My mother would take me to the library weekly when I was a child and I would take out a stack of books and read every one of them. Eventually we grew to know the staff of the library so well that they offered my mother a job and she’s been working at her local library for more than 20 years.
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A Closer Look at Mark Tavani New Senior Editor for Mortalis
Welcome to Book Editors: Close Up at http://www.authorlink.com . This regular Authorlink column provides an intimate look at important book editors in New York and elsewhere. Interviews focus on editors as real people. The columns explore their likes, dislikes,...
How To Succeed in Murder by Margaret Dumas
How To Succeed in Murder Margaret Dumas Poisoned Pen Press May 2006 Hardcover/0 pages ISBN: 1-59058-260-8 Buy This Book www.amazon.com "If you like your murder mysteries cooked up with a dash of fun, How To Succeed in Murder will be...
Catherine Ryan Hyde and the Importance of Making Connections With Others
Love in the Present Tense by Catherine Ryan Hyde Buy this book via Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with Catherine Ryan Hyde On her latest books, Love in the Present Tense and Becoming Chloe by Lisa Lenard-Cook May 2006 Catherine Ryan Hyde...
The Night Buffalo by Guillermo Arriaga
The Night Buffalo Guillermo Arriaga: Translated Alan Page Atria Books 5/5/2006 Hardcover/228 pages ISBN: 0-7432-8185-3 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . a stark and engaging tale of madness." "Arriaga is primarily a film maker and his...
An Exclusive Interview With Brooke Warner Seal Press Editor Avalon Publishing Group
I started as a project editor for a small independent house in Berkeley called North Atlantic Books. I began doing acquisitions about three years into my job there and worked for Atlantic for five years before moving to Seal. Prior to that I toured Europe for a year, and was busy getting my BA at George Washington University. I received my MA from San Francisco State while working at North Atlantic.
Clair-de-Lune by Cassandra Golds
Contemporary young adult books have become burdened by requirements and expectations no one book can hope to meet. Unless the book is Clair-de-Lune, Cassandra Gold’s remarkable fairy tale about a young, mute ballerina who must learn to face her deepest fears in order to understand the importance of love. Gold manages to not only spin a wholly original tale but to do so in language by turns melodious and downright funny – sometimes both at the same time.
Once Upon a Day by Lisa Tucker
Twenty-three year old Dorothea O’Brien is on a quest to find her older brother, who left the ‘Sanctuary’ where they had lived with their father since early childhood. Sheltered her entire life from the modern world, she is ill-equipped to deal with the challenges facing her. In a twist of fate, she meets Stephen, a cabdriver who has retreated from the world as well, unable to overcome his own loss. Together they will trace the path of Dorothea’s past, uncovering long-held secrets and discovering themselves in the process.
Birds in Fall by Brad Kessler
Birds in Fall Brad Kessler Scribner April 11, 2006 Hardcover/256 pages ISBN: 0-7432-8738-X Buy This Book www.authorlink.com ". . . an atmospheric tale that is to be savored . . ." "The inn is a cocoon, a temporary sanctuary apart from the...
Does Anything Eat Wasps? by New Scientist Magazine
Does Anything Eat Wasps? And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questio New Scientist Magazine Free Press April 5, 2006 Trade Paperback/224 pages ISBN: 0-7432-9726-1 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . the latest in science and technology, both...
