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Jailed Activist Sentenced to Read

January 30, 2014 admin 0

Convicted animal and environmental rights activist, Rebecca Rubin, was given some serious homework when she was sentenced on Monday. From CBC News: U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken said Monday in federal court in Portland, Ore., that Rubin showed contrition and lived in “an emotional prison cell” during seven years as a fugitive in Canada, from December 2005 to November 2012.  Aiken said she understood Rubin’s desire to see a change in how animals and […]

Best Crime Covers

January 30, 2014 admin 0

Over at our sister publication, The Rap Sheet, editor J. Kingston Pierce has revised a Rap Sheet tradition. Readers there are looking over and voting on the best crime fiction covers of the year. As Pierce says: You will find 15 fronts from crime, mystery, and thriller works published last year. All of them, I think, are special in their own ways, whether it’s because of their typographical excellence, their bold imagery, or the manner […]

This Just In… Apocalyptid by SK Cooper

January 30, 2014 admin 0

A tale of horror and hope in an apocalyptic world. A man and woman, bound together by a moment of guilt, carve an existence in a broken world. They are physically unaffected by the horrors of the death of civilization –the death of the world slid off them like ash in the wind. They seem to have become immortal and have built an existence in an abandoned valley by the sea. Then something arrives, a […]

The Top Books of the 21st Century

January 30, 2014 admin 0

Just 14 years in, we figure it’s too early to start listing the best books of the 21st century. USC Rossiter is not so shy. Not only have they  compiled a list of 100 top-rated books published in this century, they’ve developed an epic infographic to back to up. We’re reproducing the flowchart infographic small on this page. Click the graphic to see it larger or go directly to the source.