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Q & A with Patricia Reilly Giff
Q: How did you come to set this story in the world of horse racing?
A: So many things inspired this novel. For years, my family and I lived in Elmont on Long Island, the town where Belmont Racetrack is located. I don’t mention the track by name in Wild Girl, because I wanted to leave myself a little wiggle room in terms of the details. When kids read books and find things that aren’t perfectly accurate, they point a finger and let me know! -
Author Profile: David Nasser: Escaping from Iran
Iranian-born Christian evangelist and author David Nassertells the story of his family’s escape from Iran during its 1979 revolution, when he was nine years old, in his fourth book, Jumping Through Fires: The Gripping Story of One Man’s Escape from Revolution to Redemption(Baker Books, Oct.). His first book was self-published and has sold more than 125,000 copies so far.
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Author Q&A: Anne Graham Lotz: Pursuing a Relationship with God
Anne Graham Lotz—daughter of Billy Graham and founder of AnGeL Ministries—talks about her 10th book, The Magnificent Obsession: Embracing the God-Filled Life, about Abraham, the patriarch of the great Western religions.
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Cooking the Books with Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel
Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel pictured their novel-slash-cookbook, The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food and Friendship, as a beautifully designed hardcover, color throughout, incorporating recipes and other illustrations with narrative text. Traditional publishers bucked at their vision, so the two Brooklynites decided to publish it themselves, and founded Polhemus Press.
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Uneasy in the Big Easy: PW talks with Ethan Brown
"Iraq War veterans and New Orleanians are the toughest of tough crowds."
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Road to Redemption: PW Talks with Michelle Huneven
"I also wanted to write a book about somebody who didn't feel like she was a good person. What if you don't know if you're owned by darkness or not?"
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Q & A with Elizabeth Bluemle
Formerly editorial director of a small press, creative director of a book packager and a school librarian, and currently a bookseller, author and blogger, Elizabeth Bluemle knows publishing from the inside out. Bookshelf managed to catch her at a rare quiet moment, to ask her about juggling her various book-related pursuits and about her third picture book.
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The Monday Interview: George Dawes Green
An interview with George Dawes Green, whose new novel, from Grand Central, is titled Ravens.
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Small Town, Big Stakes: PW talks with Nancy Mauro
In Mauro's debut, New World Monkeys, struggling young marrieds Duncan and Lily spend a summer in upstate New York contending with a dead wild boar and the human bones in their backyard.
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'Politics Is Predictable': PW Talks with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
In The Predictioneer's Game, Bueno de Mesquita illustrates, with a mathematical model that quantifies self-interest, how we can use game theory to predict—and influence—future events.
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Q & A with Michael Grant
Michael Grant has written over 150 books, most notably the Animorphs and Everworld series (which he co-authored with his wife, Katherine Applegate). The Gone books, his first solo novels, feature a distinctive hook: everyone over the age of 14 in the small California town of Perdido Beach has gone missing. To make matters worse for the children, there’s an impenetrable forcefield around the town and some of the kids are starting to develop strange powers.
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Wall Street Noir: PW talks with Norb Vonnegut
Norb Vonnegut's debut, Top Producers, details intricate Wall Street scams, but at heart it's about friendship and betrayal more than stocks and bonds.
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Men at War: PW talks with Evie Wyld
Repressed trauma trickles down through generations of Australian veterans, POWs and recluses in Evie Wyld's After the Fire, a Still Small Voice. Think Annie Proulx by way of North Queensland.
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Paradise Found: PW talks with Rebecca Solnit
What constitutes a disaster? It's a question of scale.
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Why I Write: Jimmy Santiago Baca
I'm a poet and I've written a dozen or so poetry books, a collection of essays, short stories and a memoir, but never a novel until now.
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Q & A with Sharon M. Draper
Sharon M. Draper has been busy of late, with her new Sassy series for tween girls from Scholastic, as well as the release of Just Another Hero (Atheneum), the final book in her Jericho trilogy. The former teacher now writes fulltime, and does school visits and appearances. PW caught up with the author to talk about her writing life.
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Volcano Stories: A PW Web-Exclusive Profile of Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Internationally bestselling Icelandic crime writer Yrsa Sigurdardottir on lame crime, being in Amazon.com's psycho database and shaking up the Scandinavian crime novel boys club.
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PW profiles Charles Todd: the mother and son mystery writing team
Masters of psychologically complex detective stories set in the aftermath of WWI, the mother-son team of Caroline and Charles Todd, who write under the name Charles Todd, have a new series featuring a female detective set in the same period.
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A Wake Up Call to the West: PW talks with Alex Dryden
Alex Dryden is the pseudonym of a British journalist who lived in Russia for more than 15 years. Red to Black is his first novel, a thriller that offers a sobering view of Putin's Russia.
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Q & A with Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Author/illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka is best known for his picture books; his latest books are a bit of a departure, and are his first foray into the comic/graphic novel format. We caught up with Krosoczka to find out about his latest projects, and whether or not he has a “thing” for any lunch ladies in particular.
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