Word: bringing
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Young-adult novels, as the genre used to be called, still center on disenfranchised adolescents who could be direct descendants of Holden Caulfield. Now, though, says Stephen Roxburgh, president and publisher of Front Street Books, "the heat has been turned up." Front Street helped bring so-called bleak books to early teens in 1997 when it published one book set in a juvenile-detention facility (Adam Rapp's The Buffalo Tree) and another in which a 13-year-old sleeps with her mother's boss (Brock Cole's The Facts Speak for Themselves). They were followed by Melvin Burgess...
...missing. "The best part of the music was never heard by the people," he says. "Because the best part is the beginning--when I'm sitting down writing the music with an acoustic guitar. There's so much feeling, so much chills. We wanted to get that across." To bring back the chills, the group brought in veteran producer Don Was (a respected studio vet who has worked with Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones) to help it capture the essence of the music, to strip away studio trickery and pop excess. The group has worked with outside producers before...
...recent missile attack on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade by the King of Superpowers, the U.S., is threatening to bring back Mao-like communist hard-liners, who once dominated Mongolia...
...scariest of all, recovering Master of Terror Stephen King could always bring back that nastiest King of Mongrels, Cujo...
...also targeted Haiti. DEA officials believe as much as 15 percent of the cocaine in the U.S. may be coming through it capital, Port-au-Prince. There is growing speculation that former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide could profit from the chaos: A total collapse may encourage his supporters to bring him back to power...