Wed, Oct 08, 2008
Gene Roberts is a journalism professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was a reporter with the Goldsboro News-Argus and The Virginian-Pilot, and a reporter and editor with The News & Observer and the Detroit Free Press before joining The New York Times in 1965, where until 1972 he served as chief southern and civil rights correspondent, chief war correspondent in South Vietnam, and national editor. During his eighteen years as executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, his staff won seventeen Pulitzer Prizes. He later became the managing editor of The New York Times.
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Tue, Oct 21, 2008
LORI ANDREWS, a frequent guest on Nightline, 60 Minutes, CBS Morning News, and Oprah, is a lawyer and expert on genetics, called in by groups ranging from the French Parliament to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She’s taught at Princeton and Chicago-Kent College of Law, written for a television legal drama, and published ten nonfiction books. The American Bar Association Journal describes her as “a lawyer with a literary bent who has the scientific chops to rival any CSI investigator.”
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Tue, Oct 21, 2008
Skolkin-Smith's mother was born in Palestine in the 1920s. The novel, soon to be made into a film, draws upon her roots and is autobiographical
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Fri, Mar 27, 2009
SONS AND LOVERS, published in 1913, is considered D.H.Lawrence's first great novel.
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James Grippando is the bestselling author of the Jack Swyteck series. His fifteen previous novels include Born to Run, Last Call, Lying with Strangers, When Darkness Falls, and Got the Look. He lives in Florida, where he was a trial lawyer for twelve years.
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Michelle Richmond is the author of The Year of Fog, Dream of the Blue Room, and the award-winning story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress. A native of Mobile, Alabama, Michelle lives with her husband and son in San Francisco, where she is at work on her next novel.
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Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Kate Atkinson lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, was named Whitbread Book of the Year in the U.K. in 1995, and was followed by Human Croquet, Emotionally Weird, Not the End of the World, Case Histories and One Good Turn.
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Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Dr. Frederick Ramsay was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois—Westside Medical Campus. After a stint in the Army, he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland, School of Medicine and also served as an Associate Dean. In 1971 he was ordained an Episcopal priest. He lives in Surprise, Arizona with his wife and partner, Susan.
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Wed, Dec 17, 2008
For the last twenty years, William Kent Krueger has made his home in St. Paul, Minnesota, with his wife and two children. His Cork O’Connor novels, Iron Lake (winner of the 1998 Anthony Award for Best First Novel and the Barry Award), Boundary Waters, Purgatory Ridge, Blood Hollow (winner of the 2004 Anthony Award for Best Novel), and Mercy Falls (winner of the 2005 Anthony Award for Best Novel) - as well as the political thriller The Devil’s Bed - are available from Atria Books.
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Wed, Dec 17, 2008
Kate Summerscale is the former literary editor for the Daily Telegraph and author of The Queen of Whale Cay, which won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. Summerscale lives in London.
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Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) was an accomplished painter and architect, but it is for his illuminating biographies of artists that he is best remembered. George Bull translated widely from the Italian during his lifetime, and also wrote several books on the Renaissance period.
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Sat, Jan 24, 2009
Faye Kellerman is the author of twenty-five novels, including nineteen New York Times bestselling mysteries that feature the husband-and-wife team of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. This is her first novel for teens and her first time writing with her daughter.
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Sat, Feb 21, 2009
Matt Bondurant is a professor at George Mason University and two-time Bread Loaf scholarship winner. His short stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, the New England Review, and numerous other publications.
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Sat, Feb 21, 2009
Daniel Defoe wrote "Robinson Crusoe" in 1719 to popular acclaim. Two later attempts to capitalize on his financial success, one a sequel and the other a collection of related essays, were failures.
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Sat, Apr 25, 2009
Peter May won the Scottish Young Journalist of the Year Award at the age of 21, and had his first novel published at 26. He then left journalism and became one of Scotland's most successful and prolific television dramatists. Returning now to novels, his outstanding China Thrillers series of books are winning critical acclaim. To research the series, Peter May makes annual trips to China. As a mark of their respect for his work, The Chinese Crime Writers' Association made him an honorary member of their Beijing Chapter. He is the only Westerner to receive such an honour. Peter May is married to writer Janice Hally and lives in France.
