The Oklahoman: Books
- Oklahoma and Publishers Weekly best-sellers
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 09:28 PMOklahoma best-sellers
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Fiction
1. “There There” by Tommy Orange (Vintage)
2. Read more on NewsOK.com - Infinite Danger Room #111: Avengers Endgame
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 11:49 AMInfinite Danger RoomThe crew gets back together after a spoiler break to discuss the events of Avengers: Endgame, and to review the Marvel film.Read more on NewsOK.com
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Oklahoma book events
Saturday - 05/11/2019 - 10:01 PMBEST OF BOOKS
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Barbara Lowell will host a story time reading and sign copies of her book, "Sparky & Spike: Charles Schulz and the Wildest, Smartest Dog Ever," from 11 a.m.Read more on NewsOK.com - Movie review: Biopic 'Tolkien' can't quite tap the magic of legendary author's storytelling
Friday - 05/10/2019 - 10:37 AMBy Brandy McDonnellAn abbreviated version of this story appears in Friday's Weekend Life section of The Oklahoman. 2 ½ out of 4 stars. Movie review: Biopic 'Tolkien' can't quite tap into the magic of legendary author's storytellingImagine if someone tried to take the thick appendices at the end of “The Lord of the Rings” and turn them into a movie without ever organizing them into a proper story.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tulsa poet Joy Harjo wins $65,000 poetry prize
Saturday - 05/04/2019 - 09:33 PMStaff reportsTulsa poet, author, musician and performer Joy Harjo has won the 2019 Jackson Poetry Prize.
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The prestigious award is given by Poets & Writers each year to "an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition," according to a news release.Read more on NewsOK.com - Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso to star in Duncan native Ron Howard's 'Hillbilly Elegy'
Tuesday - 04/16/2019 - 07:05 PMBy Brandy McDonnellThe cast is starting to take fine shape for Duncan-born filmmaker Ron Howard's adaptation of "Hillbilly Elegy.Read more on NewsOK.com
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Word Balloons: The Bobcat clawing back for fourth issue
Thursday - 04/18/2019 - 09:24 PMBy Matt Price for The OklahomanThe tales of the Oklahoma superhero The Bobcat continue.
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The Bobcat, a Native American superhero operating in 1898 Indian Territory, is the star of the graphic novel “The Bobcat” from Caliber Comics.Read more on NewsOK.com - 'The Choctaw Constitutions' to be released at public event in Durant
Saturday - 04/20/2019 - 09:33 PMStaff reportsAn updated book will be formally released as part of a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Choctaw Nation Judicial Center this week.
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Saturday - 04/20/2019 - 10:01 PMBEST OF BOOKS
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Oklahoma author Dayna Crow will sign her book, "Grace in Savannah," from 1 to 2:30 p.m.Read more on NewsOK.com - Oklahoma best-sellers
Saturday - 04/27/2019 - 09:32 PMOKLAHOMA BEST-SELLERS
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FICTION
1. “At the Far End of O Street” by Carol Haralson (El Otro Lado)
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- Book review: 'The A List' by J.A. Jance
Saturday - 05/25/2019 - 10:51 PM"The A List" by J.A. Jance (Gallery Books, 352 pages, in stores)
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A man in prison is seeking revenge on the people who put him there.Read more on NewsOK.com - Best-sellers
Saturday - 05/11/2019 - 09:32 PMOklahoma best-sellers
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Fiction
1. “Lost Roses” by Martha Hall Kelly (Ballantine Books)
2. Read more on NewsOK.com - Watch: Tulsa native Bill Hader, Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy appear in creepy teaser trailer for 'It: Chapter Two'
Thursday - 05/09/2019 - 08:23 AMBy Brandy McDonnellThe first teaser trailer for the eagerly anticipated horror sequel "It: Chapter Two" was released today, and it is unsettling. Get the chills as grown-up Beverly (two-time Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain) returns to her girlhood home and gets a quick and creepy reminder of just how relentless her old nemesis Pennywise the Dancing Clown (the frightening Bill Skarsgård) can be.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bill Nye The Science Guy helps Science Museum Oklahoma launch planetarium campaign
Saturday - 05/25/2019 - 10:51 PMBy Brandy McDonnellFeatures Writer bmcdonnell@oklahoman.comBill Nye’s love of science started with space and dinosaurs.
