Category: Written
Interview: Melodie Winawer’s Novel, Anticipation Spans Generations
Melodie Winawer’s second novel Anticipation is a historical novel that spans generations and...
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Interview: Everyone Has A Story, Says Julie Ma
Happy Families, Julie Ma, Welbeck – Feed into the rich tapestry of British Chinese history! A charming and uplifting story revolving around three generations of a Chinese family in a Welsh city and the resentments, secrets, and grudges that have come to define them.
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Interview: Epic Debut Novel Traces Family Slave Trade Through Modern Day
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Harper Collins – Ailey Garfield is the descendant of Africans brought to America as slaves plus Native American and white ancestry.
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Interview: Stratman’s Cheat Day Chronicles Modern Life
Cheat Day, Liv Stratman, Scribner – Liv Stratman’s Cheat Day takes a fresh look at love, sex, marriage, work and the quest for the perfect diet.
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Interview: Three Abducted Girls Struggle With a Sadistic Torturer
Dear Miss Metropolitan, Carolyn Ferrell, Henry Holt – Three girls, Fern, Gwin and Jesenia, are kidnapped and taken to a ramshackle house where they are held captive for ten years by a man they know as Boss Man.
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Interview: House of Glass Exposes Secrets of 20th-Century Jewish Family
House of Glass, Hadley Freeman, Simon & Schuster – Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother, Sara lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it.
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Interview: Can Star-Crossed Sisters Ever Find Love?
The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany, Lori Nelson Spielman, Berkley – A trio of second-born daughters sets out on a whirlwind journey through the lush Italian countryside to break the family curse that says they’ll never find love, by New York Times bestseller Lori Nelson Spielman, author of The Life List.
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Interview: Deer Season–When Does a Safe Place Turns Unsafe?
Deer Season, Erin Flanagan, Nebraska – Writer Erin Flanagan’s debut novel Deer Season is a literary mystery that offers a deep look at small town life with humor, insight and a keen eye for the human condition.
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Interview: Aspiring Singer Stays True To Her Art
Song in Ursa Major, Emma Brodie, Knopf – Jane Quinn and her band, The Breakers, are thrown into the spotlight when the headliner is a no-show for their island’s 1969 annual festival.
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Interview: Fan Fiction Launches Denny Bryce as a Bestselling Author
Wild Women and the Blues, Denny S. Bryce, Kensington – After a hard day working in public relations and marketing, Denny Bryce would settle into writing fan fiction based on her favorite television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Interview: War Librarian Smuggles Books Away From Nazis
The Paris Library, Janet Skeslein Chares, Atria Books -Award-winning author of Moonlight in Odessa (Bloomsbury USA, 1 September 2009), Janet Skeslien Charles’s latest novel is set in World World II and tells the true tale of the courageous librarians who defied the Nazis in order to hand-deliver books to Jewish readers.
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Interview: Grieving Designer Finds New Life in Unlikely Relationship
The Very Nice Box, Laura Blackett & Eve Gleichman, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Ava was already devoted to her work designing boxes for a home goods company – but she had Andie. When Ava’s parents and Andie died in a car wreck that she barely survived, she closed down her world even more.
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