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Gold - The perfect follow-up to Mother’s Day. Gold is the...

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:00:01 -0400

Gold - The perfect follow-up to Mother’s Day. Gold is the latest bestselling novel from Chris Cleave—the award-winning and international, bestselling author of Little Bee —is now available in paperback and you can read an excerpt on Scribd right now.

World champion athlete Kate Meadows faces the ultimate test of a mother’s love: how much will she sacrifice for her daughter without abandoning her own dreams?

The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book,...

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:11:41 -0400

The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s, and one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.

Scribd Welcomes E-Reads, Grand Master of Sci-Fi

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:11:23 -0400

This week, E-Reads has joined Scribd, and they bring a ton of fantastic content specialized around romance novels, sci-fi, fantasy, and difficult to source, out-of-print books.

For sci-fi in particular, we are super excited about Brian W. Aldiss, named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America and an author with over 50 years of experience. Aldiss was inducted into the Sci-Fi & Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2004. Check out his Nebula award-winning Forgotten Life.

We also have featured Aldiss’ Helliconia series – an epic chronicle that details the rise and eventual fall of a thousand year-old civilization as it marches through a long progressio of seasons — each of which lasts for centuries. Originally published starting in 1928, the trilogy begins with Helliconia Spring (published in 1982), Helliconia Summer (1983) and Helliconia Winter (1985).

Here is where it all began, replete with an updated cover from E-Reads:

Scribd Welcomes E-Reads: Grand Master of Sci-FiFor lovers of...

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:07:09 -0400

Scribd Welcomes E-Reads: Grand Master of Sci-Fi

For lovers of sci-fi, fantasy and historical fiction, Scribd just hit the mother lode.

This week,

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Today in History: “Vertigo” Premiers in San...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:58:48 -0400

Today in History: “Vertigo” Premiers in San Francisco

An image from the “Vertigo” movie poster. [Photo Credit: Creative Commons]

On this date in history…

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On this date in history — Today, in 1958, Alfred...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:38:22 -0400

On this date in history — Today, in 1958, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” premiered in San Francisco, where the film was shot. Today, it considered to be one of the best movies ever made. In fact, this year, the British Film Institute named it the best film ever, sliding “Citizen Kane” into second place — http://bit.ly/YIAUbp.

In The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” — Place, Pilgrimage, and Commemoration, Douglas A. Cunningham has assembled provocative essays that examine the uniquely integrated relationship that the 1958 film enjoys with the histories and cultural imaginations of California and, more specifically, the San Francisco Bay Area.

2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award WinnersScribd’s...

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:43:02 -0400

2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winners

Scribd’s collection of publications that took home prizes at last evening’s 2013 James Beard…

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The 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Awards — Last night,...

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:13:05 -0400

The 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Awards — Last night, the James Beard Foundation announced the annual best of the culinary world, from best chefs to television cooking shows. One of the categories covered books. Here are the James Beard award-winning authors and publications on Scribd. Eat, and try not to be hungry.

Best Reference and Scholarship - The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World
Author: Sandor Ellix Katz
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

The Art of Fermentation is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published. Sandor Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation in ways that are simple enough to guide a reader through their first experience making sauerkraut or yogurt, and in-depth enough to provide greater understanding and insight for experienced practitioners.

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Best International: Jerusalem: A Cookbook
Author: Yotam Ottolenghi & Tamar Sami
Publisher: Ten Speed Press / The Recipe Club

Jerusalem: A Cookbook is a collection of 120 recipes exploring the flavors of Jerusalem from the New York Times bestselling author of Plenty, one of the most lauded cookbooks of 2011.

Recipes included in this excerpt: Na’ama’s Fattoush, Roasted Chicken with Jerusalem Artichoke & Lemon, and Spice Cookies.

