1 Blood Born (eBook)
by Kathryn Fox
2 Christmas Holiday (eBook)
by W. Somerset Maugham
Format: eBook
3 A Touch of Dead (eBook): Sookie Stackhouse: The Complete Stories
by Charlaine Harris
Format: eBook
4 The Book of the Alchemist (eBook)
by Adam Williams
Format: eBook
5 Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts (eBook)
by Lucy Dillon
Format: eBook
6 Ravenheart (eBook): Rigante Series, Book 3
by David Gemmell
Format: eBook
7 Winter Warriors (eBook): Drenai Series, Book 8
by David Gemmell
Format: eBook
8 The Mother's Tale (eBook): A Novel
by Camilla Noli
Format: eBook
9 The Book of Fate (eBook)
by Brad Meltzer
Format: eBook
10 We Will Remember Them (eBook): Voices from the Aftermath of the Great War
by Max Arthur
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Friday, November 27, 2009
New Books in the Media
List
1. Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
2. Covet by J R Ward
3. Born of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
4. The Murder of the King of Tut by James Patterson
5. An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
6. Deep Kiss of Winter by Kresley Cole
7. Hostile Intent by Michael Walsh
8. The Pursuit of Glory by Bradley Wiggins
9. Changing My Mind BY Zadie Smith
10. Generation by Douglas Coupland
11. Everything Ravaged Everything Burned by Wells Tower
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1. Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
2. Covet by J R Ward
3. Born of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
4. The Murder of the King of Tut by James Patterson
5. An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
6. Deep Kiss of Winter by Kresley Cole
7. Hostile Intent by Michael Walsh
8. The Pursuit of Glory by Bradley Wiggins
9. Changing My Mind BY Zadie Smith
10. Generation by Douglas Coupland
11. Everything Ravaged Everything Burned by Wells Tower
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Christmas Bestsellers - Irish Fiction
Once in a Lifetime by Cathy Kelly
Someone Special by Sheila O'Flanagan
Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
This Charming Man by Marian Keyes
Forgive & Forget by Patricia Scanlan
Anything for Love by Sarah Webb
Champagne Kisses by Amanda Brunker
How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
Before I Forget by Melissa Hill
Missing You Already by Pauline McLynn
Saving Grace by Ciara Geraghty
Lamb by Bernard MacLaverty
Those Faraday Girls by Monica McInerney
Mr S & the Secrets of Andorras Box by Howard Paul
Whose Life Is It Anyway by Sinead Moriarty
Flip Side (New Edition) by Reilly Tina (hardback)
Feels Like Maybe by Allan Claire
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Someone Special by Sheila O'Flanagan
Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
This Charming Man by Marian Keyes
Forgive & Forget by Patricia Scanlan
Anything for Love by Sarah Webb
Champagne Kisses by Amanda Brunker
How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
Before I Forget by Melissa Hill
Missing You Already by Pauline McLynn
Saving Grace by Ciara Geraghty
Lamb by Bernard MacLaverty
Those Faraday Girls by Monica McInerney
Mr S & the Secrets of Andorras Box by Howard Paul
Whose Life Is It Anyway by Sinead Moriarty
Flip Side (New Edition) by Reilly Tina (hardback)
Feels Like Maybe by Allan Claire
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Christmas Bestsellers Irish Interest Books
Christmas Bestsellers Irish Interest Books :
1. Angels in My Hair by Lorna Byrne €6.99
2. Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel €13.00
3. My Whispering Angel by Brown Francesca €14.99
4. At Five in the Afternoon by Michael Murphy €16.99
5. Showtime by Pat Leahy €17.99
6. Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed by Martha Long €10.99
7. Irish History by Parragon €4.99
8. Ireland by Eyres Kevin & Kerrig €4.99
9. Dublin City & District Street Guide 7Ed(Fs by Ordnance Survey €9.99
10. Sive by John B. Keane €9.99
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1. Angels in My Hair by Lorna Byrne €6.99
2. Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel €13.00
3. My Whispering Angel by Brown Francesca €14.99
4. At Five in the Afternoon by Michael Murphy €16.99
5. Showtime by Pat Leahy €17.99
6. Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed by Martha Long €10.99
7. Irish History by Parragon €4.99
8. Ireland by Eyres Kevin & Kerrig €4.99
9. Dublin City & District Street Guide 7Ed(Fs by Ordnance Survey €9.99
10. Sive by John B. Keane €9.99
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Books in the Media
Books in the Media :
List
1. The Twilight Journals by Stephenie Meyer
2. The Cruelest Month: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Armand Gamache Mysteries) by Louise Penny
3. The Eleventh Victim by Nancy Grace
4. Ford County by John Grisham
5. Sweet Seduction by Maya Banks
6. Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography By Richard Stirling
7. Hetty Feather by Jacqueline Wilson
8. The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
9. Meltdown by Ben Elton
10. Goodbye, Hollywood Nobody by Lisa Samson
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List
1. The Twilight Journals by Stephenie Meyer
2. The Cruelest Month: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Armand Gamache Mysteries) by Louise Penny
3. The Eleventh Victim by Nancy Grace
4. Ford County by John Grisham
5. Sweet Seduction by Maya Banks
6. Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography By Richard Stirling
7. Hetty Feather by Jacqueline Wilson
8. The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
9. Meltdown by Ben Elton
10. Goodbye, Hollywood Nobody by Lisa Samson
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Publisher Weekly's Best Books of 2009
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704595.html
PW Top 10
Cheever: A Life
Blake Bailey (Knopf)
Bailey, who was given access to the journals Cheever kept throughout his life, shines a new light on Cheever's literary output, making possible a fresh reappraisal of his achievement. In addition, Bailey offers up juicy, appalling, hilarious and moving anecdotes with verve, sensitivity and perfect timing.
Await Your Reply
Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
Chaon was a National Book Award finalist for Among the Missing, and this gripping account of colliding fates, the shifty nature of identity in today's wired world and the limits of family is easily as good, if not better. It's a literary page-turner, a cunningly plotted and utterly unputdownable novel.
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Neil Sheehan (Random House)
The development of the ICBM as a key part of the cold war arsenal wasn't inevitable. In a splendidly reported and narrated account, Sheehan credits Air Force Gen. Bernard Schriever with the foresight and shrewdness to triumph over powerful Pentagon opponents and develop the crucial and terrifying weapon.
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Daniyal Mueenuddin (Norton)
An NBA finalist (we found him first), Mueenuddin delivers Pakistan through the stories of its people: yearning, struggling, plotting, in a heartbreaking story collection that is specific and universal all at the same time.
Big Machine
Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
LaValle's brilliant second novel is unlike anything else out there: Ricky Rice, an ex-junkie African-American bus station porter, gets sucked into the bizarre machinations of a rural Vermont cult dedicated to studying “The Voice.” The narrator is blisteringly funny in chronicling his bizarre quest, providing both a blazing story and an astute commentary on race.
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Richard Holmes (Pantheon)
In a thrilling narrative of scientific discovery and the spirit of an age, Holmes illustrates how the great scientists of Britain's romantic era gripped the imaginations of their contemporaries and forever changed our understanding of the universe and our place within it.
Stitches
David Small (Norton)
A graphic novel to bring us all back to comics, Small's account of his terrifying childhood is amazing. The drawings of his parents and the small suffering boy who doesn't quite understand until much, much later will pull you along panel by panel and tear your heart out.
Shop Class as Soulcraft
Matthew B. Crawford (Penguin Press)
Philosopher and motorcycle mechanic Crawford makes a brilliant case for the intellectual satisfactions of working with one's hands—and why white-collar work is the assembly line of the new millennium. Crawford is catholic in his tastes (references range from Aristophanes to Dilbert), unsentimental and irresistible as he extols the virtues of “knowing how to do one thing really well.”
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Geoff Dyer (Pantheon)
Dyer creates an aging hipster grinding it out as a freelance journalist who pursues the girl instead of the story: covering the Biennale. Then, depending on your point of view, he either loses or finds himself when he's sent to Varanasi. Dyer has many books to recommend him, but all you need is angst-ridden Jeff: funny, frank and utterly charming, and if you haven't walked in his shoes, you'll wish you had.
Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann (Doubleday)
In this classic adventure tale, New Yorker writer Grann—who gets winded climbing the stairs of his New York City walkup—follows in the footsteps of early–20th-century Amazon jungle explorer Percy Fawcett, who disappeared along with his son on a 1925 expedition. Grann expertly and energetically weaves the story of Fawcett's explorations with that of his own.
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Fiction
The Scarecrow
Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
Reporter Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, after he's laid off from the L.A. Times, in a nail-biting thriller that charts the demise of print journalism and shows why Connelly is one of today's top crime authors.
The Fate of Katherine Carr
Thomas H. Cook (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Edgar-winner Cook eloquently explores the often cathartic act of storytelling as George Gates, a former travel writer who after seven years still broods over his eight-year-old son's murder, looks into the unsolved disappearance of reclusive poet Katherine Carr 20 years earlier.
Spooner
Pete Dexter (Grand Central)
Dexter's crowd-pleasing wiles are razor sharp in this long-awaited novel, the madcap and touching, assured and (ahem) dexterous story of a very Dexter-like Warren Spooner.
Dark Places
Gillian Flynn (Crown/Shaye Areheart)
Flynn tops her impressive debut, Sharp Objects, with a second crime thriller, centered on the slaying of a mother and two daughters in their Kansas farmhouse witnessed by the youngest, surviving daughter. It builds to a truth so twisted even the most astute readers won't see it coming.
The Man in the Wooden Hat
Jane Gardam (Europa)
Octogenarian Gardam bookends her much-lauded Old Filth with this witty and very British love story, taking on with aplomb loyalty, lust, ambition and longing as she excavates the holes in all of our hearts.
Ravens
George Dawes Green (Grand Central)
Two con men hold a family hostage in rural Georgia in order to get half of their $318 million lottery winnings in this masterful, often comic novel of psychological suspense, Green's first since 1995's The Juror.
Tinkers
Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press)
George Crosby's deathbed reveries wander through memories of his own life as a boy and the lives of his father and grandfather, in this sumptuously written first novel that has been the darling of indie bookstores.
The Believers
Zoë Heller (Harper)
Heller zeroes in on a liberal Jewish Greenwich Village family whose perfect lefty household falls into some hilarious setups as the dysfunctions pile up and eventually spill over when the patriarch's feet of clay are revealed. Hilarious, readable and atmospheric.
The Vagrants
Yiyun Li (Random)
Wrenching and bleak are understatements for Li's magnificent gothic account of life in provincial 1979 China, centering on the execution of a counterrevolutionary. For all the morbid happenings—and there are many of them—the novel's immediately involving and impossible to walk away from.
How to Sell
Clancy Martin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Martin's peerless debut novel about a naïve Canadian's crooked education in the jewelry business is horrifying and sad and very funny. Truth is always elusive; here, it's a dire liability, too.
New World Monkeys
Nancy Mauro (Crown/Shaye Areheart)
An outstandingly original debut that takes the ridiculous (a couple kill a wild pig on their move to the burbs that turns out to be their new town's beloved mascot) and renders it psychological in this sendup of academia, advertising, peeping toms and young marrieds.
The Last War
Ana Menendez (Harper)
A deeply moving story of a photojournalist in Istanbul waiting to join her war correspondent husband in Iraq. Her reluctance, suspicions and flashbacks of their time spent in Afghanistan create a dark background for the brilliance of her descriptions and observations.
Nemesis
Jo Nesbø (Harper)
Oslo Insp. Harry Hole discovers that a bank robbery is linked to the apparent suicide of a woman friend he hasn't seen in years in this lush crime saga from the Norwegian author.
Lark and Termite
Jayne Anne Phillips (Pantheon)
This elegant unraveling of parallel narratives—a grunt's Korean War tour of duty and the story of a family struggling through hard times nine years later—is at once intensely personal and loaded with themes of identity, duty and renewal, all the while maintaining a tight coil of suspense.
