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- The State of Jones by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer 06/24/2009
New York Times bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy.
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- In the Company of Alexander McCall Smith 06/24/2009
“An endless supply of quotes exist telling us we should do what we love in life. Though many are cliché, I found myself rooting around for just the right one after hearing Alexander McCall Smith read,” says Megan Shaffer in a recent piece on Bookbrowse.com. Read the whole article here.
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- A Monster’s Notes by Laurie Sheck 06/23/2009
What if Mary Shelley had not invented Frankenstein’s monster but had met him when she was a girl of eight, sitting by her mother’s grave, and he came to her unbidden? What if their secret bond left her forever changed, obsessed with the strange being whom she had discovered at a time of need? What if he were still alive in the twenty-first century?
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- Comic Book Resources Calls Asterios Polyp “one of the great comics of all time” 06/23/2009
Comic Book Resources, the premier online comics magazine, has written a rave review of David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp, on sale July 7.
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- Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom by Julia Child 06/23/2009
How many minutes should you cook green beans? Is it better to steam them or to boil them? What are the right proportions for a vinaigrette? How do you skim off fat? What is the perfect way to roast a chicken? All the answers are close to hand in this indispensable little volume: the delicious, comforting, essential compendium of Julia’s kitchen wisdom— […]
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- Two Recipes from Julia Child: Poached Salmon Fillets and Steamed Lobster 06/23/2009
Today marks the paperback publication of Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom, which contains Julia Child’s essential techniques and recipes from a lifetime of cooking. The following two recipes from the cookbook perfectly showcase Julia’s simple genius for seafood.
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- Read Poems and a Story by John Updike 06/23/2009
Some selections from John Updike’s two final books: Endpoint (poems) and My Father’s Tears (stories).
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- TheLostSymbol.com Launches – A Summer of Lost Symbols 06/23/2009
In anticipation of the long-awaited publication of Dan Brown’s fifth novel, THE LOST SYMBOL, on September 15 of this year, Doubleday is pleased to announce the launch of a summer-long event featuring an enigmatic array of codes, cryptic trivia, puzzles, secret history, maps, aphorisms, ciphers, arcane knowledge, and more.
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- On Sale Now: White is for Witching 06/23/2009
The Boston Globe writes, “The most chilling horror is the everyday one. The calm, slow suicide. The complacent murderer. The monster that believes in nothing so much as its own moral compass. In her third, profoundly chilling novel, Helen Oyeyemi gives readers all three for a slow-building neo-Gothic that will leave persevering readers breathless.”
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- On Sale Now: Brodeck 06/23/2009
From the writer and director of I’ve Loved You So Long, the acclaimed film starring Kristin Scott Thomas, comes a novel hailed as “a modern masterpiece” (The Daily Telegraph), “full of terror, horror, and beauty and wonder” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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- RSS Feed of My Blog Updates
Subscribe to this blog’s RSS Feed click on orange button on toolbar and click subscribe and okHttp://www.annettedunlea.blogspot.comBlog Archive▼ 2009 (160) ▼ June (92) Author John Grisham Author Jeffrey Archer Author Khaled Hosseini Weekly Reader Website Author Diane Ackerman Authors Website Must Haves Author Ken Follett Romance Writers Biographies Aut […]
- Author John Grisham
http://www.jgrisham.com/Latest WorkThe Associate“GRISHAM HAS A FIELD DAY…The Associate grabs the reader quickly and becomes impossible to put down.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times“Grisham’s confident style hasn’t changed, and THERE’S SUSPENSE APLENTY.”—People“Grisham makes it easy for us to keep flipping the pages…A DEVASTATING PORTRAIT OF THE BIG-TIME, BI […]
- Author Jeffrey Archer
http://www.jeffreyarcher.co.uk/Welcome to the official web site of Jeffrey Archer, the internationally acclaimed author and playwright. For over 30 years, Jeffrey has delighted his fans — and defied his critics. Meet the writer behind the bestsellers.Jeffrey’s audio book in the spotlightThe audio edition of A Prisoner of Birth, read by Roger Allam, is […]
- Author Khaled Hosseini
