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*This Time Together by Carol Burnett
CAROL BURNETT has been an actor on Broadway, television, and in the movies, and was the star of the long-running The Carol Burnett Show, which won twenty-five Emmy Awards. She has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Kennedy Center Honors.
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The Phoenix Transformed by Mercedes Lackey
Mercedes Lackey is the acclaimed author of over fifty novels and many works of short fiction. In her "spare" time she is also a professional lyricist and a licensed wild bird rehabilitator. Mercedes lives in Oklahoma with her husband and frequent collaborator, artist Larry Dixon, and their flock of parrots. MERCEDES LACKEY and JAMES MALLORY have written The Phoenix Endangered and The Phoenix Unchained, the first two volumes of the Enduring Flame, and the Obsidian Trilogy: The Outstretched Shadow, named Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror by VOYA; To Light a Candle, a USA Today bestseller; and When Darkness Falls, a New York Times bestseller.
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
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.
*Cold in Hand by John Harvey
John Harvey is the author of the richly praised Charlie Resnick novels, the first of which, Lonely Hearts, was named by the (London) Times as one of the 100 best crime novels of the century. His first novel featuring DI Frank Elder, Flesh and Blood, won the CWA Silver Dagger in 2004.
*Heist Society by Ally Carter
Even though Ally Carter is the author of the popular Gallagher Girls series, she has never told anyone she loved them and then had to kill them. She does, however, frequently cross her heart and hope to spy. You can learn more about Ally and her books by visiting her (declassified) Web site, allycarter.com.
Locked In by Marcia Muller
MARCIA MULLER has written many novels and short stories. Her novel WOLF IN THE SHADOWS won the Anthony Boucher Award. The recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award--their highest accolade--she lives in northern California with her husband, mystery writer Bill Pronzini. m
Mastergate by Larry Gelbart
Larry Gelbart was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter and author. He is perhaps best known as one of the creators and driving forces behind long-running television series MASH. He also co-wrote the film Tootsie and the broadway play A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum. He died in 2009.
9 Dragons by Michael Connelly
Award-winning crime novelist Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing. After three years on the crime beat in L.A., Connelly began writing his first novel to feature LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. Check out his website for more detailed (and fascinating) background information www.michaelconnelly.com.
The Male Brain by Louann Brizendine, M.D.
LOUANN BRIZENDINE, M.D., a neuropsychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco, is the founder of the Women’s and Teen Girls’ Mood and Hormone Clinic. She was previously on faculty at the Harvard Medical School and is a graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine and the University of California, Berkeley, in neurobiology. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and son.
*The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engel
Margarita Engle is a Cuban-American poet, novelist, and journalist, whose work has been published in many countries. Her books include the acclaimed The Poet Slave of Cuba, which was named an ALA Best Book for Adults, a Bank Street College of Education Best Book, and a Bulletin Blue Ribbon book, among other honors; and Tropical Secrets. Margarita lives with her husband in Northern California.
Once in a Blue Moon by Eileen Goudge
Eileen Goudge is a bestselling author whose novels include The Diary, Domestic Affairs, Woman in Red, One Last Dance, Garden of Lies, and Thorns of Truth. There are more than five million copies of her books in print worldwide. She lives in New York City.
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Though primarily known for her novel and short stories, Elizabeth Gaskell has a non-fiction work of both literary and historical importance: she wrote the first biography of Charlotte Bronte.
Known to Evil by Walter Mosley
A genre-bending author who can move from science-fiction to mysteries, Walter Mosley is perhaps best-known -- and loved -- for his 1940s and ‘50s noir crime novels starring the cool, complex detective Easy Rawlins.
Atomic Bombers by Russell Vandenbroucke
Russell Vandenbroucke served for eleven seasons as artistic director of Chicago’s Northlight Theatre, where he directed such plays as the Philoctetes of Sophocles, Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror, and the world premieres of Arnold Wesker’s Three Women Talking and Martha Boesing’s My Other Heart. As a playwright, he is the author of Feiffer’s America and Eleanor: In Her Own Words, adapted from the writings of Eleanor Roosevelt which won a Los Angeles Emmy. His play Atomic Bombers commemorated the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima on radio and opened Northlight’s first permanent theatre. His lifelong commitment to peace and justice is reflected in many of the plays he has written, directed, and produced.
Odyssey of Love by Lucy Parham
Acknowledged as one of Britain's finest pianists, Lucy Parham first came to public attention on winning the 1984 BBC TV Young Musician of the Year Piano Class, since when she has performed extensively throughout the UK and Europe, South Africa, USA, Canada and Russia. As concerto soloist abroad she has appeared with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra at the Tchaikowsky Hall in Moscow, L'Orchestre Rencontres Suisse, Bergen Philharmonic, L'Orchestre National de Lille, and three UK tours with the Polish National Radio SO and the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Curse of the Good Girl by Rachel Simmons
Rachel Simmons is the author of the New York Times bestseller Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, and The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence. As an educator and coach, Rachel works internationally to develop strategies to address bullying and empower girls.
*Discover Music of the Baroque Era by Clive Unger-Hamilton
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.
*Betrayed by George Packer
George Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of several books, most recently The Assassins’ Gate. His reporting has won four Overseas Press Club awards.