In Jerusalem, Yotam Ottolenghi re-teams with his friend (and the co-owner of his restaurants) Sami Tamimi. Together they explore the vibrant cuisine of their home city—with its diverse Muslim, Jewish, Arab, Christian, and Armenian communities. Both men were born in Jerusalem in the same year—Tamimi on the Arab east side and Ottolenghi in the Jewish west. This cookbook offers recipes from their unique cross-cultural perspectives including Charred Baby Okra with Tomato and Preserved Lemon, Braised Lamb Meatballs with Sour Cherries, and Clementine and Almond Cake.

With five bustling restaurants in London and two stellar cookbooks, Ottolenghi is one of the most respected chefs in the world; Jerusalem is his most personal, original, and beautiful cookbook yet.

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Best Writing & Literature: Yes, Chef: A Memoir
Author: Marcus Samuelsson with Veronica Chambers
Publisher: Random House, Inc.

It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother’s house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for dinner. The grandmother is Swedish, a retired domestic. The boy is Ethiopian and adopted, and he will grow up to become the world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson. This book is his love letter to food and family in all its manifestations.

Marcus Samuelsson was only three years old when he, his mother, and his sister—all battling tuberculosis—walked seventy-five miles to a hospital in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Adaba. Tragically, his mother succumbed to the disease shortly after she arrived, but Marcus and his sister recovered, and one year later they were welcomed into a loving middle-class white family in Göteborg, Sweden. It was there that Marcus’s new grandmother, Helga, sparked in him a lifelong passion for food and cooking with her pan-fried herring, her freshly baked bread, and her signature roast chicken. From a very early age, there was little question what Marcus was going to be when he grew up.

Yes, Chef chronicles Marcus Samuelsson’s remarkable journey from Helga’s humble kitchen to some of the most demanding and cutthroat restaurants in Switzerland and France, from his grueling stints on cruise ships to his arrival in New York City, where his outsize talent and ambition finally come together at Aquavit, earning him a coveted New York Times three-star rating at the age of twenty-four. But Samuelsson’s career of “chasing flavors,” as he calls it, had only just begun—in the intervening years, there have been White House state dinners, career crises, reality show triumphs and, most important, the opening of the beloved Red Rooster in Harlem. At Red Rooster, Samuelsson has fufilled his dream of creating a truly diverse, multiracial dining room—a place where presidents and prime ministers rub elbows with jazz musicians, aspiring artists, bus drivers, and nurses. It is a place where an orphan from Ethiopia, raised in Sweden, living in America, can feel at home.

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Best Baking & Dessert: Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast: The Fundamentals
Author: Ken Forkish
Publisher: Ten Speed Press / The Recipe Club

From Portland’s most acclaimed and beloved baker comes this must-have baking guide, featuring scores of recipes for world-class breads and pizzas and a variety of schedules suited for the home baker.In Flour Water Salt Yeast, author Ken Forkish demonstrates that high-quality artisan bread and pizza is within the reach of any home baker. Whether it’s a basic straight dough, dough made with a pre-ferment, or a complex levain, each of Forkish’s impeccable recipes yields exceptional results. Tips on creating and adapting bread baking schedules that fit in reader’s day-to-day lives—enabling them to bake the breads they love in the time they have available—make Flour Water Salt Yeast an indispensable resource for bakers, be they novices or serious enthusiasts.

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Best Single Subject: Ripe
Author: Nigel Slater
Publisher: Ten Speed Press / The Recipe Club

Britain’s foremost food writer Nigel Slater returns to the garden in this sequel to Tender, his acclaimed and beloved volume on vegetables. With a focus on fruit, Ripe is equal parts cookbook, primer on produce and gardening, and affectionate ode to the inspiration behind the book—Slater’s forty-foot backyard garden in London.

Intimate, delicate prose is interwoven with recipes in this lavishly photographed cookbook. Slater offers more than 300 delectable dishes—both sweet and savory—such as Apricot and Pistachio Crumble, Baked Rhubarb with Blueberries, and Crisp Pork Belly with Sweet Peach Salsa. With a personal, almost confessional approach to his appetites and gustatory experiences, Slater has crafted a masterful book that will gently guide you from the garden to the kitchen, and back again.