http://www.khaledhosseini.com/BiographyKhaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and History at a large high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Afghan Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then […]
- Weekly Reader Website
http://www.weeklyreader.comDiscover the classics in a whole new way with READ’s Great Authors. This NEW multimedia experience offers teachers a way to connect today’s tech-savvy students with great literary classics.Order now and you’ll get:4 Interactive websites that use sound, video, animation and more to help you teach Shakespeare, Poe, Twa […]
- Author Diane Ackerman
http://dianeackerman.com/”If you’re lucky, you have someone in your life like Diane Ackerman: smart and capable, and successful in the world of grownups. But still brimming with the kind of infectious enthusiasm and wonder found generally only in children.”–The Chicago Tribune.”Ackerman’s essays awaken us to a fresh awareness, sayin […]
- Authors Website Must Haves
http://www.web-savvy-book-promotion.com/authorswebsite.htmlAbout An Authors WebsiteBefore we even get into how to create an authors website, let’s take a look at why you need to have a website. The Internet has over 1 billion users and over 200 million of them have bought books online. Why not provide a means of contacting them? With a website you have […]
- Author Ken Follett
http://www.ken-follett.com/Quick takes … Ken Follett burst into the book world in 1978 with Eye of the Needle, a taut and original thriller with a memorable woman character in the central role. The book won the Edgar award and became an outstanding film starring Kate Nelligan and Donald Sutherland.He went on to write four more bestselling thrillers: Triple […]
- Romance Writers Biographies
http://www.harlequinpresents.com/httpdocs/authors/author_home.htmlBiographies: Jacqueline BairdHelen BianchinMaggie Cox Catherine George Abby GreenIndia GreyLynn Raye HarrisKate HewittChristina HollisSharon Kendrick Jennie LucasSandra MartonAnne McAllisterMelanie MilburneLucy MonroeTrish MoreySusan NapierSabrina PhilipsJane PorterMichelle ReidSusan StephensK […]
- Author Dan Simmons
http://www.dansimmons.com/Dan Simmons’s first published story, “The River Styx Runs Upstream,” won the Rod Serling Memorial Award in 1982. His first novel, SONG OF KALI, won the 1986 World Fantasy Award (the only first-novel to do so up to that time.) His next novel, 1989′s CARRION COMFORT, won the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writer […]
- Author Patricia Cornwell
http://www.patriciacornwell.com/Patricia Cornwell’s BiographyPatricia Cornwell was born on June 9, 1956, in Miami, Florida, and grew up in Montreat, North Carolina.Following graduation from Davidson College in 1979, she began working at the Charlotte Observer, rapidly advancing from listing television programs to writing feature articles to covering the […]
- The Society of Authors
The Society of Authors is a non-profit making organisation, founded in 1884, “to protect the rights and further the interests of authors”http://www.societyofauthors.org/Help, advice and informationThe Society of Authors has been serving the interests of professional writers for more than a century. Today it has more than 8,500 members writing in all areas of […]
- Author John Boyne
http://www.johnboyne.com/Author of The Thief of Time, The Boy in The Stripped Pyjamas,…… etchttp://www.irishwriters-online.com/johnboyne.htmlIrish Writers Online John BoyneJohn Boyne was born in Dublin in 1971. His first short story was published by the Sunday Tribune and shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award. His novels are The Thief of Time […]
- Author J K Rowling
http://www.jkrowling.com J. K. Rowling Author of The Harry Potter SeriesJ. K. Rowling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._RowlingRowling after receiving an honorary degree from the University of Aberdeen, in 2006. Born Joanne Rowling31 July 1965 (1965-07-31) (age 43)Yate, Gloucestershire, England, UK Occupation Novelist Nationality British Notable work(s) Har […]
- Author Michael Connolly
http://www.michaelconnelly.com/HomeBiographyBooksShort Stories Other WordsSigningsMailing ListMessage BoardPhoto GalleryAudio & VideoInterviewsSeries OrderInternational Translations Buy A BookGameContact THE SCARECROW Is Available In The USA, Canada, The UK, Ireland, Australia and New ZealandReporter Jack McEvoy and FBI Agent Rachel Walling are reuni […]
- Author Mary O’Sullivan
http://www.maryosullivanauthor.ie/Welcome to my website! Whether you arrived here through interest, curiosity or chance, you are very welcome. Please stay a while and share in the life and times of Irish author Mary O Sullivan. The Early YearsI was born in Limerick city in Ireland. When I was two years old my pa […]
- A CommonPlace Blog Irish Top 5
