Susan Allison was a Maine high school librarian for 22 years, a children's librarian in a Maine public library, and a high school/middle school librarian at a private school in Thessaloniki, Greece. She wrote book and audiobook reviews for "KLIATT Reviews of Selected Books, Educational Software and Audiobooks."
Mary Anna Evans has degrees in physics and chemical engineering. Her background includes stints in environmental consulting and university administration. Writing lets her spend weeks indulging her passion for history, archaeology, and architecture, and months making up stories. Mary Anna lives in Florida with her three children and a cat.
Wed, Dec 24, 2008
Bret Witter has ghostwritten nine books. Before becoming a professional writer, Bret spent three years as the Editorial Director of HCI, the publisher of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Bret lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Thu, Dec 25, 2008
John Green (whose full name anagrams to rejig, ole henchman) is the Printz Award-winning author of Looking for Alaska. John has also written for National Public Radio¹s All Things Considered and for The New York Times. He lives in New York City with his wife. Before he got married, he was dumped fifty-three times. But never by a Katherine. You can visit John on the Web at www.sparksflyup.com.
Sat, Feb 21, 2009
Sebastian Barry is a playwright whose work has been produced in London, Dublin, Sydney, and New York. His novel A Long Long Way was a finalist for the 2005 Man Booker Prize. His other novels include The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty and Annie Dunne.
Sat, Feb 21, 2009
Anita Shreve is the critically acclaimed author of fourteen novels, including Body Surfing, The Pilot's Wife, which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club, and The Weight of Water, which was a finalist for England's Orange Prize. She lives in Massachusetts.
Mon, Jun 01, 2009
PETER CAMERON is the author of several novels, including Andorra and The Weekend. He lives in New York City.
Sun, May 24, 2009
MICHELLE MORAN is the author of the national bestselling novel Nefertiti. She lives in California with her husband and a garden of more than two hundred roses.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Dan Gordon was head writer of the hit TV series Highway to Heaven; his screenwriting credits include The Hurricane, Murder in the First, Wyatt Earp, and The Celestine Prophecy. He is the author of the stage adaptations of Terms of Endearment and Rain Man; cofounder of the Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking in Sedona, Arizona; and has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University School of the Arts, USC School of Cinematic Arts, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, and Tel Aviv University.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Paul Volponi is the author of Black and White (winner of the IRA Children’s Book Award for YA Fiction) and Rooftop. Both books were named Best Books for Young Adults and Quick Picks by the ALA. He lives in New York City.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
AZAR NAFISI is a visiting professor and the director of the Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University. She has taught Western literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University, and the University of Allameh Tabatabai in Iran. In 1981 she was expelled from the University of Tehran after refusing to wear the veil. In 1994 she won a teaching fellowship from Oxford University, and in 1997 she and her family left Iran for America. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic and has appeared on countless radio and television programs. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Tana French's debut, In the Woods, hit the New York Times best-seller list and drew rave reviews from the Times (London) and Booklist.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Laurie Halse Anderson is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Speak, as well as Catalyst, Prom, and Twisted. She is the recipient of the prestigious ALAN Award (2008), which honors those who have made outstanding contributions to the field of adolescent literature. Ms. Anderson lives in northern New York State with her husband.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, writer of detective fiction, and critic. After publishing this novel he wrote TALES OF THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE (1840) and THE RAVEN AND OTHER POEMS (1845).
Tue, Sep 01, 2009
Nora Raleigh Baskin was chosen as a Publishers Weekly Flying Start for her novel What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows. She is the author of four novels for middle-graders and teens, including her new novel, The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah
Tue, Sep 01, 2009
Deborah Crombie is a native Texan who has lived in both England and Scotland. She currently lives north of Dallas in McKinney, Texas, sharing a 102-year-old house with her husband, three cats, and two German shepherds. When not walking dogs or remodeling, she spends a good deal of time in the U.K., researching her Kincaid/James novels.
Wed, Dec 01, 2010
BRENDA RICKMAN VANTREASE is a former English teacher and librarian whose bestselling debut, The Illuminator, was translated into over a dozen languages. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is the author of more than 100 books. She lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
ALAN BRENNERT is the author of Moloka’i, which was a 2006-2007 BookSense Reading Group Pick and won the 2006 Bookies Award, sponsored by the Contra Costa Library, for the Book Club Book of the Year (over My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult; The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson; and A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey). It appeared on the BookSense, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Honolulu Advertiser, and (for 16 weeks) NCIBA bestseller lists. Alan has also won an Emmy Award for his work as a writer-producer on the television series L.A. Law and a Nebula Award for his story “MaQui.” He lives in Sherman Oaks, California.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
David Ellis is the author of five other novels, including Line of Vision for which he won the Edgar Award. An attorney from Chicago, he is currently Counsel to the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives and served as the impeachment prosecutor in the Governor Blagojevich trial.
