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Blog on Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·15 Aug 2017

I took the last two weeks off from blogging. It was a nice vacation. While I try to blog every day, I don’t have a daily ritual like Fred Wilson does.

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·19 Mar 2017

by Claire Annette Noland ; illustrated by Susie Oh ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A fetching invitation to learn while moving alongside some young wrigglers.

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·1 Feb 2017

by Connor Williams ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A bit overcooked, but of interest as a document in a growing school of thought about America’s bloodiest conflict.

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·1 Feb 2017

by Janet Reitman ‧ RELEASE DATE: tomorrow A powerful portrait of homegrown terrorism and a host of misguided efforts to contain it.

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·1 Feb 2017

by Miriam Pawel ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A timely, sweeping examination of a major institution of higher education.

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·1 Feb 2017

by Kristin Kobes Du Mez ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A smart, endlessly interesting exercise in connecting cultural dots to learn how we got here. Investigating the roots of Christian women’s culture.

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·13 Oct 2015

by Susan Neiman ‧ RELEASE DATE: tomorrow Advocates a return to moral universalism as a panacea for an erosion of values.

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·29 Sept 2015

by Miliann Kang ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A necessary book about how motherhood narratives shape racial ones. An academic analysis of the ways in which Asian American mothers are misunderstood.

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·28 Mar 2015

by Douglas Smith ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A magnificent history of Vienna’s antisemitic past, told through the voices of those who lived and died there. Empty streets.

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Blog on Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·5 Mar 2015

As my newest book, Startup Opportunities: Know When To Quit Your Day Job, has begun shipping on Kindle (order now and give me feedback, leave a review) I’ve been thinking a lot about writing...

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·17 Nov 2014

by Joanne Foster ; illustrated by Brandon Dorman ‧ RELEASE DATE: today Has all the characteristics of a classic bedtime story.

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·22 Oct 2014

by Bec Woods ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A compelling dystopian tale that shows how a single variable can determine whether an oppressive system stands or falls.

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·3 Sept 2011

by Kevin Barrett ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A lucid, practical system that offers a useful framework but few fresh concepts.

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·19 Jul 2011

by Lyndsay Roberts Rayne ; illustrated by Lyndsay Roberts Rayne ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A masterwork of visual storytelling that honors both animal sacrifice and the sustaining power of love during...

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·25 Jan 2011

by Claire Saunders ; illustrated by Wesley Robins ‧ RELEASE DATE: today Brief but lucidly presented snapshots of ancient Greece.

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·15 Jan 2006

by Aliza Luft ‧ RELEASE DATE: yesterday An exceptional addition to the genre of Holocaust histories. Examining France’s gradual slide toward genocide in the Nazi and Vichy era.

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·15 Jan 2006

by Anita Lasker-Wallfisch ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A moving memoir and a testament to good fortune. A survivor’s tale.

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·1 Sept 2005

by Eric A. Clayton ‧ RELEASE DATE: today An insightful spiritual guide that takes a refreshingly unconventional approach. A contemplative guide to spirituality.

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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·1 Sept 2005

by Pat Croce ‧ RELEASE DATE: today An approachable guide to mindfulness that occasionally oversimplifies the nature of suffering.

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