Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff

Those All-Important First Lines

  THOSE ALL-IMPORTANT FIRST LINES by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro June 2009 "How did he decide so quickly that these stories weren’t worth his time?" —Shapiro Picture an editor (or more likely an editorial assistant) sitting at his or her desk...

Hello Goodbye by Emily Chenoweth

  Hello Goodbye Emily Chenoweth Random House 05/12/09 Hardcover/271 pages ISBN: 978-1-4000-6517-2 Buy This Book www.amazon.com     ". . . an astonishing read on courage and love and hope." “No one ever said: Someday you’ll have to...

If the Witness Lied by Caroline B. Cooney

If the Witness Lied Caroline B. Cooney Random House Children's Books 5-10-09 Hardcover/224 pages ISBN: 9780385734486 Buy This Book www.amazon.com   ". . . a timely and prophetic look at where the cult of reality TV is leading. . ." Riveting forecast...

Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard

  Road Dogs Elmore Leonard William Morrow 5-09-09 Hardcover/292 pages ISBN: 978-0-06-173314-7 Buy This Book www.amazon.com   ". . .a master storyteller with a macabre and dry sense of humor." Road Dogs: Slow paced, intimate portrait of two ex-cons...

The Sorceress by Michael Scott

          The Sorceress (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #3) Michael Scott Random House Young Adult 5-09-09 Hardcover/512 pages ISBN: 978-0385735292 Buy This Book www.amazon.com           ". . .a...

Bad Things by Michael Marshall

John Henderson’s life is quiet and ordered. He is a waiter in a restaurant who walks the two miles to and from work every day, drinks a couple of beers and smokes only on the deck outside the beach house where he lives rent-free, walks on the beach every morning and keeps to himself. It’s a small, ordered life.

The Other Half of Life by Kim Ablon Whitney

    The Other Half of Life Kim Ablon Whitney Knopf books for young readers 5-05-09 Hardcover/229 pages ISBN: 978-0-375-85219-0 Buy This Book www.amazon.com     ". . .a tale of innocence, confusion, fear, guilt and hope that lingers in the...

Breathless by Lurlene McDaniel

High school junior Travis Morrison has everything. His life is planned out. He is a champion diver who can do anything in the water. Living life on the edge every minute, he’s been lucky…until the day he tries to dive from Chimney Rock. In that moment, his life changes drastically. It will never be the same again.

Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears

          Stone’s Fall Iain Pears Spiegel & Grau May 05, 2009 Hardcover/608 pages ISBN: 0385522843   Stone’s Fall: An erudite and intricately plotted novel with eerie echoes of prophetic truth. Matthew Braddock’s...