Check out the Washington Post Book World's recent review of Daoud Hari 's The Translator.

"The Translator, by Daoud Hari, a native Darfurian, may be the biggest small book of this year, or any year. In roughly 200 pages of simple, lucid prose, it lays open the Darfur genocide more intimately and powerfully than do a dozen books by journalists or academic experts. Hari and his co-writers achieve this in a voice that is restrained, generous, gentle and -- astonishingly -- humorous. He is not an Elie Wiesel or a Simon Wiesenthal speaking the unspeakable in words so searing as to be practically unbearable. I, for one, am grateful for that. In these times, when news of carnage and atrocity comes at us so insistently, Hari's tone allows the vastness of Darfur's suffering to seep into the reader's consciousness in a way that a raw, more emotional telling might not."

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Congratulations to Lynne Olson.  Her book, Troublesome Young Men, has been nominated for a LA Times Book Award.

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Congratulations to Ric Edelman.  His latest book, Lies About Money, has been awarded a Gold Medal in the Personal Finance category by the Axiom Business Book Awards. 

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Congratulations to Sarah Susanka (The Not So Big Life ) and Dr. Anita Clayton & Robin Cantor-Cooke (Satisfaction). Their work has been nominated for a Books for a Better Life award. These awards recognize and pay tribute to outstanding and influential self-help, motivational, self-improvement or advice books.

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Congratulations to Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik and David Pitt-Watson.  Their book: The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda (Harvard Business School Press 2006) has been named

Book of the Year by The Corporate Library.

"The book's lively style, colorful anecdotes, and impeccable reasoning make it a pleasure to read. The authors, three of the most respected and experienced thinkers in the field of corporate governance, with particularly detailed understanding of non-US issues and events, write with clarity, energy, and insight, and with a flair for the evocative ("financial amphetamines," "the pathological pursuit of profit," "toxic lullaby"). It's organization is user-friendly, rewarding both the skimmer (who can flip to the "takeaways") and the in-depth reader, who will want to return to it often as a resource and a call to action."