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Dara Horn
In two separate interviews Dara Horn discusses her 2009 novel All Other Nights, set during the American Civil War; and her 2006 novel, The World To Come, about the artist Marc Chagall.
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Lisa See
In two separate interviews, Lisa See talks about Peony in Love (2007) and Shanghai Girls (2009).
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Alan Bradley
Alan Bradley discusses his first novel, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - the first of six planned books set in England in the 1950s to feature 11-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce.
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Wendy Moore
Wendy Moore explains how she came to write Wedlock, the
true story of the disastrous marriage and remarkable divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore, who at age 11 became the richest heiress in 18th Century England only to stumble headlong into an abusive marriage and scandal following her first husband's early death.
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"At times, our own light goes out, and is rekindled by a spark from another person"
"Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today ...." - Janusz Korczak
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought"
"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion"
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities"
"Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
"Idealism increases in direct proportion to ones distance from the problem."
"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door"
"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people .... but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
"If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he re-reads."
"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us." - Beverly Sills
"It was one of the worst speeches I ever heard ... when a simple apology was all that was required."
"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
"No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home" – Kingsley Amis
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
"The moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for the better ..."
"There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't."
"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves"
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes" - Erasmus
"Wherever they burn books, in the end will also burn human beings." - Heinrich Heine
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
“There is no science without fancy and no art without fact”
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions.
A few Books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library
A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure ....
A library is thought in cold storage - Herbert Samuel
A million monkeys....
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it .....
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The Bellini Madonna
Elizabeth Lowry |
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Thomas Lynch was once a brilliant young art historian. Now he is a disgraced, middle-aged art historian, overly fond of the bottle and of his fresh young students. But everything will change now that he’s on the trail of a lost masterpiece. |
Censoring an Iranian Love Story
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From one of Iran’s most acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers, his first novel to appear in English—a dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window onto what it’s like to live, to love, and to be an artist in today’s Iran. |
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Glen David Gold |
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A novel with Charlie Chaplin at its center, capturing the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity. |
Halfway to Heaven
Mark Obmascik |
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When Mark Obmascik's twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug, he can't resist the opportunity for some father-son bonding. But after their first joint climb, Obmascik decides to scale all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains - and to do them in less than one year. |
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Leonardo Padura |
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Mario Conde, retired from the police force, now makes a living trading antique books. In a book, Conde discovers a newspaper article about a beautiful bolero singer of the 1950’s, who disappeared mysteriously. Conde’s intuition sets him off on an investigation into the murder. |
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The Great Stink by Clare Clark |
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You Are Here by Christopher Potter |
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