Cat D. Acree
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Back in March, BookPage chatted with internationally best-selling author Ian Rankin about The Complaints, our
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In a month like February, when there are so many new romances to highlight (from our Valentine's Day
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Our August 2011 Romance of the Month seriously smolders. It's a double tap of sex and danger, and our romance columnist loved it: "Breathtaking suspense and pulse-pounding passion make this a wow of a read."
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Author of more than 15 books, Colleen Gleason chatted with us to introduce the next installment of her Regency Draculia series, The Vampire Narcise.
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Breaking Point, the sequel to Dana Haynes' Crashers, is a graphic and violent adrenalin
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It's so hard to be a good guy when Russians ask you to spy for them in postwar Berlin, especially when you owe those Russians big time—but David Downing's character John Russell does
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Håkan Nesser's newest thriller, The Inspector and Silence, is "expertly crafted" and an "absolute must." Fourteen years after its original publication...
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Our November 2011 Romance column has smoldering cowboys and happy-ending romance, but for readers looking for some serious spice, th
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If you thought Scandinavian thrillers couldn't get any better, think again.
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Karen Robards, author of Justice (as well as 39 other books and a novella . . . and counting!), gives us a sneak-peek into her writing world.
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The Hypnotist, the debut thriller from author Lars Kepler, is proof that there is plenty of room for even more great Swedish crime writers.
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The latest novel from Laura Griffin's Tracers series has all the chemistry and forensic detail to make it an easy choice for our Top Rom
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Louise Penny's newest thriller A Trick of the Light is our top Whodunit pick for September.
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BookPage's March 2012 Mystery of the Month is Michael Robotham's newest nail-biter, Bleed for Me.
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Peter Spiegelman's fourth novel, Thick as Thieves, is one hell of a heist thriller and one of our Who
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The October 2011 Romance of the Month tells the story of a love that transcends space and time.
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There's a special place in romance columnist Christie Ridgway's heart for the love stories of Navy SEALs, so when one is chosen as Romance of the Month, it's the cr
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Writing 101 typically dictates, "Write what you know." This was never so true as for Taylor Stevens, whose second Vanessa Michael Munroe novel, The Innocent, is featured
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The Pleasure of Your Kiss, the newest historical romance from Teresa Medeiros and our January 2012 Romance of the Month, is
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Whodunit columnist Bruce Tierney reads more than his share of creepy books, so when he says a novel is sure to be "one of the most disturbing books of the year," he means it.
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German novelist Zoran Drvenkar's thriller Sorry just might be the "Mystery of the Year," according to our
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The creepiest and oldest of legends have a way of prickling the spine and turning dark nights into the haunted unknown.
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It’s Pride and Prejudice meets The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
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It all begins with the impossible—a white woman and an African-American man are in love in 1968.
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It is no surprise that David Petersen (creator of the Eisner Award-winning comic book series Mouse Guard) attributes his inspiration to cartoons, comics and tree-climbing.
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Get ready for a pirate adventure unlike any other, with fierce pirate queens, mystical swords and a surprisingly hefty dose of humanitarian feeling.
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Imagine a place so wild and fantastical that even the characters who inhabit this strange world can lose themselves in the magic around them.
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Deep in the Louisiana bayou, something creeps . . . and it lies just beneath Saria Boudreaux’s skin. She knows the ins and outs of the swamp, and not even a gator could ever scare her.
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Winter doldrums are wreaking havoc on the zoo animals of Springfield, turning once-chipper critters into grumps. “Owls did not give a hoot. / Pandas quit being cute.
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For more than 20 years, Jean M. Auel has enthralled readers with her prehistoric novels in the Earth’s Children series, starting with The Clan of the Cave Bear, where Auel first introduced the enigmatic outsider Ayla. The series has followed Ayla through several Ice Age European cultures, and her strange accent, animal companions and foreign knowledge have always placed . . .
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Harlan Coben’s young adult debut might be a new direction for the internationally best-selling author, but Shelter treads familiar and much-loved terrain.
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All the magic of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the Caldecott Medal-winning story of the little boy who lives in the walls of a Paris train station, comes alive in The Hugo Movie Companion. Brian Selznick takes readers behind the scenes of Hugo . . .
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Many know the story of Cleopatra, but few know of her daughter, Cleopatra Selene, whose wholly dark life is captured in Vicky Alvear Shecter’s Cleopatra’s Moon.
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The latest novel from PEN/Faulkner nominee Lorraine López revolves around a lost young woman who hopes to find peace and purpose by opening her Southern California home to wayward souls. We asked her a few questions about her new work, Latin-American literature and more.
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Travis Roberts is a quiet, angry 13-year-old who can’t read. He uses his fists more than his mouth and is always looking to punch someone, including his grandpa.
