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The Listener by Shira Nayman
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.
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Seaworthy by Linda Greenlaw
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.
When Everything Changed by Gail Collins
Gail Collins was the Editorial Page Editor for the New York Times from 2001-2007--the first woman to have held that position. She currently writes a column for the Time's Op-Ed page twice weekly.
The Black Gang by Sapper
Sapper is the pen name of Herman Cyril McNeile, born in 1888 at the Naval Prison in Bodmin, Cornwall, where his father was Governor. He served in the Royal Engineers (popularly known as 'sappers') from 1907-19, being awarded the Military Cross during World War 1. He started writing in France, adopting a pen name because serving officers were not allowed to write under their own names. When his first stories, about life in the trenches, were published in 1915, they were an enormous success. But it was his first thriller, Bulldog Drummond (1920) that launched him as one of the most popular novelists of his generation. It had several amazingly successful sequels, including The Black Gang, The Third Round and The Final Count. Another great success was Jim Maitland (1923), featuring a footloose English sahib in foreign lands. Sapper published nearly thirty books in total, and a vast public mourned his death when he died in 1937, at the early age of forty-eight. So popular was his 'Bulldog Drummond' series that his friend, the late Gerard Fairlie, wrote several Bulldog Drummond stories after his death under the same pen name, which had by then become synonymous with fast-paced, intelligent thrillers and complex, vibrant characters.
Confessions of an Alien Hunter by Seth Shostak
Seth Shostak is a scientist, author, and frequent commentator on TV and radio. He writes a monthly column on SPACE.com, and often lectures on his work at SETI. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen is the author of three novels—The Corrections, The Twenty-Seventh City, and Strong Motion—and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.
*The Burying Place by Brian Freeman
Brian Freeman is the author of psychological suspense novels featuring detectives Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial. His books have been sold in 17 languages. His debut thriller, Immoral, won the Macavity Award and was a nominee for the Edgar®, Dagger, Anthony, and Barry awards for best first novel. Brian and his wife, Marcia, have lived in Minnesota for more than twenty years.
The Holy Thief by William Ryan
WILLIAM RYAN was born in London in 1965 and attended Trinity College, Dublin. He practiced briefly as a barrister before completing his Masters in Creative Writing at St Andrews University. His work has appeared in the short story collection, Cool Britannia. He lives in London with his wife. This is his first novel.
Deep Black: Sea of Terror by Stephen Coonts and William H. Keith
As a naval aviator, STEPHEN COONTS flew combat missions during the Vietnam War. A former attorney and the author of fifteen New York Times bestsellers, he and his wife reside in Colorado. Visit his Web site at www.coonts.com. Deep Black co-author William H. Keith has written nearly eighty books over the past twenty-five years. His novels, published under the pseudonyms Ian Douglas and H. Jay Riker, are geopolitical thrillers with an emphasis on the Marines and submarine warfare. A veteran of the Navy, he lives in western Pennsylvania.
*Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons
Natasha Solomons is a 29-year-old screenwriter who lives in Dorset England. This is her first novel and was inspired in part by her own grandparents' experience.
Before the Frost by Henning Mankell
Internationally acclaimed author Henning Mankell has written numerous Kurt Wallander mysteries. The books have been published in thirty-three countries and consistently top the bestseller lists in Europe, receiving major literary prizes (including the UK's Golden Dagger Award in 2000) and generating numerous international film and television adaptations. Born in a village in northern Sweden in 1948, Mankell divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he works as the director of Teatro Avenida.
*Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger
William Kent Krueger is the award-winning author of nine Cork O'Connor novels, including Thunder Bay and Red Knife. All are available from Atria Books. He lives in the Twin Cities with his family. Visit his website at www.williamkentkrueger.com.
*The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva is the author of The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Price of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules and The Defector. In 2009 Silva was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council.
Blood Safari by Deon Meyer
Deon Meyer lives in Melkbosstrand on the South African West Coast with his wife and four children. He has written five novels, all of which have been highly acclaimed and translated into several languages.
*The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
Nicholas Carr writes on the social, economic, and business implications of technology. He is the author of the Atlantic Monthly article "Is Google Making us Stupid?" and the books The Big Switch, and Does IT Matter? He has also written for the New York Times, The Guardian, Wired, and other periodicals
Free Fall America by Joseph E, Stiglitz
Winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics, Joseph E. Stiglitz is the author of Making Globalization Work; Globalization and Its Discontents; and, with Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War. He was chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and served as senior vice president and chief economist at the World Bank. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
American Insurgents by T.H. Breen
T. H. Breen is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. The author of several works of history, Breen has also written for The New York Times Magazine, the London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and The New York Times Book Review. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.
