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Miles Klein
Miles Klein practiced optometry in New York for 41 years (until he got it right). His retirement has taken him from New York to New Jersey to Florida to Texas while indulging in his great passions: grandparenting, Scrabble, volunteer work, nature, audio books, cooking . . . and did we mention grandparenting?
Undiscovered Country by Lin Enger
Mon, Oct 20, 2008
Lin Enger is the MFA director at Minnesota State University, Moorhead. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children.
Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain
Thu, Oct 30, 2008
Chelsea Cain lived the first few years of her life on an Iowa commune, then grew up in Bellingham, Washington, where the infamous Green River killer was "the boogeyman" of her youth. Her first novel featuring Detective Archie Sheridan and killer Gretchen Lowell, Heartsick, was a New York Times bestseller. Also the author of Confessions of a Teenage Sleuth, a parody based on the life of Nancy Drew, several nonfiction titles, and a weekly column in The Oregonian, Chelsea Cain lives in Portland with her family.
The Chopin Manuscript by Jeffery Deaver and others
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
This audiobook was the 2008 Audie Award Winner of Audiobook of the Year.
The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Douglas Preston worked for the American Museum of Natural History as managing editor of Curator magazine. He's also written articles for The New Yorker, Natural History, Travel & Leisure, Reader's Digest, National Geographic, Harper's, Smithsonian, and Atlantic. Mario Spezi is an Italian journalist who has been investigating the Monster of Florence case since the first murders in 1974.
Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse
Mon, Dec 15, 2008
Karen Hesse is the acclaimed author of over a dozen books for young readers, including the 1998 Newbery Medal winner, Out of the Dust. In 2001 she won the Christopher Medal for her young adult novel, Witness; in 2002 she was the recipient of a MacArthur Prize, only the second author of books for children to win this prestigious award. She lives in Brattleboro, VT.
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
Wed, Dec 17, 2008
Joseph O'Neill was born in Ireland and raised primarily in Holland. He received a law degree from Cambridge University and worked as a barrister in London. He writes regularly The Atlantic Monthly and is the author of two previous novels, This Is the Life and The Breezes, and a family history, Blood-Dark-Track, which was a New York Times Notable Book. He lives with his family in New York City.
Ghost Radio by Leopoldo Gout
Wed, Dec 24, 2008
Leopoldo Gout is a producer, director, graphic novelist, writer, and composer. He is currently producing an animated film with NBC and Curious Pictures. He lives in New York City. Ghost Radio is his first novel.
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman is the author of the New York Times bestselling children's book Coraline and of the picture books The Wolves in the Walls and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, illustrated by Dave McKean. He wrote the script for the film MirrorMask and is also the author of critically acclaimed and award-winning novels and short stories for adults, as well as the Sandman series of graphic novels. Among his many awards are the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Bram Stoker Award. Originally from England, Gaiman now lives in the United States.
The Séance by Iain Lawrence
Sat, Jan 24, 2009
Iain Lawrence is the author of numerous acclaimed novels for young people. He lives on Gabriola Island, British Columbia.
Just after Sunset by Stephen King
Sat, Feb 21, 2009
Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are the Dark Tower novels, Cell, From a Buick 8, Everything's Eventual, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and Bag of Bones. His acclaimed nonfiction book, On Writing, was also a bestseller. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
Thu, Apr 30, 2009
Don Winslow has worked as a private investigator in London, New York City, and elsewhere in the United States, and as a consultant to law firms and insurance companies for more than fifteen years.
American Lightning by Howard Blum
Thu, Apr 30, 2009
HOWARD BLUM is the author of eight previous books, including the national bestsellers Wanted!, The Gold of Exodus, and Gangland. Currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, Blum was also a reporter at the New York Times, where he won numerous journalism awards and was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting.
Joe and Marilyn by Roger Kahn
Sun, May 31, 2009
Roger Kahn is the award-winning author of The Boys of Summer, the classic bestseller about Jackie Robinson, the Dodgers and growing up in Brooklyn. He is the author of many other books whose subjects range from baseball to political activism, including Joe & Marilyn: A Memory of Love about the courtship and marriage of Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe and A Flame of Pure Fire, A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1999 about boxing great Jack Dempsey.
Misery by Stephen King
Sun, May 31, 2009
STEPHEN KING is a prolific and perennially bestselling author and an recognized master of the horror genre. He was the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
The Yankee Years by Joe Torre
Sun, May 31, 2009
Joe Torre is the most successful–and most respected–baseball manager of the modern era, steering the Yankees to six American League pennants and four World Series championships.