The Cry of the Sloth
Sam Savage (Coffee House)
The increasingly desperate letters dispatched by the editor of a middling literary magazine provide a glimpse into the soul of a minor writer ravaged by existential dread. As Savage slowly deflates the narrator's self-importance, he provides a caustic and supremely funny portrait of a man in decline.
Drood
Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
Narrated by Wilkie Collins, this unsettling and complex thriller imagines a frightening sequence of events that prompts Collins's friend and fellow author, Charles Dickens, to write The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens's last, uncompleted novel.
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese (Knopf)
Verghese's move to fiction is sweeping and fabulous, starting in India, settling in Ethiopia and moving on to the U.S. in a magnificent epic that follows twin boys as they negotiate medical training, revolution, the search for their roots and their relationship with each other.
The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters (Riverhead)
A finalist for the Man Booker Prize, this subtle, creepy haunted house story chronicles the decline of an aristocratic county family after WWII as seen through the less than reliable eyes of a bachelor doctor, whose mother once served as a maid at the family's manor.
Sag Harbor
Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
Whitehead's intellect, gorgeous prose, measured nostalgia and sheer storytelling prowess raises the bar for coming-of-age novels. It's as sublime as you're likely to read.
Once the Shore
Paul Yoon (Sarabande)
The eight stories in Yoon's remarkable collection revolve around the inhabitants of a small South Korean island rocked by Japanese occupation and later by the Korean War and are no less powerful for their quiet introspection. Yoon's delicate exploration of heartache places him high in the firmament of old souls.
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Poetry
Chronic
D.A. Powell (Graywolf)
Powell may well be his generation's best poet, one of the best now writing. His fourth book tells of love found and lost against the backdrop of disease and pop culture.
Museum of Accidents
Rachel Zucker (Wave Books)
Zucker's best book yet tells a series of harrowing domestic stories, reminding us that the scariest place to be is often at home with the family.
The Bitter Withy
Donald Revell (Alice James)
Revell is once again in fine form, finding the places where religious faith and experimental poetry converge.
The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy
Trans. from the Greek by Daniel Mendelsohn (Knopf)
Classicist Mendelsohn never forgets that the great books are always about right now, making him the ideal translator for Cavafy, who saw ancient history everywhere in turn-of-the-20th-century Greece. This will be the standard edition of Cavafy for the foreseeable future.
Upgraded to Serious
Heather McHugh (Copper Canyon)
McHugh is as quirky and playful as ever, but now haunting questions of mortality have crept into her poems.
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Mystery
Bryant and May on the Loose
Christopher Fowler (Bantam)
London's Peculiar Crimes Unit gets a new lease on life as Bryant and May investigate gang crimes that could threaten the economic benefits expected from the 2012 Olympics in Fowler's blend of the comic and the grotesque.
The Wrong Mother
Sophie Hannah (Penguin)
A brief affair with a man whose wife later apparently commits a heinous crime then kills herself leads to serious trouble for Sally Thorning, part-time environmental rescuer and full-time mother, in this psychological mystery paced like a ticking time bomb.
The Dark Horse
Craig Johnson (Viking)
Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire return to his cowboy roots as he goes undercover to investigate a murder outside his jurisdiction: a wife has confessed to shooting her rancher husband dead, but is she really guilty?
The Silent Hour
Michael Koryta (Minotaur)
Koryta spins a dark tale of broken dreams and second chances in this mystery featuring PI Lincoln Perry, who helps a convicted murderer who's been paroled. It's a convoluted case in which a missing woman's brother heads a notorious Cleveland, Ohio, mob family.
Londongrad
Reggie Nadelson (Walker)
New York City police detective Artie Cohen, a principled, street-smart guy with very human failings, travels to London to tell his best friend, shady Russian immigrant Tolya Sverdloff, that Sverdloff's daughter (who was also Cohen's girlfriend) has been murdered.
The Lord of Death
Eliot Pattison (Soho Crime)
Edgar-winner Pattison mixes an eye-opening look at contemporary China with a traditional whodunit involving the gunning down of China's minister of tourism along with an American woman, a skilled climber, near Mount Everest.
The Cloud Pavilion
Laura Joh Rowland (Minotaur)
Detective-turned-politician Sano Ichiro helps his estranged uncle find the uncle's missing daughter in the masterful 14th entry in a series that brings early 18th-century Japan to vivid life.
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Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
Bacigalupi's powerful debut warns of dire ecological collapse and the evils of colonialism in an eerily plausible near future Thailand.
Lovecraft Unbound
Edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse)
Editor extraordinaire Datlow assembles a phenomenal anthology of homages to pulp horror great H.P. Lovecraft, penned by an impressive slate of big-name horror authors.
The Devil's Alphabet
Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
This subtle, eerie present-day horror novel mercilessly dissects and reassembles the classic narrative of a man returning to his smalltown birthplace, where the familiar folks have become strange creatures.
The City & the City
China Miéville (Del Rey)
Putting a quasi-fantastical twist on a classic police procedural story, Miéville delves deep into the psyches of city dwellers and the ways people blind themselves to reality.
Boneshaker
Cherie Priest (Tor)
The dramatic first novel in Priest's Clockwork Century universe sends a determined 35-year-old single mom into a ruined city full of zombies and poison gas, where she must save her son from a mad inventor.
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Mass Market
Captive of Sin
Anna Campbell (Avon)
Campbell pulls out all the stops with this heart-wrenching historical romance. A hastily wed heiress must help her husband, a war hero, recover from post-traumatic stress that leaves him unable to bear human touch.
Soulless
Gail Carriger (Orbit)
Carriger combines Victorian romance, supernatural creatures, steampunk sensibilities and a healthy dose of the bizarre in her hilarious debut.
A Dark Love
Margaret Carroll (Avon)
Carroll develops what could be a stock story of an abusive marriage into a pulse-pounding romantic thriller with a strong, inspiring heroine determined to save herself.
Child of Fire
Harry Connolly (Del Rey)
Connolly's intense first novel heralds the next generation of urban fantasy (city not required) with a nearly powerless hero who must rely on his smarts and threadbare ethics to survive.
Hunt at the Well of Eternity
Gabriel Hunt, as told to James Reasoner (Hard Case Crime)
Reasoner launches the Gabriel Hunt series with a fast-paced tale of purely entertaining Indiana Jones–like adventure, smartly updated for modern sensibilities.
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Comics
Parker: The Hunter
Darwyn Cooke and Richard Stark (IDW)
A magnificent comics recreation of Stark/Donald Westlake's noir classic of crime and vengeance and a stylish evocation of his stony, relentless protagonist.
Driven by Lemons
Josh Cotter (AdHouse)
A notebook full of abstract doodles somehow morphs into a riveting narrative that is as strange as it is imaginative.
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou with art by Alecos Papdatos and Annie Di Donna (Bloomsbury)
Both informative and engrossing, this full-color comics-bio tells the story of mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell's messy personal life while documenting his maniacal pursuit of the philosophical foundations of modern mathematics.
The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefèvre (First Second)
Alternating photos by the late photographer Lefèvre with the comics panels of his friend and chronicler Guibert, this powerful and prescient documentary work details a 1986 trip by a French medical team through war-ravaged Afghanistan.
Asterios Polyp
David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon)
A brilliant academic architect—Asterios Polyp designs edgy buildings that are never built—and witty, self-confident pedant, Polyp is faced with a profound loss of belief in the life he has chosen.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe
Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni Press)
The further rollicking adventures of world-famous Canadian slacker Scott Pilgrim; his awesome girlfriend, Ramona Flowers; and Scott's ongoing battle with her seven evil ex-boyfriends.
Footnotes in Gaza
Joe Sacco (Metropolitan)
Focused on a little-known massacre of Palestinian refugees in Gaza in 1956, this definitive work is ultimately a history of the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation.
A Drifting Life
Yoshihiro Tatsumi (D&Q)
A massive (840 pages) and poignant memoir by the master—indeed inventor—of Japanese alternative comics (called gekiga) that doubles as a fascinating history of the beginnings of the Japanese manga industry after WWII.
You'll Never Know: A Good and Decent Man
Carol Tyler (Fantagraphics)
Tyler profiles the greatest generation and the terrible price it paid in this memoir of her father's life during WWII, and measures her own life against it.
Pluto
Naoki Urasawa (Viz Media)
A tense mystery, an unsettling science fiction tale and a subtle exploration of what it means to be human as master manga-ka Urasawa reimagines Astro-Boy as something much more adult and serious.
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Nonfiction
Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater
Frank Bruni (Penguin Press)
In this wonderfully honest memoir, former New York Times food critic Bruni admits to a lifelong battle with his weight. Detailing his life from baby bulimia to Weight Watchers, Bruni addresses desire, shame, identity and self-image.
Land of the Lost Souls: My Life on the Streets
Cadillac Man (Bloomsbury)
In 16 years of living homeless in Manhattan, native New Yorker Cadillac Man has amassed a stunning collection of stories regarding a population and culture most people never even consider, and a talent for rendering them with beauty, sympathy and brutal truth.
Columbine
Dave Cullen (Hachette/Twelve)
After a decade on the Columbine beat, Cullen skillfully dismantles all the media myths about the 1999 school massacre in an edge-of-your-seat account of how two troubled boys terrorized a town.
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan)
This indictment of America's reigning ideology of positive thinking stretches from breast cancer culture through religion and politics into the business world, where it was likely at the root of last year's economic collapse.
The Good Soldiers
David Finkel (Crichton/FSG)
Finkel's incredible fly-on-the-wall reporting gives an uncomfortably visceral sense of one army battalion's involvement in the Iraqi surge, with “the dust, the fear, the high threat level, the isolation....”
Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape
Edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti (Seal)
Activist writers Friedman and Valenti present an extraordinary, eye-opening essay collection that focuses on the importance of sexual identity and ownership in the struggle against rape in the U.S., as well as a number of related issues, including sexual pleasure, self-esteem and the mixed societal messages that turn “nice guys” bad.
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Greg Grandin (Metropolitan)
Grandin presents a masterful and devastating account of Henry Ford's folly: his attempt to plant an idealized American town in the Amazon jungle alongside a rubber plantation.
Food for Thought, Thought for Food
Edited by Richard Hamilton and Vincente Todolo (Actar)
This fascinating illustrated volume goes beyond standard food porn, looking at the refined artwork of Spain's chef Ferran Adrià, whose unmatched culinary innovation landed him in 2007's documenta, a prestigious annual international art exhibition.
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
Rhoda Janzen (Holt)
Janzen does the easy jokes about moving back in with her religious parents after her marriage falls apart, but she also conducts an unflinching self-examination that makes her emotional healing come across as all the more genuine.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (Morrow)
This exquisite story of struggle, ingenuity and hope, from a 14-year-old Malawi boy who saved his family by building an electricity-generating windmill, strips life to its barest essentials, challenging American readers with all they take for granted.
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday)
A propulsive, dramatic account of Chinatown's human smugglers and gangs behind the ill-fated 1993 voyage of the Golden Venture and its human cargo.
True Compass: A Memoir
Edward M. Kennedy (Hachette/Twelve)
Kennedy's life, replete with well-known tragedies, triumphs and shameful episodes, is rendered in perfectly polished, witty and moving tales that follow two historic arcs: that of a remarkable American family and a half-century of American politics.
Strength in What Remains
Tracy Kidder (Random)
Kidder’s transcendent tale of Deo, a Burundian refugee in New York, is a labor of profound compassion and enviable technique—his narrative finds fresh and crucial ways of depicting trauma and memory.
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Jon Krakauer (Doubleday)
With access to Tillman’s diaries, Krakauer gives an unparalleled portrait of the football star turned army Ranger, who was the victim not only of lethal friendly fire but of a cynical government coverup.
Half the Sky
Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn (Knopf)
New York Times columnist Kristoff and his wife, WuDunn, collaborate on a vitally important book that locates women’s empowerment in the developing world as the central moral issue of our time. Their vignettes on women activists in Africa, India and China are heartbreaking, galvanizing and unforgettable.