American Subversive by David Goodwillie
David Goodwillie is the author of the acclaimed memoir Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time. He has also played professional baseball, worked as a private investigator, and was an expert at Sotheby's auction house. A graduate of Kenyon College, he lives in New York City. American Subversive is his first novel.
*As Husbands Go by Susan Isaacs
Susan Isaacs, novelist, essayist and screenwriter, was born in Brooklyn and educated at Queens College. Her novels include Compromising Positions, Close Relations, Almost Paradise, Shining Through, and Past Perfect. A recipient of the Writers for Writers Award and the John Steinbeck Award, Isaacs serves as chairman of the board of Poets & Writers and is a past president of Mystery Writers of America. Her fiction has been translated into thirty languages. She lives on Long Island with her husband.
Lost by Alice Lichtenstein
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.
A Place of My Own by Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is the author of three New York Times bestsellers, including In Defense of Food, The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore's Dilemma.. A contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, he is also currently the Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
ALEXANDRE DUMAS (1802–1870), French novelist and playwright, was born the son of an innkeeper's daughter and one of Napoleon's generals. He moved to Paris in 1823 to make his fortune in the theater, and at twenty-eight he was one of the leading literary figures of his day. His complete works were eventually to fill over three hundred volumes, and his stories made him the best-known Frenchman of his age.
*A Shadow on the Glass by Ian Irvine
Ian Irvine lives in the mountains of NSW, Australia. A SHADOW ON THE GLASS is his first novel.
The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron
Paul Doiron is the editor-in-chief of Down East: The Magazine of Maine. A native of Maine, he attended Yale University, where he graduated with a degree in English, and he holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. Paul is a Registered Maine Guide and lives on a trout stream in coastal Maine with his wife, Kristen Lindquist. Please visit his Web site at www.pauldoiron.com.
Bob Dylan in America by Sean Wilentz
Sean Wilentz, a professor of history at Princeton University, is the author or editor of seven books, including Chants Democratic and The Rise of American Democracy. He has also written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and other publications. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
This is Where We Live by Janelle Brown
Janelle Brown is a freelance journalist who writes for the New York Times, Vogue, Wired, Elle, and Self, among other publications, and was formerly a senior writer for Salon. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles.
The Broom of the System by David Wallace Foster
David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) is the award-winning author of several short story and essay collections, and two novels, including the bestselling cult classic Infinite Jest.
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Born in Moscow in 1821, Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky is regarded as one of the greatest writers who ever lived. Literary modernism and various schools of psychology and theology have been deeply changed by his ideas. He died in 1881 in St Petersburg, Russia.
The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) published the first Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, in 1887, and the popularity of the famed sleuth singularly determined the author's enduring legacy. But in addition to his mysteries, nonfiction, and historical works, Doyle enjoyed many adventures of his own. In 1900 he traveled to South Africa as a war-time physician in Cape Town; his treatise on the Boer War earned him a knighthood in 1902. During World War I, Conan Doyle served as a war correspondent. And from 1920 until his death in 1930, the author wrote, traveled, and lectured to promote his belief in spiritualism.
The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton is perhaps best known for his much-loved Father Brown series of detective stories.
A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay
Tatiana de Rosnay is the author of ten novels, including the New York Times bestselling novel Sarah’s Key. Together with Dan Brown, Stephenie Meyer, and Stieg Larsson, she was named one of the top ten fiction writers in Europe in 2009. Tatiana lives with her husband and two children in Paris, where she is at work on her next novel. Visit her online at www.tatianaderosnay.com.
Aftershock by Robert B. Reich
Robert B. Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written twelve books, including The Work of Nations, which has been translated into twenty-two languages, and the best seller Supercapitalism. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He is also cofounding editor of The American Prospect magazine and provides weekly commentaries on public radio's Marketplace. He lives in Berkeley and blogs at www.robertreich.org.
The Man who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall
Tarquin Hall is a British author and journalist who has lived and worked throughout South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He is the author of The Case of the Missing Servant, dozens of articles, and three works of non-fiction, including the highly acclaimed Salaam Brick Lane, an account of a year spent above a Bangladeshi sweat shop in London's notorious East End. He is married to Indian-born journalist, Anu Anand. They divide their time between London and Delhi.