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Think Like an Engineer: PW Talks with Guru Madhavan
In "Applied Minds: How Engineers Think," biomedical engineer Madhavan shows how engineering techniques are useful in everyday life.
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Dream Weaver: PW Talks with Hester Young
In Young’s debut, "The Gates of Evangeline," disturbing dreams plunge a single mother (whose four-year-old son has recently died) into the Louisiana bayou—and the unsolved disappearance of another boy decades earlier.
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Four Questions for Antoinette Portis
Antoinette Portis's 'Wait,' is an affectionate look at a mother who's in a hurry and a toddler who says "Wait!"
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Diplomacy Instead of War: PW Talks with Todd Moss
Moss’s second thriller starring U.S. diplomat Judd Ryker, "Minute Zero," focuses on unrest in Zimbabwe.
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Four Questions for...Jacqueline Kelly
It’s been six years since Jacqueline Kelly's first novel, 'The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate,' burst on the scene, but now to the relief of her many fans, Calpurnia reappears in a sequel.
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Four Questions for...Shaun Usher
The British author's 2014 blog-turned-book, 'Letters of Note,' has now evolved into a new book, this month's 'Lists of Note,' as well as a theatrical project that has drawn stars ranging from Benedict Cumberbatch to Gillian Anderson.
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If Nothing Ever Ends: PW Talks with Christopher Farnsworth
Sixteenth-century Spanish conquistadors discover the fountain of youth in Farnsworth’s thriller "The Eternal World."
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Four Questions for...Lori Nelson Spielman
Michigan author Lori Nelson Spielman, whose debut novel 'The Life List' (Bantam, 2013) was published in 30 countries and optioned by Fox 2000, has just finished a two-week European tour for her latest, 'Sweet Forgiveness' (Plume).
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Four Questions for...Anita Silvey
Anita Silvey’s latest book, Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall (National Geographic, June), offers an in-depth look at the life and work of the famed scientist and conservation advocate.
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Choosing the Better Path in the Land of the Rising Sun: PW Talks with Richard Goodfellow
Max Travers, an American teaching English in Japan, unearths some disturbing secrets about WWII in Goodfellow’s first novel, "Collector of Secrets."
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Q & A with Kate Beaton
This summer, 'Hark! A Vagrant' creator Kate Beaton dips her toe into children's publishing with a picture book, 'The Princess and the Pony.'
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PW Talks with Alexis Hall: Romance 2015
The author of "For Real" (Riptide) talks about his blazingly hot and emotionally authentic May-December male/male erotic BDSM romance.
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Ripple in Time: PW Talks with Guy Saville
Saville depicts a Nazi-dominated Africa in his second alternative-history thriller, "The Madagaskar Plan."
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Q & A with Robin Benway
In second grade, the title characters in Robin Benway's 'Emmy & Oliver' planned to be best friends forever. Then Oliver was kidnapped. Ten years later, he is returned.
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Four Questions for...Cassie Beasley
Debut author Cassie Beasley discusses her new novel, 'Circus Mirandus,' old favorites, and her favorite writing partner: her sister.
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Q & A with Katie McGarry
In 'Nowhere but Here,' Katie McGarry kicks off the Thunder Road series, which delves into the high-octane world of a motorcycle club.
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Four Questions for… Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton
Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton's first book, 'Tiny Pretty Things,' is the story of three ballerinas from diverse backgrounds at a competitive Manhattan ballet school.
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BEA 2015: Julie Checkoway: A Story Never Told
Julie Checkoway's "Three Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory" (Grand Central, Nov.) follows the life of Japanese-American grammar school teacher Soichi Sakamoto (1906–1997).
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A Particle or a Wave—or Both? PW Talks with Ted Kosmatka
Recreating a classic physics experiment leads to some highly unexpected consequences in Kosmatka’s thriller "The Flicker Men."
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General Ann Dunwoody: Business Books 2015