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“Every kid loves science. Space and dinosaurs.Read more on NewsOK.com - Oklahoma and Publishers Weekly best-sellers
Saturday - 05/04/2019 - 09:34 PMOKLAHOMA BEST-SELLERS
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FICTION
1. "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
2Read more on NewsOK.com - What to do in Oklahoma on April 17, 2019: Hear 'Killers of the Flower Moon' author David Grann speak at OCCC
Wednesday - 04/17/2019 - 05:00 AMBy Brandy McDonnellToday's featured event:Oklahoma City Community College will host David Grann, The New York Times bestselling author of “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI,” at 1 p.m.Read more on NewsOK.com
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Her Kind of Case' is a courtroom drama worth reading
Saturday - 04/20/2019 - 09:33 PM"Her Kind of Case: A Lee Isaacs, Esq. Novel" by Jeanne Winer (Bancroft, 320 pages, in stores)
The title of this book caught my attention; it seemed promising, and the story did not disappoint.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Oklahoma and Publishers Weekly best-sellers
Saturday - 04/20/2019 - 09:33 PMOklahoma best-sellers
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FICTION
1. "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
2Read more on NewsOK.com - Oklahoma's poet laureate awarded $100,000 fellowship
Saturday - 04/27/2019 - 09:31 PMJeanetta Calhoun Mish makes it clear that she was not surprised when she was named Oklahoma's official poet laureate in 2017.
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She knew she'd been nominated.Read more on NewsOK.com - Junji Ito's 'Smashed' manga collection is strange, disturbing
Saturday - 04/27/2019 - 10:01 PMBy Ken RaymondBook editorkraymond@oklahoman.com"Smashed" by Junji Ito (VIZ Media LLC; Reissue, Translation edition, 416 pages, in stores)
Before yesterday, if you'd asked me to talk about manga I would've said something about Japanese comic books featuring schoolgirls with huge eyes, cyborgs, giant mechanical armor and characters with exaggerated facial expressions.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Oklahoma and Publishers Weekly best-sellers
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 10:47 AMOklahoma best-sellers
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Fiction
1. “There There” by Tommy Orange (Vintage)
2. Read more on NewsOK.com - New book looks at Oklahoma during the Cold War
Saturday - 05/11/2019 - 09:32 PMStaff reportsSouthwestern Oklahoma State University history instructor Landry Brewer has written a book about Oklahoma's role in the Cold War.
The book, "Cold War Oklahoma," includes a "fascinating cross-section of the era, from top-level strategy to the details of daily life," a news release notes.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Interviews, images and video: 'Science Guy' Bill Nye celebrates Science Museum Oklahoma's planetarium campaign launch
Thursday - 05/09/2019 - 05:43 AMBy Brandy McDonnellAn abbreviated version of this story appears in Thursday's The Oklahoman.Bill Nye The Science Guy helps Science Museum Oklahoma launch planetarium campaign
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'The Death Messenger' is a crime novel you won't want to put down
Thursday - 05/02/2019 - 03:30 PM"The Death Messenger" by Mari Hannah (Minotaur Books, 448 pages, in stores)
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Detective Superintendent Eloise O'Neil and Detective Sergeant Matthew Ryan were on opposite sides in Hannah's novel "The Silent Room.Read more on NewsOK.com - First Secret Service chief was no saint
Saturday - 05/04/2019 - 09:33 PM"Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror" by Charles Lane (Hanover Square Press, 336 pages, in stores)
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Television series 'In the Gap' begins production in Oklahoma
Thursday - 04/18/2019 - 07:15 PMBy Brandy McDonnellTulsa’s Cloud Nine Productions Inc., in association with the Oklahoma Film + Music Office, has announced that production is underway for “In the Gap,” an original, 10-episode television series that will broadcast on Trinity Broadcasting Networks beginning in early September.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 'The Devil Aspect' won't surprise readers
Saturday - 04/20/2019 - 09:33 PM"The Devil Aspect" by Craig Russell (Doubleday, 432 pages, in stores)
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I promised myself that I wouldn't be too hard on Craig Russell and his latest novel, "The Devil Aspect.Read more on NewsOK.com - Books for tweens and teens
Saturday - 04/20/2019 - 09:33 PMHere are three funny and informative books tween readers will enjoy.
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"The Becket List: A Blackberry Farm Story" by Adele Griffin, illustrated by LeUyen Pham (Algonquin Young Readers, 208 pages, in stores)
Rebecca Branch is moving from the city to a farm, and she is making a list of how to be a country girl: 1.Read more on NewsOK.com - Three local bookstores team up to provide 20% discount
Thursday - 04/25/2019 - 09:19 PMStaff reportsThree local booksellers will celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with a joint promotion on Saturday.
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The stores are Best of Books, 1313 E Danforth Rd., Edmond; Commonplace Books, 1325 N Walker Ave.Read more on NewsOK.com - Book review: 'I Miss You When I Blink: Essays'
Saturday - 04/27/2019 - 10:01 PMRachel McLemoreFor The Oklahoman"I Miss You When I Blink: Essays" by Mary Laura Philpott (Atria, 288 pages, in stores)
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Life goes by fast.Read more on NewsOK.com