Salman Rushdie’s new novel, The Enchantress of Florence, has been hailed by critics as a novel of glamour and power. It’s a lush Renaissance imagining of that dreamlike city so beloved by novelists, but it’s also a story about East and West.
The many-tiered narrative spins around the world, following a roguish Florentine traveler to the [...]
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Jun
“I’ve always been intrigued by the comforting nature of food,” says Sarah Addison Allen, the Asheville, N.C., author of the 2007 best-seller Garden Spells, her debut.
The Sugar Queen (Bantam, $22), her new novel, features various characters deeply involved in food rituals, none more so than Josey Cirrini, a lovelorn 27-year-old who fills her need with [...]
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May
A dramatic increase in people being admitted to hospital with severe reactions to party pills has experts calling for urgent action.
Four to five patients are being admitted to Wellington Hospital on a typical Saturday night after taking the new- generation pills, emergency doctor Paul Quigley says.
Patients were scared, jittery and anxious. “We’re getting semi-hysterical type [...]
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May
In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans–a banker originally from the Netherlands–finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London.
Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the [...]
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May
Author Jane Cleland and author Jeff Stone will sign copies of their new books this weekend at the Mystery Company in Carmel.
On Saturday, at 2 p.m.; Jane K. Cleland visits to talk about and sign copies of her novels. Her series features antiques appraiser Josie Prescott; her new novel, is Antiques to Die For, fourth [...]
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May
Elderly Womans Life Turns To Chaos After Robbery In Exciting New Novel
Posted by admin Published in Novel SummaryMary Lou Friedman, a spunky 86-year-old with an ailing husband, is being threatened by hoodlums in her Cincinnati neighborhood, forcing her to fight for her family and home in Dorothy Weil’s latest novel, “A Good Woman” (ISBN 9781891386855, Plainview Press, 2008). Two thugs break into her home to steal her television and continually threaten her, [...]
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Mar
Lisa Jackson had no great plans to be a writer. She was a Molalla kid who went to Oregon State for a couple of years as an English major before dropping out, working in a bank, and then getting married and having a couple of kids.
She was working as a baby sitter when her sister, [...]
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Mar
The thing about being on holiday on the West Coast of Scotland is that if you get down to the newsagent’s too late – say after a second breakfast at noon – the national newspapers are sold out! The joy! All that remains is the Argyllshire Advertiser, known locally as “The Squeak†with its rather [...]
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Mar
In 1832, four children from Horning’s Mills ventured into the nearby Melancthon swamps in search of a lost cow. They were never seen again, and rumours spread that they had been kidnapped by Indians.
The resultant recriminations and gossip intrigued modernday writer Lorina Stephens, whose new novel, Shadow Song, revolves around the incident.
“Earlier in the same [...]
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Mar
Best-selling author Laurie R. King will be at Mesquite Library this weekend to promote her latest novel. Touchstone, set in England during the General Strike of 1926, allowed King to explore terrorism in a historical setting.
King, who last visited the Valley in 2006, anticipates that fans of the Kate Martinelli series, or the historical mysteries [...]
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