Spell Boundby Rachel HawkinsReleases on 3/13/12 Hailed as “impossible to put down,” the Hex Hall series has both critics and teens cheering. With a winning combination of romance, action, magic and humor, this third volume will leave readers enchanted. Just as Sophie Mercer has come to accept her extraordinary magical powers as a demon, the [...]

Timothy Snyder is professor of history at Yale University. His books include Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. One book tagged in his dialogue with Alec Ash at The Browser about books on the experience of dissent in Central and Eastern Europe: Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell Your first book is Homage to Catalonia [...]

WolframAlpha continues to lead the Android Books & Reference App Top Ten list this week. As part of our research for the Publishing App Expo from last month, we have been spotlighting the top grossing book apps every week–helping our readers discover and analyze successful content. Below, we’ve listed the top ten paid Android Books & Reference [...]

BOSTON (CBS) – State Transportation Secretary Richard Davey wants answers after the Rose Kennedy Greenway Executive Director fended off questions from reporters earlier this week asking that its financial records be made public. Davey wrote a letter to Nancy Brennan Wednesday after she refused to talk about her reported $225,000 a year salary and how [...]

I’ve always found James Fennell’s photo of disheveled books at Huntington Castle beautiful but I’m guessing Isabelle de Conihout, Curator of Rare Books at the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris and a specialist in bookbinding history and book collecting, would tell us this arrangement is kind of rough on the volume’s softly colored spines. She’ll be [...]

The title of the Wall Street Journal‘s recent article on enhanced e-books—”Blowing Up the Book”—strikes me as an appropriate blend of the exciting and the ominous. (See also: “Kindle Fire.”) The format is a wide-open field of creative possibilities with or one two landmines waiting underneath. There are whole categories of books for which multimedia extras would be an [...]

by Jonathan Blaustein For all the controversial, opinionated, and edgy things I’ve written in the last couple of years, I think I’m about to put it all to shame. Here, now, I’m writing my first ever “book not reviewed.” Huh? What does that even mean? By way of explanation, I should say that I’ve been [...]

Turns out that while sticks and stones can break your bones, words, too, can really hurt you. In honor of proving that out-of-date childhood adage incorrect, the week of Jan. 23-27 has been set aside as No Name-Calling Week in schools across the country. Check out these great children’s book titles that can help you [...]

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is, “Top Ten Books I’d Recommend To Someone Who Doesn’t Read X,” and I have chosen to write about…CLASSICS! Now, classics have a pretty bad rap. As the common thing that many students are forced to swallow [...]

Apple Apple recently revealed that it is holding an “invitation-only education event” on Jan. 19. No details were given about the event’s focus, but there was plenty of speculation suggesting that we’ll hear about Apple’s plans to dominate the world digital textbooks. Now there’s a report claiming that the company intends to announce the equivalent [...]