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Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story has appeared on numerous bestseller lists since its publication September 7. It debuted on the New York Times bestseller list at #10 and the Indie bestseller list at #6. |
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You can read Sue's response to this provocative question on The Women's Conference Web site www.californiawomen.org/xx-effect along with responses from nine other women, who range in age from their twenties to their sixties. The answers are intended to start up conversations among women in connection with the release of the "Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation." The report, released in October 2009, is the result of an exhaustive study by Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress about the status of women today, pointing to a major tipping point in our nation's social and economic history. |
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Traveling with Pomegranates is a top twenty pick for the September “Indie Next” list. This monthly list of “great reads” from the American Booksellers Association's features twenty “inspired recommendations,” nominated by independent booksellers. |
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Author, Sue Monk Kidd talks with the Women's Conference about motherhood, raising a daughter, and co-writing Traveling with Pomegranates with Ann at www.californiawomen.org/mother-daughter. Ann and Sue will speak and sign books at the Night at the Village on October 26, 2009 as part of The Women's Conference, an annual event hosted by California First Lady Maria Shriver. |
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Sue and her daughter, Ann, spent several days in a recording studio, reading the audio edition of their co-authored book, Traveling with Pomegranates. This mother-daughter memoir, which tells the story of their travels together at a particularly poignant time in each of their lives, as well as the story of their search for one another, was written in their alternating voices. The recording allows readers to hear Sue and Ann bring their stories alive in their own words. It will be available from Penguin Audio Sept 8, 2009. |
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Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor delivered the commencement address May 2009 at Ann's Alma Mater-- Columbia College in South Carolina. This 4 1/2 minute video clip features Sue and Ann weaving together their stories of becoming writers |
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The Secret Life of Bees movie won two People’s Choice Awards at the 35th annual awards ceremony, taking home Best Movie Drama and Best Independent Movie. The ceremony was broadcast live January 7, 2009 on CBS from Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, with Queen Latifah as host. Winners are determined in a national vote by “the people.” |
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Sue's new book, Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story, co-authored with her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor, will be published September 8, 2009 by Viking. Set against the backdrop of Sue and Ann's travels together in Greece and France, this dual memoir offers distinct perspectives from two women at different stages in life-- a fifty something and a twenty something, each at crossroads, each on a quest to redefine herself, and rediscover one another. |
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The 40th annual NAACP Image Awards were televised live on Fox Thursday, February 12th from Los Angeles. Leading with eight nominations, The Secret Life of Bees won awards for Most Outstanding Picture and Best Director. On hand to accept the award for Most Outstanding Picture were producers Lauren Shuler Donner, Joe Pichirallo, Will and Jada Smith, director Gina Prince-Bythewood, and cast members Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Nate Parker, and Tristan Wilds.
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 The Secret Life of Bees movie will be released on DVD and Blue-ray on Feb. 3, 2009 by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Included as Bonus Features on the DVD are the theatrical version of the film, a special Director's Extended Cut with never-before-seen footage, Deleted Scenes, Inside the Pink House with Sue Monk Kidd, The World Premiere, The Men and Women of The Secret Life of Bees, Adaptation: Bringing The Secret Life of Bees To The Big Screen, and Commentary featuring Director/Writer Gina Prince-Bythewood, Producers Lauren Shuler Donner and Joe Pichirallo, Actors Dakota Fanning And Queen Latifah. In addition to these features, the Blue-Ray disc will include an exclusive featurette starring Dakota Fanning entitled, Bee Keeping 101.
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