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Fall 2012 Flying Starts: Sarah J. Maas
Debut author Sarah J. Maas's novel, Throne of Glass, is a lighthearted speculation about the "untold" story behind Cinderella – what if, instead of being the damsel in distress, Cinderella was secretly an assassin who went to the ball to kill the prince?
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts: Matt Luckhurst
As a high school graduate in western Canada, Matt Luckhurst knew what was expected of him.
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts: Rachel Hartman
The path to publication can be a long, slow one. Just ask Rachel Hartman. Her debut, the epic YA fantasy Seraphina, was released nine years after she started writing it, with a few bumps along the way.
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts: Stefan Bachmann
Very little about 19-year-old Stefan Bachmann says "typical teenager."
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Talking to Gabby Douglas
Gabrielle Douglas, who catapulted into history as the first African-American to win a gold medal in the women’s individual all-around gymnastics event at the London Olympics, might seem young, at 16, to be publishing an autobiography.
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Off The Beaten Track: PW Talks with William Least Heat-Moon
In his collection of travel essays Here, There, Elsewhere, William Least Heat-Moon strikes out for destinations unknown, continuing the odyssey he started in 1982 with Blue Highways.
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Of Being and Facebook: PW Talks with Michelle Orange
Film critic Michelle Orange trains her lens on social media, the human mind, and, of course, the movies, in her new collection, This Is Running for Your Life.
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Master of Paris: PW Talks with Simon Brett
Simon Brett intends to follow his 14th Fethering mystery, The Corpse on the Court, with his first mystery in 15 years to feature his first series character, actor/sleuth Charles Paris.
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The Age of a Mountain: PW Talks with Jamaica Kincaid
In See Now Then, Jamaica Kincaid’s first novel in 10 years, the author reflects on marriage, memory,
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Give Them Something to Talk About: PW Talks with Jonah Berger
In Contagious: Why Things Catch On, Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger examines the irresistible spread of ideas and products.
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In a Polish Kitchen: PW Talks with Anne Applebaum and Danielle Crittenden
In their first cookbook, From a Polish Country House Kitchen, friends and journalists Anne Applebaum and Danielle Crittenden give readers a taste of the Polish countryside.
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From Flappers to Pharaoh: PW Talks with Kerry Greenwood
Australian author Kerry Greenwood, best known for her Phyrne Fisher series set in the 1920s, moves to ancient Egypt for Out of the Black Land.
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Minding the Gaps: PW Talks with Margaret Wrinkle
In her debut novel, Wash, award-winning documentarian and visual artist Margaret Wrinkle uses a fictional lens to see into the lives of a 19th-century slave named Wash and Gen. James Richardson, the Tennessee empire builder who decides to breed him.
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Looking Behind the Curtain: PW Talks With Helaine Olen: Personal Finance 2012
When Helaine Olen was first hired to write about personal finance for the Los Angeles Times in 1996, she was certain she’d be called out as an imposter.
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PW Video Author Interviews
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Ghosts in the Attic: PW Talks with Wendy Webb
Wendy Webb believes in ghosts. By the time readers finish her new haunting novel, The Fate of Mercy Alban, they will too.
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Wild and Woolly: PW Talks with Marlene Zuk
In Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live, University of Minnesota biology professor Marlene Zuk takes on the pseudoscience
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Hello, Cruel World: PW Talks with Robert Jackson Bennett
In American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett’s fourth novel exploring the fantastical side of 20th-century America, aliens living in a small town struggle to perfect the appearance of human normalcy.
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Smith's Brothers: PW Talks with Lachlan Smith
Lachlan Smith’s thriller debut, Bear Is Broken, opens with Leo Maxwell, a new lawyer, witnessing the shooting of his older brother, an established lawyer.
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The New Normal: PW Talks with Herman Koch
Dutch author Herman Koch’s novel, The Dinner, is a psychological thriller about a five-course restaurant meal that goes terribly awry; the narrative constantly forces the reader to revise his or her understanding of what is actually happening.



