Sunday, March 31, 2013

Margarita Engle's "The Lightning Dreamer"

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Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American winner of the first Newbery Honor ever awarded to a Latino. Her award winning young adult novels in v...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

James Conaway's "Nose"

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James Conaway is a former Wallace Stegner writing fellow at Stanford University and an Alicia Patterson journalism fellow, and the author...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

D. A. Mishani's "The Missing File"

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D. A. Mishani is an Israeli crime writer, editor and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction. Here he dreamcas...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Margaux Froley's "Escape Theory"

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Margaux Froley grew up in Santa Barbara, California, and attended not one, but two boarding schools during her high school years in Calif...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

Jeanine Cummins's "The Crooked Branch"

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Jeanine Cummins is the author of A Rip in Heaven: A Memoir of Murder and Its Aftermath , published in 2004 and a surprise bestseller. The O...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Tanis Rideout's "Above All Things"

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Tanis Rideout ’s work has appeared in numerous publications and has been shortlisted for several prizes, including the Bronwen Wallace Memor...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Megan Marshall's "Margaret Fuller: A New American Life"

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Megan Marshall 's first biography, The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism , won the Francis Parkman Prize, th...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Linda Olsson's "The Memory of Love"

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Linda Olsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1948. She graduated from the University of Stockholm with a law degree, and worked in law an...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Glenn Frankel’s "The Searchers"

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Glenn Frankel is director of the School of Journalism and G.B. Dealey Regents Professor in Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin....
Monday, March 18, 2013

Lisa Black's "Blunt Impact"

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Lisa Black spent the five happiest years of her life in a morgue. As a forensic scientist in the Cleveland coroner’s office she analyzed ...