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In “Song of Myself” from Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman writes, “Do I contradict myself?
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Seen through Carl Hiaasen’s eyes, Florida is far from paradise. Instead, it is pockmarked with fat-cat businessmen, bumbling tourists, corrupt politicians and sunburned rednecks . . .
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Haijin is a Japanese word that literally means “cripple,” but it colloquially refers to gamers who spend so much time playing that their alternate realities take precedence ove
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Talking to YA author Paul Volponi is exactly like you would expect: He’s a perpetual teacher, endlessly encouraging, but the edge in his New York accent suggests he’s ready to throw down on the court at any moment.
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Delilah Hannaford’s life is a complete mess.
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No one does sex, glam and drama like Jackie Collins.
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Sheep are supposed to be easy to herd, but not for Farmer McFitt, whose slumbers have allowed 10 mischievous sheep to escape and scatter all across town.
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Elizabeth Taylor may be best remembered for her physical appearance—her curves, her eyes, her weight gain in later life—but M.G.
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What happens when one of contemporary crime fiction's most celebrated authors takes on one of the most beloved classics of all time?
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Patricia Schultz’s 1,000 Places to See Before You Die is the world’s best-selling travel book, providing advice on how to explore every corner of the globe.
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Rex Zero has faced the end of the world before, but never like this. His family is moving (again), which only makes living during the Cold War all the more difficult.
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PEN/Faulkner Award finalist Lorraine López, author of the critically acclaimed The Gifted Gabaldón Sisters, has a talent for crafting characters so fleshed out that they could be your sist
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The newest addition to John le Carré’s extensive list of novels proves that this master of the espionage genre is still at the height of his authorial powers.
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Amy was supposed to spend 300 years as a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed.
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There’s a killer stalking the streets of suburban Tallahassee. She’s exacting her revenge for a 50-year-old injustice with cool, calculated steps—well, more like a shuffle.
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Our cars can parallel park themselves. Our vacuums can zoom independently around the carpet.
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Seven junkyard hamsters have outgrown their little hole and must face the quest of a lifetime in the adorable new picture book A Place to Call Home.
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On September 11, 2001, many people “knew someone”: someone who was in the Towers, someone who disappeared that morning. Ingrid was a someone—or was she?
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In England in 1862, there was little cure for the racking, bloody crawl of tuberculosis.
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Jonathan stands at the edge of a bridge, wobbling, mere seconds from toppling to his death.
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The first two installments of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s wildly popular Beautiful Creatures series introduced a group of extraordinary teenagers in small-town Gatlin, South Carolina.
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The little bear family from Karel Hayes’ charming picture book The Winter Visitors returns, but this time the lakeside cabin they visit isn’t a deserted retreat.
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The world feels completely free when one little girl climbs aboard a swing and suddenly finds herself flying in a world of colors, as though the different hues were a bright galaxy from her imagina
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Now that she's an author herself, former book publicist Elizabeth Eulberg has had some trouble getting used to the spotlight, despite the fact that she's comfortable singing karaoke—and she hopes Pat Benatar will invite her on stage someday to sing “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.”
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Every 16-year-old girl gets one—the XVI tattoo. It’s for protection, it’s a symbol of female status, or it’s a curse, depending on who you ask.
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Kathleen Kent has a unique talent for early American storytelling, as proven by the smash success of her 2008 debut novel, The Heretic’s Daughter. Kent is back with a prequel to her
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Aravind Adiga emerged as a powerful new voice in literature with his debut The White Tiger, a tale of
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It might seem impossible that one man could bring together an entire community, but Joe Louis, the “Brown Bomber” of pounding punches and focused fighting, did just that.
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It all began in 2004—a writer in Brooklyn created a blog to fill with her design ideas, never expecting it to become an online sensation.
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It’s been said that there’s only a certain amount of luck in the world, and some people have more of it than others.
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Esmeralda Santiago captured readers’ hearts in 1994 with her memoir, When I Was Puerto Rican, and was heralded for her proud account of her Nuyorican upbringing and her deep connecti
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Pain makes us human, and the acceptance of this harsh reality makes us a family—that is the idea behind How to Save a Life. Author Sara Zarr captures real, unsentimental emotions as two teen girls from opposite worlds are thrust together at the cusp of womanhood.
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Josh Bazell's first novel, Beat the Reaper, introduced readers to Pietro Brnwa, a former mob hitman who's doing his best to turn his life around in a New York hospital—but finds it difficult with his patients trying to kill him.
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What kid wouldn’t love to whack some zombies? Slaughter some bumbling, disintegrating bodies with gnashing teeth? Kill them before they kill you?
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