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Sebastian Junger's upcoming WAR and Nathaniel Philbrick's THE LAST STAND made Entertainment Weekly's list of "18 Books We Can't Wait to Read This Summer." THE LAST STAND will be published by Viking on May 4th; WAR will be published by Twelve Publishers on May 11th . Congratulations!

Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's documentary film "Restrepo" was awarded the 2010 Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.   The film follows a single platoon of soldiers at a remote and dangerous outpost in Eastern Afghanistan for the course of their fifteen month deployment.  The soldiers' experience -- a year of intense combat -- is the subject of Junger's forthcoming book WAR (Twelve, May 11th, 2010).

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ROCKET MEN named one of the five best audio books of 2009 in the Publisher's Weekly ListenUp Awards. Congratulations, Craig.

WAR, Sebastian Junger's book about American soldiers in Afghanistan, is spotlighted on Business Week's list of Most Anticipated Books of 2010. Congratulations, Sebastian.

In his "Best Business Books 2009" article in strategy+business, Steven Levy named SAY EVERYTHING: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming and Why It Matters by Scott Rosenberg the "the best technology-related business book of the year." Congratulations, Scott.

Professor Micho Kaku, bestselling author and renowned theoretical physicist, will be the host of a new half-hour Science Channel television series, SCI FI SCIENCE.   Based on his New York Times bestselling book PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, Sci Fi Science explores the facts behind phenomena that have traditionally been thought impossible -- from telekinesis to invisibility cloaks, time-travel and teleportation -- and looks at how modern physics might some day make the impossible come to life.  The series can be seen on Tuesday evenings at 10 p.m., starting December 1st

Author David Roberts won the James Monroe Thorington Award for the Best Work of Mountaineering History at the Banff Mountain Book Festival for his book, THE LAST OF HIS KIND: the Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America’s Boldest Mountaineer.

Julia Keller's debut novel, BACK HOME appears on Booklist's Top Ten First Novels For Youth!

David L. Marcus’ new book ACCEPTANCE: appears on Bloomberg’s list of Top Five Non-Fiction Books – along with new books by Jon Krakauer, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and Neil Sheehan.