The latest offering from author M.J. Rose is one for the noses.The Book of Lost Fragrances is a tale of suspense derived from the mystical qualities of a perfume created in the days of Cleopatra—and lost for 2,000 years.To celebrate its release if you buy the book you can get a bottle of a fragrance that was inspired by and created for the novel. It is called Âmes Soeurs, the Scent of Soulmates and was produced by Joya Studios.Here's how it works:By the book - email them a scan of the receipt with your name and address - and a...
Bonus: Terrorism textbook ordered on Amazon came with some white powder
Image by Fernando Ochoa / KSHBYikes! Just imagine what went through the mind of Sophia Stockton when a bag of white powder fell out of her recently delivered textbook “Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives and Issues.” Thinking Anthrax Stockton took the bag to the police and lo and behold:“I told them white powder was in my terrorism textbook and so I put it on the table and they’re like, ‘oh, okay,’ And so he went back and tested it,” Stockton recalls. “ He comes back and says, ‘you didn’t happen to order some cocaine with your textbook, did you?’ And I...
Trouble in Carver Country
cover of the Arcade editionTess Gallagher, the widow of short story master Raymond Carver, is suing Skyhorse Publishing over the book Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver. The copyright suit alleges that the book contains unauthorized use of excerpts and photos. The book, originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons in hardback in 1990, was released in a a paperback edition by Arcade in 1994 . Skyhorse Publishing acquired Arcade last year. cover of the Scribner's editionMore at Publisher's Weekly including mention that according to Bookscan, the book has sold only 26 copies lifetime. Is that possible?
The Universe Bound: Astronomical by Mishka Henner
We are all well aware that the reading of books can open up new worlds but who knew you could fit the entire universe in a set of 12 books.Mishka Henner does just that with Astronomical; twelve hefty volumes representing a scale model of our solar system from the Sun to Pluto with the width of each page representing one million kilometers! The Sun pops up in Volume 1 and Pluto closes out the set on the last page of Volume 12 and there is a plethora of darkness in between and just like that the entire universe is contained between the...
The Life and Times of the Dust Jacket
Noun. dust jacket - a paper jacket for a book; a jacket on which promotional information is usually printed. Also called book jacket, dust cover, dust wrapperMost books printed since the late nineteenth and early twentieth century have them. Unfortunately, there are many books that once had them that now don't. For the collector of these modern books the dust jacket represents the Holy Grail of value.One of the most noted examples is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's and Sons, the book is considered by many to be one of the great...