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  Regret the Error - How Media...

  Craig Silverman

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  This look at careless journalism—from hilarious mistakes to egregious ethical lapses—is “chock-full of amusing historical anecdotes” (Publishers Weekly). 
   
  Winner of the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism 
   
  We regret the error: it’s a phrase that appears in newspapers almost daily, the standard notice that something went terribly wrong in the reporting, editing, or printing of an article. From Craig Silverman, the proprietor of www.RegretTheError.com, one of the Internet’s most popular media-related websites, comes a collection of funny, shocking, and sometimes disturbing journalistic slip-ups and corrections.  
   
  On display are all types of media inaccuracy—from typos to “fuzzy math” to “obiticide” (printing the obituary of a person very much alive and well) to complete and utter ethical lapses. While some of the errors can be laugh-out-loud funny, the book also serves as a sobering journey through the history of media mistakes (including the outrageous hoaxes that dominated newspapers during the circulation wars of the nineteenth century) and a serious muckraking investigation of contemporary journalism’s lack of accountability to the public. Regret the Error shines a spotlight on the media’s carelessness and the sometimes tragic and calamitous consequences of weak or non-existent fact checking. 
   
  “Mixing humorous corrections taken from large and small newspapers alike, Silverman gives historical context to the current problems . . . and then proposes solutions for busy newsrooms.” —Variety

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  Barking for Business - A Raunchy...

  E. N. Crane

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  They got kicked out of the military. Now she and her uncontrollable K-9 are headed straight for small-town scandal… 
    
  Cynthia Sharp is a terrible soldier. So it’s no surprise when her four-year Army law enforcement career finishes with a bang, a government Jeep in flames, and a discharge. But when a new job search in her quirky Ohio hometown leads to stolen-bingo-money intrigue, she and her pup are soon caught up in solving criminal chaos. 
    
  Desperate to escape her parents’ basement and their embarrassingly obvious bedroom antics, Cynthia’s coffee addiction and a newly fractured arm aren’t exactly helping her solve the case of a supposed reverend acting suspiciously. And her detecting efforts spiral out of control when her four-legged sidekick causes mass destruction… and too many suspects run amok. 
    
  Can this disaster-prone investigator somehow sniff out the lies? 
    
  Barking for Business is the outrageous first book in the Sharp Investigations comedic mystery series. If you like wacky characters, unexpected explosions, and a dash of romance, then you’ll love E. N. Crane’s nutty crime-fighting adventure. 
    
  Buy Barking for Business to dig up the clues today!

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  Pass the Sour Cream - Given a...

  Bradley Charbonneau

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  I had been in Asia just over two months--something like ten weeks, or if you’re counting days, about seventy days.  
  Of course, if you’re counting meals, like I was, think about two hundred and ten.  
  Add iodine-purified water, a permanent layer of dust on my tongue, and let's just say I couldn't always hold down what I did eat.  
  Food was becoming my meaning, my passion, my existence.  
  I dreamt up meals in my head: leafy salads, steak, anything without rice and noodles.  
  Sure, rice and noodles are great, but try them for seventy days, three meals a day--try anything for that long.  
  I wanted food from home.  
  Besides, just before coming to Asia, I'd spent six months in Africa eating things that were beige, bland, and beaten.  
  Oh yes, Asian food had sounded exotic and adventurous, but at this point given a choice between a baked potato and the Great Wall of China... 
  Pass the sour cream.

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  Northanger Abbey

  Jane Austen

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  Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death - well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility.Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings - and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style.An Author's Republic audio production.

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  Give My Regards to Nowhere - A...

  Richard Engling

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  Chicago director Dwayne Finnegan has a long shot at the big time and only two obstacles: himself and everyone he knows. 
  Dwayne's got an idea of how to direct Shakespeare's least-favorite play that could set him on the road to Broadway. We're talking Bob Fosse choreography, Jimi Hendrix guitars, and the hottest cast in the city of Chicago. But when the show's producer cuts out with the cash, Dwayne decides to produce the show himself, putting his marriage and his meager finances at risk. What could go wrong? 
  "Richard Engling knows Chicago's famously chaotic and glorious storefront theater scene like the back of his hand. It's the perfect setting for absurd comic hi-jinx." 
  – Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune 
  "A scrappy, big-hearted backstage comedy layered with mordant wit and full of a deep, abiding love for its characters..." 
  – Adam Langer, author of Cyclorama 
  "...a magic trick performed in plain view...comic, wise, and riveting...a richly entertaining novel." 
  – Liam Heneghan, author of Beasts at Bedtime 
  "Without a doubt, the best examination of the theatre trade I've ever read. Insightful, satirical, painful, but joyous. Richard Engling brings a wonderful cast of characters together in a way theatre kids and non-theatre kids can thoroughly enjoy." 
  – Darren Callahan, dramatist for the BBC and SyFy 
  "Engling's satire on storefront theatre is thoroughly entertaining from start to finish. His characters sparkle, his knowledge of the backstage issues of the medium is elucidated with keen insight and comic verve, and he is somehow able to make even the most seemingly unsympathetic characters...into people it's fun to get to know." 
  – Karen Topham, ChicagoOnStage.com

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  I Think You're Totally Wrong - A...

  David Shields, Caleb Powell

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  A debate, nearly to the death, about life and art, cocktails included. And a soon-to-be major motion picture from James Franco!  
  Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he's a stay-at-home dad to three young girls), whereas his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he has overcommitted to art.  
  Shields and Powell spend four days together in a cabin in the Cascade Mountains, playing chess, shooting hoops, hiking to lakes and an abandoned mine; they rewatch My Dinner with André, Sideways, and The Trip, relax in a hot tub, and talk about everything they can think of in the name of exploring and debating their central question: life and/or art.  
  The relationship-- and the balance of power-- between Shields and Powell is in constant flux, as two egos try to undermine each other, two personalities overlap and collapse. This book seeks to demolish the Q&A format; it also seeks to confound, as much as possible, the divisions between " reality"  and " fiction,"  between " life"  and " art."  There are no teachers or students, no interviewers or interviewees, no masters in the universe, only a chasm of uncertainty.

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