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Mon, Jun 01, 2009
Nechama Tec is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, Stamford. She is the author of six books, including In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen, the winner of the 1990 Christopher Award, When Light Pierced the Darkness, and Dry Tears, a memoir of her experiences during the years of the Nazi occupation of Poland.
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Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Paul Theroux’s highly acclaimed novels include Blinding Light, Hotel Honolulu, My Other Life, Kowloon Tong, and The Mosquito Coast. His renowned travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Dark Star Safari, Riding the Iron Rooster, The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and The Happy Isles of Oceania. He lives in Hawaii and on Cape Cod.
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Tue, Jun 30, 2009
This thriller is autho Roland Merullo's eleventh book.
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Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Dennis Lehane is the author of seven novels. These include the New York Times bestsellers Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; and Shutter Island, as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He and his wife, Angie, divide their time between Boston and the Gulf Coast of Florida
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Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Anne Nelson is an author and playwright, and teaches at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 1989 Livingston Award for international reporting. Her books and articles have been published widely, and her play The Guys has been staged throughout the world. As a war correspondent in El Salvador and Guatemala from 1980 to 1983, Nelson published reports and photography in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. She is a graduate of Yale University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Tatiana de Rosnay was born in the suburbs of Paris and is of English, French and Russian descent. She is the author of nine French novels. She also writes for French ELLE, and is a literary critic for Psychologies magazine. She is married and has two children. Sarah's Key is her first novel written in her mother tongue, English.
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Tue, Sep 01, 2009
James W. Huston is the New York Times bestselling author of six thrillers, including Balance of Power and Secret Justice. A graduate of Topgun, he served as a naval flight officer in F-14s on the USS Nimitz with the Jolly Rogers. He is currently a trial lawyer for the international law firm of Morrison Foerster and has been involved in numerous high- profile cases. He lives in San Diego, California.
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Tue, Sep 01, 2009
Abraham Verghese is also the author of The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book, and My Own Country, a National Book Critics Circle finalist. Currently a professor of internal medicine at Stanford University, he has also served on faculties in Iowa, Texas, and Tennessee. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, his fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and Granta. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
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Tue, Sep 01, 2009
David Wroblewski grew up in rural Wisconsin, not far from the Chequamegon National Forest where The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is set. He earned his master's degree from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and now lives in Colorado with his partner, the writer Kimberly McClintock, and their dog, Lola. This is his first novel.
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Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Stieg Larsson, who lived in Sweden, was the editor in chief of the magazine Expo and a leading expert on antidemocratic right-wing extremist and Nazi organizations. He died in 2004, shortly after delivering the manuscripts for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and the third novel in the series.
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Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Glen David Gold received his MFA for creative writing at the University of California at Irvine and has written for newspapers, film, and television. He currently lives in Southern California.
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Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Nicci French is the pseudonym for the internationally bestselling husband-and-wife writing team of journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Together they are the authors of nine previous novels, including most recently Losing You. They live in Suffolk, England.
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Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Author Malla Nunn was born in Swaziland and currently resides in Australia. She is a filmmaker; her second novel is due for release in 2010.
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Tue, Dec 01, 2009
James Grippando is the bestselling author of the Jack Swyteck series. His fifteen previous novels include Born to Run, Last Call, Lying with Strangers, When Darkness Falls, and Got the Look. He lives in Florida, where he was a trial lawyer for twelve years.
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Tue, Dec 01, 2009
Tom Rob Smith graduated from Cambridge University in 2001 and lives in London. His first novel, Child 44, was a New York Times bestseller and an international publishing sensation. Among its many honors, Child 44 won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on October 16th, 1854. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1878. His espousal of the fin de siècle Aesthetic Movement, which preached devotion to art above all else, resulted in acclaim from some, and deep hostility from others. In 1882 Wilde arrived in North America to give a lecture tour, announcing as he landed that he had ‘nothing to declare but my genius'.
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Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Robert B. Parker is the author of more than 50 books. His novel, Appaloosa, was recently turned into a movie directed by and starring Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellweger, and Jeremy Irons. The film was an official selection of the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival and the winner of the 2008 Best Film award at the Boston Film Festival.
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Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Popular mystery novelist James Lee Burke lives in Louisiana.