The Silent Sea by Clive Cussler
Clive Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt(R), in 1973. Cussler is an internationally recognized authority on shipwrecks and the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, (NUMA) a 501C3 non-profit organization (named after the fictional Federal agency in his novels) that dedicates itself to preserving American maritime and naval history. Jack du Brul is the author of the Philip Mercer series, and the coauthor with Clive Cussler of four Oregon Files novels. He lives in Vermont.m
A Good Fall by Ha Jin
HA JIN left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of five novels, three story collections, and three books of poetry. He has received the National Book Award, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Asian American Literary Award, and the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Ha Jin lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University.m
Too Many Murders by Colleen McCullough
Colleen Mccullough was born in Australia. A neurophysiologist, she established the department of neurophysiology at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, then worked as a researcher and teacher at Yale Medical School for ten years. Her writing career began with Tim, followed by The Thorn Birds, a record-breaking international bestseller. McCullough lives on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific with her husband, Ric Robinson.
Mencken by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
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.
Dragon Strike by E.E. Knight
Media. 2008/2009. 978-1-4001-1203-6. $37.99. E.E. Knight is a science fiction/dark fantasy writer. In addition to the Age of Fire Series, he has written the Vampire earth series, a post-apocalyptic series in which Earth is controlled by a race of extraterrestrial vampires. He graduated from Northern Illinois University with a double major in history and political science, then made his way through a number of jobs that related to neither. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois.
The Vagrants by Yiyun Lee
Yiyun Li is a winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. She grew up in Beijing and attended Peking University. She came to the United States in 1996 to study medicine and started writing two years later. After receiving a master’s degree in immunology from the University of Iowa, she attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received an MFA. The author of The Vagrants and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Li was selected for a Whiting Writers’ Award and was named by Granta as one of best young American novelists under thirty-five. Li teaches at the University of California, Davis, and lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and their two sons.
Unquestioned Identity by Mame Hunt
Mame Hunt attended the University of California, Davis, CA. She is the Lead Dramaturg, Sundance Theatre Lab. She is also Adjunct Professor, Department of Theatre/Performance Studies, Georgetown University.
* The Three Weissmans of Westport by Cathleen Schine
With her modern-day comedies of manners that garner comparisons to Jane Austen and George Eliot, critically acclaimed writer Cathleen Schine turns out social satires with heart. With their literary allusions and insider's quips, Schine's novels never underestimate her readers' love of great literature.
*The Wycherly Woman by Ross MacDonald
ROSS MACDONALD (1915–1983) was the pen name of Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco but raised in British Columbia, he returned to the United States as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. For over twenty years he lived in Santa Barbara and wrote mystery novels about the fascinating and changing society of his native state. His works have received awards from the Mystery Writers of America and of Great Britain, and his book The Moving Target was made into the movie Harper in 1966
*Short Squeeze by Chris Knopf
CHRIS KNOPF is the award winning author of the highly acclaimed Sam Acquillo Hamptons mystery series: The Last Refuge, Two Time, Head Wounds, and Hard Stop. As a young college student he worked as a lifeguard in Avalon on the South Jersey shore, a place not unlike the setting for Elysiana. A sailor, cabinet maker, and advertising executive at Mintz & Hoke in Avon, Connecticut, he and his wife Mary also spend considerable time at their Southampton, Long Island home.
Seducing the Spirits by Louise Young
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.
Desert Lost by Betty Webb
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.
The Year the Swallows Came Early by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
Amazon author note: Kathryn Fitzmaurice taught elementary school for six years before becoming a full-time writer. She lives in Monarch Beach, California, not far from the swallows' roost, with her husband and two sons. This is her first novel.
This is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan has had his work performed at Naked Angels, H.B. Playwrights' Foundation, Atlantic Theatre Company, Manhattan Punchline, the Royal Court Theatre (London), the first annual Young Playwrights' Festival at Circle Rep, and the Coast Theatre in Los Angeles. Currently working on an original screenplay for Universal and soon to direct his first film, You Can Count On Me, based on his original screenplay, he is co-author of the story and screenplay for the hit movie Analyze This. He lives in New York.
Flaubert by Geoffrey Wall
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.
*The Triumph of Caesar by Steven Saylor
Steven Saylor is the author of the New York Times best-seller Roma, as well as the previous books in the Roma sub Rosa series featuring Gordianus the Finder. His books have been published around the world, in twenty languages and been bestsellers in many of them. He divides his time between Berkeley, California and Austin Texas.
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
English schoolmaster and theologian, best known as the author of the mathematical satire and religious allegory Flatland (1884), Edwin Abbott was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honors in classics, mathematics and theology, and became fellow of his college. He succeeded G. F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of twenty-six. He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits. Dr. Abbott's liberal inclinations in theology were prominent both in his educational views and in his books. His Shakespearian Grammar (1870) is a permanent contribution to English philology. In 1885 he published a life of Francis Bacon. His theological writings include three anonymously published religious romances - Philochristus (1878), Onesimus (1882), and Sitanus (1906).
Now or Never by Tim Flannery
Dr. Tim Flannery is an Australian environmentalist. He was named Australian of the Year in 2007 and is currently a University Professor. He is also the author of The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change and many other publications.