Carol Kellerman taught Spanish before becoming a secondary school librarian, receiving the AASL/SIRS Intellectual Freedom Award in 1986. She now promotes and participates in the "reading to a dog" program for elementary students who are having reading problems. She has reviewed audio books for 15 years
Tue, Oct 14, 2008
Catherine Asaro’s fiction is a successful blend of hard science fiction, romance, and exciting space adventure. Her novel, The Quantum Rose, won the Nebula Award for best novel of 2001. She is a three-time winner of the Romantic Times Book Club award for “Best Science Fiction Novel.”
Ann Littlewood was a zoo keeper in Portland, Oregon for twelve years. She raised lions and cougars, an orangutan; and native mammals, as well as parrots, penguins, and a multitude of owls. The financial realities of raising primates (two boys of her own) led Ann to exchange a hose and rubber boots for a briefcase and pantsuit in the healthcare industry. Ann has maintained her membership in the American Association of Zookeepers and has kept in touch with the zoo world by visiting zoos and through friendships with zoo staffers.
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
Patricia Cornwell’s most recent bestsellers include Book of the Dead, The Front, and Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed. Her earlier works include Postmortem—the only novel to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards and the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure in a single year—and Cruel and Unusual, which won Britain’s prestigious Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of 1993. Dr. Kay Scarpetta herself won the 1999 Sherlock Award for the best detective created by an American author.
Michael McGarrity is the author of eleven Kevin Kerney novels, including the Anthony Award-nominated Tularosa. A former deputy sheriff for Santa Fe County, he has also served as an instructor at the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy and as an investigator for the New Mexico Public Defender’s Office.
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
Lori Marie Carlson is the author of two novels, two landmark bilingual poetry anthologies, and many other young adult and children's books. Oscar Hijuelos is a first-generation Cuban American and the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He has written six novels, the most recent of which is A Simple Habana Melody. They live in New York City.
Wed, Dec 24, 2008
Kathy Reichs, like her fictional creation, Temperance Brennan, is forensic anthropologist for the province of Quebec. She is Vice President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, serves on the Canadian National Police Services Advisory Council, and is one of only fifty-six forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. A professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Dr. Reichs now divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal. Déjà Dead, her debut novel, brought her fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. In 2007 Break No Bones was short-listed for the Ellis Award for Best Novel. Kathy Reichs is the inspiration for the television drama Bones; her latest novel featuring Temperance Brennan is Bones to Ashes.
Carol Goodman is the author of The Night Villa and The Lake of Dead Languages. Her work has appeared in such journals as The Greensboro Review, Literal Latté, The Midwest Quarterly, and Other Voices. After graduation from Vassar College, where she majored in Latin, she taught Latin for several years in Austin, Texas. She then received an M.F.A. in fiction from the New School University. Goodman currently teaches writing and works as a writer-in-residence for Teachers & Writers. She lives on Long Island.
Sat, Feb 21, 2009
Elizabeth Peters was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Peters was named Grand Master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar Awards in 1998, and given the Lifetime Achievement Award at Malice Domestic in 2003. She lives in a historic farmhouse in western Maryland.
Sat, Feb 21, 2009
Margaret Maron grew up on a farm near Raleigh and lived in Brooklyn for many years. Returning to her North Carolina roots prompted Marcia to write a series based on her own background, the first of which, BOOTLEGGER'S DAUGHTER, was a Washington Post bestseller and swept the major mystery awards for 1993. DEATH'S HALF ACRE is the fourteenth book in the acclaimed Deborah Knott series.
Thu, Apr 30, 2009
Sinclair Lewis's Babbit is generally considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time.
Mon, Jun 01, 2009
Tim Maleeny is the Macavity Award-winning author of Stealing The Dragon, a novel Lee Child called “a perfect thriller debut” that was named a “Killer Book” by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
M. F. BLOXAM has lived in Sicily and the United States and is currently residing on New Hampshire’s coastline. She is the author of prize-winning short fiction and creative nonfiction. A background in anthropology and museum work informs her writing.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Jonathan Carroll's novel The Wooden Sea was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2001. He is the author of such acclaimed novels as White Apples, The Land of Laughs, The Marriage of Sticks, and Bones of the Moon. He lives in Vienna, Austria.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Ally O’Brien is the pseudonym for a writing duo that includes an international bestselling author of suspense novels and a successful, well-known international entertainment agent based in London. Visit them at www.allyobrien.com.
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Author Muriel Barbery’s second novel was an unexpected, then overwhelming, success in France, and now throughout the world. The author has drawn on her background as an instructor of philosophy in her creation, characters and themes.