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Mon, Feb 01, 2010
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running. He went back to L.A., to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
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Mon, Feb 01, 2010
W.H.D. Rouse was one of the great 20th century experts on Ancient Greece, and headmaster of the Perse School, Cambridge, England, for 26 years. Under his leadership the school became widely known for the successful teaching of Greek and Latin as spoken languages. He derived his knowledge of the Greeks not only from his wide studies of classical literature, but also by travelling extensively in Greece. He died in 1950.
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Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Professor of Greek history and chairman of the classics faculty at Cambridge University, Cartledge is acknowledged to be the world's leading expert on the subject of Sparta and the Spartans. He was the academic consultant for the PBS-BBC series The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization.
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Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Christopher Reich is the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Deception, Numbered Account, and The Patriots Club, which won the International Thriller Writers award for best novel in 2006.
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Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Michael Koryta's first novel, the Edgar-nominated Tonight I Said Goodbye, was published when he was just twenty-one and was followed by Sorrow's Anthem, A Welcome Grave, and a stand-alone mystery, Envy the Night. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where he has worked as a newspaper reporter and private investigator.
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Sat, May 01, 2010
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers has edited Mencken and Sara: A Life in Letters and The Impossible H.L. Mencken, a popular collection of his best journalism. She lives in Washington, DC.
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Sat, May 01, 2010
Geoffrey Wall has translated Madame Bovary and other works of Flaubert. A teacher at the University of York, England, he lives in York with his wife and four children.
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Sat, May 01, 2010
Clive Unger-Hamilton was a professional harpsichordist before he began to write about music. He is the author of several books on music history and related subjects, and writes regular reviews and other articles at home and abroad. He now works as a musicologist, editor, and translator.
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Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Mayor is the author of the highly acclaimed, Vermont-based series featuring detective Joe Gunther, including Gatekeeper, and St. Alban's Fire.
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Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the Isabel Dalhousie series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, and the 44 Scotland Street Series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh and has served on many national and international bodies concerned with bioethics. He lives in Scotland.
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Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Andrea Camilleri is the author of many books, including the Montalbano series, which has been translated into eight languages. He lives in Rome
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Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Stuart M. Kaminsky was the author of more than 60 novels and an Edgar Award winner for his Rostnikov novel, A Cold Red Sunrise. He was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. In addition to the Rostnikov series, he was the author of the Toby Peters, Abe Lieberman, and Lew Fonesca series. He died in 2009.
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Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Warren Fahy has been a bookseller, a statistical analyst, and the managing editor of a video database, where he wrote hundreds of movie reviews for a nationally syndicated column. He currently is the lead writer for "Wow-Wee," generating creative content for their line of robotic toys.
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Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Author note: Bynum's first novel, Madeleine Is Sleeping, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2004. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Tin House, Georgia Review, and Best American Short Stories. She teaches writing at the University of California, San Diego, and lives in Los Angeles with her family.
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Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Dominique Lapierre is the author of numerous best-sellers, including City of Joy and A Thousand Suns. He is coauthor with Larry Collins of Is Paris Burning?, O Jersusalem!, and Freedom at Midnight.
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Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Born in 1876, London was a renegade adventurer, a war correspondent and an avowed socialist. He first achieved fame with The Son of the Wolf, a collection of short stories drawn by his experiences in the Klondike gold rush. His other novels include White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, The Iron Heel, and many more. He died in 1916.
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Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Sam Eastland lives in the United States and the United Kingdom. He is the grandson of a London police detective who served in Scotland Yard's famous "Ghost Squad" during the 1940s. He is currently at work on his next Pekkala novel, which Bantam will publish in 2011.
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Sun, Aug 01, 2010
A. S. Byatt is the author of numerous novels, including the quartet The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman; The Biographer's Tale; and Possession, which was awarded the Booker Prize. She has also written two novellas, published together as Angels & Insects; five collections of shorter works, including The Matisse Stories and Little Black Book of Stories; and several works of nonfiction. A distinguished critic as well as a novelist, she lives in London.
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Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Larsson, who lived in Sweden, was the editor in chief of the magazine Expo and a leading expert on antidemocratic, right-wing extremism and Nazi organizations. He died in 2004, shortly after delivering the manuscripts for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
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Wed, Sep 01, 2010
David Hosp is a Boston attorney. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and his J.D. from George Washington University. He lives with his wife, son, and daughter south of the city.
