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The Quality Paperback Book Club® And William Morrow Announce The Winner Of The 2011 New Visions Award
NEW YORK, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Quality Paperback Book Club and William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, announced the winner of the 2011 New Visions award today. The award has been given to Conor Grennan for his book Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal (William Morrow).

The Quality Paperback Book Club® And Random House Publishing Announce The 2011 New Voices Award Winner
NEW YORK, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Quality Paperback Book Club (QPB) and The Random House Publishing Group announced the winner of the 2011 New Voices award today. The award has been given to Tea Obreht for her novel, The Tiger's Wife (Random House). (Photo: ) The New Voices award and cash prize is presented yearly by Quality Paperback Book Club to a writer of an outstanding work of debut fiction.

Capture the Magic of Reading during TD Canadian Children's Book Week
Annual event encourages Canadians to read a book, share a story in 2012 TORONTO, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - To celebrate the joy of reading and the importance of sharing stories, TD Canadian Children's Book Week will kick off May 5 with 116 free public readings held in public libraries, community centres, bookstores and local schools across Canada.  More than 35,000 children are expected to participate during the annual event which is organized by The Canadian Children's Book Centre and runs from May 5 to May 12, 2012. The 2012 TD Canadian Children's Book Week's theme "Read a Book, Share a Story" promotes reading as a classic pleasure-filled pastime and encourages sharing a good book or story with friends and fami ...

Poets & Writers Magazine Featured in New Video About Eco-publishing
A Bold Stand for Forests NEW YORK, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Green America: Poets & Writers Magazine (), an award-winning bimonthly published by the nonprofit organization Poets & Writers, Inc., seeks to educate and inspire creative writers, while preserving forests for generations to come.

Hachette Book Group and Flipboard Named Publishing Innovators of the Year
PHILADELPHIA, March 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Publishing Executive and Book Business magazines have announced that leading U.S. book publisher Hachette Book Group (HBG) and "social magazine" Flipboard have been selected as the 2012 Publishing Innovators of the Year.

Penguin Group (USA) Launches Twitter Book Club
NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Penguin Group (USA) announced today that A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness is the March pick for The Penguin Twitter Book Club.  Penguin will lead regular discussions with book club members during the month of March.  In early April, when the book club has finished reading A Discovery of Witches, the author Deborah Harkness will join the discussion in an hour-long live Twitter chat.

Area book group chooses memoir of former slave
The community book group sponsored by the Oconee Democrats picked "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs for its February book discussion.