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Eugenia Price (sometimes Genie Price; [1] June 22, 1916 – May 28, 1996) was an American author best known for her religious and self-help books, and later for her historical novels which were set in the American South.
The Los Angeles Times praised it as "deftly written" and "beautifully expressive", but thought that "Price can't quite bridge the gap between this social novel and the subtleties of real life". [12] Lush Life was a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. [13]
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is Daniel Yergin's 1990 history of the global petroleum industry from the 1850s through 1990. The Prize became a bestseller, helped by its release date in December 1990, four months after the invasion of Kuwait ordered by Saddam Hussein and one month before the U.S.-led coalition began the Gulf War to oust Iraqi troops from that country.
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction.The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland.
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
Half Price Books in Upper Arlington, which closed in 2021 while Arlington Gateway was being built, reopened this week after a yearslong closure.
Starters is a novel by Lissa Price. [1] The book was published on March 12, 2012, by Delacorte Press and has been published in German, Greek, Dutch, Italian, French, Portuguese, Turkish and Spanish. [2] The sequel is a book entitled Enders, with screen rights to the series currently being shopped. [3]
Half Price Books, Records, Magazines, Incorporated is a chain of new and used bookstores in the United States. The company's original motto is "We buy and sell anything printed or recorded except yesterday's newspaper", and many of the used books, music, and movies for sale in each location are purchased from local residents.