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Saturday, November 7, 2009
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"When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present" (Little, Brown and Company, 480 pages, $27.99), by Gail Collins: In 1960, a secretary named Lois Rabinowitz was reprimanded by a New York City judge for appearing in court wearing slacks. Less than 50 years later in the same city, bus driver Tahita Jenkins was fired from her job because she refused to wear slacks.
"Googled: The End of the World as We Know It" (The Penguin Press, 336 pages, $25.95), by Ken Auletta. Google is best understood in terms of billions. Three billion searches are conducted daily on the site. Company revenues last year exceeded $22 billion. It spent $1.76 billion for YouTube and $3.2 billion for the digital ad company DoubleClick. "My Life Outside the Ring" (St. Martin's Press, 320 pages, $25.99), by Hulk Hogan: He may have had his own reality show and starred as Thunderlips in "Rocky III," but Hulk Hogan will always be remembered as the wrestling legend who told children to take their vitamins and say their prayers, brother. Dava Sobel, author of the award-winning best-seller, Galileo’s Daughter, will speak at 2 p.m. today, Nov. 1, in the Adalié Brent Auditorium at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum. "The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism" (Knopf. 544 pages. $40.00), by Nicholas Fox Weber: In this informal group biography, art historian Nicholas Fox Weber, author of "Le Corbusier" (2008), profiles six key artists and architects from the experimental teaching institution known as the Bauhaus, which flourished in Germany amid the cultural ferment of the Weimar era only to be shuttered by the Nazis. Dracula, the fictional vampire, refused to die. He lived on in an un-dead state, subsisting on human blood that he sucked from his victims’ necks after inflicting a bite to the carotid. Dracula, the cultural phenomenon, has proven equally resilient. Likely, most local sports fans remember how former LSU football player Brian Kinchen, after retiring from the sport, got the unexpected opportunity to play for the NFL’s New England Patriots in 2003. The East Baton Rouge Parish Library will celebrate its 32nd annual Author/Illustrator Program Thursday-Friday, Oct. 29-30. "Dracula: The Un-Dead" (Dutton, 424 pages, $26.95) by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt: Long before Edward Cullen of the "Twilight" series and Bill Compton of HBO's "True Blood," there was the original vampire, Bram Stoker's Prince Dracula, in the gothic horror novel "Dracula." "A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice" (Scribner, 231 pages, $25), by Malalai Joya with Derrick O'Keefe: At 31, Malalai Joya has a long and courageous record of fighting for women's rights in Afghanistan. Now she is focusing on war lords, drug lords and corruption and the leaders she sees as supporting them. The year 1958 was significant for LSU. Not only did the Tiger football team capture its first national championship, but the university also opened a new, $3.5 million library. "Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan" (Pantheon Books, 352 pages, $26), by Jake Adelstein: A journalist is supposed to observe and report his story, not become part of it. But by the time Jake Adelstein found himself face to face with an enforcer for one of Japan's most vicious mafia gangs, it was too late. It’s not too late to get in one of the six “WordShops” being offered on Friday, Oct. 16, in advance of the Louisiana Book Festival on Saturday, Oct. 17, at the State Library of Louisiana, 701 N 4th St. John Bell Hood was known as one of the fiercest commanders in the Confederate Army. During the War Between the States, he was willing to sacrifice his men to gain tactical advantage. He was both reviled and feared by his own men. Nothing is as constant in Baton Rouge as change. No one knows that better than Fred C. Frey. A former Army pilot and son of an LSU dean, Frey began flying over Baton Rouge and taking pictures in 1962. "Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington" (Scribner Books, 278 pages, $28), by Ann Louise Bardach: This fast-paced primer on Fidel Castro and the future of Cuba by veteran journalist Ann Louise Bardach offers a handful of new details into the communist leader's illness, his wives and youth. But the book's strength lies in Bardach's ability to weave together a host of diverse sources, past and present, to create a compelling narrative for even a neophyte to all things Cuban. DETROIT (AP) — Mitch Albom is many things. He's an award-winning newspaper columnist, a popular radio show host, an author of best-selling novels and nonfiction books, a screenwriter, a frequent TV guest, and even an accomplished musician and songwriter who has played gigs across the United States and in Europe. "The Professional" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 289 pages, $26.95), by Robert B. Parker: In recent years, Robert B. Parker has done his best work writing about cowboys ("Appaloosa") and a baseball player ("Double Play"). But every year he cranks out another adventure featuring Spenser, his fearless and witty Boston private detective. |