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Wed, Sep 01, 2010
Gayle Lynds is the bestselling, award-winning author of several international espionage thrillers, including Masquerade, The Coil, and The Last Spymaster. A member of the Association for Intelligence Officers, she is cofounder (with David Morrell) of ITW (International Thriller Writers). She lives in Santa Barbara.
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Wed, Sep 01, 2010
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Brunonia Barry made her debut with the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling novel The Lace Reader. She lives in Salem, Massachusetts, with her husband and their beloved golden retriever, Byzantium.
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Wed, Sep 01, 2010
Reginald Hill has been widely published both in England and the United States. He received Britain's most coveted mystery writers award, the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, as well as the Golden Dagger for his Dalziel/Pascoe series. He lives with his wife in Cumbria, England.
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Wed, Sep 01, 2010
Jack Schaefer was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and studied at Oberlin College and Columbia University. Shane, his first piece of fiction, began as a short story; it was made into a critically acclaimed movie in 1953. Mr. Schaefer went on to write many other stories and novels set in the West, earning a devoted following of readers that continues to grow. He died in 1991.
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Wed, Sep 01, 2010
Kate Grenville is one of Australia's best-loved authors. Her works of fiction have won numerous awards both in Australia and internationally. THE IDEA OF PERFECTION won the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction and became a long-running bestseller. In 2006 THE SECRET RIVER won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Kate Grenville lives in Sydney, Australia.
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Fri, Oct 01, 2010
Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert position with the CIA's Directorate of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and start-up executive in silicon Valley and Japan. His best-selling thrillers, including those featuring John Rain have won awards and have been translated into almost 20 languages.
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Fri, Oct 01, 2010
Daniel Silva is the author of The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Price of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules and The Defector. In 2009 Silva was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council.
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Fri, Oct 01, 2010
DOUGLAS PRESTON and LINCOLN CHILD are best-selling coauthors of 13 novels. Preston, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, worked for the American Museum of Natural History. He is an expert horseman who has ridden thousands of miles across the West. Child, a former book editor, is passionate about motorcycles, exotic parrots, and nineteenth-century English literature. The authors encourage readers to visit and send them e-mail at their Web site, www.prestonchild.com.
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Fri, Oct 01, 2010
Richard Adams grew up in Berkshire, England, the son of a country doctor. After an education at Oxford, he spent six years in the army and then went into the civil service. Her has written many other novels and short stories, including The Plague Dogs and Shardik. The winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for Children's Literature, Richard Adams currently lives in Hampshire, England.
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Fri, Oct 01, 2010
Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin in 1667. Although he spent most of his childhood in Ireland, he considered himself English, and, aged twenty-one, moved to England, where he found employment as secretary to the diplomat Sir William Temple. On Temple's death in 1699, Swift returned to Dublin to pursue a career in the church. By this time he was also publishing in a variety of genres, and between 1704 and 1729 he produced a string of brilliant satires, of which Gulliver's Travels is the best known. Between 1713 and 1742 he was dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin; he was buried there when he died in 1745.
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Mon, Nov 01, 2010
William Kent Krueger is the award-winning author of nine Cork O'Connor novels, including Thunder Bay and Red Knife. All are available from Atria Books. He lives in the Twin Cities with his family. Visit his website at www.williamkentkrueger.com.
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Mon, Nov 01, 2010
Deon Meyer lives in Melkbosstrand on the South African West Coast with his wife and four children. He has written five novels, all of which have been highly acclaimed and translated into several languages.
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Mon, Nov 01, 2010
Daniel Silva is the author of The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Price of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules and The Defector. In 2009 Silva was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council.
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Mon, Nov 01, 2010
WILLIAM RYAN was born in London in 1965 and attended Trinity College, Dublin. He practiced briefly as a barrister before completing his Masters in Creative Writing at St Andrews University. His work has appeared in the short story collection, Cool Britannia. He lives in London with his wife. This is his first novel.
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Mon, Nov 01, 2010
Brian Freeman is the author of psychological suspense novels featuring detectives Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial. His books have been sold in 17 languages. His debut thriller, Immoral, won the Macavity Award and was a nominee for the Edgar®, Dagger, Anthony, and Barry awards for best first novel. Brian and his wife, Marcia, have lived in Minnesota for more than twenty years.
