Grammy(R) Award Winner Leann Rimes, Eddie Cibrian ('Ugly Betty') and Golden Globe(R) and Emmy(R) Award Nominee Rosanna Arquette ('Desperately Seeking Susan') To Star in The Lifetime Original Movie 'Nora Roberts' Northern Lights,' To Premier Nov 8, 2008
Some additional credits include: the highest rated television movie of its season, CBS' "The Pilot's Wife," based on Anita Shreve's bestseller and starring Emmy and Oscar award winner Christine Lahti; the ABC special effects extravaganza "Superfire," created by best-selling authors Richard Preston and Doug Preston; ABC's "King of the World: The Muhammad Ali Story," based upon the book by Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick and starring Terrence Howard; ABC's "Holiday In Your Heart," starring... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Tree climbing a natural high Aug 23, 2008
Author Richard Preston took Jenkins course and later wrote a well-received book, The Wild Trees, which focused on the obsession of a scientist bent on studying the canopies of the West Coast s redwoods, some of nature s oldest, tallest and most magnificent creations. Photographs of climbers suspended 200 feet up the massive trunk of a redwood are startling, as are details of the challenges and deeply moving, even spiritual aspects of spending time in the high canopies. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Off the shelf Aug 2, 2008
Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone, brings us Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science. This is another collection of the author s most gripping scientific essays. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Richard Preston will press your buttons in 'Panic in Level 4' Jun 17, 2008
The cover of Richard Preston's new book ... Richard Preston took seven years to write the final chapter of Panic in Level 4, "The Self-Cannibals." It describes two men with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, a mysterious, little-understood genetic condition that forces people to injure themselves, literally ... Richard Preston will press your buttons in 'Panic in Level 4. (USA Today -- Tech)
New Releases May 26, 2008
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science, Richard Preston (Random House) ... In a series of essays, New Yorker contributor Richard Preston ("The Hot Zone") probes curiosities like the "self cannibals" who (and if you haven't finished breakfast, go no further) are compelled to chew on their own flesh due to a DNA anomaly and two computer-whiz brothers who built a monster computer in their apartment. (Boston Globe)
New in paper: Notable reprints Mar 6, 2008
The Wild Trees by Richard Preston (Random House, $16, reprint). Naturalists study the canopies of Northern California's redwoods, the world's tallest trees; non-fiction. (USA Today -- Life)
Dec. 18: Our readers write Dec 23, 2007
Agree w/Craig wrote on Dec 21, 2007 12:28 PM:" I agree, thank goodness that Kenny Tabb, Bill Brandenburg, and Richard Preston were at the Hardin County Fiscal Court meeting to question Judge Berrys one sided, and sometimes inaccurate, proposal. Folks should really visit the Hardin County Government website and look at the unprofessional powerpoint presentation that was presented about the county government office complex proposal. http://www.hcky.org/index.asp ". craig sanders wrote on Dec 19,... (News Enterprise Online)
'Whatever...blah, blah, blah' Jul 23, 2007
Little credit is given or expected, but the Daily Telegraph in London deserves special praise for its recent effort, She Literally Exploded: The Daily Telegraph Infuriating Phrasebook, by Christopher Howse and Richard Preston, built on the indignant flow of responses the paper received when it asked readers to submit words and phrases that really irritated them. The surprise to come out of the book was the extent of pent-up irritation toward restaurants and gastronomic terms we accept but... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Nova Scotia museum traces civil rights in Canada Jun 22, 2007
The Rev. Richard Preston, a former slave who escaped to Nova Scotia, then trained for the ministry in England and founded 11 Baptist churches in Nova Scotia as well as the African United Baptist Association, an influential African Canadian community group, in 1854. Portia White, a classical singer who toured worldwide from the 1940s to the 1960s and performed for Queen Elizabeth II.. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Bestsellers List Jun 7, 2007
The Wild Trees Richard Preston, Random House, $25. 95, 9781400064892 All about the Redwood trees of California and the people who love them. (Scranton Times, PA)
Writer's Paradise Jun 7, 2007
Hot Zone author Richard Preston, who lives in nearby Hopewell, studied narrative nonfiction under McPhee while earning his doctoral degree in English at the university. Upton Sinclair came to Princeton for the university's collection of Civil War documents in order to research his 1904 novel, Manassas. (Manville News, NJ)
* New York Times bestsellers (hardcover) May 6, 2007
THE WILD TREES by Richard Preston Random House The people who climb the massive California redwoods to study the complex life in their canopies. 11. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
New book traces love of redwoods Apr 19, 2007
The latest book by best-selling author Richard Preston is "The Wild Trees", set on the Northcoast ... Not that anyone in Richard Preston's "The Wild Trees" actually does this, but such lusty abandon (down to an account of lovemaking in a forest canopy) abounds in this book. (Daily Triplicate)
More of this story Mar 11, 2007
It is hard to narrow down the options, but the highlights include the March 14 discussion with Lisa Margonelli, author of Oil on the Brain: Adventures From the Pump to the Pipeline, and an April 18 encounter with Richard Preston, author of The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring, as well as the non-fiction Ebola virus thriller The Hot Zone. But the program the night before promises to be one of the most appetizing. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Editors unite over FoI changes Feb 28, 2007
Also attending were the Guardian's FoI specialist Rob Evans, Sunday Telegraph FoI specialist Ben Leapman and Daily Telegraph home news editor Richard Preston. The Department of Constitutional Affairs wants to restrict freedom of information requests to save 10m. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
