Wed, Oct 08, 2008
Richard Liebmann-Smith was educated at Stanford, Columbia, the Yale School of Drama, and the University of Paris. A former editor of The Sciences magazine and at Basic Books, he is co-creator of The Tick, the animated television series, and has written for such publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Smithsonian, Playboy, Harper’s, and The National Lampoon. He is the father of a daughter, Rebecca, and lives in New York with his wife, Joan, a medical writer. He is one of four brothers.
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Wed, Oct 08, 2008
Denis Johnson is the author of five novels, a collection of poetry, and one book of reportage. He is the recipient of a Lannan Fellowship and a Whiting Writer’s Award, among many other honors for his work. He lives in Northern Idaho.
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Wed, Oct 08, 2008
Pat Barker is one of England's most important contemporary novelists. Union St, her first novel, was published by Virago in 1982 to huge critical acclaim. Barker won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1993 and the Booker Prize in 1995. She lives in Durham.
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Mon, Oct 20, 2008
Ben Mikaelsen is the winner of the International Reading Association Award and the Western Writers of America Spur Award. His novels have been nominated for and won many state reader's choice awards. These novels include Red Midnight, Rescue Josh McGuire, Sparrow Hawk Red, Stranded, Countdown, Petey, and Tree Girl. Ben's articles and photos appear in numerous magazines around the world. Ben lives near Bozeman, Montana, with his 700-pound black bear, Buffy.
This audiobook will be released on December 9, 2008
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Tue, Oct 28, 2008
Sarah Mussi is an English woman who lived in Ghana for many years. Married to a Ghanaian, she currently lives in England and works as a school teacher. This is her first novel.
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George S. McGovern is a Midwesterner, former U.S. Senator, Former presidential candidate, veteran, and a historian by training
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David Liss is the author of A Spectacle of Corruption, A Conspiracy of Paper (winner of the 2000 Edgar Award for Best First Novel), and The Ethical Assassin. He has a graduate degree in English literature from Columbia University, as well as an M.A. from Georgia State University and a B.S. from Syracuse University. He lives in San Antonio with his wife and daughter.
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Fri, Mar 27, 2009
CATHERINE JINKS is author of more than thirty books for children and adults. She is a three-time winner of the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, and has also won a Victorian Premier's Award, the Ena Noel Award for Children's Literature, and an Aurealis Award for Science Fiction. In 2001 she was presented with a Centenary Medal for her contribution to Australian children's literature. Catherine lives in Leura, Australia.
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Clare B. Dunkle is also the author of By These Ten Bones. A native of north Texas, she and her family currently live in Germany.
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Gary Bernsten served for more than two decades in the Central Intelligence Agency. He operated at the highest levels in the Middle East and Latin America and led the CIA’s major counterterrorist deployments in East Africa following the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. In hunting down Osama Bin Laden, he also commanded the most successful CIA paramilitary team ever assembled, a tale spellbindingly told in the New York Times bestseller Jawbreaker. Berntsen is a recipient of the CIA’s distinguished Intelligence Medal and Intelligence Star.
Ralph Pezzullo is a former journalist, an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and poet, and the author of At the Fall of Somoza, Plunging into Haiti, and the mystery novel Eve Missing. His novel The Resurrection of Thomas Lear was a semifinalist for the Faulkner Prize.
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Thu, Dec 25, 2008
JEREMY SCAHILL is an unembedded, international journalist. He is a correspondent for the national radio and television show "Democracy Now!" and a frequent contributor to The Nation magazine. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Thu, Jan 01, 2009
Pat Barker is one of England's most important contemporary novelists. Union St, her first novel, was published by Virago in 1982 to huge critical acclaim. Barker won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1993 and the Booker Prize in 1995. She lives in Durham.
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Fri, Jan 23, 2009
James M. McPherson is the George Henry Davis ‘86 Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He is the bestselling author of numerous books on the Civil War, including Battle Cry of Freedom, which won the Pulitzer Prize, For Cause and Comrades, which won the prestigious Lincoln Prize, and Crossroads of Freedom.
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Fri, Jan 23, 2009
Ted Bell is the former Vice-Chairman of the board and World-Wide Creative Director of Young & Rubicam, one of the world's largest advertising agencies. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Hawke, Assassin, and Pirate.
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Sat, Feb 21, 2009
Alan S. Cowell was the London bureau chief of the New York Times when the events narrated in this book reached their climax. Previously, Cowell served as a correspondent for Reuters and the New York Times in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He has been based in twelve capitals and reported the news from around ninety countries and territories. Cowell is married and has three children. He is now based in Paris.
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Thu, Apr 30, 2009
ROBERT BAER is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: Sleeping with the Devil, about the Saudi royal family and its relationship with the United States; and See No Evil, which recounts Baer’s years as a top CIA operative. See No Evil was the basis for the acclaimed film Syriana, which earned George Clooney an Oscar for his portrayal of Baer. Baer writes regularly for Time.com and has contributed to Vanity Fair, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. He is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Middle East.
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Sat, Apr 18, 2009
Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure—two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic The Killer Angels. He is also the author of the nonfiction book, Jeff Shaara’s Civil War Battlefields. He lives in Sarasota, Florida.
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Sat, Apr 25, 2009
Academy Award-nominees Paul Giamatti and David Strathairn star in Norman Corwin's electrifying dramatization of the history-making Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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Mon, Jun 01, 2009
Conn Iggulden is the author of Genghis: Birth of an Empire, the first novel in the series, as well as the Emperor novels, which chronicle the life of Julius Caesar: Emperor: The Gates of Rome, Emperor: The Death of Kings, Emperor: The Field of Swords, and Emperor: The Gods of War, all of which are available in paperback from Dell. He is also the co-author of the bestselling nonfiction work The Dangerous Book for Boys. He lives with his wife and three children in Hertfordshire, England.
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Tue, Jun 30, 2009
H. W. Brands is a professor of history at Texas A&M University in Bryan, Texas. He is the author of T.R., the critically acclaimed biography of Theodore Roosevelt, and The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s,. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Adam Cohen is Assistant Editorial Page Editor of the New York Times, where he has been a member of the Editorial Board since 2002. He was previously a senior writer at Time, and is the author of The Perfect Store: Inside eBay and co- author of American Pharaoh, a biography of Mayor Richard J. Daley. Before entering journalism, Cohen was an education-reform lawyer, and he has a law degree from Harvard.
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Sat, Aug 01, 2009
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON is an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History, director of the world-famous Hayden Planetarium, a monthly columnist for Natural History, and an award-winning author. He lives in New York City.
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Sat, Aug 01, 2009
CARI BEAUCHAMP is the author of Without Lying Down. She has written for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Variety.
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Tue, Sep 01, 2009
Cormac McCarthy is the author of nine previous novels. Among his honors are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Tue, Sep 01, 2009
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of the bestselling When Elephants Weep and Dogs Never Lie About Love, as well as The Pig Who Sang to the Moon and The Assault on Truth. An American, he lives in New Zealand.
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Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Nami Mun was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up there and in the Bronx, New York. She has worked as a door-to-door Avon Lady, a dance hostess, a street vendor, a photojournalist, a bartender, and a criminal investigator. A graduate of University of California at Berkeley, she received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she garnered a Hopwood Award for fiction and the Farrar Prize. She has received a Pushcart Prize, as well as scholarships and residencies from the Corporation of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Her stories have been published in the 2007 Pushcart Prize anthology, The Iowa Review, Tin House, Evergreen Review, Witness, and other journals.
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