in 2008 [close]

[close] Even before the emergence of the civil rights movement with black churches at its center, African American religion and progressive politics were assumed to be inextricably intertwined. In her revelatory book, Barbara Savage counters this assumption with the story of a highly diversified religious community whose debates over engagement in the struggle for racial equality were as vigorous as they were persistent. Rather than inevitable allies, black churches and political activists have been uneasy and contentious partners. From the 1920s on, some of the best African American minds—W. E. B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Benjamin Mays, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles S. Johnson, and others—argued tirelessly about the churches’ responsibility in the quest for racial justice. Could they be a liberal force, or would they be a constraint on progress? There was no single, unified black church but rather many churches marked by enormous intellectual, theological, and political [close]

[close] Take a peek at someone's answers to sample Picture of Me questions. How would you answer them about yourself? [close]

[close] Pam Allyn of LitLife talks about the power of storytelling in the kindergarten classroom. [close]

[close] Pam Allyn talks about the power of writing fiction in the primary grades. [close]

[close] Pam Allyn talks about her goals in conferring with fifth grade writers, both for the student's growth and for her teaching to the class as a whole. [close]

[close] Pam Allyn of LitLife sets forth the four key strategies for finding writing ideas, and how they can influence much more than just our writing. [close]

[close] Pam Allyn of LitLife speaks eloquently on the qualities and personality of great teachers, the essential something they all share. [close]

[close] Dar-es-Salaam live music video by Ras Nas aka Nasibu Mwanukuzi, a poet, short story writer and musician from Tanzania. The song is also a title track for Ras Nas' latest CD. This music video was taken during a radio concert in Oslo, Norway and the lyrics are in Kiswahili [close]

[close] In this Nicholas Sparks meets M. Night Shymalan story by author Marlo Schalesky, two people try to find love in the dark. A woman losing her sight, a man who loves her but can't tell her so, a car crash, a hospital room, and an ending that has to be experienced to be believed. They say love is blind. This time they're right. Visit http://www.marloschalesky.com to read a sample chapter! http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781601420169 [close]

[close] A trailer that incorporates the new cover art for The Actor's Guild Paranormal Mystery Series. [close]

[close] V-Log for My Splendid Concubine [close]

[close] The author talks about his forty year journey to publish. [close]

[close] The author talks about the main character and reads a passage from the novel. [close]

[close] The author talks about the nine years of research behind My Splendid Concubine [close]

[close] The author talks about the importance of editing and revision. [close]

[close] I couldn’t resist. I could not. Once I saw that the site existed and I could make a three-D video just by typing, well, I couldn’t resist. P.S. And I just learned this myself. Click on the little triangle at the bottom right corner of the youtube video. And then click on the little tab that pops up. It will recede the video and reveal both its url and its embed code. [close]

[close] One minute video of DEJA VU LOVER by Phoebe Matthews, TheWildRosePress, 2008 [close]