Gabriel Garcia Marquez Books

Check out some of recently deceased author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's books below. "García Márquez, a native of Colombia, is widely credited with helping to popularize "magical realism," a genre "in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination." (CNN.com)

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Story of Benedict Arnold's wife may go to film, TV

The story of Benedict Arnold's wife as depicted in a best-selling novel by the daughter of former New York Gov. George Pataki may be headed to the big and small screens.

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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/story-benedict-arnolds-wife-may-go-film-tv

Authors Guild Hits Back at Google Ruling

Late Friday afternoon, the Authors Guild filed its appeal in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Google, asking the appellate court to reverse a lower court’s ruling that granted summary judgment to Google, while denying the Guild’s request for partial summary judgment. The suit stems from Google’s scanning of in-copyright books without permission of authors as part of its Library Project. In its appeal, the Guild hammers away on the fact that the Library Project was, at its a core, a commercial initiative by Google and not some noble advance in creating a digital archive of literature. “Google must not be permitted to build its financial empire of the backs of authors,” the brief states.

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http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/61844-authors-guild-hits-back-at-google-ruling.html

New York State Will Increase Funding for Libraries by More Than $1 Million

The state budget includes significant support for local libraries, rejecting Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposed $4 million cut while increasing funding for libraries across the state by $1 million over last year’s budget.

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http://www.infodocket.com/2014/04/04/new-york-state-will-increase-funding-for-libraries-by-more-than-1-million/

You Should Have Known

Grace Reinhart Sachs (Get this book)
Manhattan therapist Grace Reinhart Sachs is just about to publish a book condemning women who choose the wrong men. If only single ladies would stop ignoring their instincts, she insists, they'd be able to spot a creep during the first date--and exit accordingly. Luckily, Grace is happily married to a loving and faithful pediatric oncologist... or is she? As Jean Hanff Korelitz's darkly compelling You Should Have Known unfolds, Grace's life begins to unravel. It's an outstanding tale with a perfectly imagined setting and mesmerizing mood. And no one will blame you if you check your partner's cell phone records after you close the book.--Shelf Awareness

Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific

Robert D. Kaplan (Get this book)
Foreign affairs scholar Kaplan considers the geopolitics of the South China Sea and makes a compelling argument that the strategically important body of water is likely to become the Mitteleuropa of the twenty-first century, a flashpoint for future regional power struggles with serious international consequences. This is a riveting, multitextured look at an underexamined region of the world and, perhaps, at the anxious, complicated world of the future.--Booklist

The Accident

Chris Pavone (Get this book)
Pavone follows up his best-selling novel, The Expats (2012), with another thriller featuring some of the same characters. The action here involves a manuscript entitled The Accident, which threatens to bring down a media empire owned by Charlie Wolfe, who now aspires to a political career. Almost everyone physically connected with the manuscript starts getting killed in Charlie's desperate attempt to quash this expose of his past. Pavone knows the formula for a best-seller and keeps the reader turning the pages.--Kirkus

A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran

Bauer, Shane; Fattal, Joshua; Shourd, Sarah (Get this book)
In this jointly authored memoir, three young, globetrotting journalists recount their two-year imprisonment in Iran. Bauer, Josh Fattal, and Sarah Shourd inadvertently hiked into unmarked Iranian territory where they were arrested and taken to a prison to be interrogated. The book details how the three rebelled against captivity by relying on one another for support and coordinating group hunger strikes. This engaging story portrays the horrors of imprisonment and the danger that awaits any intrepid traveler who becomes mired between the antipathy of two governments.--Booklist

The Weight of Blood

Laura McHugh (Get this book)
In this clever, multilayered debut, McHugh deftly explores the past of an Ozark Mountain family with plenty to hide and the ruthlessness to keep their secrets hidden. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Dane, from Henbane, Mo., is grieving for her murdered friend, Cheri, and her mother, Lila, who vanished soon after Lucy was born. Determined to solve both mysteries, Lucy never realizes just how close the answers might lie. This is an outstanding first novel, replete with suspense, crisp dialogue, and vivid Ozarks color and atmosphere.--Publisher's Weekly

Redeployment

Phil Klay (Get this book)
Klay's stories are sensational, with vivid characters, biting dialogue, and life within and beyond the Afghan and Iraq wars conveyed with an addictive combination of the mundane and the horrifying. Redeployment is most remarkable, though, for the questions it asks about the aims and effects of war stories themselves, and Klay displays a thoughtful awareness of this literary tradition. That perspective holds these diverse tales together, as his narrators ask why and how war stories are told. What details does a soldier share with civilians? Does one tell it funny or tell it serious? Is the storytelling a further return to war, a redeployment in itself? Those questions, and Klay's exciting new voice, may stay with the reader long after this book is back on the shelf.--Shelf Awareness

The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD

Simon Schama (Get this book)
This is the first of a planned two-volume work, and it covers the development of Judaism and the Jewish people from their first stirring of a sense of a national identity up to the expulsion of Jews from Spain. Schama has written an unconventional but masterful and deeply felt history of his people, which seamlessly integrates themes of art, religion, and ethnicity as he illustrates how Jews both influenced and were influenced by the other people they lived among for more than 1,500 years. This beautifully written chronicle is a tie-in to an upcoming PBS series.--Booklist

Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties

Cynthia Young (Get this book)
Accompanying a highly anticipated exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, this thoughtful catalog of brilliantly wide-ranging aesthetics explores the complex relations between visual art and the fight for racial justice. Taking as its occasion the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the text moves away from rote historical narratives, instead opting to focus on the role of the photographer in shaping action and emergent discourses, of the influence of Ghana and Cuba on politics and aesthetics, and of the tensions of politics in Pop art. These thoughtful essays help guide what might otherwise be an overwhelming diversity of images. This book is exciting and successful.--Publisher's Weekly

Boy, Snow, Bird

Helen Oyeyemi (Get this book)
Readers who found British author Oyeyemi's Mr. Fox (2011) an intellectual tour de force, but emotionally chilly, will be won over by this riveting, brilliant and emotionally rich retelling of "Snow White" set in 1950s New England. Dense with fully realized characters, startling images, original observations and revelatory truths, this masterpiece engages the reader's heart and mind as it captures both the complexities of racial and gender identity in the 20th century and the more intimate complexities of love in all its guises.--Kirkus

Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis

Tim Townsend (Get this book)
In his first book, Townsend, a writer and editor with the Pew Research Center's Religion and Public Life Project, examines World War II's most unusual ministry: the pastoring of the architects of the Third Reich. On Nov. 20, 1945, the Allies commenced the Nuremberg Trials, an unprecedented proceeding that charged Hitler's top lieutenants--Goering, Kesselring et al.--with conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity. Townsend authoritatively addresses the excruciating moral and religious issues confronting wartime chaplains and deftly explains the role of a spiritual adviser in bringing the wrongdoer, even one seemingly beyond redemption, back to "a place of restoration." Gerecke's story is only a footnote to "the trial of the century," but Townsend thoroughly understands and skillfully handles the rich, potentially explosive material it contains.--Kirkus