http://dgmyers.blogspot.com/2009/03/five-best-of-irish-fiction.htmlFive best of Irish fiction In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, Stefan Beck has offered, over at the New Criterion’s Arma Virumque blog, a “Five Best of Irish Lit” (no Angela’s Ashes, he promises) in the style of the Wall Street Journal’s “Five Best” format:(1) James Joyce, Dubliners.(2) Flann O‘Br […]
- Irish Fiction Since The 1960s
http://www.colinsmythe.co.uk/books/irfic.htmIrish Fiction Since the 1960′sEdited by Elmer Kennedy-AndrewsThis collection of fourteen substantial essays has been designed to map the landscape of Irish fiction since 1960, and to assess the extraordinary literary achievement of Irish novelists and short story writers, North and South of the border, over th […]
- Irish Crime Writers
http://www.cormacmillar.com/Link-IrishCrimeWriters.htmlIRISH CRIME WRITERS web links compiled by Cormac Millar Liz AllenFormer crime correspondent of the Irish Independent; author of two thrillers, Last to Know (2003) and The Set-Up (2005). Keith BakerFormer Head of News and Current Affairs for BBC Northern Ireland, author of psychological thrillers includin […]
- Iirsh Fiction
Irish fiction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_fictionFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchJonathan Swift — the first Irish novelist of noteAlthough the epics of Celtic Ireland were written in prose and not verse, most people would probably consider that Irish fiction proper begins in the 18th century. However, there are aspects […]
PaperCuts Blog
- Living With Music: A Playlist by Peter Terzian
My favorite songs have little pieces of autobiography in them. Pretty much all songs are autobiographical in some sense, of course. But the memoir-songs I’m talking about recount events that the singer actually lived through: a big snowstorm, an adolescent romance or a trip to Berlin.
By Blake Wilson
- Innocent Pleasures
Forget the rain: it’s summer! That means it’s time for summer reading, even if the beaches are wet, the flights are turbulent and the skies are gray. For the next month, National Public Radio is conducting a poll of the best beach books of all time; meanwhile, NPR’s “All Things Considered” is also asking readers [...]
By Gregory Cowles
- Book Review Podcast: Katie Roiphe on Love and Ross Douthat on ‘Digital Barbarism’
This Week: Katie Roiphe on Cristina Nehring’s “Vindication of Love”; Ross Douthat on Mark Helprin’s “Digital Barbarism”; Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the Book Review, is the host.
By The New York Times
- Stray Questions for: Elina Hirvonen
Elina Hirvonen is the author of a novel, “When I Forgot.” “I am writing my second novel, a story about unconventional friendship between an African woman and a Finnish man.”
By Gregory Cowles
- Wild Thing
Is Dave Eggers the busiest man in literature?
By Gregory Cowles
- Living With Music: A Playlist by Suzanne Vega
Most writers face a deadline at some point. Here are 10 songs to help you procrastinate.
By Blake Wilson
- Je ne Les Aime Pas, Sam-C’est Moi
In the category of “Things I wish had existed when I was in school,” the California publisher Ulysses Press has released French translations of two Dr. Seuss classics.
By Gregory Cowles
- Not Necessarily the Best-Seller List
You’d have to be pretty cheeky to name your first book “How I Became a Famous Novelist,” but, to judge from the evidence at hand, Steve Hely has as much cheek as Alvin and the rest of the Chipmunks combined. Hely’s novel, which Black Cat will publish in July, is about a slacker who decides that the best way to take revenge on his ex-girlf […]
By Gregory Cowles
- Book Review Podcast: The Novelist Kate Walbert
This week: Kate Walbert, author of the novel “A Short History of Women”; Paul Barrett on the Wall Street implosion; Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
By The New York Times
- Stray Questions for: Carol Lynch Williams
What are you working on? At this very moment I am finishing up a five-day conference at Brigham Young University.
By Blake Wilson
- Weird Science
Forget the Two Cultures. Science meets the arts at interesting angles as the 2009 World Science Festival rolls into town tonight.
By Jennifer Schuessler
- Living With Music: A Playlist by Liesl Schillinger
As a book critic, I spend each week with a different book, sometimes several. Before writing a review, I kickstart my process by listening to music that calls up the book’s mood.
By Blake Wilson
- Next!
Looking for a new go-to source for Jewish arts and culture news? You’re in luck. Nextbook.org, the six-year-old Web site, has just relaunched as Tablet, combining a fresh look with a slightly more political approach.
By Jennifer Schuessler
- A Prairie Home Poet
If you’ve occasionally wished that the news from Lake Wobegon contained more erotic poetry – and really, who hasn’t? – then you’ll want to get your hands on Garrison Keillor’s new book, “77 Love Sonnets.”
By Gregory Cowles
- ‘Paradise’ in Texas Prisons
More about the letter Toni Morrison received from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which was referenced in another post last week.
By Motoko Rich
