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Jasper Fforde
Three separate interviews in which Jasper Fforde discusses the Thursday Next series, his Nursery Crime novels and Shades of Grey, the first in a trilogy set in a future world recognizable as our own - but only just.
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Abraham Verghese
An interview with Abraham Verghese about his life and writing and in particular about his extraordinary 2009 novel Cutting for Stone, set in 1960s and '70s Ethiopia and 1980s New York.
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Martha A Sandweiss
An interview with Martha Sandweiss in which she discusses her book Passing Strange, a biography of Clarence King who lived a double life—as the celebrated white explorer, geologist, and writer Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter named James Todd, married to Ada with whom he had five children.
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Amy Greene
Amy Greene talks about her first novel, Bloodroot, which brings her native Appalachia—and the faith and fury of its people—to rich and vivid life.
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Bloodroot
by Amy Greene |
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Reviewed by Elizabeth Whitmore Funk.
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Bloodroot presents a range of voices by weaving together narratives from Myra Lamb's family. Author Amy Greene prevents the narratives from sprawling like kudzu by organizing them into paired sections, allowing characters to alternate speaking in groups of two. The result is a dynamic, layered effect that allows the reader to sink progressively deeper into the Lamb family, as opposed to the traditional approach of going forward through a ...
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Cutting For Stone
by Abraham Verghese
Critics' Consensus:
One of BookBrowse's Top 3 Favorite Books of 2009
An unforgettable journey into one man's remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others set in 1960s & 1970s Ethiopia and 1980s America. |
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Remarkable Creatures
by Tracy Chevalier
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A voyage of discoveries, a meeting of two remarkable women, and extraordinary time and place enrich bestselling author Tracy Chevalier's enthralling new novel |
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Broken Jewel
by David L. Robbins
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New York Times bestselling author David L. Robbins presents a riveting novel of war, love, and survival, set against the backdrop of an improbable rescue, the Los Baños prison raid -- one of the most daring episodes of World War II. |
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The Coral Thief
by Rebecca Stott
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The Coral Thief, as riveting and beautifully rendered as Ghostwalk, Rebecca Stott’s first novel, is a provocative and tantalizing mix of history, philosophy, and suspense. It conjures up vividly both the feats of Napoleon and the accomplishments of those working without fame or glory to change our ideas of who we are and the world in which we live. |
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The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight
by Gina Ochsner.
Publishes: 02/08/2010.
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In a crumbling apartment building in post-Soviet Russia, there's a ghost who won't keep quiet. Mircha fell from the roof and was never properly buried, so he sticks around to heckle the living: his wife, Azade; Olga, a disillusioned translator/censor for a military ...
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Keith Donohue
Inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild, The Stolen Child is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double. The Stolen Child, Donohue's first book, is already one of the run-away successes of 2006, so it is quite likely that Keith will soon be too over-scheduled to chat with individual book clubs - so take the opportunity and book him if you can sooner rather than later - for the best chance of getting time with him, contact his publicist soon and be flexible about when you can chat.
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Melanie Benjamin
Melanie Benjamin explains the backstory to her first novel Alice I Have Been, which recreates the life of Alice Hargreaves, the inspiration for the children's classic Alice in Wonderland. |
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