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Now showing at My Book, The Movie: Saint-Germain Chronicles by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.The entry begins:When asked what actor I would like to play Saint-Germain, for the last quarter century, I've said James Mason in 1954. He was short, he was smart, he was a grown-up, he had incredible dark eyes, ...
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The current featured contributor at Writers Read: John Lutz, author of Urge To Kill.One book he mentions:In the Woods, by Tana French. It won the Edgar for best first novel a few years ago, and I picked it up as a giveaway on the way out of the awards banquet. Finally I got around to reading it. ...
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For Beirut39, "39 authors under 39" were chosen by a jury of four well-known and respected Arab writers, academics and journalists: Abdo Wazen, Lebanese poet and cultural editor of the international daily Al-Hayat newspaper; Alawiya Sobh, Lebanese writer; Saif Al Rahbi, Omani poet and ...
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Dr. Seuss
The Egyptian
The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Candle in the Storm (The Shadowed Path Book 2) by Morgan Howell.About the book, from the publisher:The malign shadow of the Devourer has darkened the land, extinguishing life and hope. The followers of the benevolent goddess Karm are hunted mercilessly ...
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The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era by Michael Oriard.About the book, from the publisher:In this compellingly argued and deeply personal book, respected sports historian Michael Oriard--who was himself a former ...
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Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box's novels include the Joe Pickett series. He’s also won the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, and the Barry Award. For the Guardian, he named a top ten list of US crime novelists who own their home turf.One ...
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Edgar Award
Macavity Award
The current featured couple at Coffee with a Canine: Starr Ambrose & Nikita.Ambrose, on how Nikita came to her household:We adopted Nikita when she was one year old, rescuing her from death row at the pound. Her owners were tired of bailing out their little escape artist, and no one else was ...
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The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Typhoon by Charles Cumming.About the book, from the publisher:Charles Cumming, lauded internationally as the successor to John le Carré, returns with his biggest, most ambitious thriller to date. Beginning in 1997, just as the British are about to re - ...
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New York Times science writer Natalie Angier won a Pulitzer prize in the category of beat reporting, for a series of 10 feature articles on a wide array of scientific topics. She is the author of Woman: An Intimate Geography and The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science.She ...
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The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Katrina Kenison, author of The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir.Part of her entry:Having recently published a memoir of my own, I’m reading about other people’s lives these days with an even greater sense of urgency than usual. I’ve ...
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One title on the A.V. Club's list of the 10 best short-story collections of the ’00s:Shakespeare’s Kitchen, Lore Segal (2007)One of the prominent recent movements in short-story collections has been to create books of interconnected short stories, the better to lull readers into thinking they’re ...
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Olive Kitteridge
The current featured duo at Coffee with a Canine: Kim Werker and Cleo.Werker, on how Cleo got her name:My partner originally wanted to name her after the Grateful Dead song "Cassidy." I hate the Grateful Dead. I fought tooth and nail against "Cassidy" – the thought of naming our puppy after the ...
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Kim Harrison
The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human by Kelly Oliver.About the book, from the publisher:Philosophy reads humanity against animality, arguing that "man" is man because he is separate from beast. Deftly challenging this position, Kelly Oliver ...
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The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Delilah by India Edghill, author of Queenmaker.About the book, from the publisher:Given to the temple of Atargatis as a child, Delilah is raised to be a priestess to the Five Cities that rule Canaan. With her beloved friend Aylah, Delilah grows up under ...
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The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Susan Breen, author of The Fiction Class.From her entry:Every October when the finalists for the National Book Award are announced, I go out and buy the five books. (I consider that to be my annual Christmas present to myself and the book ...
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Rebecca Stott is a professor of English literature and creative writing at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. She is the author of the novels The Coral Thief and Ghostwalk and a biography, Darwin and the Barnacle, and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio.For the Wall Street Journal, she ...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Now showing at My Book, The Movie: Red by Jordan Summers.The entry begins:If I could choose a director for my novel, Red, it would be an easy decision. I love a lot of different directors, but Peter Jackson would have the job. I believe he (and Weta) could do wonders with the post-apocalyptic ...
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Robert Jordan
The current feature at the Page 69 Test: The Hollow People by Brian Keaney.About the book, from the publisher:How do you come of age under a mind-controlling dictatorship?In Tanegar, a sinister island where the laws of the mysterious Dr. Sigmundus hold sway, dreaming will get you locked up and ...
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At the Guardian, John Mullan named ten of the best chases in literature.One chase on the list:Rogue Male by Geoffrey HouseholdAn English country gentleman has tried to use his hunting skills to stalk a foreign dictator. Now the tyrant's secret police are after him. Much of the novel is a ...
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This weekend's feature at the Page 99 Test: Genetic Rounds: A Doctor's Encounters in the Field that Revolutionized Medicine by Robert Marion, M.D..About the book, from the publisher:Renowned pediatrician and author Dr. Robert Marion, whose bestselling book The Intern Blues is revered by doctors ...