Wed, Sep 30, 2009
William Luce has adapted his acclaimed Broadway hit especially for audio in this dramatization.
Sun, Sep 27, 2009
Meg Gardiner is the author of The Memory Collector, The Dirty Secrets Club, and five novels in the Evan Delaney series, including China Lake which recently won the Edgar Award for best paperback original. She lives with her family near London.
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Laura Resau lived in the Mixtec region of Oaxaca, Mexico, for two years as an English teacher and anthropologist. She now lives with her husband and her dog in Colorado.
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Lauren Myracle is the New York Times bestselling author of Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen and The Fashion Disaster That Changed My Life, as well as the Internet Girls series (ttyl) and Bliss (Abrams). Lauren lives with her family in Colorado.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
This is the fifth novel in the author's Pink Carnation series of historical mystery/romances.
Tue, Dec 22, 2009
Elisabeth Hyde was born and raised in New Hampshire, and briefly practiced law for the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. In 1982, she took some time off to write her first novel, Her Native Colors, and never looked back. She has been awarded working scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, teaches creative writing through artist-in-residence programs, and is also the author of Monoosook Valley and Crazy as Chocolate. She lives in Colorado with her family.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Carolyn Wall is an editor and lecturer. As an artist-in residence, she has taught creative writing to more than 4,000 children in Oklahoma, where she is at work on her second novel, The Coffin Maker, coming from Delta in 2010.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Karin Slaughter is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Fractured, Beyond Reach, Triptych, Faithless, A Faint Cold Fear, which was named an International Book-of-the-Month Club selection, Indelible, Kisscut, and Blindsighted; she contributed to and edited Like a Charm. She is a native of Georgia, where she currently lives and is working on her next novel.
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Julie Schumacher is the author of three books for middle-grade readers. This is her first YA novel. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Lauren Groff was born in Cooperstown, New York, from which she drew inspiration for her first novel, The Monsters of Templeton. Her short stories have appeared in several literary publications, and she has won fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and Yaddo. She received a Pushcart Prize for her story "Lucky Chow Fun."
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
George Dawes Green is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The Caveman's Valentine, as well as a poet whose work has appeared in The Ontario Review, Carolina Quarterly, and other literary publications. He lives in Key West, Florida.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Linda Hall is the author of eight novels, including the bestselling Margaret's Peace, and seven nonfiction works. A fiction writing teacher and former journalist and English teacher, she grew up in a pastor's home in New Jersey and attended Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, where she met her Canadian husband, Rik. The couple live in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and have two grown children.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Tami Hoag began her writing career at the age of nine with the self-published, self-illustrated third-grade hit Black Pony. With thirteen consecutive Times bestsellers to her credit, including The Alibi Man, Prior Bad Acts, Dark Horse, and Kill The Messenger, Hoag is published in more than twenty languages worldwide. Her first thriller, Night Sins, was made into a two-part mini-series in 1997, and continues to air frequently on cable networks more than a decade later.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
ANN M. MARTIN is the author of the Baby-sitters club and Main Street series; the novels Belle Teal, A Corner of the Universe (winner of the Newbery Honor), Here Today, and On Christmas Eve, as well as the Doll People novels (written with Laura Godwin and illustrated by Brian Selznick); and the novels P. S. Longer Letter Later and Snail Mail No More, written with Paula Danziger. Ann lives in upstate New York with her beloved dog, Sadie, whose mother was a stray, and several rescued cats.
Sat, May 01, 2010
HA JIN left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of five novels, three story collections, and three books of poetry. He has received the National Book Award, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Asian American Literary Award, and the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Ha Jin lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University.m
Sat, May 01, 2010
Kenneth Lonergan has had his work performed at Naked Angels, H.B. Playwrights' Foundation, Atlantic Theatre Company, Manhattan Punchline, the Royal Court Theatre (London), the first annual Young Playwrights' Festival at Circle Rep, and the Coast Theatre in Los Angeles. Currently working on an original screenplay for Universal and soon to direct his first film, You Can Count On Me, based on his original screenplay, he is co-author of the story and screenplay for the hit movie Analyze This. He lives in New York.
Sat, May 01, 2010
Amazon author note: Kathryn Fitzmaurice taught elementary school for six years before becoming a full-time writer. She lives in Monarch Beach, California, not far from the swallows' roost, with her husband and two sons. This is her first novel.
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Jennifer Crusie is the New York Times, Publishers Weekly,and USA Today bestselling author of Tell Me Lies, Crazy for You, Welcome to Temptation, Fast Women, Faking It,and Bet Me. Bob Mayer has written thrillers, science fiction, and nonfiction under his own name and the pen name Robert Doherty. He has more than two million books in print and is published in a dozen foreign countries. Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer are the authors of Don't Look Downand Agnes and the Hitman. Visit their website at www.crusiemayer.com
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. His other works include two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than thirty screenplays, including the coauthorship of Brokeback Mountain, for which he received an Academy Award. He lives in Archer City, Texas.