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Wed, Dec 01, 2010
John Sandford is the author of twenty Prey novels and nine other books, most recently the Virgil Flowers novel Rough Country.
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Wed, Dec 01, 2010
A six-time winner of science fiction’s Hugo Award, a former editor of Analog and former fiction editor of Omni, and a past president of the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America, BEN BOVA is the author of over a hundred works of science fact and fiction.
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Wed, Dec 01, 2010
As a reporter for The New York Times, Alex Berenson has covered topics ranging from the occupation of Iraq to the flooding of New Orleans to the financial crimes of Bernie Madoff. His previous novels include The Faithful Spy, winner of the 2007 Edgar Award for best first novel, and The Ghost War.
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Wed, Dec 01, 2010
Martin Cruz-Smith's novels include Stalin's Ghost, Gorky Park, Rose, December 6, Polar Star and Stallion Gate. A two-time winner of the Hammett Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers and a recipient of Britain's Golden Dagger Award, he lives in California.
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Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born in central Russia. After serving in the Crimean War, he retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his large family. He wrote two of the great novels of the nineteenth century, War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
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Fri, Jan 01, 2010
ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of the international phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and has served on many national and international bodies concerned with bioethics.
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Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Giles Foden was born in 1967 in England and spent his youth in Malawi. Between 1990 and 2006 he worked as an editor at The Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian. His 1998 book,The Last King of Scotland, won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was later made into a feature film. His second novel, Ladysmith, is set in South Africa during the Boer War. He is a journalist, contributing regularly to the Guardian and book review editor for Conde Nast Traveller Magazine.
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Fri, Jan 01, 2010
WALLACE STEGNER (1903-1993) was the author of many books of fiction and non-fiction, including the National Book Award-winning The Spectator Bird (1976) and Crossing to Safety. Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971.
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Tue, Feb 01, 2011
Sloan Wilson was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1920. At the age of eighteen he sailed a schooner from Boston to Havana. He is a graduate of Harvard, a veteran of World War II, and he has worked as a reporter for Time-Life and as a college professor. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and A Summer Place, both made into major motion pictures.
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Tue, Feb 01, 2011
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851), the first major American novelist, was the son of a wealthy landowner who founded Cooperstown, New York. He attended Yale and served in the navy before turning to writing, winning international fame with The Spy (1821). After The Pioneers (1823), public fascination with the character of Natty Bumppo led him to write a series of sequels that gradually unfold the entire life of the frontier scout.
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Tue, Feb 01, 2011
Roger Smith is an accomplished screenwriter, director, and producer. He is at work on a second stand-alone thriller set in and around Cape Town, where he currently lives.
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Tue, Mar 01, 2011
All About Lulu won the Washington State Book Award. In 2009, Jonathan Evison was the recipient of a Richard Buckley Fellowship from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation.
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Tue, Mar 01, 2011
Alan Furst is widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel. Now translated into seventeen languages, he is the bestselling author of Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, The World at Night, Red Gold, Kingdom of Shadows, Blood of Victory, Dark Voyage, and The Foreign Correspondent. Born in New York, he now lives in Paris and on Long Island.
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Tue, Mar 01, 2011
Wells is the Charles Dickens of popular science who coined the terms 'death ray' and 'time machine'. Although he is best known and remembered for his science fiction books, he was an energetic man with broad interests whose prolific writings included histories, polemics romances, fantasies, comedies, short stories, film scripts, utopias, dystopias, articles, essays, and non fiction.
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Tue, Mar 01, 2011
Bruce Watson's previous books include Sacco and Vanzetti, a finalist for the Edgar Award, and Bread and Roses, a New York Public Library Book to Remember. His journalism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Smithsonian, and Reader's Digest. He lives in Massachusetts.
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Fri, Apr 01, 2011
Patricia Cornwell is most known for the Kay Scarpetta series. In 2008, she won the Galaxy British Book Awards' Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year - the first American ever to win this prestigious award. Her earlier works include Postmortem - the only novel to win five major crime awards in a single year - and Cruel and Unusual, which won Britain's Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel of 1993. Dr. Kay Scarpetta herself won the 1999 Sherlock Award for the best detective created by an American author.
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Fri, Apr 01, 2011
Koryta has worked as a newspaper reporter and private investigator. His first novel, the Edgar-nominated Tonight I Said Goodbye, was published when he was just twenty-one and was followed by Sorrow's Anthem, A Welcome Grave, and The Silent Hour.
