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Rhonda Stapleton

Stupid Cupid book launch--contest!!

by Rhonda Stapleton - November 6, 2009
Let the countdown begin! My novel STUPID CUPID releases on December 22nd, just in time for Christmas! So, I'm kicking off my book launch contest. Here's what's up for grabs:--a copy of Stupid Cupid,...
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Sandra Harper

Countdown to Christmas - 51 Days

by Sandra Harper - November 5, 2009
Am sticking to plan to pace myself over the holidays - nothing too much too soon. Didn't entertain Thanksgiving until all Halloween candy consumed. Battled temptation - Macy's had a gorgeous display of...
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Sarah Beth Durst

The UK and Me

by Sarah Beth Durst - November 4, 2009
In ICE, Cassie journeys over the sea ice, across the tundra, and through the boreal forest. And today she has crossed the Atlantic Ocean! Today, ICE is coming out in the UK! I have very fond...
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Jeri Smith-Ready

SHADE bonus scene and 1st ARC giveaway!

by Jeri Smith-Ready - November 3, 2009
Read a bonus "prequel" scene from SHADE and enter the first drawing for an Advance Review Copy! Drawing will take place on Friday, November 6, 11:59pm. Details at my blog. Other YA authors' signed...
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Alex Lemon

Check Out

by Alex Lemon - November 3, 2009
Jung's Red Book show at The Rubin Museum of Art
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Loren Rhoads

Loren Rhoads

Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
A. Morbid curiosity changed my life.
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Jackie Collins

Jackie Collins

Q. Which living person do you most admire?
A. Any person who stands by their principles!
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Mick Foley

Mick Foley

Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
A. Just where I am
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What's old is new again
SC Magazine US, November 7, 2009
About Cliff Stoll
...agent, chief of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations computer crime unit, answered a phone call from Cliff Stoll. Stoll, an astronomer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in...
Deadly Summit
New York Times, November 7, 2009
About David Roberts
...reveals a good deal about the rarefied noble-gonzo world of high-altitude mountaineering. Viesturs, who wrote the book with David Roberts, claims that the mountain has a lot to teach us about risk,...
Boys at War
New York Times, November 7, 2009
About Maryum "Maymay" Ali
...Its hard to imagine how a doughboy from World War I might react to an air-conditioned trailer, dinner catered by KBR or a suicide car bomb. Technology, culture and information have changed warfare...
Deadly Summit
New York Times, November 7, 2009
About Scott Fischer
...1992 expedition on K2, having already survived a massive avalanche by executing a split-second self-arrest while he and Scott Fischer (who later died on Everest) were hurling toward an 8,000-foot...
When Bulldozers Roamed the Earth
New York Times, November 7, 2009
About Robert Burleigh
...of town, where the exclamation points fall like snow and the horns sing like church bells. Written by Robert Burleigh and illustrated by Beppe Giacobbe, the story follows a boy through a typical day...
A Chat About 'The Good Soldiers'
New York Times, November 7, 2009
About Doug Stanton
...of the best about the Iraq war. “Finkel has made art out of a defining moment in history,” Doug Stanton wrote in The New York Times Sunday Book Review. “You will be able to take this book down...
A Chat About 'The Good Soldiers'
New York Times, November 7, 2009
About David Finkel
...David Finkel, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The Washington Post, spent eight months with a battalion of American soldiers on the outskirts of Baghdad, 800 men and women from Fort...
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U.S. Braces For Angry Robot Invasion [Books]
io9, November 6, 2009
About Dan Abnett
...the full schedule: May Moxyland by Lauren Beukes Slights by Kaaron Warren Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero by Dan Abnett White Tiger (Dark Heavens #1 ) by Kylie Chan Winter Song by Colin Harvey Kell's...
Shoptimism Book Review
Blog Fully, November 6, 2009
About Lee Eisenberg
...American Consumer will keep on buying no matter what ISBN 978-0-7432-9625-0 US $26.00/ $34.00 CAN Author: Lee Eisenberg (Author of the New York Times Bestseller The Number ) Category: Social Science...
What type of books would you like to read more of in 2010?
J. Kaye's Book Blog, November 6, 2009
About Sandra Brown
...feel there are three levels of thrillers. You have the fluffy or soft thrillers, which James Patterson and Sandra Brown should be placed in. The soft thrillers leave you with that touchy-feel-good...
Kid's Go
pascal campion, November 6, 2009
About They Might Be Giants
...this year, I did a children book and an animation based on a song by a band called They Might Be Giants. The books is now out in all good bookstores, and, for those of you who are in the bay area,...
Al Gore’s New Book: A Focus on Solutions
The Intersection, November 6, 2009
About Al Gore
...I’m quoted in USA Today this morning talking about Gore’s solutions book– Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis , currently at # 21 on Amazon. As I note, it is very good that Gore is...
Quality Overviews Of A Few Films
Receives High Resolution Satellite Digital TV Prog, November 6, 2009
About Jerry Orbach
...Ava Gardner, Chris Sarandon, Burgess Meredith, Sylvia Miles, Jose Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy, John Carradine, Christopher Walken, Eli Wallach, Jerry Orbach, Jeff Goldblum, Beverly D' Angelo, Martin...
Books Read in 2009
badgerbooks, November 5, 2009
About Shreve Stockton
... Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure by the editors of SMITH Magazine The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak by Writers Famous and Obscure by the...

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