David Almond
David Almond is the winner of the 2001 Michael L. Printz Award for Kit's Wilderness, which has also been named best book of the year by School Library Journal, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly. His first book for young readers, Skellig, is a ... [... more]
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David M. Friedman
David M. Friedman has written for Esquire, GQ, and Rolling Stone, and was a reporter for New York Newsday and the Philadelphia Daily News. His first book, A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis, was published in more than a dozen ... [... more]
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Alessandro Boffa
Alessandro Boffa was born in Moscow. He completed his studies in biology in Rome, and now divides his time between Italy and Thailand. This is his first book. In this wickedly hilarious collection of fables, Alessandro Boffa introduces us to ... [... more]
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John Banville
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His first book, In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the ... [... more]
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Fight the Power
Like the hard-hitting sounds of a Public Enemy jam, the words of the band's lead singer, Chuck D, excite the mind and senses. In his first book, Chuck D pours out commentary that takes on Hollywood, race, the music industry, the murders of Tupac ... [... more]
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Mary Ford-Grabowsky
Renewing the Ancient Christian Practice of the Via Lucis as a Spiritual Tool for Today This is the first book to introduce the fourteen joyful and highly symbolic events that make up the Via Lucis, the Christian Way of Light, an ancient spiritual ... [... more]
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W. Terrence Gordon
Linguistics For Beginners is the first book to ever make the arcane labors of linguistics accessible to general readers. It begins with a lucid definition of language and proceeds to examine how it becomes the subject matter of linguistics. Key ... [... more]
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Lynne Ewing
Lynne Ewing writes extensively for magazines, television, and film. Her first book for young adults, The music pulses, the lights flash, and Kata and Ana dance. For a moment the raucous crowd is tamed, and together the two girls soar above their ... [... more]
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Maureen Freely
Orhan Pamuk's first book since winning the Nobel Prize, Other Colors is a dazzling collection of essays on his life, his city, his work, and the example of other writers. Over the last three decades, Pamuk has written, in addition to his seven ... [... more]
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Daniel Laurence
Daniel Laurence dreams of adventure on the high seas from his home in Minnesota. Mr. Laurence is a parent, an elementary educator, and a children's reading specialist. This is his first book. [... more]
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Annabel Lyon
's first book of fiction, Oxygen (2000), a collection of short stories, was published to wide acclaim. Her short fiction has appeared in Toronto Life, The Journey Prize Anthology, and Write Turns: New Directions in Canadian Fiction. She is also a ... [... more]
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Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S.
ANN LOUISE GITTLEMAN, M.S., C.N.S., is one of the foremost nutritionists in America. Prior to writing her first book, the national best-seller Beyond Pritikin, she was Nutritional Director at the Pritikin Longevity Center in Santa Monica, ... [... more]
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