Gabriel García Márquez
Gerald Martin (Knopf)
The master receives his due in a sprawling and atmospheric biography with lush detail, a quick pace and a veritable Who’s Who of Latin American radical politics and literature.
Green Metropolis
David Owen (Riverhead)
This iconoclastic manifesto is the sharpest environmental book of the year. Owen excoriates ecoconsumerism and trends, fells green goliaths Michael Pollan and Amory Lovins and celebrates Manhattan as the most sustainable city in the nation.
Larry’s Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant—and Save His Life
Daniel Asa Rose (Harper)
This bizarre, slapstick journey into medical tourism’s heart of darkness, with plenty of gonzo stops along the way, is a laugh-out-loud tribute to family ties and a less-than-subtle commentary on the state of U.S. health care.
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
Zadie Smith (Penguin Press)
Smith’s first nonfiction book—a collection of her essays on reading, writing and being—is erudite and shines with uncommon wit, warmth and generosity of spirit.
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
Doug Stanton (Scribner)
This bestseller is a riveting, epic account of mounted U.S. soldiers fighting alongside the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan’s war-ravaged mountains.
Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965
Sam Stephenson (Knopf)
In 1957, legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith opened up his New York City loft to some of the great artists of mid-century jazz, including Thelonious Monk and Zoot Sims. These fantastic photos—taken of the musicians as well as scenes snapped outside Smith’s window—offer a rare glimpse into an important music scene as well as a neighborhood being itself when it thought no one was watching.
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Terry Teachout (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Teachout’s forceful reassertion of Louis Armstrong’s significance to 20th-century America is a model for writing serious biography about pop culture icons.
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815
Gordon S. Wood (Oxford Univ.)
True to the outstanding quality of Oxford’s History of the United States series, Wood offers an account of the young nation’s development during its first decades.
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Religion
Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir
Susan E. Isaacs (FaithWords)
Humor certainly makes religion bearable for even those averse to the divine. What you see in the title is what you get: a snarky, laugh-out-loud exploration of a funny person’s spiritual journey.
The Case for God
Karen Armstrong (Knopf)
“Magisterial” is the adjective of choice to describe Armstrong’s work; her usual confident sweep across times and cultures rises above the “answer-the-atheists” tired angle to make a passionate footnoted argument for the human need for a God.
The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Our Pain
Scott Cairns (Paraclete)
Ask a poet—please—why God permits suffering, and you get a meditative fresh breath of a response, the beauty of which, like the great biblical reflections, provides sympathy and a tiny bit of relief.
Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality
Barbara Bradley Hagerty (Riverhead)
Go after a question with head, heart and soul, as did journalist Hagerty, observing neuroscientists, mystics and those who have had near-death experiences. The result is a well-narrated book of authoritative voices and personal reflections, eminently readable, on a subject that attracts its share of woo-woo authors.
The Future of Faith
Harvey Cox (HarperOne)
Almost 35 years after the influential and bestselling The Secular City, Cox continues to offer the big picture, a worldwide view of where religion is heading: an era of spirit, beyond faith and dogmatic belief.
Have a Little Faith
Mitch Albom (Hyperion)
For someone who is not a professional religionist, Albom knows how to find the sacred in the everyday—again—in a finely observed story of two very different men of faith, an ex-junkie pastor who works with the homeless and a rabbi who wants Albom to deliver his eulogy.
In Due Season: A Man’s Life
Paul Wilkes (Jossey-Bass)
Page after page of reflection, observation and unsparing honesty add up to an eloquent, well-seasoned life that is an ordinary and occasionally holy search for meaning.
Judas: A Biography
Susan Gubar (Norton)
An English scholar who is not a theologian sifts through centuries of writings that imagine and reimagine one of history’s most reviled and compelling figures.
Muslims in America: A Short History
Edward E. Curtis IV (Oxford Univ.)
This accessible history by a scholar who is not among the usual academic talking-head experts on Islam brings breadth and nuance to an important subject.
Rashi
Elie Wiesel (Schocken/Nextbook)
An inspired pairing of writer and subject revivifies the life and times of the 11th-century Talmudic sage.
Lifestyle
Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy
Lidia Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali (Knopf)
Adding to her growing library of Italian cuisine, Bastianich, with daughter Manuali, offer a stellar and authentic array of regional Italian recipes in this tantalizing and lavishly photographed collection.
Momofuku
David Chang and Peter Meehan (Clarkson Potter)
Restaurateur and chef Chang teamed up with food writer Meehan in this outstanding collection of recipes and vibrant full-color photos from Chang’s restaurants—Momofuku, Ssäm Bar and Ko—serving dishes like chicken wings cooked with bacon and in rendered duck fat, and pan-roasted asparagus with poached eggs and miso butter.
Ad Hoc at Home
Thomas Keller (Artisan)
In this dazzlingly beautiful cookbook, Keller, chef and owner of such established restaurants as the French Laundry and Per Se, shifts from haute cuisine to family-style dishes: buttermilk fried chicken, fig-stuffed roast pork loin and shortbread cookies.
Child Care Today: Getting It Right for Everyone
Penelope Leach (Knopf)
Influential child-care author Leach (Your Baby and Child) evaluates the state of child care in the Western world in this thoroughly researched and helpful guide.
Gourmet Today
Ruth Reichl (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Gourmet magazine is history, but before it folded, editor Reichl followed up The Gourmet Cookbook with this comprehensive and thoroughly tested mammoth collection of tried and true recipes.
PW Top 10
Cheever: A Life
Blake Bailey (Knopf)
Bailey, who was given access to the journals Cheever kept throughout his life, shines a new light on Cheever's literary output, making possible a fresh reappraisal of his achievement. In addition, Bailey offers up juicy, appalling, hilarious and moving anecdotes with verve, sensitivity and perfect timing.
Await Your Reply
Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
Chaon was a National Book Award finalist for Among the Missing, and this gripping account of colliding fates, the shifty nature of identity in today's wired world and the limits of family is easily as good, if not better. It's a literary page-turner, a cunningly plotted and utterly unputdownable novel.
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Neil Sheehan (Random House)
The development of the ICBM as a key part of the cold war arsenal wasn't inevitable. In a splendidly reported and narrated account, Sheehan credits Air Force Gen. Bernard Schriever with the foresight and shrewdness to triumph over powerful Pentagon opponents and develop the crucial and terrifying weapon.
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Daniyal Mueenuddin (Norton)
An NBA finalist (we found him first), Mueenuddin delivers Pakistan through the stories of its people: yearning, struggling, plotting, in a heartbreaking story collection that is specific and universal all at the same time.
Big Machine
Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
LaValle's brilliant second novel is unlike anything else out there: Ricky Rice, an ex-junkie African-American bus station porter, gets sucked into the bizarre machinations of a rural Vermont cult dedicated to studying “The Voice.” The narrator is blisteringly funny in chronicling his bizarre quest, providing both a blazing story and an astute commentary on race.
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Richard Holmes (Pantheon)
In a thrilling narrative of scientific discovery and the spirit of an age, Holmes illustrates how the great scientists of Britain's romantic era gripped the imaginations of their contemporaries and forever changed our understanding of the universe and our place within it.
Stitches
David Small (Norton)
A graphic novel to bring us all back to comics, Small's account of his terrifying childhood is amazing. The drawings of his parents and the small suffering boy who doesn't quite understand until much, much later will pull you along panel by panel and tear your heart out.
Shop Class as Soulcraft
Matthew B. Crawford (Penguin Press)
Philosopher and motorcycle mechanic Crawford makes a brilliant case for the intellectual satisfactions of working with one's hands—and why white-collar work is the assembly line of the new millennium. Crawford is catholic in his tastes (references range from Aristophanes to Dilbert), unsentimental and irresistible as he extols the virtues of “knowing how to do one thing really well.”
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Geoff Dyer (Pantheon)
Dyer creates an aging hipster grinding it out as a freelance journalist who pursues the girl instead of the story: covering the Biennale. Then, depending on your point of view, he either loses or finds himself when he's sent to Varanasi. Dyer has many books to recommend him, but all you need is angst-ridden Jeff: funny, frank and utterly charming, and if you haven't walked in his shoes, you'll wish you had.
Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann (Doubleday)
In this classic adventure tale, New Yorker writer Grann—who gets winded climbing the stairs of his New York City walkup—follows in the footsteps of early–20th-century Amazon jungle explorer Percy Fawcett, who disappeared along with his son on a 1925 expedition. Grann expertly and energetically weaves the story of Fawcett's explorations with that of his own.
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Fiction
The Scarecrow
Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
Reporter Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, after he's laid off from the L.A. Times, in a nail-biting thriller that charts the demise of print journalism and shows why Connelly is one of today's top crime authors.
The Fate of Katherine Carr
Thomas H. Cook (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Edgar-winner Cook eloquently explores the often cathartic act of storytelling as George Gates, a former travel writer who after seven years still broods over his eight-year-old son's murder, looks into the unsolved disappearance of reclusive poet Katherine Carr 20 years earlier.
Spooner
Pete Dexter (Grand Central)
Dexter's crowd-pleasing wiles are razor sharp in this long-awaited novel, the madcap and touching, assured and (ahem) dexterous story of a very Dexter-like Warren Spooner.
Dark Places
Gillian Flynn (Crown/Shaye Areheart)
Flynn tops her impressive debut, Sharp Objects, with a second crime thriller, centered on the slaying of a mother and two daughters in their Kansas farmhouse witnessed by the youngest, surviving daughter. It builds to a truth so twisted even the most astute readers won't see it coming.
The Man in the Wooden Hat
Jane Gardam (Europa)
Octogenarian Gardam bookends her much-lauded Old Filth with this witty and very British love story, taking on with aplomb loyalty, lust, ambition and longing as she excavates the holes in all of our hearts.
Ravens
George Dawes Green (Grand Central)
Two con men hold a family hostage in rural Georgia in order to get half of their $318 million lottery winnings in this masterful, often comic novel of psychological suspense, Green's first since 1995's The Juror.
Tinkers
Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press)
George Crosby's deathbed reveries wander through memories of his own life as a boy and the lives of his father and grandfather, in this sumptuously written first novel that has been the darling of indie bookstores.
The Believers
Zoë Heller (Harper)
Heller zeroes in on a liberal Jewish Greenwich Village family whose perfect lefty household falls into some hilarious setups as the dysfunctions pile up and eventually spill over when the patriarch's feet of clay are revealed. Hilarious, readable and atmospheric.
The Vagrants
Yiyun Li (Random)
Wrenching and bleak are understatements for Li's magnificent gothic account of life in provincial 1979 China, centering on the execution of a counterrevolutionary. For all the morbid happenings—and there are many of them—the novel's immediately involving and impossible to walk away from.
How to Sell
Clancy Martin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Martin's peerless debut novel about a naïve Canadian's crooked education in the jewelry business is horrifying and sad and very funny. Truth is always elusive; here, it's a dire liability, too.
New World Monkeys
Nancy Mauro (Crown/Shaye Areheart)
An outstandingly original debut that takes the ridiculous (a couple kill a wild pig on their move to the burbs that turns out to be their new town's beloved mascot) and renders it psychological in this sendup of academia, advertising, peeping toms and young marrieds.
The Last War
Ana Menendez (Harper)
A deeply moving story of a photojournalist in Istanbul waiting to join her war correspondent husband in Iraq. Her reluctance, suspicions and flashbacks of their time spent in Afghanistan create a dark background for the brilliance of her descriptions and observations.
Nemesis
Jo Nesbø (Harper)
Oslo Insp. Harry Hole discovers that a bank robbery is linked to the apparent suicide of a woman friend he hasn't seen in years in this lush crime saga from the Norwegian author.
Lark and Termite
Jayne Anne Phillips (Pantheon)
This elegant unraveling of parallel narratives—a grunt's Korean War tour of duty and the story of a family struggling through hard times nine years later—is at once intensely personal and loaded with themes of identity, duty and renewal, all the while maintaining a tight coil of suspense.
