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at 2022 Gaithersburg Book Festival. Mary Childs is an American financial journalist, and non-fiction writer. She is co-host for Planet Money. [1] In 2022, she publishedThe Bond King through Flatiron Books. The book was included on "best of" lists from Literary Hub, [2] The New York Times, [3] and Investopedia. [4]
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (/ k n ɒ p f /) is an American publishing house that was founded by Blanche Knopf and Alfred A. Knopf Sr. in 1915. [1] Blanche and Alfred traveled abroad regularly and were known for publishing European, Asian, and Latin American writers in addition to leading American literary trends.
THE COUNTDOWN: Our chief books critic Martin Chilton chooses his very best reads of the year, from state-of-the-nation novels to surprising memoirs
Many publishers have lists of best books, defined by their own criteria.This article enumerates some lists for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by ...
The IEA's Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) [1] is an international study of reading (comprehension) achievement in 9-10 year olds. It has been conducted every five years since 2001 by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA).
Vivat Direct Limited, t/a Reader's Digest, a publishing company in the UK that usually prints Reader's Digest Select Editions, [5] has published World's Best Reading books starting in 2010: Kidnapped/Treasure Island (ISBN 0276446585), Wuthering Heights (ISBN 0276446518), Oliver Twist, Pride & Prejudice, A Study In Scarlet/The Hound Of The ...
Sleeping Beauties. Around the world a sleeping sickness plunges women into a strange, cocooned state. If awakened, they turn homicidal. King and his son screw this global story down to a small ...
The Jack Reacher series by Lee Child began in 1997 and is still going strong, featuring ex-military cop Jack Reacher and his many action-packed adventures. Each book reads like a crime thriller ...