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
John Claude Bemis began his writing career as a songwriter, and through oldtime country and blues music, began to explore how Southern folklore could become epic fantasy. John lives with his family in Hillsborough, North Carolina, where he teaches his favorite books to elementary school students.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including his most recent, Zeitoun, a nonfiction account a Syrian-American immigrant and his extraordinary experience during Hurricane Katrina and What Is the What, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in southern Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, run by Mr. Deng and dedicated to building secondary schools in southern Sudan. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine (The Believer), and Wholphin, a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Ann Arbor, Seattle, and Boston. In 2004, Eggers taught at the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and there, with Dr. Lola Vollen, he co-founded Voice of Witness, a series of books using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. A native of Chicago, Eggers graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in journalism. He now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Canadian children’s author and former seventh-grade English teacher, Gordon Korman, now lives on Long Island, NY and has written more than 55 children’s books. Check out his website www.gordonkorman.com for more fun information.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Award-winning New Zealand author Kathleen De Goldi has written both short stories and young adult novels. De Goldi was also the 2001 New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Human rights campaigner and British author Siobhan Dowd lived in Oxford with her husband, Geoff, before tragically dying from cancer in August 2007, aged 47. She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person. Her first novel, A Swift Pure Cry, was a Book Sense Top Ten Pick and a Junior Library Guild selection. Her second novel, The London Eye Mystery, received five starred reviews.
Sat, May 01, 2010
Betty Webb is the author of the acclaimed Lena Jones mystery series, which includes "Desert Cut" and "Desert Wives." A former Californian who once lived on a boat, Betty now lives in landlocked Arizona, where she volunteers at the Phoenix Zoo. She also teaches Creative Writing at Phoenix College and is a member of the National Association of Press Women, Mystery Writers of America, and the Authors Guild.
Sat, May 01, 2010
Author and anthropologist Louise Young, after working nearly two decades with the indigenous Kuna tribe in Panama, crafts a beautiful, passionate, first novel set against a detailed and revealing portrayal of life in the jungles of this remote region. The language of this story reflects the extremely sensuous nature of this area of tropical jungle. The animals, the sea, the landscape, the heat, and the languorous flow of the narrative will draw listeners into the exotic, sensual environment.
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Jeffrey Siger, born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, practiced law at a major Wall Street law firm and, while there, served as Special Counsel to the citizens group responsible for reporting on New York City’s prison conditions. He left Wall Street to establish his own New York City law firm and continued as one of its name partners. Now he lives and writes full-time in Mykonos, his adopted home of 25 years.
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
JODI PICOULT is the author of seventeen novels, including Handle With Care, Change of Heart, Nineteen Minutes, and My Sister's Keeper, now a major motion picture. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Visit her website at www.jodipicoult.com.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
JEFFREY STEPAKOFF has been writing professionally since receiving his MFA in Playwriting from Carnegie Mellon in 1988. His credits include the Emmy-winning The Wonder Years, Sisters, Major Dad, Disney's Tarzan, and Dawson's Creek (as co-executive producer). This is his debut novel. He lives with his family north of Atlanta, Georgia.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
CHRIS BOHJALIAN is the critically acclaimed author of twelve novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Skeletons at the Feast, The Double Bind, and Midwives. His novel, Midwives, was a number one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah’s Book Club. His work has been translated into more than 25 languages and twice became movies (Midwives and Past the Bleachers). He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Andrea Camilleri, a bestselling author in Italy and Germany, is the author of the Montalbano mystery series and several historical novels set in nineteenth-century Sicily. His books have been translated into seven languages.
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
SEBASTIAN FAULKS worked as a journalist for fourteen years, then turned to writing books full-time in 1991. In 1995 he was recognized as Author of the Year by the British Book Awards for his novel Birdsong. He is the author of Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Charlotte Gray, The Fatal Englishman, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Engleby, and the James Bond novel Devil May Care. He lives in London with his wife and three children.
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Tracy Chevalier is the New York Times bestselling author of five previous novels, including Girl With the Pearl Earring and Burning Bright.
Wed, Sep 01, 2010
Lynn Cullen is the author of the young adult novel I Am Rembrandt's Daughter, an ALA Best Book of 2008, and several other acclaimed books for children. She lives with her husband in Atlanta.
Wed, Sep 01, 2010
Marla R. Miller is an associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the director of the public history program there. She has won the Organization of American Historians' Lerner-Scott Prize for the Best Dissertation in Women's History and the Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Colonial History. In 2009, she was awarded the Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship from the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience.
Mon, Nov 01, 2010
Shira Nayman grew up in Australia. She has a master's degree in comparative literature and a doctorate in clinical psychology, and has worked as a psychologist and a marketing consultant. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, New England Review, and Boulevard. The recipient of two grants from the Australia Council for the Arts Literature Board, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.