The Cry of the Sloth
Sam Savage (Coffee House)
The increasingly desperate letters dispatched by the editor of a middling literary magazine provide a glimpse into the soul of a minor writer ravaged by existential dread. As Savage slowly deflates the narrator's self-importance, he provides a caustic and supremely funny portrait of a man in decline.
Drood
Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
Narrated by Wilkie Collins, this unsettling and complex thriller imagines a frightening sequence of events that prompts Collins's friend and fellow author, Charles Dickens, to write The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens's last, uncompleted novel.
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese (Knopf)
Verghese's move to fiction is sweeping and fabulous, starting in India, settling in Ethiopia and moving on to the U.S. in a magnificent epic that follows twin boys as they negotiate medical training, revolution, the search for their roots and their relationship with each other.
The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters (Riverhead)
A finalist for the Man Booker Prize, this subtle, creepy haunted house story chronicles the decline of an aristocratic county family after WWII as seen through the less than reliable eyes of a bachelor doctor, whose mother once served as a maid at the family's manor.
Sag Harbor
Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
Whitehead's intellect, gorgeous prose, measured nostalgia and sheer storytelling prowess raises the bar for coming-of-age novels. It's as sublime as you're likely to read.
Once the Shore
Paul Yoon (Sarabande)
The eight stories in Yoon's remarkable collection revolve around the inhabitants of a small South Korean island rocked by Japanese occupation and later by the Korean War and are no less powerful for their quiet introspection. Yoon's delicate exploration of heartache places him high in the firmament of old souls.
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Poetry
Chronic
D.A. Powell (Graywolf)
Powell may well be his generation's best poet, one of the best now writing. His fourth book tells of love found and lost against the backdrop of disease and pop culture.
Museum of Accidents
Rachel Zucker (Wave Books)
Zucker's best book yet tells a series of harrowing domestic stories, reminding us that the scariest place to be is often at home with the family.
The Bitter Withy
Donald Revell (Alice James)
Revell is once again in fine form, finding the places where religious faith and experimental poetry converge.
The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy
Trans. from the Greek by Daniel Mendelsohn (Knopf)
Classicist Mendelsohn never forgets that the great books are always about right now, making him the ideal translator for Cavafy, who saw ancient history everywhere in turn-of-the-20th-century Greece. This will be the standard edition of Cavafy for the foreseeable future.
Upgraded to Serious
Heather McHugh (Copper Canyon)
McHugh is as quirky and playful as ever, but now haunting questions of mortality have crept into her poems.
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Mystery
Bryant and May on the Loose
Christopher Fowler (Bantam)
London's Peculiar Crimes Unit gets a new lease on life as Bryant and May investigate gang crimes that could threaten the economic benefits expected from the 2012 Olympics in Fowler's blend of the comic and the grotesque.
The Wrong Mother
Sophie Hannah (Penguin)
A brief affair with a man whose wife later apparently commits a heinous crime then kills herself leads to serious trouble for Sally Thorning, part-time environmental rescuer and full-time mother, in this psychological mystery paced like a ticking time bomb.
The Dark Horse
Craig Johnson (Viking)
Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire return to his cowboy roots as he goes undercover to investigate a murder outside his jurisdiction: a wife has confessed to shooting her rancher husband dead, but is she really guilty?
The Silent Hour
Michael Koryta (Minotaur)
Koryta spins a dark tale of broken dreams and second chances in this mystery featuring PI Lincoln Perry, who helps a convicted murderer who's been paroled. It's a convoluted case in which a missing woman's brother heads a notorious Cleveland, Ohio, mob family.
Londongrad
Reggie Nadelson (Walker)
New York City police detective Artie Cohen, a principled, street-smart guy with very human failings, travels to London to tell his best friend, shady Russian immigrant Tolya Sverdloff, that Sverdloff's daughter (who was also Cohen's girlfriend) has been murdered.
The Lord of Death
Eliot Pattison (Soho Crime)
Edgar-winner Pattison mixes an eye-opening look at contemporary China with a traditional whodunit involving the gunning down of China's minister of tourism along with an American woman, a skilled climber, near Mount Everest.
The Cloud Pavilion
Laura Joh Rowland (Minotaur)
Detective-turned-politician Sano Ichiro helps his estranged uncle find the uncle's missing daughter in the masterful 14th entry in a series that brings early 18th-century Japan to vivid life.
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Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
Bacigalupi's powerful debut warns of dire ecological collapse and the evils of colonialism in an eerily plausible near future Thailand.
Lovecraft Unbound
Edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse)
Editor extraordinaire Datlow assembles a phenomenal anthology of homages to pulp horror great H.P. Lovecraft, penned by an impressive slate of big-name horror authors.
The Devil's Alphabet
Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
This subtle, eerie present-day horror novel mercilessly dissects and reassembles the classic narrative of a man returning to his smalltown birthplace, where the familiar folks have become strange creatures.
The City & the City
China Miéville (Del Rey)
Putting a quasi-fantastical twist on a classic police procedural story, Miéville delves deep into the psyches of city dwellers and the ways people blind themselves to reality.
Boneshaker
Cherie Priest (Tor)
The dramatic first novel in Priest's Clockwork Century universe sends a determined 35-year-old single mom into a ruined city full of zombies and poison gas, where she must save her son from a mad inventor.
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Mass Market
Captive of Sin
Anna Campbell (Avon)
Campbell pulls out all the stops with this heart-wrenching historical romance. A hastily wed heiress must help her husband, a war hero, recover from post-traumatic stress that leaves him unable to bear human touch.
Soulless
Gail Carriger (Orbit)
Carriger combines Victorian romance, supernatural creatures, steampunk sensibilities and a healthy dose of the bizarre in her hilarious debut.
A Dark Love
Margaret Carroll (Avon)
Carroll develops what could be a stock story of an abusive marriage into a pulse-pounding romantic thriller with a strong, inspiring heroine determined to save herself.
Child of Fire
Harry Connolly (Del Rey)
Connolly's intense first novel heralds the next generation of urban fantasy (city not required) with a nearly powerless hero who must rely on his smarts and threadbare ethics to survive.
Hunt at the Well of Eternity
Gabriel Hunt, as told to James Reasoner (Hard Case Crime)
Reasoner launches the Gabriel Hunt series with a fast-paced tale of purely entertaining Indiana Jones–like adventure, smartly updated for modern sensibilities.
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Comics
Parker: The Hunter
Darwyn Cooke and Richard Stark (IDW)
A magnificent comics recreation of Stark/Donald Westlake's noir classic of crime and vengeance and a stylish evocation of his stony, relentless protagonist.
Driven by Lemons
Josh Cotter (AdHouse)
A notebook full of abstract doodles somehow morphs into a riveting narrative that is as strange as it is imaginative.
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou with art by Alecos Papdatos and Annie Di Donna (Bloomsbury)
Both informative and engrossing, this full-color comics-bio tells the story of mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell's messy personal life while documenting his maniacal pursuit of the philosophical foundations of modern mathematics.
The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefèvre (First Second)
Alternating photos by the late photographer Lefèvre with the comics panels of his friend and chronicler Guibert, this powerful and prescient documentary work details a 1986 trip by a French medical team through war-ravaged Afghanistan.
Asterios Polyp
David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon)
A brilliant academic architect—Asterios Polyp designs edgy buildings that are never built—and witty, self-confident pedant, Polyp is faced with a profound loss of belief in the life he has chosen.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe
Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni Press)
The further rollicking adventures of world-famous Canadian slacker Scott Pilgrim; his awesome girlfriend, Ramona Flowers; and Scott's ongoing battle with her seven evil ex-boyfriends.
Footnotes in Gaza
Joe Sacco (Metropolitan)
Focused on a little-known massacre of Palestinian refugees in Gaza in 1956, this definitive work is ultimately a history of the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation.
A Drifting Life
Yoshihiro Tatsumi (D&Q)
A massive (840 pages) and poignant memoir by the master—indeed inventor—of Japanese alternative comics (called gekiga) that doubles as a fascinating history of the beginnings of the Japanese manga industry after WWII.
You'll Never Know: A Good and Decent Man
Carol Tyler (Fantagraphics)
Tyler profiles the greatest generation and the terrible price it paid in this memoir of her father's life during WWII, and measures her own life against it.
Pluto
Naoki Urasawa (Viz Media)
A tense mystery, an unsettling science fiction tale and a subtle exploration of what it means to be human as master manga-ka Urasawa reimagines Astro-Boy as something much more adult and serious.
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Nonfiction
Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater
Frank Bruni (Penguin Press)
In this wonderfully honest memoir, former New York Times food critic Bruni admits to a lifelong battle with his weight. Detailing his life from baby bulimia to Weight Watchers, Bruni addresses desire, shame, identity and self-image.
Land of the Lost Souls: My Life on the Streets
Cadillac Man (Bloomsbury)
In 16 years of living homeless in Manhattan, native New Yorker Cadillac Man has amassed a stunning collection of stories regarding a population and culture most people never even consider, and a talent for rendering them with beauty, sympathy and brutal truth.
Columbine
Dave Cullen (Hachette/Twelve)
After a decade on the Columbine beat, Cullen skillfully dismantles all the media myths about the 1999 school massacre in an edge-of-your-seat account of how two troubled boys terrorized a town.
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan)
This indictment of America's reigning ideology of positive thinking stretches from breast cancer culture through religion and politics into the business world, where it was likely at the root of last year's economic collapse.
The Good Soldiers
David Finkel (Crichton/FSG)
Finkel's incredible fly-on-the-wall reporting gives an uncomfortably visceral sense of one army battalion's involvement in the Iraqi surge, with “the dust, the fear, the high threat level, the isolation....”
Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape
Edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti (Seal)
Activist writers Friedman and Valenti present an extraordinary, eye-opening essay collection that focuses on the importance of sexual identity and ownership in the struggle against rape in the U.S., as well as a number of related issues, including sexual pleasure, self-esteem and the mixed societal messages that turn “nice guys” bad.
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Greg Grandin (Metropolitan)
Grandin presents a masterful and devastating account of Henry Ford's folly: his attempt to plant an idealized American town in the Amazon jungle alongside a rubber plantation.
Food for Thought, Thought for Food
Edited by Richard Hamilton and Vincente Todolo (Actar)
This fascinating illustrated volume goes beyond standard food porn, looking at the refined artwork of Spain's chef Ferran Adrià, whose unmatched culinary innovation landed him in 2007's documenta, a prestigious annual international art exhibition.
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
Rhoda Janzen (Holt)
Janzen does the easy jokes about moving back in with her religious parents after her marriage falls apart, but she also conducts an unflinching self-examination that makes her emotional healing come across as all the more genuine.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (Morrow)
This exquisite story of struggle, ingenuity and hope, from a 14-year-old Malawi boy who saved his family by building an electricity-generating windmill, strips life to its barest essentials, challenging American readers with all they take for granted.
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday)
A propulsive, dramatic account of Chinatown's human smugglers and gangs behind the ill-fated 1993 voyage of the Golden Venture and its human cargo.
True Compass: A Memoir
Edward M. Kennedy (Hachette/Twelve)
Kennedy's life, replete with well-known tragedies, triumphs and shameful episodes, is rendered in perfectly polished, witty and moving tales that follow two historic arcs: that of a remarkable American family and a half-century of American politics.
Strength in What Remains
Tracy Kidder (Random)
Kidder’s transcendent tale of Deo, a Burundian refugee in New York, is a labor of profound compassion and enviable technique—his narrative finds fresh and crucial ways of depicting trauma and memory.
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Jon Krakauer (Doubleday)
With access to Tillman’s diaries, Krakauer gives an unparalleled portrait of the football star turned army Ranger, who was the victim not only of lethal friendly fire but of a cynical government coverup.
Half the Sky
Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn (Knopf)
New York Times columnist Kristoff and his wife, WuDunn, collaborate on a vitally important book that locates women’s empowerment in the developing world as the central moral issue of our time. Their vignettes on women activists in Africa, India and China are heartbreaking, galvanizing and unforgettable.
