Category: News
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Austin-based author releases new children’s book
Kat Kronenberg is an award-winning children’s author who doesn’t take her work of inspiring kids lightly. Kronenberg visits schools all over Texas and beyond to meet with and read to children. Her newest book, Love Big, was just released this month. It is a tale of animals who are working to make life better on…
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Russell Baker, Author and New York Times Columnist, Is Dead at 93
Russell Baker, the genial, but sharp-witted writer who won Pulitzer Prizes for his humorous columns in The New York Times and a moving autobiography of his impoverished Baltimore childhood and later hosted television’s “Masterpiece Theatre,” has died. He was 93. Allen Baker told The Associated Press that his father died on Monday from complications after…
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The top 10 books on Apple’s iBooks-US
iBook charts for week ending January 20, 2019: (Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher : iBooks US Bestseller List – Paid Books 1. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens – 9780735219113 – (Penguin Publishing Group) 2. Becoming by Michelle Obama – 9781524763152 – (Crown) 3. Educated by Tara Westover – 9780399590511 –…
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Writer Keah Brown Reveals the Cover for The Pretty One
Writer and activist Keah Brown wants you to know there’s more to her than her disability. “When I first began [writing] I was caught up with trying to make it the best narrative of disability and cerebral palsy there ever was,” Brown tells BAZAAR.com. “However, since my disability is the lens through which I see…
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Author gets inspiration from 5-year-old daughter for new book
(GREAT FALLS) Ryan Acra has just completed another book. The Sugarbeet Falls author has a new inspiration in his new book: Lakey Lynn and the Permanent Passy. It’s his five-year-old daughter, Lakey, who is in kindergarten at Lincoln Elementary School. “Everyone says I’m famous,” Lakey said. And that she is as she’s the feature in her dad’s new…
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Deepika Padukone Now Featured in A Children’s Book
Deepika Padukone added another feather in her cap when in 2015 she shared publicly her battle with depression. It was a brave move for a star like Deepika to open up on the subject and it helped reduce the stigma around the illness. It particularly for that reasion that the actor has earned a place…