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Fri, Apr 01, 2011
John Harvey is a British author of crime fiction. He has published over 90 books under various names and has worked on scripts for TV and radio. He is most famous for his series of jazz-influenced Charlie Resnick novels. He is also a poet, dramatist and occasional broadcaster. For more information visit www.mellotone.co.uk
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Fri, Apr 01, 2011
Wallace Stegner (1903–1993) wrote many books of fiction and nonfiction, including the National Book Award–winning The Spectator Bird and Crossing to Safety. Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971.
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Sun, May 01, 2011
Bill Pronzini is the author of more than sixty novels, including three in collaboration with his wife, the novelist Marcia Muller, and is the creator of the popular Nameless Detective series. A six-time nominee for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Pronzini is also the recipient of two Shamus Awards. He received a Grand Master award from the Mystery Writers of America in May 2008.
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Sun, May 01, 2011
Mike Lawson, a former senior civilian executive for the U.S. Navy, is the author of three previous novels starring Joe DeMarco. His first book, The Inside Ring, was rated by the Seattle Times as one of the top ten thrillers of 2005, and was nominated for a Barry Award.
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Sun, May 01, 2011
David James Smith was born in south London in 1956 and has been a journalist all of his work life. He wrote for the monthly magazineEsquire before joining the Sunday Times Magazine. He is the author of The Sleep of Reason, All About Jill, and Supper with the Crippens: A New Investigation into One of the Most Notorious Domestic Murders in History.
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Sun, May 01, 2011
Dennis Lehane is the author of nine novels—including the bestsellers Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given Day—as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play.
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Wed, Jun 01, 2011
In this beautifully written novel that is set in the Balkans, there are stories within stories within stories and each must be told in order to understand the whole of it…. Listeners are in for a treat
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Wed, Jun 01, 2011
A suspenseful and exciting novel by the author of Typhoon will have listeners on the edge of their seats…. [John Lee] delivers a fine performance, with distinctive voices and excellent German and Russian accents.
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Wed, Jun 01, 2011
This complex story has the listener guessing at every turn…. [and] is a great vehicle for [narrator Scott Brick’s] talents as he delivers one of his best performances
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Wed, Jun 01, 2011
Fans of sports agent Myron Bolitar are in for a treat in the latest book which spotlights Bolitar's family….
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Wed, Jun 01, 2011
Much of the book consists of Wallander’s musings about his own situation, his health, his past and his future as well as thoughts about the cases he is working on and [narrator Robin] Sachs wisely delivers a quiet performance reflective of the writing.
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Fri, Jul 01, 2011
[David Colacci’s] is an emotional performance and listeners will be immediately absorbed in it. There is plenty of evil and many people to hate and listeners shouldn't be surprised to find themselves getting very angry at times
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Fri, Jul 01, 2011
Since [Sam Spade] is forever linked with Humphrey Bogart in the film version, it takes a special reader to resist the temptation to imitate Bogart. However Eric Meyers manages to create his own Sam Spade and also does a good job voicing the remaining characters
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Fri, Jul 01, 2011
[Narrator Lisette] Lecat's South African accent, rhythm, and manner of speaking perfectly mesh with the story and its characters. Fans of the series will love this and Smith is sure to gain more fans when they listen to this well-performed book.
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Fri, Jul 01, 2011
[Narrator Joe Barrett’s] choices for characters' voices are totally appropriate and he deftly conveys their emotions as well as the suspense.
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Fri, Jul 01, 2011
Three time Audie Award (the audiobook industry’s top award) winner Dick Hill’s performance here is outstanding - the battle scenes are so vivid, realistic, and exciting, that the listener is transported onto the ships and fighter planes and are able to experience 'first hand' what it was like.
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Fri, Jul 01, 2011
Fans are in for a treat and first-timers will be hooked from the first sentence
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Fri, Jul 01, 2011
[Narrator Renee Raudman’s] performance is good but for this listener she could not overcome the book's weaknesses.....still might have appeal for those listeners who enjoy southern settings and this type of mystery.
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Mon, Aug 01, 2011
Detroit private eye Amos Walker has been hired by attorney Lucille Lettermore to investigate Joey Ballista's first conviction for attempted murder.