Gabriel García Márquez
Gerald Martin (Knopf)
The master receives his due in a sprawling and atmospheric biography with lush detail, a quick pace and a veritable Who’s Who of Latin American radical politics and literature.
Green Metropolis
David Owen (Riverhead)
This iconoclastic manifesto is the sharpest environmental book of the year. Owen excoriates ecoconsumerism and trends, fells green goliaths Michael Pollan and Amory Lovins and celebrates Manhattan as the most sustainable city in the nation.
Larry’s Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant—and Save His Life
Daniel Asa Rose (Harper)
This bizarre, slapstick journey into medical tourism’s heart of darkness, with plenty of gonzo stops along the way, is a laugh-out-loud tribute to family ties and a less-than-subtle commentary on the state of U.S. health care.
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
Zadie Smith (Penguin Press)
Smith’s first nonfiction book—a collection of her essays on reading, writing and being—is erudite and shines with uncommon wit, warmth and generosity of spirit.
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
Doug Stanton (Scribner)
This bestseller is a riveting, epic account of mounted U.S. soldiers fighting alongside the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan’s war-ravaged mountains.
Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965
Sam Stephenson (Knopf)
In 1957, legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith opened up his New York City loft to some of the great artists of mid-century jazz, including Thelonious Monk and Zoot Sims. These fantastic photos—taken of the musicians as well as scenes snapped outside Smith’s window—offer a rare glimpse into an important music scene as well as a neighborhood being itself when it thought no one was watching.
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Terry Teachout (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Teachout’s forceful reassertion of Louis Armstrong’s significance to 20th-century America is a model for writing serious biography about pop culture icons.
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815
Gordon S. Wood (Oxford Univ.)
True to the outstanding quality of Oxford’s History of the United States series, Wood offers an account of the young nation’s development during its first decades.
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Religion
Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir
Susan E. Isaacs (FaithWords)
Humor certainly makes religion bearable for even those averse to the divine. What you see in the title is what you get: a snarky, laugh-out-loud exploration of a funny person’s spiritual journey.
The Case for God
Karen Armstrong (Knopf)
“Magisterial” is the adjective of choice to describe Armstrong’s work; her usual confident sweep across times and cultures rises above the “answer-the-atheists” tired angle to make a passionate footnoted argument for the human need for a God.
The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Our Pain
Scott Cairns (Paraclete)
Ask a poet—please—why God permits suffering, and you get a meditative fresh breath of a response, the beauty of which, like the great biblical reflections, provides sympathy and a tiny bit of relief.
Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality
Barbara Bradley Hagerty (Riverhead)
Go after a question with head, heart and soul, as did journalist Hagerty, observing neuroscientists, mystics and those who have had near-death experiences. The result is a well-narrated book of authoritative voices and personal reflections, eminently readable, on a subject that attracts its share of woo-woo authors.
The Future of Faith
Harvey Cox (HarperOne)
Almost 35 years after the influential and bestselling The Secular City, Cox continues to offer the big picture, a worldwide view of where religion is heading: an era of spirit, beyond faith and dogmatic belief.
Have a Little Faith
Mitch Albom (Hyperion)
For someone who is not a professional religionist, Albom knows how to find the sacred in the everyday—again—in a finely observed story of two very different men of faith, an ex-junkie pastor who works with the homeless and a rabbi who wants Albom to deliver his eulogy.
In Due Season: A Man’s Life
Paul Wilkes (Jossey-Bass)
Page after page of reflection, observation and unsparing honesty add up to an eloquent, well-seasoned life that is an ordinary and occasionally holy search for meaning.
Judas: A Biography
Susan Gubar (Norton)
An English scholar who is not a theologian sifts through centuries of writings that imagine and reimagine one of history’s most reviled and compelling figures.
Muslims in America: A Short History
Edward E. Curtis IV (Oxford Univ.)
This accessible history by a scholar who is not among the usual academic talking-head experts on Islam brings breadth and nuance to an important subject.
Rashi
Elie Wiesel (Schocken/Nextbook)
An inspired pairing of writer and subject revivifies the life and times of the 11th-century Talmudic sage.
Lifestyle
Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy
Lidia Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali (Knopf)
Adding to her growing library of Italian cuisine, Bastianich, with daughter Manuali, offer a stellar and authentic array of regional Italian recipes in this tantalizing and lavishly photographed collection.
Momofuku
David Chang and Peter Meehan (Clarkson Potter)
Restaurateur and chef Chang teamed up with food writer Meehan in this outstanding collection of recipes and vibrant full-color photos from Chang’s restaurants—Momofuku, Ssäm Bar and Ko—serving dishes like chicken wings cooked with bacon and in rendered duck fat, and pan-roasted asparagus with poached eggs and miso butter.
Ad Hoc at Home
Thomas Keller (Artisan)
In this dazzlingly beautiful cookbook, Keller, chef and owner of such established restaurants as the French Laundry and Per Se, shifts from haute cuisine to family-style dishes: buttermilk fried chicken, fig-stuffed roast pork loin and shortbread cookies.
Child Care Today: Getting It Right for Everyone
Penelope Leach (Knopf)
Influential child-care author Leach (Your Baby and Child) evaluates the state of child care in the Western world in this thoroughly researched and helpful guide.
Gourmet Today
Ruth Reichl (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Gourmet magazine is history, but before it folded, editor Reichl followed up The Gourmet Cookbook with this comprehensive and thoroughly tested mammoth collection of tried and true recipes.
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American Transcendentalism [G]
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American Transcendentalism Web
Emergence of Transcendentalism
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Transcendentalists, The
American Verse Project (Michigan) (Syracuse)
Authors and Experts
Authors site at The Mining Company
Authors Speak
BARTLEBY LIBRARY (Columbia University)
Beat Generation, The
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Beat Movement Reference
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Bohemian Ink
Buffalo Americanist Digest (Buffalo)
Calls For Papers (UPENN)
Celebration of Women Writers, A
Central California Poetry Journal, The
CFP (UPENN Gopher)
Chadwyck-Healey
African-American Poetry, 1760-1900
American Poetry Full-Text Database
Collaborative Bibliographies in American Literature and Culture (Georgetown)
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Electronic Archivesfor Teaching the American Literatures, The (Georgetown)
Electronic Poetry Centre, The (SUNY Buffalo, NY)
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English Internet Resources (Literature, Linguistics and Writing)
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Index of Web Sites on Modernism, An (Malcom S. Forbes Center at Brown University)
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (University of Virginia)
Internet Sites Related To Electronic Literature, Choice Magazine
Library of America, The -- an independent, nonprofit publisher dedicated to preserving America's best and most significant writing in hardcover editions featuring authoritative texts.
Links to Poets
Literary Index
Literary Links (University of Alberta, Canada)
Literary Movements in American Literature
Library of Congress Home Page
Literary Index (Chris Flack, Vanderbilt Univ.)
Literary Links (University of Alberta)
Lost Poets of the Great War (Emory)
Mailing Lists (UPENN Gopher)
Making of America -- a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Pennsylvania)
Native American Literature of the Northwest
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North American Native Authors Catalog, The
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Online Literature Library
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
Penn's list of literary lists (Gopher Menu) A Poetry-Lover's Guide To the World-Wide Web
Portrait Gallery at Keele University
Postmodern Culture -- Published by Johns Hopkins University Press with support from the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.
Project Bartleby (Columbia University)
Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change (Beat Generation)
Pulitzer Prize Web Site
Sixties
South Asian American Literature
Student's History of American Literature, A
Teaching American Literature Home Page (Georgetown)
Twentieth-century Poetry in English (Eiichi Hishikawa, Kobe University)
USIA - Outline of American Literature - Contents
Viet Nam Generation, Inc. (Virginia)
Voice of the Shuttle (Alan Liu, UCSB)
Wildernet: American Environment and American Culture
WWW view of Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
The Dickens Page The Gaskell Web Gissing in Cyberplace Bronte Sisters
Victorian Web Sites 19th C. British Authors British Authors English Literature
English Dep. Home Pages American Authors Japan, my Japan! United Kingdom Web
Mr. Weller's London Nagoya Web Manchester Web Knutsford Walk
Bible Fine Arts Search E-texts
American Authors on the Web
American Comparative Literature Association
American Drama
American Literary Classics - A Chapter A Day
American Literature (VT)
American Literature (UTEXAS)
American Literature Anthology Writers' Index
American Literature Chronology - Index
American Literature On-Line (Michael O'Conner, Univ of Missouri)
American Literature on the Web Index (Akihito Ishikawa, Japan)
American Literature Research and Analysis Web Site (Jim Wohlpart, University of South Florida)
American Studies (University of Virginia) <
American Transcendentalism [G]
American Transcendentalism
American Transcendentalism Web
Emergence of Transcendentalism
New England Transcendentalism
Transcendentalist, The
Transcendentalists, The
American Verse Project (Michigan) (Syracuse)
Authors and Experts
Authors site at The Mining Company
Authors Speak
BARTLEBY LIBRARY (Columbia University)
Beat Generation, The
Index - Beat Generation Resources
Beat Movement Reference
Beat Poetry
Beats, The
Bohemian Ink
Buffalo Americanist Digest (Buffalo)
Calls For Papers (UPENN)
Celebration of Women Writers, A
Central California Poetry Journal, The
CFP (UPENN Gopher)
Chadwyck-Healey
African-American Poetry, 1760-1900
American Poetry Full-Text Database
Collaborative Bibliographies in American Literature and Culture (Georgetown)
Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences, The (N2H2) (UNC)
Electronic Archivesfor Teaching the American Literatures, The (Georgetown)
Electronic Poetry Centre, The (SUNY Buffalo, NY)
Electronic Texts and Interactive Platforms in American Literature (Georgetown)
Electronic Poetry Centre, The (Buffalo, NY)
English Server, The (Carnegie Mellon University)
English Internet Resources (Literature, Linguistics and Writing)
E-text Archives, Collection of
Gay Lesbian & Bisexual Book Awards
HTI American Verse Project (Michigan)
Index of Web Sites on Modernism, An (Malcom S. Forbes Center at Brown University)
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (University of Virginia)
Internet Sites Related To Electronic Literature, Choice Magazine
Library of America, The -- an independent, nonprofit publisher dedicated to preserving America's best and most significant writing in hardcover editions featuring authoritative texts.
Links to Poets
Literary Index
Literary Links (University of Alberta, Canada)
Literary Movements in American Literature
Library of Congress Home Page
Literary Index (Chris Flack, Vanderbilt Univ.)
Literary Links (University of Alberta)
Lost Poets of the Great War (Emory)
Mailing Lists (UPENN Gopher)
Making of America -- a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Pennsylvania)
Native American Literature of the Northwest
NativeWeb (SYR)
Nineteenth-Century Literature (Archives)
North American Native Authors Catalog, The
On-Line Books Page, The
Online Literature Library
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
Penn's list of literary lists (Gopher Menu) A Poetry-Lover's Guide To the World-Wide Web
Portrait Gallery at Keele University
Postmodern Culture -- Published by Johns Hopkins University Press with support from the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.
Project Bartleby (Columbia University)
Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change (Beat Generation)
Pulitzer Prize Web Site
Sixties
South Asian American Literature
Student's History of American Literature, A
Teaching American Literature Home Page (Georgetown)
Twentieth-century Poetry in English (Eiichi Hishikawa, Kobe University)
USIA - Outline of American Literature - Contents
Viet Nam Generation, Inc. (Virginia)
Voice of the Shuttle (Alan Liu, UCSB)
Wildernet: American Environment and American Culture
WWW view of Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
The Dickens Page The Gaskell Web Gissing in Cyberplace Bronte Sisters
Victorian Web Sites 19th C. British Authors British Authors English Literature
English Dep. Home Pages American Authors Japan, my Japan! United Kingdom Web
Mr. Weller's London Nagoya Web Manchester Web Knutsford Walk
Bible Fine Arts Search E-texts
Children Authors
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkBrown/authors.html
Authors & Illustrators on the Web A-Z By Surname
Authors A - Z
Jonathan Allen - British illustrator (The Great White Man-Eating Shark) and author/illustrator (Mucky Moose).
