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Bill Cleans Out His First-Edition Closet from 2014-11-08T23:00:48
by Next spring marks thirty years of interviewing authors. I’ve done over 10,000 author interviews over that time, and I’ve collected a few signed books along the way. But now I find...
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Janine Turner“A Little Bit Vulnerable” from 2014-10-02T05:30:20
by She feels, she says, “a little bit vulnerable.” For the first time, actress Janine Turner opens up about her private life in a book she calls “A Little Bit Vulnerable.”...
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Todd Brewster“Lincoln’s Gamble” from 2014-09-08T19:19:20
by American history books often compress momentous events into capsules, summaries, one-line explanations. Such has often been the case with President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Procla...
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Lynne Cheney“James Madison: A Life Reconsidered” from 2014-06-17T16:00:49
by James Madison may not spring to mind the same way that, say, George Washington or Thomas Jefferson or even Alexander Hamilton do. But as a major new biography of our fourth president shows, w...
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Philip Kerr“Prayer” from 2014-05-16T13:00:04
by We know the power of prayer, to heal and comfort. But what if someone wanted to use that power to afflict — and kill? Philip Kerr‘s new psychological thriller “Prayer”...
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Marlo Thomas“It Ain’t Over . . Till It’s Over” from 2014-05-05T14:47:37
by During her extensive travels around the U.S., actress and author Marlo Thomas kept meeting women who were “stuck.” Stuck in a dead-end job. Stuck with a suddenly-empty nest and no...
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Brad Meltzer“I am Abraham Lincoln” from 2014-02-24T16:48:20
by Heroes. We all need them, we all love them — and the message of new books by a bestselling thriller writer is that each of us can be a hero. Brad Meltzer is already author of the books ...
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Lauren Bloom“Art of the Apology” from 2014-02-13T17:17:38
by Do you know how to apologize? It sounds so simple. Just say, “I’m sorry.” Right? Not necessarily. Sometimes a proper, sincere apology can be more complicated, more nuanced. ...
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Larry Kane“When They Were Boys” from 2014-02-07T17:11:29
by Perhaps no American knows the story of the Beatles in America better than veteran journalist Larry Kane. He’s the only American reporter to accompany the Fab Four on every stop of both ...
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Sue Monk Kidd“The Invention of Wings” from 2014-01-22T17:03:10
by A young woman of privilege and a young woman born into slavery are inextricably linked, as each tries to find the voice she feels she has been denied, in Sue Monk Kidd‘s new novel ̶...
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