Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Seth Grahame-Smith once took a class in English literature. He lives in Los Angeles. Jane Austen is the author of Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and other masterpieces of English literature.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
LOUISE PENNY’s first Armand Gamache mystery, Still Life, won the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards; her second, A Fatal Grace, won the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel; and her third, The Cruelest Month, was #1 on the hardcover IMBA bestseller list in March 2008, and her fourth, A Rule Against Murder, was a New York Times bestseller. She lives in a small village south of Montreal.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
RAY BRADBURY, one of the world's most popular science-fiction writers, has written more than five hundred short stories, novels, plays, and poems. He has won many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Julian Fellowes, winner of the 2001 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Gosford Park, also wrote the screenplays for Vanity Fair and The Young Victoria. His first novel, Snobs, was a New York Times, L.A. Times, and BookSense bestseller; his other works include The Curious Adventure of the Abandoned Toys and the book for the Disney stage musical of Mary Poppins. He lives in London and Dorset, England.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
"Eight hundred and fifty-three horrifying things had happened to me by the time I was a teenager. That was when I met my Pigman, whose real name was Nonno Frankie." Winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award; School LIbrary Journal Best Book of the Year; Horn Book Fanfare Honor List; New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age; and, A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Includes: King Midas and the Golden Touch and Elephant’s Child. Michael Cain’s narration brings to life greedy King Midas who soon comes to realize that there are some things in life more precious than gold. Jack Nicholson narrates the second story, Rudyard Kipling’s Elephant’s Child, which portrays the tale of a very curious baby elephant. This collection is perfect for young listeners.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Judy Shepard is co-founder of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, which is dedicated to social justice, diversity awareness and education, and equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. Shepard speaks across the country on behalf of the foundation.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Four mysterious letters change Miranda’s world forever.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
MARGOT BERWIN earned her MFA from the New School in 2005. Her stories have appeared on Nerve.com, in the New York Press, and in the anthology The Future of Misbehavior. She worked in advertising for many years and lives in New York City with a killer collection of plants.
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.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
CAROL LYNCH WILLIAMS, a four-time winner of the Utah Original Writing Competition and winner of Nebraska’s Golden Sower Award, grew up in Florida but now lives in Utah with her husband and seven children. She has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and helped develop the conference on Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers at Brigham Young University.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Adrian McKinty is the critically acclaimed author of Dead I Well May Be, the award-winning The Dead Yard, The Bloomsday Dead, and Hidden River. McKinty was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and educated at Oxford University. After ten years in Colorado, he currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
British mystery writers Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Michael Jecks, Philip Gooden, Susanna Gregory, and C. J. Sansom have collaborated on this fourth group of stories based on a common thread, this time a book of prophecies.
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.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Isabel Gillies, known for her television role as Detective Stabler's wife on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and for her cinematic debut in the film Metropolitan, graduated from New York University with a BFA in film. She lives in Manhattan with her second husband, her two sons, and her stepdaughter.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Richard Yates was born in 1926. The author of several acclaimed works of fiction, including Revolutionary Road, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, Disturbing the Peace, and The Easter Parade, he was lauded during his lifetime as the foremost novelist of the post-war "age of anxiety". He died in 1992.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Lisa Kleypas is the RITA-Award winning author of 20 novels. Her books are published in fourteen languages and are bestsellers all over the world. She lives in Washington with her husband and two children.
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.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Chris Gardner is the chief executive officer of Gardner Rich & Company, a multimillion-dollar brokerage with offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. An avid philanthropist and motivational speaker, Gardner is committed to many organizations -- particularly those related to education -- and was recently the recipient of the Father of the Year Award from the National Fatherhood Initiative. A Milwaukee native, Gardner has two children and resides in Chicago and New York.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
A writer, book reviewer, and the author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye, Louis Bayard has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Salon.com, among other media outlets. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
This is the fifth novel in the author's Pink Carnation series of historical mystery/romances.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Dan Waddell is a journalist and author who lives in west London with his son. He writes about the media and popular culture, and has published ten non-fiction books, including the bestselling Who Do You Think You Are?, which tied in with a popular BBC TV series on genealogy. The Blood Detective is his first novel.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Michael Robertson works for a large company with branches in the United States and England. The Baker Street Letters is his first novel and has been optioned by Warner Bros. for television. He lives in Southern California.
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.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Peter Mayle worked in advertising until he decided to live where he most longed to, Provence, and try his hand at writing. With the success of his first book describing his new life, A Year in Provence, his life took a notable turn for the better. This is his eleventh book including five novels. Recently, he received the Legion d'Honneur from the French government for his cultural contributions. He has been living in Provence with his wife, Jennie, for 18 years now. A Good Year, Ridley Scott's film starring Russell Crowe based on Peter's novel of the same name, was out in 2006.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
KRISTIN CASHORE is a freelance educational writer who writes content for textbooks and teacher editions, as well as book reviews for The Horn Book Guide and other publications. Kristin received her master's degree in children's literature in 2003 from Simmons College, where she worked with Liza Ketchum and was named a Virginia Haviland Scholar. She lives in Jacksonville, Florida.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Attica Locke is a screenwriter who has worked in both film and television. A former fellow at the Sundance Institute, she is currently at work on an HBO miniseries about the civil rights movement. A native of Houston, Texas, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Michael Harmon is the author of Skate (“A remarkable first novel” according to Kirkus Reviews) and The Last Exit to Normal (“An excellent read” according to a starred School Library Journal review). He lives in Washington state.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
BRUCE COVILLE has published more than ninety books for young readers, including the bestselling My Teacher Is an Alien series and the wildly popular Unicorn Chronicles. With more than eighteen million books in print, he is one of America s most beloved writers of books for children.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Pat Conroy is the bestselling author of nine books: The Boo, The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, My Losing Season, The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life and South of Broad. He lives in Fripp Island, South Carolina.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Charles Todd is the author of eleven Ian Rutledge mysteries—most recently A Matter of Justice—one stand-alone novel, The Murder Stone, and the Bess Crawford mysteries. This mother-and-son writing team lives in Delaware and North Carolina, respectively.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Farahad Zama was born in Visakhapatnam (Vizag) on the eastern coast of India in 1966. After an (arranged) marriage, his career took him to London on a six-month business trip. His day job is working at an investment bank.
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.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Douglas 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. Lincoln Child is a former book editor and systems analyst who has published numerous novels and anthologies.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) was born in England, and he attended Cambridge University. He spent much of his life traveling and lived in Paris, New York, Mexico, Los Angeles, Canada, and Italy, among other places. He is the author of numerous works, including Ultramarine and Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Love Liu is an adolescent growing up in Urumqui in Xinjiang China during the darkest days of the Cultural Revolution.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Daniel Tammet is a writer, linguist and educator. A 2007 poll of 4,000 Britons named him as one of the world's "100 living geniuses." His website company, Optimnem, has provided foreign language instruction to thousands around the globe and his last book, the New York Times bestseller Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant, has been translated into 18 languages. He lives in Avignon, in the south of France.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Celia Rees is the author of many books for young readers including the bestsellers Witch Child, Sorceress, and Pirates! Celia lives in Leamington Spa, England with her husband and teenage daughter.
Mon, Oct 26, 2009
Deborah Ellis won Canada’s Governor General’s Award in 2000 for her first book, Searching for X. She is also the author of several other books, including Parvana’s Journey, winner of the Jane Addams Award and the Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award, given annually by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canadian Booksellers Association. She lives in Ontario, Canada.
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