Caroline Arnold - US author of a wide range of nonfiction (African Animals, El Nino).
Tedd Arnold - The picture book author/illustrator (No Jumping on the Bed!, Green Wilma).
Mike Artell - Author-illustrator.
Avi - The award-winning author of Poppy, Beyond the Westen Sea, and many more novels.
Bruce Balan - Author of the Cyber.kdz series and more.
Haemi Balgassi - Author of Peacebound Trains and Tae's Sonata.
L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Website
Piglet Press - This publisher of Oz audio books has a site with a great deal of Oz-information, including sound samples from the stories.
International Wizard of Oz Club
William Bell - The Canadian author of Forbidden City and River My Friend.
John Bellairs - The Compleat Bellairs - Summaries, excerpts, and sample artwork from the spooky books of this popular author.
John Bianchi and Frank B. Edwards: Bungalo Books - Samples and information about the popular and funny book series.
Liat Binyamini Ariel - An illustrator living in Israel.
Judy Blume - Author of novels including Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.
Enid Blyton - The creator of Noddy, The Famous Five, and many others.
Karleen Bradford - The Canadian author of Dragonfire and There Will be Wolves.
Jan Brett - The author/illustrator of picture books such as The Mitten and Trouble wth Trolls has included some lovely printable ideas and drawings on her website.
Larry Dane Brimner - An author of picture books and nonfiction.
Ken and Debby Buchanan
Betsy Byars - The Newbery award-winner.
Eric Carle - "The Official Eric Carle Web Site" includes biographical and bibliographical information, as well as answers to frequently asked questions.
Nancy Carlson - Creator of such picture books as It's Going to be Perfect! and How to Lose All Your Friends
Lewis Carroll
The Lewis Carroll Home Page - A guide to Lewis Carroll resources and documents. Very thorough.
Fairrosa's Lewis Carroll page - Another approach to Lewis Carroll texts and information compiled by fairrosa, a regular contributor to children's literature discussions on the Net.
The Many Faces of Alice - A website based on a fourth-grade study of Alice in Wonderland. It includes background information, as well as the complete text of the novel as illustrated by the class!
A.G. Cascone - The author of young adult thrillers, and other works of horror and humor (not necessarily both in the same book!).
Margaret Clark - Australian author of the Mango Street and HairRaiser series. She also writes as Lee Striker.
Beverly Cleary - A fine page, set up by a fan, that features a novel of the month.
Vicki Cobb - "Vicki Cobb's Kid's Science Page" includes information about the author and her books, and sample science experiments.
Roald Dahl - Includes biographical information, pictures, and links to other Roald Dahl resources.
Tomie DePaola - A no-frills website by a fan (who just happens to work for Tomie!)
Leo and Diane Dillon - Award-winning illustrators of children's books as well as album covers, posters, and more.
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sherlock Holmes books
221B Baker Street - A nicely-designed site featuring stories, pictures, and sounds.
Sherlockian Holmepage - Sherlock Holmes information, and links to all things related (mystery and science-fiction pages, information from the British Tourist Authority; even information about pipes!)
Diane Duane and Peter Morwood - Homeward - Fantasy and science fiction writers Diane Duane and Peter Morwood have long maintained this Web site with information about their writing and their lives.
Lois Duncan - The author of many award-winning young adult suspense novels, including I Know what you Did Last Summer (It's nothing like the movie version). Readers are also reminded of the teaching suggestions for Lois Duncan's Who Killed My Daughter?, elsewhere in these pages.
Hazel Edwards - Australian author of over 100 books.........
Authors & Illustrators on the Web A-Z By Surname
Authors A - Z
Jonathan Allen - British illustrator (The Great White Man-Eating Shark) and author/illustrator (Mucky Moose).
Caroline Arnold - US author of a wide range of nonfiction (African Animals, El Nino).
Tedd Arnold - The picture book author/illustrator (No Jumping on the Bed!, Green Wilma).
Mike Artell - Author-illustrator.
Avi - The award-winning author of Poppy, Beyond the Westen Sea, and many more novels.
Bruce Balan - Author of the Cyber.kdz series and more.
Haemi Balgassi - Author of Peacebound Trains and Tae's Sonata.
L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Website
Piglet Press - This publisher of Oz audio books has a site with a great deal of Oz-information, including sound samples from the stories.
International Wizard of Oz Club
William Bell - The Canadian author of Forbidden City and River My Friend.
John Bellairs - The Compleat Bellairs - Summaries, excerpts, and sample artwork from the spooky books of this popular author.
John Bianchi and Frank B. Edwards: Bungalo Books - Samples and information about the popular and funny book series.
Liat Binyamini Ariel - An illustrator living in Israel.
Judy Blume - Author of novels including Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.
Enid Blyton - The creator of Noddy, The Famous Five, and many others.
Karleen Bradford - The Canadian author of Dragonfire and There Will be Wolves.
Jan Brett - The author/illustrator of picture books such as The Mitten and Trouble wth Trolls has included some lovely printable ideas and drawings on her website.
Larry Dane Brimner - An author of picture books and nonfiction.
Ken and Debby Buchanan
Betsy Byars - The Newbery award-winner.
Eric Carle - "The Official Eric Carle Web Site" includes biographical and bibliographical information, as well as answers to frequently asked questions.
Nancy Carlson - Creator of such picture books as It's Going to be Perfect! and How to Lose All Your Friends
Lewis Carroll
The Lewis Carroll Home Page - A guide to Lewis Carroll resources and documents. Very thorough.
Fairrosa's Lewis Carroll page - Another approach to Lewis Carroll texts and information compiled by fairrosa, a regular contributor to children's literature discussions on the Net.
The Many Faces of Alice - A website based on a fourth-grade study of Alice in Wonderland. It includes background information, as well as the complete text of the novel as illustrated by the class!
A.G. Cascone - The author of young adult thrillers, and other works of horror and humor (not necessarily both in the same book!).
Margaret Clark - Australian author of the Mango Street and HairRaiser series. She also writes as Lee Striker.
Beverly Cleary - A fine page, set up by a fan, that features a novel of the month.
Vicki Cobb - "Vicki Cobb's Kid's Science Page" includes information about the author and her books, and sample science experiments.
Roald Dahl - Includes biographical information, pictures, and links to other Roald Dahl resources.
Tomie DePaola - A no-frills website by a fan (who just happens to work for Tomie!)
Leo and Diane Dillon - Award-winning illustrators of children's books as well as album covers, posters, and more.
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sherlock Holmes books
221B Baker Street - A nicely-designed site featuring stories, pictures, and sounds.
Sherlockian Holmepage - Sherlock Holmes information, and links to all things related (mystery and science-fiction pages, information from the British Tourist Authority; even information about pipes!)
Diane Duane and Peter Morwood - Homeward - Fantasy and science fiction writers Diane Duane and Peter Morwood have long maintained this Web site with information about their writing and their lives.
Lois Duncan - The author of many award-winning young adult suspense novels, including I Know what you Did Last Summer (It's nothing like the movie version). Readers are also reminded of the teaching suggestions for Lois Duncan's Who Killed My Daughter?, elsewhere in these pages.
Hazel Edwards - Australian author of over 100 books.........
Coonect With Authors on the Web
http://people.virginia.edu/~jbh/author.html
AUTHORS ON THE WEB A-Z By Surname
A Collection of Biographical Sketches
This page is an attempt to bring together literary author biographies available on the World Wide Web. The biographies vary in quality, timeliness, length, and authority. If you don't find a biography here and know of one, please send it along. If there is no biography available, write one and send it along. It will take time for this page to become one of substance. And, in keeping with the beauty of the medium, it will continually grow and change. Credit for this page must go to Dr. Gretchen Whitney at The University of Tennessee where I was a graduate student in the School of Information Science. Dr. Whitney's "dead German" assignment gave me inspiration for this page. She also taught me HTML. She may have created a monster.
Last revised: August 17, 2002.
As a new dimension to this page, I am attempting to locate biographies on Nobel Prize winners in Literature. Those I include will include a notation, (Nobel, year). Much of the information for this portion comes from The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
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Chinua Achebe - Maria Gaetana Agnesi - Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Nobel 1966) - Anna Akhmatova: 1 2 - Louisa May Alcott - Vicente Aleixandre (Nobel 1977) - Isabel Allende - Hanan al-Shaykh 1, 2 - Ivo Andriic (Nobel 1961) - Maya Angelou - Louis Aragon - Isaac Asimov - Miguel Angel Asturias (Nobel 1967) 1, 2 - Margaret Atwood - W.H. Auden - Paul Auster1, 2, 3, 4 - Jane Austen - Martin Amis - Maya Angelou1, 2, 3, - Avi -
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L. Frank Baum - Steven Barnes - Charles Baxter - Sylvia Beach - Louis Becke - Samuel Beckett (Nobel 1969): 1, 2, 3, 4 - Madison Smart Bell - Henry Bellamann - Saul Bellow: (Nobel, 1976) 1 2 - Andrei Bely - Jacinto Benavente (Nobel 1922) - Angela Benson - Henri Bergson (Nobel 1927) - Carl L. Biemiller - Ambrose Bierce - Elizabeth Bishop - Bjornstjerne Martinus Bjornson (Nobel 1903) - Judy Blume - William Blake - Heinrich Boell (Nobel 1972) - Chris Bohjalian - Anne Bronte - Rita Mae Brown - John Buchanan - Pearl S. Buck (Nobel, 1938) - Charles Bukowski - Sylvia Bukowski - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (Nobel 1933) - John Burroughs - Betsy Byars - .....
AUTHORS ON THE WEB A-Z By Surname
A Collection of Biographical Sketches
This page is an attempt to bring together literary author biographies available on the World Wide Web. The biographies vary in quality, timeliness, length, and authority. If you don't find a biography here and know of one, please send it along. If there is no biography available, write one and send it along. It will take time for this page to become one of substance. And, in keeping with the beauty of the medium, it will continually grow and change. Credit for this page must go to Dr. Gretchen Whitney at The University of Tennessee where I was a graduate student in the School of Information Science. Dr. Whitney's "dead German" assignment gave me inspiration for this page. She also taught me HTML. She may have created a monster.
Last revised: August 17, 2002.
As a new dimension to this page, I am attempting to locate biographies on Nobel Prize winners in Literature. Those I include will include a notation, (Nobel, year). Much of the information for this portion comes from The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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A
Chinua Achebe - Maria Gaetana Agnesi - Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Nobel 1966) - Anna Akhmatova: 1 2 - Louisa May Alcott - Vicente Aleixandre (Nobel 1977) - Isabel Allende - Hanan al-Shaykh 1, 2 - Ivo Andriic (Nobel 1961) - Maya Angelou - Louis Aragon - Isaac Asimov - Miguel Angel Asturias (Nobel 1967) 1, 2 - Margaret Atwood - W.H. Auden - Paul Auster1, 2, 3, 4 - Jane Austen - Martin Amis - Maya Angelou1, 2, 3, - Avi -
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L. Frank Baum - Steven Barnes - Charles Baxter - Sylvia Beach - Louis Becke - Samuel Beckett (Nobel 1969): 1, 2, 3, 4 - Madison Smart Bell - Henry Bellamann - Saul Bellow: (Nobel, 1976) 1 2 - Andrei Bely - Jacinto Benavente (Nobel 1922) - Angela Benson - Henri Bergson (Nobel 1927) - Carl L. Biemiller - Ambrose Bierce - Elizabeth Bishop - Bjornstjerne Martinus Bjornson (Nobel 1903) - Judy Blume - William Blake - Heinrich Boell (Nobel 1972) - Chris Bohjalian - Anne Bronte - Rita Mae Brown - John Buchanan - Pearl S. Buck (Nobel, 1938) - Charles Bukowski - Sylvia Bukowski - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (Nobel 1933) - John Burroughs - Betsy Byars - .....
