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Max Nordau

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

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Max Nordau

January 2013

Happy New Year!

We hope that this year is off to a good start for all of you. I keep joking that people normally fear Friday the 13th, but this year we have 13 in EVERY date!

We know that many book groups make their selections for the entire year in January, and thus we want to be sure you take a look at the site this month for ideas of what to select!

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January 11, 2013

Even the sunniest of Januarys here in the New York area means it’s time for cocooning and more couch time than usual. With this in mind, I am going to ask you to take a few moments and think about your friends who are readers ---- and pass either this newsletter along to them or a link to our site. During January, there is lots of time for exploring new things --- and we hope Bookreporter.com will be one of them! We know that since we started in 1996 our audience has built organically, one reader at a time. And you all have helped with that. There was never a big ad campaign to drive readers to find us, but rather we have built our very solid audience by lots of word of mouth. And we love reading the stories of how we were “shared.” So if you can take the time to share us with your book-loving friends, I would appreciate it. At the same time, if you are on Facebook, “Like” us now (we hit 10,000 friends in December, which was a pretty happy moment), and if you are on Twitter, follow us. We share news on both throughout the week!

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Teen Board January-June 2013

Teenreads.com is pleased to announce our first-ever Teen Board! In their applications for a position on the Teen Board, these 24 teens have demonstrated their passion for reading and their readiness to share their opinions about books and authors. During their six-month term, they will be writing blogs, contributing book reviews and sharing feedback on Teenreads.com.

Click on each each Teen Board member's name to visit their Contributor Page where you can read a longer profile and get to know a bit more about them.

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Interview: Caroline B. Cooney, author of Janie Face to Face

Jan 11, 2013

It's been 23 years since readers first discovered Janie Johnson in Caroline B. Cooney's remarkable novel, THE FACE ON THE MILK CARTON. Since that time, three other novels in the series have been published --- WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JANIE, THE VOICE ON THE RADIO and WHAT JANIE FOUND --- but now, JANIE FACE TO FACE concludes the series, answering all the questions fans have about what happened to that girl who recognized herself on the side of a milk carton and realized she had been kidnapped.

In this interview, Caroline B. Cooney explains why she was compelled write the end to the series, her fondness for fan letters (or emails!) and what she is working on now.

Books on Screen (BRC)

Links to http://www.bookreporter.com/features/books-on-screen.

Walter Gaston Shotwell

The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness.

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Walter Gaston Shotwell