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Mon, Aug 01, 2011
This classic story (made into an Oscar winning film in 1941) of Huw Morgan's life, growing up in a coal-mining community in South Wales, is so compelling, especially with Ralph Cosham’s narration, that it is difficult to believe that it is pure fiction and not a memoir.
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Mon, Aug 01, 2011
[Narrator] Malcolm has a wonderful facility for both spot-on characterizations and for conveying the many humorous moments that are always present in this series
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Mon, Aug 01, 2011
Here [narrator Thandie Newton] delivers a passionate and emotional performance of the poetry, whose intense and lyrical language is beautiful.
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Mon, Aug 01, 2011
Swedish crime writers are experiencing a wave of interest since the success of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Hakan Nesser's Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries are a welcome addition to the genre.
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Tue, Nov 01, 2011
“Who better to narrate this gem than the esteemed Simon Vance, whose performances always meet the highest standards. “ 1
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Thu, Sep 01, 2011
...[Scott] Brick's performance is subtly voiced, and he reads with a punchy style that works well here, as the book is packed with intrigue, traitors, betrayals, conspiracy, and assassination
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Thu, Sep 01, 2011
This is the latest in Betty White's memoirs, focusing on the past 15 years of her life and covering such topics as aging, of course (she's approaching 90), friendship, her love for animals, and the celebrity life.
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Thu, Sep 01, 2011
Listeners expecting the novel Doctor Zhivago to resemble the famous movie by the same name may be disappointed, for it is the revolution that takes center stage, not the love story of Zhivago and Lara
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Thu, Sep 01, 2011
Listeners who have read or listened to Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole books are in for a treat as this is one of the best.
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Sat, Oct 01, 2011
“This is a police procedural that involves a series of cases and brings to light the complex relationships involved in police partnerships.”
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Sat, Oct 01, 2011
“Run, don't walk to hear this and the previous books in the series. “
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Sat, Oct 01, 2011
“The complex story is gripping and Forbes’ narration is so natural and authentic that it never gets in the way of the writing.”
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Sat, Oct 01, 2011
“Each character is individualized and Dean is adept and facile with great accents and voices. This is a great match between reader and novel.”
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Wed, Nov 02, 2011
“Anthony Heald reads this novel with gusto, laughing heartily when the writing warrants it. The voices reflect the personalities of the characters and are excellent.”
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Tue, Nov 01, 2011
“Until the very end, even the bad guys don't know who the bad guys are. The gripping mystery/adventure is given an exciting and dramatic reading by the multifaceted Holter Graham, an American actor and labor union leader.”
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Tue, Nov 01, 2011
“John Lee can always be depended on to deliver a great performance and he doesn't disappoint here.”
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Tue, Nov 01, 2011
Most of us are familiar Webster's dictionary but his remarkable influence on the shape this country would take is not as well-known.
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Tue, Nov 01, 2011
“This is the first in what will be a series of "Department Q" books that features Carl Morck, a flawed detective, who heads up the new department dedicated to solving cold cases.”
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Thu, Dec 01, 2011
Each character tells his or her story in a series of flashbacks until the reader finally learns the truth about what happened so many years ago.
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Thu, Dec 01, 2011
". . . this novel of murder, suspense, and international intrigue involves an assassin (Liquida), Madriani's daughter Sarah, and a scientist with secrets to sell."
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Fri, Dec 02, 2011
Misha Vainberg (aka Snack Daddy) is the Russian heir to a post-Soviet fortune and all he wants to do is live in New York City with his Latina girlfriend.
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Sat, Jan 01, 2011
“It is refreshing to listen to a highly complex tale of espionage which is so clear and easy to follow, both in the writing and in Firdous Bamjii’s performance.”
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Sat, Jan 01, 2011
" This is an excellent performance by Susan Denaker whose theater credits include numerous plays in London's West End and national tours."
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Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“This is the most complicated of Meyer's stories to date and the listener must pay very close attention to Book I in particular, in order to sort out the events and players.”
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Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“In this outrageous, touching, and funny memoir Gully Wells uses her family's house in France to tether the strings of her life in London, the United States and, of course, France.”
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Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“Listeners will get a real feel for how difficult and uncertain life was and is like during the transition to independence [in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe], along with a realistic picture of efforts to save the rhinoceros from extinction.”
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