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Books in The Media
List:
1. The Vampire Diaries 1 & 2 by L J Smith
2. The Vampire Diaries 3 & 4 by L J Smith
3. Dead and Gone Sookie Stackhouse by Charlaine Harris
4. Tempt Me At Twilight by Lisa Kleypas
5. Manhunting by J Crusie
6. A Diamond In The Desert by Jo Titchell
7. Work Your Wardrobe by Gok Wan
8. The Making of Modern Britian by Andrew Marr
9. First Term at Mallory Towers by Enid Blyton
10. Tyrannosaurus Drip by Julia Donaldson
11. Rubicon by Tom Holland
12. Designer Genes by Emma HANNIGAN
13. The Bishop's Man by Linden Macintyre
14. A Soldier First by Rick Hillier
15. Away by Jane URQUHART
16. The Book of Secrets by M G VASSANJI
17. Still Alice by Lisa Genova
18. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
19. Fugitive Pieces by Anne MICHAELS
20. Handmaid's Tale by M ATWOOD
Product Descriptions and Bibliographical Details : http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20
1. The Vampire Diaries 1 & 2 by L J Smith
2. The Vampire Diaries 3 & 4 by L J Smith
3. Dead and Gone Sookie Stackhouse by Charlaine Harris
4. Tempt Me At Twilight by Lisa Kleypas
5. Manhunting by J Crusie
6. A Diamond In The Desert by Jo Titchell
7. Work Your Wardrobe by Gok Wan
8. The Making of Modern Britian by Andrew Marr
9. First Term at Mallory Towers by Enid Blyton
10. Tyrannosaurus Drip by Julia Donaldson
11. Rubicon by Tom Holland
12. Designer Genes by Emma HANNIGAN
13. The Bishop's Man by Linden Macintyre
14. A Soldier First by Rick Hillier
15. Away by Jane URQUHART
16. The Book of Secrets by M G VASSANJI
17. Still Alice by Lisa Genova
18. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
19. Fugitive Pieces by Anne MICHAELS
20. Handmaid's Tale by M ATWOOD
Product Descriptions and Bibliographical Details : http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20
Fish Publishing Writing Competitions
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Welcome to Fish Publishing, home of the best international writing competitions, and publisher of over 300 emerging authors and poets since 1994 in the Annual Fish Anthology.
The Fish Short Story Prize is an open door that's inviting writers to walk through it. It has to be encouraged, celebrated, congratulated.
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Fish is doing God's own work. It's an inspiration and an avenue to writers everywhere.
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I hail anyone who enters the Fish Prize . . . It is difficult to create from dust, as all of us writers do. I know that the best stories are those that are still untold – so keep writing, keep creating, keep the faith.
- Colum McCann -
Honorary patrons of the Fish Short Story Prize:
Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann, Dermot Healy
FISH SHORT STORY PRIZE
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The 2009 Fish Anthology was launched on Thursday 9 July in St Brendan's Church, Bantry, Co Cork. 19 of the 29 writers attended from five continents, and the audience of 200 were treated to a wonderful series of readings. See our News Page for a report on the launch.
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Fish Publishing - writing contests -Short Story, Poetry and Flash Fiction Competitions
- Fish Blog - Fish Twitter -
Welcome to Fish Publishing, home of the best international writing competitions, and publisher of over 300 emerging authors and poets since 1994 in the Annual Fish Anthology.
The Fish Short Story Prize is an open door that's inviting writers to walk through it. It has to be encouraged, celebrated, congratulated.
- Roddy Doyle -
Fish is doing God's own work. It's an inspiration and an avenue to writers everywhere.
- Frank McCourt -
I hail anyone who enters the Fish Prize . . . It is difficult to create from dust, as all of us writers do. I know that the best stories are those that are still untold – so keep writing, keep creating, keep the faith.
- Colum McCann -
Honorary patrons of the Fish Short Story Prize:
Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann, Dermot Healy
FISH SHORT STORY PRIZE
NOW OPEN
Judge: Ronan Bennett
1st prize 3,000 Euro. Best 10 published in 2010 Fish AnthologyFISH ONE-PAGE STORY PRIZE (Flash Fiction)
NOW OPEN
1st prize 1,000 Euro. Best 10 published in 2010 Fish Anthology
Judges: John Hegley and Simon MunneryFISH POETRY PRIZE
NOW OPEN
1st prize 1,000 Euro. Best 10 published in 2010 Fish Anthology
Judge: Matthew Sweeney
The 2009 Fish Anthology was launched on Thursday 9 July in St Brendan's Church, Bantry, Co Cork. 19 of the 29 writers attended from five continents, and the audience of 200 were treated to a wonderful series of readings. See our News Page for a report on the launch.
Buy from Cork University Press
Home
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Contests
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to Read Online
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Links
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short story competition - short story contest
one-page (flash fiction) competition - one-page (flash fiction) contest
poetry competition - poetry contest
Fish Publishing, Durrus, Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland
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freewebs.com/irishhaiku
Agencies and Funders
The Arts Council
artscouncil.ie
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland
artscouncil-ni.org
Foras na Gaeilge
forasnagaeilge.ie
Culture Ireland
cultureireland.gov.ie
Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
arts-sport-tourism.gov.ie
The Library Council
librarycouncil.ie
Links and Online Resources
White House Poets
myspace.com/thewhitehousepoets
Dingle Writing Courses
dinglewritingcourses.ie
Publishing Training
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train4publishing.co.uk
Centre for Publishing Studies - Stirling University
pubstd.stir.ac.uk
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marketability.info
Events
World Book Day
March 4, 2010
worldbookday.com
Seachtain na Gaeilge
March 3 to 17, 2010
snag.ie
Leabhar Power
March 3 to 17, 2010
leabharpower.com
Dublin Book Festival
March 2010
dublinbookfestival.com
Poetry Now – International Poetry Festival
March 26 to 29, 2009
poetrynow.ie
World Book & Copyright Day
April 23, 2010
unesco.org
Cúirt
April 21 to 26, 2009
galwayartscentre.ie
Listowel Writers' Week
May 27 to 31, 2009
writersweek.ie
IMPAC Award
June 11, 2009
impacdublinaward.ie
West Cork Literary Festival
July 5 to 11, 2009
westcorkliteraryfestival.ie
Yeats Summer School
July 25 to August 7, 2009
yeats-sligo.com
Journals & Magazines
Books Ireland
islandireland.com/booksireland
Simply Haiku
simplyhaiku.com
Crannog Literary Magazine
crannogmagazine.com
WOW Magazine
An online magazine of original poetry and fiction
wordsontheweb.net
JMI – The Journal of Music in Ireland
thejmi.com
BLOGS
Poetry Ireland have excellent links to literary blogs at:
poetryireland.ie
Dedalus Press
dedaluspress.blogspot.com
Galway Public Library
galwaylibrary.blogspot.com
Eoin Purcell
eoinpurcellsblog.com
International Book Fairs
Salon du Livre
March 26 to 31, 2010
salondulivreparis.com
London Book Fair
April 19 to 21, 2010
londonbookfair.co.uk
Bologna Childrens Book Fair
April 23 to 25, 2010
bookfair.bolognafiere.it
Bookworld Prague
April 14 to 17, 2009
bookworld.cz
BookExo America, New York
May 25 to 27, 2010
bookexpoamerica.com
Frankfurt Book Fair
October 14 to 18, 2009
October 6 to 10, 2010
frankfurt-book-fair.com
For more information contact Publishing Ireland
info@publishingireland.com
Freelancers
The Irish Association of Freelance Editors, Proofreaders and Indexers provides a Directory of Members including their skills, qualifications, areas of expertise, special interests and any other relevant information.
www.afepi.ie
National Library of Ireland
online catalogue
nli.ie
Kenny's Bookshop
kennys.ie
BooksIrish
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Organisations and Associations
Childrens' Books Ireland
childrensbooksireland.com
iBbY Ireland
ibbyireland.ie
Ireland Literature Exchange
irelandliterature.com
Irish Copyright Licensing Association
icla.ie
Illustrators Guild of Ireland
illustratorsireland.com
Irish Writers' Centre
writerscentre.ie
The Munster Literature Centre
munsterlit.ie
Poetry Ireland
poetryireland.ie
Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude, Galway
twwc.ie
The James Joyce Centre
jamesjoyce.ie
Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association
translatorsassociation.ie
International Association for the Study of Irish Literature (IASIL)
iasil.org
The Seamus Heaney Centre - Belfast
qub.ac.uk
Over the Edge
overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com
Oscar Wilde Centre
tcd.ie/OWC/
Irish Haiku Society
freewebs.com/irishhaiku
Agencies and Funders
The Arts Council
artscouncil.ie
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland
artscouncil-ni.org
Foras na Gaeilge
forasnagaeilge.ie
Culture Ireland
cultureireland.gov.ie
Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
arts-sport-tourism.gov.ie
The Library Council
librarycouncil.ie
Links and Online Resources
White House Poets
myspace.com/thewhitehousepoets
Dingle Writing Courses
dinglewritingcourses.ie
Publishing Training
Publishing Training Centre
train4publishing.co.uk
Centre for Publishing Studies - Stirling University
pubstd.stir.ac.uk
Marketability
marketability.info
Events
World Book Day
March 4, 2010
worldbookday.com
Seachtain na Gaeilge
March 3 to 17, 2010
snag.ie
Leabhar Power
March 3 to 17, 2010
leabharpower.com
Dublin Book Festival
March 2010
dublinbookfestival.com
Poetry Now – International Poetry Festival
March 26 to 29, 2009
poetrynow.ie
World Book & Copyright Day
April 23, 2010
unesco.org
Cúirt
April 21 to 26, 2009
galwayartscentre.ie
Listowel Writers' Week
May 27 to 31, 2009
writersweek.ie
IMPAC Award
June 11, 2009
impacdublinaward.ie
West Cork Literary Festival
July 5 to 11, 2009
westcorkliteraryfestival.ie
Yeats Summer School
July 25 to August 7, 2009
yeats-sligo.com
Journals & Magazines
Books Ireland
islandireland.com/booksireland
Simply Haiku
simplyhaiku.com
Crannog Literary Magazine
crannogmagazine.com
WOW Magazine
An online magazine of original poetry and fiction
wordsontheweb.net
JMI – The Journal of Music in Ireland
thejmi.com
BLOGS
Poetry Ireland have excellent links to literary blogs at:
poetryireland.ie
Dedalus Press
dedaluspress.blogspot.com
Galway Public Library
galwaylibrary.blogspot.com
Eoin Purcell
eoinpurcellsblog.com
International Book Fairs
Salon du Livre
March 26 to 31, 2010
salondulivreparis.com
London Book Fair
April 19 to 21, 2010
londonbookfair.co.uk
Bologna Childrens Book Fair
April 23 to 25, 2010
bookfair.bolognafiere.it
Bookworld Prague
April 14 to 17, 2009
bookworld.cz
BookExo America, New York
May 25 to 27, 2010
bookexpoamerica.com
Frankfurt Book Fair
October 14 to 18, 2009
October 6 to 10, 2010
frankfurt-book-fair.com
For more information contact Publishing Ireland
info@publishingireland.com
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Books in the Media
List
1. Paths of Glory by Jeffrey Archer
2. Day is Done by Peter Yarrow
3. True Blue by David Baldacci
4. The Ghost King by R.A. Salvatore
5. A Gift To Last : Can this Be Christmas by Debbie Macomber
6. Inside the Kingdom by Robert Lacey
7. Its Not What You Think by Chris Evans
8. Get Her Off The Pitch: How Sport Took Over My Life by Lynne Truss
9. Who's Who 2010 2010 - Who's Who by A & C Black Publishers Ltd
10. Club Dead: A True Blood Novel by Charlaine Harris
11. Lord of Misrule - Morganville Vampires No. 5 by Rachel Caine
12. The Thirteen Curses: Bk. 2 by Michelle Harrison
13. Secret Army - Henderson's Boys v. 3 by Robert Muchamore
14. At the Gates of Darkness by Raymond E. Feist
15. Crocodile Tears - Alex Rider No. 8 by Anthony Horowitz
16. "Harry Hill's TV Burp" Book by Harry Hill
17. Gordon Ramsay's World Kitchen - "F-Word" by Gordon Ramsay
18. Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill by Diana Athill
19. My Championship Year by Jenson Button
20. New Larousse Gastronomique by Hamlyn
21. Love Letters of Great Women by Ursula Doyle
22. Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow and Farewell v. 3 by Javier Marias, Margaret Jull Costa
23. The Original of Laura: (Dying is Fun) a Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov
Product Descriptions and Bibliographical Details: http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20
1. Paths of Glory by Jeffrey Archer
2. Day is Done by Peter Yarrow
3. True Blue by David Baldacci
4. The Ghost King by R.A. Salvatore
5. A Gift To Last : Can this Be Christmas by Debbie Macomber
6. Inside the Kingdom by Robert Lacey
7. Its Not What You Think by Chris Evans
8. Get Her Off The Pitch: How Sport Took Over My Life by Lynne Truss
9. Who's Who 2010 2010 - Who's Who by A & C Black Publishers Ltd
10. Club Dead: A True Blood Novel by Charlaine Harris
11. Lord of Misrule - Morganville Vampires No. 5 by Rachel Caine
12. The Thirteen Curses: Bk. 2 by Michelle Harrison
13. Secret Army - Henderson's Boys v. 3 by Robert Muchamore
14. At the Gates of Darkness by Raymond E. Feist
15. Crocodile Tears - Alex Rider No. 8 by Anthony Horowitz
16. "Harry Hill's TV Burp" Book by Harry Hill
17. Gordon Ramsay's World Kitchen - "F-Word" by Gordon Ramsay
18. Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill by Diana Athill
19. My Championship Year by Jenson Button
20. New Larousse Gastronomique by Hamlyn
21. Love Letters of Great Women by Ursula Doyle
22. Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow and Farewell v. 3 by Javier Marias, Margaret Jull Costa
23. The Original of Laura: (Dying is Fun) a Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov
Product Descriptions and Bibliographical Details: http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20
Author Sarah Webb
http://www.sarahwebb.info/
Sarah Webb has written seven bestselling novels including, ‘When the Boys Are Away’, ‘Take a Chance’, and ‘Always the Bridesmaid’. Her books have been published in many different countries including the U.S. and Indonesia. She has also written four children’s books, has contributed short stories to many collections including ‘Moments’, and has compiled and edited two charity collections of her own, ‘Travelling Light’ and ‘Mum’s the Word’.
