Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’ No. 1 on Apple’s iBookstore
The iBookstore’s Official Book Charts for the week ending June 17, 2013:
The iBookstore’s Official Book Charts for the week ending June 17, 2013:
CNN Hero of the Year 2011 Robin Lim releases two books on motherhood, “After the Baby’s Birth” and “Wellness for Mothers,” published by Anvil Publishing, Inc.
Myrna Hunt Francia was an unorthodox nun. A member of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (ICM), she was a teacher of philosophy and theology, socio-pastoral worker, social activist, retreat facilitator, guidance counselor, and a prolific writer known for her passion for life and sharp wit.
One does not merely begin reading a Khaled Hosseini novel.
For someone who traffics heavily in the realm of love lives, Marcelo Santos III rues the fact that he doesn’t have much of one. The 22-year-old first-time novelist and online video sensation says he doesn’t have time for romance, no matter that his surprise best-seller is titled “Para sa Hopeless Romantic.”
This long, ambitious novel is, like most recent and current Asian novels written in English, brilliant but with a difference: There are ghosts swarming all over the place.
As young children, many Manila-dwelling Filipinos were allowed by their elders to play in the afternoons. But as soon as the light fades, they are called back in, as if there was something dangerous lurking in the night.
Like any would-be symbologists, readers encountering the cover of Dan Brown’s newest novel “Inferno: A Novel” (Doubleday, New York, 2013, 463 pages) for the first time should examine its elements.
From the uniquely imaginative mind of writer/producer/director Baz Luhrmann comes the new big-screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby.”
Kristian Jeff Cortez Agustin, a poet and interdisciplinary artist, has published in London “For Love and Poetry,” a book that celebrates various art forms intersected with photographs and the art of weaving words.
Andre Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature, said: “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