Limitations by Scott Turow
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
All of Scott Turow's novels have been major international bestsellers. A former assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago, where he is a partner in the law firm of Sonnenschein, Nath, and Rosenthal, he is currently teaching fiction writing at Northwestern University.
Mucho Mojo by Joe R. Lansdale
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Joe R. Lansdale has written more than a dozen novels in the suspense, horror, and Western genres. He has also edited several anthologies. He has received the British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award, and seven Bram Stoker Awards from the Horror Writers of America. He lives in East Texas with his wife, son, daughter, and German Shepherd.
The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, Guillermo del Toro made his feature directorial debut in 1993 with the film Cronos, and has since gone on to direct Mimic, The Devil's Backbone, Blade II, Hellboy I, Hellboy II, and Pan's Labyrinth, which garnered enormous critical praise worldwide and won three Academy Awards. He will direct two films based on The Hobbit, to be produced by Peter Jackson.
Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Mary Downing Hahn, a former children's librarian, is the award-winning author of many popular ghost stories, including The Old Willis Place, reviewed in this issue
Thriller, 2 by Clive Cussler, Editor
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Authors in this collection include Jeffery Deaver, Kathleen Antrim, Gary Braver, Sean Chercover, Blake Crouch, Robert Ferrigno, and Joe Hartlaub
The Old Willis Place by Mary Downing Hahn
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Mary Downing Hahn, a former children’s librarian, is the award-winning author of many popular ghost stories, including Deep and Dark and Dangerous. An avid reader, traveler, and all-around arts lover, Ms. Hahn lives in Columbia, Maryland, with her two cats, Oscar and Rufus.
The Nest by Paul Jennings
Mon, Aug 31, 2009
Paul Jennings is a best-selling Australian writer of books for children and young adult.
Loser's Town by Daniel Depp
Wed, Sep 30, 2009
Daniel Depp was born in Kentucky and read Classics at university there. He has been a journalist, bookseller, and a teacher. There have been several exhibitions of his photographs, and he has also taught scriptwriting. He divides his time between California and France, where he writes and produces screenplays. Loser's Town is his first novel.
The Birthing House by Christopher Ransom
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Christopher Ransom is a native of Boulder, Colorado, who has lived in New York and Los Angeles. He now resides with his wife and three rescued dogs in a 142-year-old former birthing house in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Enter the world of author Richard Matheson, if you dare, and partake of his horror stories. Although many are at least forty years old, there's no statute of limitations on what can make your blood run cold.
Daniel X by James Patterson
Wed, Sep 30, 2009
James Patterson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many books, including the blockbuster series Maximum Ride. More than 160 million of his books are in print around the world, making him one of the top-selling writers of all time. His website, www.ReadKiddoRead.com, lists the very best books for kids--titles that kids will gobble up and ask for more.
Long Lost by Harlan Coben
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Harlan Coben is the bestselling author of fifteen previous novels, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Hold Tight, The Woods, Promise Me, and the Myron Bolitar series. He is a winner of the Edgar Award, the Shamus Award, and the Anthony Award.
The Shimmer by David Morrell
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
David Morrell is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-nine books, including his award-winning Creepers, Scavenger, and The Spy Who Came for Christmas. Co president of the International Thrillers Writers Organization, he is considered by many to be the father of the modern action novel. He currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
James Patterson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many books, including the blockbuster series Maximum Ride. More than 100 million of his books are in print around the world, making him one of the top-selling writers of all time. Ned Rust lives in Croton, NY, with his family. His writing has appeared in Rolling Stone and McSweeney's Internet Tendency.
The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children by Keith McGowan
Tue, Dec 01, 2009
KEITH MCGOWAN has worked most of his life as an educator. He helped run an elementary after school program and day camp, taught mathematics and science, volunteered for a year as a teacher in Haiti, and tutored students who were unable to attend school full time. An avid traveler, Keith began writing The Witch’s Guide to Cooking with Children, in Himachal Pradesh, India, staring at the Himalayan mountains, and continued working on it in Boston, New Orleans, and Chicago, and Vienna, Austria, where he now lives with his wife. This is his first novel for children.
Hater by David Moody
Tue, Dec 01, 2009
DAVID MOODY had originally self-published Hater online. With the official publication of Hater, he is poised to make a significant mark as a writer of “farther out” fiction.
The Last Ember by Daniel Levin
Tue, Dec 01, 2009
Daniel Levin earned his bachelor's degree in Roman and Greek civilization from the University of Michigan. He graduated Harvard Law School with honors and clerked for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel. He was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome in 2004 and practiced international law at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. He currently lives in New York City with his wife. This is his first novel.
Relentless by Dean Koontz
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Dean Koontz, the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers, lives with his wife, Gerda, and the enduring spirit of their golden retriever, Trixie, in southern California.