Sarah studied Arts in Trinity College, Dublin and worked in the book trade for many years as a Children’s Buyer. She now combines writing with working as a Children’s Book Consultant, and reviewing children’s books for the Irish Independent. She has also programmed and run many successful readers’ days, and is on the committee of Irish Pen.
She lives in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, with her partner and three children and spends as much time as possible in her parent’s second home in Castletownsend.
Sarah is currently working on her eighth adult novel and her debut teenage novel.
Sarah Webb has written seven bestselling novels including, ‘When the Boys Are Away’, ‘Take a Chance’, and ‘Always the Bridesmaid’. Her books have been published in many different countries including the U.S. and Indonesia. She has also written four children’s books, has contributed short stories to many collections including ‘Moments’, and has compiled and edited two charity collections of her own, ‘Travelling Light’ and ‘Mum’s the Word’.
Sarah studied Arts in Trinity College, Dublin and worked in the book trade for many years as a Children’s Buyer. She now combines writing with working as a Children’s Book Consultant, and reviewing children’s books for the Irish Independent. She has also programmed and run many successful readers’ days, and is on the committee of Irish Pen.
She lives in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, with her partner and three children and spends as much time as possible in her parent’s second home in Castletownsend.
Sarah is currently working on her eighth adult novel and her debut teenage novel.
Author Snell
http://www.obrien.ie/author.cfm?authorID=36
Gordon Snell has written many books for children as well as comedy for adults. He lives in Dublin with his wife, best-selling author, Maeve Binchy.
Gordon Snell is a well-known scriptwriter and author of books for children and adults. Some of his most popular titles include The Phantom Horseman, Dangerous Treasure, The Mystery of Monk Island , The Curse of Werewolf Castle and The Tex and Sheelagh Omnibus.
Gordon Snell has written many books for children as well as comedy for adults. He lives in Dublin with his wife, best-selling author, Maeve Binchy.
Gordon Snell is a well-known scriptwriter and author of books for children and adults. Some of his most popular titles include The Phantom Horseman, Dangerous Treasure, The Mystery of Monk Island , The Curse of Werewolf Castle and The Tex and Sheelagh Omnibus.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Books in the Media
List:
1. The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
2. Spook Country by William Gibson
3. Sharp Teeth by T Barlow
4. The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
5. The Human Stain by Philip Roth
6. Bel Canto by Ann Prachett
7. The Caprices by Sabina Murray
8. Family Britian 1951-57 by D Kynaston
9. Hells Heroes by Darren Shan
10. Driven To Distraction by Jeremy Clarkson
Product Descriptions Online at : http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20
1. The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
2. Spook Country by William Gibson
3. Sharp Teeth by T Barlow
4. The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
5. The Human Stain by Philip Roth
6. Bel Canto by Ann Prachett
7. The Caprices by Sabina Murray
8. Family Britian 1951-57 by D Kynaston
9. Hells Heroes by Darren Shan
10. Driven To Distraction by Jeremy Clarkson
Product Descriptions Online at : http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20
Author Gaye Shortland
http://www.poolbeg.com/authors/shortland_gaye.htm
Gaye Shortland,
Author of Rough Rides in Dry Places
Born in Cork, Ireland, Gaye Shortland has taught English literature at University College Cork, the University of Leeds, Ahmadu Bello University Nigeria and the Universite de Niamey in Niger. She lived for fifteen years in Africa, spending much of that time with the nomadic Taureg of the Sahara and eventually managing a restaurant for the American Embassy in Niamey. She married a Taureg and had three children.
She began to write in 1994 on her return to Ireland, and now lives in Cork with her children. She is now editor at Poolbeg Press and the author of four critically acclaimed novels.
Turtles All the Way Down and Mind That ‘tis My Brother are comedies set in Cork.
Polygamy and Harmattan are set in Africa.
Gaye Shortland,
Author of Rough Rides in Dry Places
Born in Cork, Ireland, Gaye Shortland has taught English literature at University College Cork, the University of Leeds, Ahmadu Bello University Nigeria and the Universite de Niamey in Niger. She lived for fifteen years in Africa, spending much of that time with the nomadic Taureg of the Sahara and eventually managing a restaurant for the American Embassy in Niamey. She married a Taureg and had three children.
She began to write in 1994 on her return to Ireland, and now lives in Cork with her children. She is now editor at Poolbeg Press and the author of four critically acclaimed novels.
Turtles All the Way Down and Mind That ‘tis My Brother are comedies set in Cork.
Polygamy and Harmattan are set in Africa.
Author Anne Marie Scanlon
http://www.poolbeg.com/Romantic-Fiction/Anne-Marie-Scanlon/p-33-238/
Anne Marie Scanlon has been dispensing love advice from New York in the Evening Herald – now she is bringing her depth of research and wisdom to single ...
An Irish girls guide to dating!
Anne Marie Scanlon has been dispensing love advice from New York in the Evening Herald – now she is bringing her depth of research and wisdom to single Irishwomen everywhere! From the original New York Doll . . . Tired of the Irish dating scene? Played by one too many Players? Bagged one too many Bad Boys? Then It’s not Me, it’s You is definitely for YOU . . . A GROUNDBREAKING, BALL-BREAKING, TONGUE-IN-CHEEK self-help guide for Irishwomen who want to find, tame and RETAIN a man WANT A KEEPER? Then DON’T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT!!!!!
Anne Marie Scanlon has been dispensing love advice from New York in the Evening Herald – now she is bringing her depth of research and wisdom to single ...
An Irish girls guide to dating!
Anne Marie Scanlon has been dispensing love advice from New York in the Evening Herald – now she is bringing her depth of research and wisdom to single Irishwomen everywhere! From the original New York Doll . . . Tired of the Irish dating scene? Played by one too many Players? Bagged one too many Bad Boys? Then It’s not Me, it’s You is definitely for YOU . . . A GROUNDBREAKING, BALL-BREAKING, TONGUE-IN-CHEEK self-help guide for Irishwomen who want to find, tame and RETAIN a man WANT A KEEPER? Then DON’T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT!!!!!
My Literary Website - Rhyme Zone.Com
http://www.rhymezone.com/
Shakespeare
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Douglas Adams, Voltaire, Groucho Marx, User submissions, More...
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Shakespeare
Comedies, Tragedies, Histories, Poetry, Top lines, Coined words. Quizzes
Verbs, Nouns, Adjectives, State capitals, French, Spanish, More...
Quotations
Douglas Adams, Voltaire, Groucho Marx, User submissions, More...
Mother Goose
Simple Simon, Old King Cole, Jack and Jill, Pairs and Pears, More...
Famous Documents
Old Testament, New Testament, U.S. Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution.
Other features
Boxcar Blockade puzzle game, Twisteroo, Valentine Slam, Forum, Dictionary Search, Reverse dictionary
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Books in the Media
List
1. Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0307268195
2. How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by Leil Lowndes
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/007141858X
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days By Jeff Kinney
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0810983915
4. Last Days of Katy French by O Toole Jason
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/1907162046
5. Cody the Autobiography by Cody Brian
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0956359809
6. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0061703257
7. Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0316001821
8. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/B001NNMJ6G
9. Bankers by Shane Ross
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/1844882160
1. Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0307268195
2. How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by Leil Lowndes
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/007141858X
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days By Jeff Kinney
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0810983915
4. Last Days of Katy French by O Toole Jason
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/1907162046
5. Cody the Autobiography by Cody Brian
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0956359809
6. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0061703257
7. Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0316001821
8. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/B001NNMJ6G
9. Bankers by Shane Ross
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/1844882160
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Books in the Media
List:
1. Supermarket by Satoshi Azuchi
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0312382944
2. Hush Hush by Becca FitzPatrick
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/1416989412
3. Preserves River Cottage Handbook No.2 by Pam Corbin
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0747595321
4. D-Day The Battle of Normandy by Anthony Beevor
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0670021199
5. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (Movie tie-in)
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/1416580824
6. Safe Harbour by Danielle Steel
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0375728287
7. A Comfortable Wife By Stephanie Laurens
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0786242019
8. It Must Be Love By Rachel Gibson
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0380807157
9. See Jane Score by Rachel Gibson
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/search?node=1&keywords=see+jane+score&preview=
1. Supermarket by Satoshi Azuchi
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0312382944
2. Hush Hush by Becca FitzPatrick
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/1416989412
3. Preserves River Cottage Handbook No.2 by Pam Corbin
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0747595321
4. D-Day The Battle of Normandy by Anthony Beevor
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0670021199
5. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (Movie tie-in)
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/1416580824
6. Safe Harbour by Danielle Steel
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0375728287
7. A Comfortable Wife By Stephanie Laurens
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0786242019
8. It Must Be Love By Rachel Gibson
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/detail/0380807157
9. See Jane Score by Rachel Gibson
http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20/search?node=1&keywords=see+jane+score&preview=
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- Annette J Dunlea
- Cork, Munster, Ireland
- Annette Dunlea is a professional Irish writer. She has written two novels The Honey Trap and Always and Forever. She is currently writing her third novel Cry of the Quiet, a coming of age tale about a girl's life in an orphanage. She writes short fiction and book reviews by commission and she is a frequent contributor to the local newspapers. She writes poetry for pleasure.
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My Favourtie Books
- Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding
- Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Engima by Robert Harris
- Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy
- Lessons in Heartbreak by Kathy Kelly
- PS I Love You by Cecilia Ahern
- Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
- The Thorn Birds by Colleen Mc Cullough
- Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Alborn