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What we’re reading today: A sneak preview of A Step of...

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:05:09 -0400

What we’re reading today: A sneak preview of A Step of Faith, the fourth book in the ‘Walk Series’ from Richard Paul Evans. Check it out and read it today, available on May 7 from Simon & Schuster.

The Marketplace for BooksIn the pantheon of publishing, there...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:04:50 -0400

The Marketplace for Books

In the pantheon of publishing, there are so many tools for authors and publishers. The ability to…

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“Embers of War” - Winner of Pulitzer PrizeThe...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:39:12 -0400

“Embers of War” - Winner of Pulitzer Prize

The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought…

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Daddy’s Gone A Hunting- read an exclusive preview of the...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:39:43 -0400

Daddy’s Gone A Hunting- read an exclusive preview of the new novel from Mary Higgins Clark, the beloved, bestselling “Queen of Suspense,” exposes a dark secret from a family’s past that threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and Hannah Connelly, when the family-owned furniture firm in Long Island City, founded by their grandfather and famous for its fine reproductions of antiques, explodes into flames in the middle of the night, leveling the buildings to the ground, including the museum where priceless antiques have been on permanent display for years.The ashes reveal a startling and grisly discovery, and provoke a host of suspicions and questions. Was the explosion deliberately set? What was Kate—tall, gorgeous, blond, a CPA for one of the biggest accounting firms in the country, and sister of a rising fashion designer—doing in the museum when it burst into flames? Why was Gus, a retired and disgruntled craftsman, with her at that time of night? What if someone isn’t who he claims to be?Now Gus is dead, and Kate lies in the hospital badly injured and in a coma, so neither can tell what drew them there, or what the tragedy may have to do with the hunt for a young woman missing for many years, nor can they warn that somebody may be covering his tracks, willing to kill to save himself …Step by step, in a novel of dazzling suspense and excitement, Mary Higgins Clark once again demonstrates the mastery of her craft that has made her books international bestsellers for years. She presents the reader with a perplexing mystery, a puzzling question of identity, and a fascinating cast of characters—one of whom may just be a ruthless killer

Meet the Author: Hugh Howey to Visit ScribdView Post

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:03:55 -0400

Meet the Author: Hugh Howey to Visit Scribd

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Here at Scribd, we are proud to celebrate the birthday of one of...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:26:43 -0400

Here at Scribd, we are proud to celebrate the birthday of one of the greatest, most celebrated scientific minds in history. Happy birthday to Albert Einstein. Check out two publications by our friends at Hyperink Publishers and Vintage Books, My Einstein.

Tomorrow Should Never Happen: The Unique Publishing Deal...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:47:42 -0400

Tomorrow Should Never Happen: The Unique Publishing Deal Behind “Wool”

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In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:57:36 -0400

In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo’s rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside.His fateful decision unleashes a drastic series of events. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo, and she will soon learn just how badly her world is broken. The silo is about to confront what its history has only hinted about and its inhabitants have never dared to whisper. Uprising. | http://www.scribd.com/doc/129755976/WOOL-by-Hugh-Howey

The Queen’s GambitView Post

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:52:27 -0500

The Queen’s Gambit

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For fans of historical fiction, come discover the world of the...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:47:09 -0500

For fans of historical fiction, come discover the world of the Tudor court and the life and loves of the clever, charismatic Katherine Parr, Henry VIII’s sixth and last wife. Read a sneak preview of Simon & Schuster’s “The Queen’s Gambit,” the historical fiction debut of Elizabeth Fremantle: http://bit.ly/Y0GxxX

The DemonologistView Post

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:17:46 -0500

The Demonologist

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Introducing Reading ProgressView Post

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:54:09 -0500

Introducing Reading Progress

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