Bayou Dogs: The Haunting of Derek Stone by Tony Abbott
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Tony Abbott is the author of more than seventy books for young readers, including the bestselling The Secrets of Droon series and the novels Kringle, Firegirl (winner of the 2006 Golden Kite Fiction Award), and most recently The Postcard. He lives and writes in Connecticut with his wife, two daughters, and their Corgi, Comet.
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are the Dark Tower novels, Cell, From a Buick 8, Everything's Eventual, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Lisey's Story and Bag of Bones. His acclaimed nonfiction book, On Writing, was also a bestseller. He was the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Legendary author Elmore Leonard is an acclaimed crime and Western writer and the winner of many prestigious awards. He has written more than forty novels, including bestsellers Up in Honey's Room, The Hot Kid, Mr. Paradise, Tishomingo Blues, Pagan Babies, and Glitz. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty and Out of Sight.
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Since his autobiography, The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life, was published in 1996, Sid Fleischman has been stealing the spotlight with his exuberant brand of nonfiction. Sir Charlie: Chaplin, the Funniest Man in the World is Fleischman's fourth true tale, following the widely acclaimed The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West and the best-selling Escape! The Story of The Great Houdini. Fleischman's books have been made into films, performed as plays, and translated into nineteen languages. The author was awarded the Newbery Medal for The Whipping Boy. His most recent novel is The Dream Stealer. Sid Fleischman lives in Santa Monica, California.
Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
ALEXANDER GORDON SMITH lives in Norwich, England. Lockdown: Escape from Furnace is his first novel published in the United States.
Rescue Ink by Dennis Flaim
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Comprised of motorcycle and tattoo aficianados, Rescue Ink is a nonprofit animal rescue organization based in Long Island, New York. They have been featured in People and The New York Times. Denise Flaim was a staff writer at Newsday from 1994 to 2008 and is the author of The Holistic Dog Book and Getting Lucky: How One Special Dog Found Love and a Second Chance at Angel's Gate.
Hell House by Richard Mattheson
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Richard Matheson is The author of I Am Legend, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It . . . , and What Dreams May Come. A Grand Master of Horror and past winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, he has also won the Edgar, the Hugo, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. He also wrote for the television classic show Twilight Zone.
Breathless by Dean Koontz
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Amazingly prolific and relentlessly suspenseful, Dean Koontz can be counted on for chilling, sometimes gory stories that occasionally overlap genres. His novels can jump from straightforward crime to sci-fi to horror, but the one thing he's consistent about is delivering nail-biting yarns that have kept fans reading for more than three decades.
Skellig by David Almond
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Skellig, my first children's novel, came out of the blue, as if it had been waiting a long time to be told. It seemed to write itself…. –David Almond.
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
Sat, May 01, 2010
Roger Kahn, a prize-winning author, grew up in Brooklyn, where he says everybody on the boys' varsity baseball team at his prep school wanted to play for the Dodgers. None did. He has written nineteen books. Like most natives of Brooklyn, he is distressed that the Dodgers left. "In a perfect world," he says, "the Dodgers would have stayed in Brooklyn and Los Angeles would have gotten the Mets." As beautifully written and touching as the story is, it had special meaning to our reviewer, Miles Klein, who too lived in Brooklyn, relatively close to Ebbets Field, and even attended the same college as did author Kahn, and probably around the same time.
The 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Richard Doetsch is the bestselling author of two thrillers The Thieves of Heaven and The Thieves of Faith. He is also the president of a national real estate company based in New York, where he lives with his family.
*The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) was born in Scotland. He studied engineering and law at the University of Edinburgh and then began writing while traveling in France. The publication of Treasure Island in 1883 brought him fame and entered him on a course of romantic fiction beloved by young and old alike.
Dimiter by William Peter Blatty
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
William Peter Blatty, the writer of numerous novels and screenplays, is best known for his mega-bestselling novel The Exorcist, deemed by the New York Times Book Review to be "as superior to most books of its kind as an Einstein equation is to an accountant's column of figures." An Academy Award winner for his screenplay for The Exorcist, Blatty is not only the author of one of the most terrifying novels ever written, but, paradoxically, also co-wrote the screenplay for the hilarious Inspector Clouseau film, A Shot in the Dark. New York Times reviewers of his early comic novels noted, "Nobody can write funnier lines than William Peter Blatty," describing him as "a gifted virtuoso who writes like S. J. Perelman." Blatty lives with his wife and a son in Maryland.
A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
PETER STRAUB is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels. Two of his most recent, Lost Boy Lost Girl and In the Night Room, are winners of the Bram Stoker Award. He lives in New York City.