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According to the World Health Organization, over 450 million people worldwide suffer from mental illness of some variety. From depression and mood disorders to paranoid schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder, countless books have been written about the subject in an effort to explore, understand or cope with it. From informational texts like the Diagnostic and [...]

Hold on, we hear you say – author? But Winston Churchill was a politician! True. But while Churchill had two stints as prime minister and is most famous for his wartime leadership, many people don’t realize that his real passion was writing. That should come as no surprise, really; his oft-quoted, inspiring and impassioned speeches [...]

I came across this trailer for Penny Marshall’s new memoir on the Omnivoracious blog today. I admit I am occasionally a little weirded out by the new trend of filming trailers to advertise books. It seems strange to hire actors and all that to get people hyped for a book. But then, I am proved [...]