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KSU Press to holdholiday book sale
KENT -- Kent State University Press will hold its annual holiday book sale in Room 307 on the third floor of Lowry Hall on the KSU front campus, off Terrace Drive. The sale will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; and from 9.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 4 through Dec. 8.
KSU Press was established in 1966 and has more than 400 books currently in print. Newofferings include:
In Literature: "Under Kilimanjaro," the last Ernest Hemingway manuscript to be published in its entirity.
Sports: "Kardiac Kids" and "Sundays in the Pound," two books on the Cleveland Browns by Jonathan Knight.
Local music history: "Radio Daze," a behind-the-scene account of Cleveland's FM air wars by Mike Olszewski.
True crime: "Tracks to Murder" by British crime historian Jonathan Goodman, who puts classic American murder cases within their original settings, and "The Good-bye Door," Diana Britt Franklin's story of the first female serial killer to die in Ohio's electric chair.
Photos: "Why Cows Learn Dutch," a look at Geauga County's Amish community by Randy James, with illustrations by local Amish artist Crist C. Miller; Tony Hillerman's "Kilroy Was There: A GI's War in Photographs," a collection of photos beloning to Frank Kessler of Canton; and "Growing Seasons: The Life of a Migrant Community," a tribute to Hartville with text by David Hassler and photos by Gary Harwood, both KSU staff members.
Poetry: "Intaglio" by Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, winner of the 2005 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.
Tolkien fans: "The Plants of Middle-Earth: Botany and Sub-creation" by Dinah Hazell, and "Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology" and "Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World," both by renowned Tolkien expert Verlyn Flieger.
All overstocked and slightly damaged books will be priced 5 or less. New titles will be sold for 25-percent off the suggested retail price. Checks, cash and credit cards will be accepted.
BookExpo to returnto Las Vegas in 2010
NORWALK, Conn. -- BookExpo America, publishing's annual national convention, will return to Las Vegas in 2010 after a 20-year absence, event organizers say.
The convention, which features appearances and speeches by well-known authors, educational workshops and social networking sessions that attract thousands of booksellers and publishers, was last held in Las Vegas in 1990. Organizers said the city has changed much since then, with the addition of new hotels, casinos, fine restaurants and entertainment choices.
Show officials also said that one of their priorities was to pick another location west of the Mississippi River for the event.
The 2007 BookExpo America is scheduled for May 31 to June 3 in New York. The convention will move to Los Angeles in 2008 and back to New York in 2009 before heading to Las Vegas in 2010.
Convention organizers said they will continue rotating the event among New York, the Midwest and the West.
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