Mon, Nov 01, 2010
Linda Greenlaw, America's only female swordfish boat captain, was featured in the book and film The Perfect Storm. She has written three New York Times best-selling nonfiction books about life as a commercial fisherman as well as a cookbook and two mysteries.
Mon, Nov 01, 2010
ALICE LICHTENSTEIN graduated from Brown University and was named the Boston University Fellow in creative writing. She has received a New York Foundation of the Arts grant in fiction and has twice been a Fellow at the prestigious MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She now teaches at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Andrea Camilleri is an internationally bestselling author. He lives in Rome. Stephen Sartarelli is an award-winning translator and poet. He lives in France.
Tue, Feb 01, 2011
NTOZAKE SHANGE is a renowned playwright, poet, and novelist. Her works includes Some Sing, Some Cry, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Betsey Brown and Liliane. Among her honors and awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and a Pushcart Prize. Tony and Grammy Award-nomiated Shange is a graduate of Barnard and recipient of a Masters in American Studies from University of Southern California. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Tue, Mar 01, 2011
Mary Anna Evans, award-winning author of the six Faye Longchamp mysteries, has degrees in physics and engineering, but her heart is in the past. Faye lives the exciting life of an archaeologist, and Mary Anna envies her a little. Her books have found an unexpected home in schools, and when she's not writing her novels, Mary Anna works with teachers to develop ways to use popular fiction to teach math and science and history to kids who are surprised to find out that those subjects are interesting.
Tue, Mar 01, 2011
World traveler, journalist and television host, Di Morrissey is a popular Australian author of more than 18 best selling books.
Fri, Apr 01, 2011
Lyndsay Faye is a writer and actress who lives in New York with her husband and cat.
Fri, Apr 01, 2011
Tom Piccirilli is the author of fourteen novels, including A Choir of Ill Children, November Mourns, and Headstone City. He has been a World Fantasy Award finalist and a four-time Bram Stoker Award winner. He lives in Denver, Colorado.
Sun, May 01, 2011
George Barr McCutcheon's (1866-1928) novels made him a millionaire. Devoted fans inundated him with mail, and his obituary ran on the front pages of most American and British newspapers. He published stories in McClures, Good Housekeeping, and the Saturday Evening Post, national magazines.
Sun, May 01, 2011
Richard Matheson is the bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, 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.
Mon, Aug 01, 2011
Author Cate Kennedy’s love for the beauty and culture of her adopted country Australia is apparent in this novel.
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
Adults enamored of the locale (The Channel Islands off Santa Barbara), who like novels with much interwoven historical/scientific information, and who are interested in the issues surrounding animals rights, will enjoy this audiobook.
Sat, Oct 01, 2011
“Fans who love complex, slowly unraveling mysteries, the kind that leave the listener off-balance and captivated, will love this.”
Sat, Oct 01, 2011
“Kerry Greenwood’s The Phryne Fisher Mystery series began in 1989 with Cocaine Blues; The stories are set in 1920’s Australia.”
Sat, Oct 01, 2011
“This unconventional love story, set in Wellington, New Zealand in 1905, deals with the forbidden, inter-racial love between recently widowed Katherine McKechnie and handsome Chung Yung, a Chinese greengrocer with a wife and child in China.” 1
Tue, Nov 01, 2011
“Reminiscent of the popular PBS television series Upstairs, Downstairs, The House at Riverton captures life “above” and “below stairs” in post-Victorian England during the outrageous "Roaring Twenties.”
Sat, Jan 01, 2011
“Reminiscent of the Canadian television series set in the 1890’s The Murdoch Mysteries, whose Detective Murdoch often utilized science in the investigation and solving of crimes, A Spark of Death will appeal especially to those who are scientifically inclined, particularly those with a general knowledge of electricity and the history of its development.”
Sat, Jan 01, 2011
”Australian theater, film and television actor Caroline Lee’s excellent fully-voiced reading contributes significantly to Violent Exposure’s success.”
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“Listeners who relish good romances will be instantly engaged in these parallel stories of love, mystery and suspense in England, one set in a staid 1960s and the other in the present.”
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“Listeners drawns to mysteries that lead through many macabre twists and surprising turns, that gradually reveal hidden clues, that confound with supernatural activity, and chill, will love FLORENCE & GILES.”
Sun, Apr 01, 2012
“Luci Christian’s excellent narration aptly captures the personalities of the characters and the flavor and simplicity of life in seacoast Maine.”
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
“Award winning narrator Grover Gardner’s fully-voiced interpretation provides comic relief in the array of accents for these Italian/Sicilian characters.”
Tue, May 01, 2012
“Australian actress Susan Lyons, well-known in both television and films, especially for her Shakespearean roles, creates a sympathetic character in Juana, through her gentle voice as she shares Juana’s expressions of concern for her children and faithful servant women.”
Tue, May 01, 2012
“Experienced, award-winning (8 Audies!) narrator Barbara Rosenblatt suits this novel with the variety of New York voices she provides...”
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