Rare man who understands the teenage brain

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Man understands the teenage brain

SOME of the most valuable items in a collection, taking the viewer on a 4000-year journey through the history of the book, are on display in Mackay today.

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Rare collection looks at histories

TWILIGHT fans now have an addition for their collection, with the first volume in the graphic novel adaptation of Stephanie Meyer's books hitting stores.

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Twilight graphic novel a treat (News Mail)

A year-end roundup of some of the noteworthy books about the arts, including "Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong," "Bette Davis: Larger than Life" and "Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast."

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Artsy gift books about Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong, Bette Davis and more (Seattle Times)

Nate Giorgio, an artist who Michael Jackson relied on to illustrate him over the years, recalls the last time he saw the singer, just days before his death this summer. The pop icon wanted him to create dazzling murals of his children as well as artwork for his "This Is It" concerts, and Giorgio got out his pen during their talks.

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Michael Jackson 'Opus' book offers rare images (Seattle Times)

"The Man Who Loved Books Too Much" by Alison Hoover Bartlett is the true-life tale of John Gilkey, who stole $100,000 worth of books not because he wanted the money, but because he had to have them.

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'The Man Who Loved Books Too Much': a true-life tale of bibliokleptomania (Seattle Times)

Lit Life columnist Mary Ann Gwinn reports on the Pioneer Square gem Wessel & Lieberman, purveyors of used and rare books, in anticipation of the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair and Book Arts Show Oct. 10-11 at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall.

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The rare-book trade is alive and well at Wessel & Lieberman (Seattle Times)

After years of giving graduate students, faculty and staff at other universities free and unlimited access to its network of libraries, vast collection of books and extensive archival materials, the University of Toronto is asking for a payback.

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U of T's new library fees worry grad students (Toronto Star)

FILM-MAKING is all about taking risks. But making a film about a child dying of a rare form of leukaemia and the parents' decision to manufacture another child, genetically engineered to match the sick child, could have gone so badly.

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Win tickets to My Sister's Keeper | Movies (Queensland Times)

"The Woman Behind the New Deal" is Kirstin Downey's new biography of Frances Perkins, FDR's hard-charging secretary of labor and the first female cabinet member. Downey reads Saturday at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park.

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"The Woman Behind the New Deal:" biography of first female cabinet member (Seattle Times)