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Maaza Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A recent Pushcart Prize nominee, she was named "New Literary Idol" by New York magazine. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of the Sister Jane novels–Outfoxed, Hotspur, Full Cry, The Hunt Ball, The Hounds and the Fury, The Tell-Tale Horse, and Hounded to Death–as well as the Sneaky Pie Brown mysteries and Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day, Six of One, and The Sand Castle, among many others. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia.
Wed, Sep 01, 2010
Frank Coates was born in Melbourne, Australia.. He worked for many years as a telecommunications engineer in Australia then moved to Africa and spent many years there. When Tears of the Maasai made the best-seller's list in 2004, Coates retired from the telecommunications industry to write full time. He now lives in Sydney's Northern Beaches area.
Wed, Sep 01, 2010
Louise Erdrich is the author of thirteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, short stories, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel Love Medicine won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse was a finalist for the National Book Award. Most recently, The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Louise Erdrich lives in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore.
Fri, Oct 01, 2010
C.J. Box is the author of ten Joe Pickett novels and two stand- alones, and has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38. He lives outside Cheyenne, Wyoming, with his family.
Fri, Oct 01, 2010
Elizabeth Lowell is the author of many remarkable New York Times best-selling historical and contemporary novels. She lives in Washington with her husband with whom she writes mystery novels under a pseudonym.
Fri, Oct 01, 2010
A former public defender, Ayelet Waldman left the legal life to write about topics close to her heart: marriage (she's married to fellow author Michael Chabon) and motherhood. She broke out with her clever series of Mommy-Track mysteries, and has garnered praise for the stand-alone novels Daughter's Keeper and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits.
Sun, May 01, 2011
Vicki Myron was Dewey's Mom and the director of the Spencer Public Library for twenty years. As the author of the bestseller Dewey, she speaks throughout the country. Myron lives in Spencer, Iowa.
Mon, Nov 01, 2010
Tarquin Hall is a British author and journalist who has lived and worked throughout South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He is the author of The Case of the Missing Servant, dozens of articles, and three works of non-fiction, including the highly acclaimed Salaam Brick Lane, an account of a year spent above a Bangladeshi sweat shop in London's notorious East End. He is married to Indian-born journalist, Anu Anand. They divide their time between London and Delhi.
Wed, Dec 01, 2010
Allie Larkin lives in Rochester, New York, with her husband and their two German Shepherds. Stay is her first novel.
Wed, Dec 01, 2010
M.J. Rose, is the international bestselling author of ten novels. She is a founding member and board member of International Thriller Writers and the founder of the first marketing company for authors: AuthorBuzz.com.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Lee Vance is a graduate of Harvard Business School and a retired general partner of Goldman Sachs Group. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
JIM GORANT has worked as a magazine editor and writer for twenty years and is currently a senior editor at Sports Illustrated. His work has appeared in such magazines as Men's Health, GQ, and Outside. He is also the author of Fanatic: 10 Things All Sports Fans Should Do Before They Die.
Tue, Feb 01, 2011
GREG KINCAID lives on a farm in eastern Kansas with his wife, two cats, and two dogs, including Rudy, adopted from a local shelter. When not writing, he is a practicing lawyer and pet-adoption advocate.
Tue, Feb 01, 2011
Barbara Taylor Bradford started her writing career in the 1960s as a journalist who felt destined to become "a hard-bitten reporter in a dirty trenchcoat." However, her breakout bestseller, A Woman of Substance (1979), sparked her prolific career as the author of thrilling novels of romance and intrigue.
Tue, Mar 01, 2011
Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Invisible, Man in the Dark, Travels in the Scriptorium, The Brooklyn Follies, and Oracle Night. I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project anthology, which he edited, was a national bestseller. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages.
Tue, Mar 01, 2011
Beverly Jensen earned an MFA in drama from Southern Methodist University. After her death in 2003, her story "Wake" was published in the New England Review, included in The Best American Short Stories of 2007, and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Tue, Mar 01, 2011
Jeremy Duns is a journalist who grew up mainly in Africa and Asia. His work has been published in MOJO, The Independent, Time Out, and Japanese Playboy
Tue, Mar 01, 2011
Glenn Plaskin, a resident of New York City, is surrounded by more than 300 dogs in his Battery Park City complex, a neighborhood that inspired this book and the remarkable events in it.
