Pricing E-Books

Publishers have demanded the price of e-books be raised. Some readers will be angry. In the past, disgruntled customers have trashed books and boycotted sellers over higher prices. So, what is a book worth?
Read more at The New York Times.

Soldiers' Writing

First person accounts of the conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more at The New York Times

JOKER ONE: A MARINE PLATOON’S STORY OF COURAGE, LEADERSHIP, AND BROTHERHOOD By Donovan Campbell. (Random House.) Read review.

ONE BULLET AWAY: THE MAKING OF A MARINE OFFICER By Nathaniel Fick. (Houghton Mifflin Company.) Read review.

THE UNFORGIVING MINUTE: A SOLDIER’S EDUCATION By Craig M. Mullaney. (The Penguin Press.) Read review.

HERE, BULLET By Brian Turner. (Alice James.) Read review.

LOVE MY RIFLE MORE THAN YOU: YOUNG AND FEMALE IN THE U.S. ARMY By Kayla Williams. (W. W. Norton.) Read review.

Military Reports

FIXING INTEL: A BLUEPRINT FOR MAKING INTELLIGENCE RELEVANT IN AFGHANISTAN By Maj. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, Capt. Matt Pottinger, and Paul D. Batchelor. Read report.

AN UNRELEASED ARMY HISTORY ABOUT THE JULY 2008 BATTLE OF WANAT By Douglas R. Cubbison. Read the draft report (pdf).

J. D. Salinger

J.D. Salinger, author of "Catcher in the Rye," has died at the age of 91. Read more about his life and work at "The New York Times."

Teen Writers' Web Sites

Inkpop – a Web site where teens can upload their writing and receive commentary from peers and HarperCollins editors (http://inkpop.com)

PulseIt! – Web site established by Simon and Schuster where teens can read advance galleys and comment on them (http://www.simonandschuster.com/specials/pulseit/)

Newly Published Books

The Swan Thieves / Elizabeth Kostova
Kostova's first novel, "The Historian", topped the best-seller list in its first week.

I am Ozzy / Ozzy Osbourne

Remarkable Creatures / Tracy Chevalier
The author of "The Girl with the Pearl Earring"

The Murderer's Daughters / Randy Susan Meyers

Watchlist / Jeffrey Deaver

The Melting Season / Jami Attenberg

Read more at The New York Times

Neil Gaiman - author of "Coraline"

January 25 issue of "The New Yorker' features an interview with Neil Gaiman, author of "Coraline" and "The Graveyard Book." When Gaiman first approached an editor with a draft of "Coraline," he was told the story was too frightening for children. Finally published in 2002, the book spent 17 weeks on the bestseller list.

Read the rest of the story in The New Yorker.

New Library Books 1/21/2010

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Brains that work a little bit differently / Allen Bradgon and David Gamon (includes S.A.D., A.D.D., autism, addiction, dyslexia)
Alzheimer’s disease / Adela Soliz
Understanding diseases : Alzheimer’s / Barbara Webber
Winter blues : everything you need to know to beat seasonal affective disorder / Norman Rosentahl

900
Interpreting Primary Documents :
The American Revolution
Colonial America

Fiction
The graduation of Jake Moon / Barbara Park
Faerie Lord (Faerie Wars chronicle; bk. 4) Herbie Brennan