Fri, Apr 01, 2011
Actress Carol Drinkwater is best known for her role as Helen Herriot in the BBC series ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL. Also an accomplished novelist, she has achieved bestselling status with her much-loved memoirs, The Olive Farm series. She is currently working with UNESCO on a lavish documentary series inspired by THE OLIVE ROUTE and THE OLIVE TREE.
Sun, May 01, 2011
With thirteen consecutive bestsellers to her credit, including The Alibi Man, Prior Bad Acts, Dark Horse, and Kill The Messenger, Hoag has more than 35 million books in print, published in more than twenty languages worldwide. Her first thriller, Night Sins, was made into a two-part mini-series in 1997, and continues to air frequently on cable networks more than a decade later.
Sun, May 01, 2011
Louis de Bernieres is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book in 1995. His most recent novel is A Partisan's Daughter
Wed, Jun 01, 2011
Linda Emond’s outstanding reading in this suspenseful psychological thriller captures all the emotional pain….
Fri, Jul 01, 2011
Each novel in the series, each hailed by critics as a “shaggy pig story,” can be taken as a “stand alone.” ... All three are humorous, tragic, historical, slightly hysterical and bacon-wrapped.
Fri, Jul 01, 2011
fascinating listening in a well-written story with lots of unexpected twists in the plot
Fri, Jul 01, 2011
Lyssa Browne’s reading is truly remarkable. She is able to create a unique Southern drawl for each of the characters living in Georgia….
Fri, Jul 01, 2011
The plot follows the “he/she loves me, he/she loves me not” formula to its obvious conclusion interspersed with lots of neck nuzzling, graphic foreplay, descriptive undressing, and well-practiced seduction
Mon, Aug 01, 2011
Christopher Evan Welch’s narration of his challenging, sometimes dangerous, nautical pursuit of the rubber duckies and of the scientific studies being funded by various research organizations on what lies ahead for the world’s seas is fine.
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
Kimberly Farr’s reading is outstanding... [as she]captures narrator Clara’s emotion from fear to desperation, joy to sadness, anger to disappointment, love to heartbreak...
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
Therese Plummer, Brian Hutchison, Michele O. Medlin, Mia Barron voice each of the four major characters in Picoult’s emotionally-charged novel that explores gay marriage, in vitro fertilization, evangelical churches and alcoholism.
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
Box’s eleventh Joe Pickett novel ... includes fascinating information about the wind farms that are being established to use wind as an alternative energy source and the fraudulent businesses that are being created within that industry
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
Critics consider Walter Mosley’s new series set in contemporary New York, a fine follow-on to Mosley’s very popular Easy Rawlins series set in L.A. in the 40s to the 60s
Sat, Oct 01, 2011
Pullinger based much of this fictional tale on several quotes from the actual letters of Lady Duff Gordon.
Tue, Nov 01, 2011
This true story/tale chronicles the efforts --- physical, psychological and financial --- that went into purchasing and refurbishing a small rundown zoo with over two hundred animals in Devonshire in the southwest of England, fulfilling a long-held dream of the authoR
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
“[Narrator] Kathleen McInerney creates an amazing variety of voices.... Her voice for Merilee is that of a sweet, caring young woman, loved by two-legged and four-legged creatures alike.”
Fri, Dec 02, 2011
Award winning open water swimmer Lynne Cox took great interest as a child in the Arctic and Antarctic explorations by the legendary explorer Roald Amundsen, as well as many other explorers and she read everything she could about their preparations for an expedition and their resulting experiences.
Fri, Dec 02, 2011
“Author Hillary Jordan’s updated version of Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter addresses some difficult and controversial topics set in a world in the not-too-distant future where extreme religious sects control and take over politics, society and technology.”
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
“The author’s knowledge of Hawaiian myths, legends, and history is extensive and all are incorporated smoothly into the plot.”
Sat, Jan 01, 2011
“Narrator Nicole Valencia deserves abundant kudos for an outstanding reading which can bring tears to the eyes of listeners even those who may not be dog or cat lovers.”
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“Tuck was born in Paris and has lived in South America. Her intimate knowledge of setting gives her stories a fascinating authenticity.”
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“The narrator of the tale is the dog Chet read by Jim Grangione who has a very convincing doggie voice that expresses his love, loyalty and admiration for his best friend Bernie.”
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“Victoria Jones is a product of the California foster-care system: angry, needy, sometimes mean, vindictive, and violent.”
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“Kathe Mazur creates appropriate voices for all the characters in this emotion-packed story of love and relationships. Particularly noteworthy is her voice for Carley’s younger daughter Margaret, a real charmer.”
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“The book is loaded with useful information for anyone considering their first dog or learning more about how to make your pet the best ever. 1
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