Eliza Borné
Content by Eliza Borné
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Brandon Mull is best known for his Fablehaven series, but young readers looking for adventure will get a big kick out of A World Without Heroes, the first book in
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What was the first thing that went through your head when you found out you had won the Newbery Medal?
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What was the first thing that went through your head when you found out you had won the Caldecott Medal?
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What's the best writing advice you've ever gotten?
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Best known for his books about Detective Inspector John Rebus, Ian Rankin has written a suspenseful winner with The Complaints, our March Mystery of the Month.
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Fans of Ellen Hopkins and Patricia McCormick will enjoy Exposed by Kimberly Marcus, a debut novel written in free verse.
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Where do you write?Always in the same place—bed. And always in my pyjamas.
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Shane W.
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Name one book you think everyone should read (besides your own!). Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez.
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Prolific children's and YA author Tim Wynne-Jones has created a page-turner with Blink & Ca
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Robin Sloan’s funny debut novel, Mr.
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Set in south Arkansas of 1956, Jenny Wingfield’s debut novel is about the family of Samuel Lake, a preacher who has lost his congregation.
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Here’s an old-fashioned love story that will make you fan yourself, swoon and maybe even break into a light sweat: how a city girl fell in love with a country boy and changed the course of he
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Although they are Jewish, 11-year-old Gustave's parents believe they are safe in Paris—until Nazis occupy the city in 1940.
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One of the winners of this year’s American Library Association top awards for children’s books was John Corey Whaley, a 28-year-old former schoolteacher from Louisiana who received the
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Best-selling romance author Rochelle Alers launches her Cavanaugh Island series with Sanctuary Cove, the sweet story of two adults who have a second chance at love.
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Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, John Grisham's first book for middle-grade readers—and book one in a planned series—will no doubt have wide appeal.
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John Grisham’s first novel for kids, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, provided young readers with a fast-paced mystery, an introduction to courtroom practices and a cast of memorable charac
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In his Newbery Medal-winning novel Holes, Louis Sachar showed readers that he can turn a weird concept—digging holes in the desert—into a complex page-turner.
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For those who don’t spend much time around high schoolers, “Duff” is short for “designated ugly fat friend”—what über-hot Wesley Rush calls Bianca Piper as compa
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As a storyteller, Isabel Allende is concerned with the most universal of themes: spirituality, motherhood, love.
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Sigrid, the main character of City of Women, has a secret: Rather than worry over her husband who is on the front line in World War II, she dreams of her Jewish lover—and eve
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Fans of Julia Glass have come to love her stories of family relationships and the complexity of life’s small moments, most notably in Three Junes, winner of the 2002 National Book Award.
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When Scholastic announced the return of the Baby-Sitters Club—with the publication of a brand-new prequel and the reissue of the four original books in the series—reader response was
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When she was a kid in North Baltimore County, Laura Amy Schlitz trained herself to sleep in a position that was similar to that of Mary Martin on the cover of the Peter Pan phonorecord: “one
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Adriana Trigiani’s The Shoemaker’s Wife is a gorgeous
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Read just a chapter of Sandra Brown’s Lethal and you’ll figure out in a hurry why the Texas-born author has written so many New York Times bestsellers (60, in fact). She sets the stakes high and early—and you can’t help but keep reading.
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When third grader Griffin Silk was born, his dad called him “the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, the period at the end of the Silk family, and the icing on the cake.” He was the
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On a blustery Sunday during Nashville’s Southern Festival of Books, local thriller author J.T. Ellison sits down to talk about Dr. Samantha Owens, the heroine in her new series about a medical examiner with a painful past.
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At one point or another, all children will have to say goodbye to their mothers for the first time—whether for hours (nursery school) or days (a business trip for mom).
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Tell the Wolves I’m Home is a coming-of-age story that may be one of the best books of the year. In it, 14-year-old June grieves after her Uncle Finn dies of AIDS.
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Americans follow a familiar script when a powerful man falls from grace.
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The narrator of Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English has been compared to those of Emma Donoghue’s Room and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog
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Speaking with Gary Paulsen is like reading Gary Paulsen. The acclaimed young adult novelist is a storyteller, all the time.
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Here’s a secret about nerds: Most nerds like being nerds . . . because being a nerd is fun—as long as you’re hanging out with equally smarty-pants friends.
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What's it about?
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Mary Bayliss Pettigrew and her older brother Leo are “cut from the same cloth—six of one and half a dozen of the other.” They are growing up during the Great Depression in rural A
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Stories enrich us in different ways. They entertain us and take us to faraway lands. They give insight into the lives of others, and aid us in our own introspection.
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Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo and #1 New York Times best-selling author Alison McGhee will make kids smile, giggle and demand pancakes with Bink & Gollie, the story of two best
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There comes a point in Anita Shreve’s latest novel, A Change in Altitude, when we start to wonder when the plagues are coming—the succession of unfortunate events th
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The king of the blockbuster courtroom thriller has succeeded at stepping into a new genre—short fiction—and created seven rich and enticing narratives.
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The best of Southern fiction depicts both the charms and the underbelly of regional communities, and Jenny Wingfield’s The Homecoming of Samuel Lake fits nicely within this t
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It’s often said that our country is a melting pot, and we all came from somewhere else. In his U.S. debut, Alex George, an Englishman practicing law in Missouri, portrays this quintessentially American experience.
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It is hard to disagree with the weight of this statement from New York Times op-ed writer Gail Collins: “The conviction that women’s place was in the home, that they were weake
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Set in Lausanne, Switzerland, Jon Steele's debut novel is a haunting and suspenseful thriller about an American call girl, a British private eye and Marc Rochat, the bell ringer at the city'
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Megan McDonald’s Judy Moody series has sold millions of copies, captivating early readers with the oddball adventures of a feisty third-grader.
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Overwhelmed by her diplomatic experience in Afghanistan and wanting to share her story, Patricia McArdle turned to fiction instead of memoir to protect her contacts.
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In the August issue of BookPage, reviewer Abby Plessers describes In Malice, Quite Close—Brandi Lynn Ryder’s debut novel—as being “at once a murder mystery,
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Jackson Pearce made her debut with As You Wish, a YA novel about a girl who accidentally summons a genie—and then falls in love with him.
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Self-published in 2003, Hilary Thayer Hamann’s re-released Anthropology of an American Girl is a coming-of-age story rich with visual descriptions and commentary on life in the 1980s.
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Readers who loved A Reliable Wife, the bestseller that titillated book clubs across the country, might be surprised to learn that Robert Goolrick’s warm second novel has a lush Southern setting—and is based entirely on a true story.
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Ann Packer found a devoted audience with her first two novels, The Dive from Clausen’s Pier and Songs Without Words.
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Picture this: Colorful cottages nestled on pristine white sand. Palm trees and bougainvillea. Bluffs rise above the beach, and at 5 o'clock every day, someone blows in a conch shell to mark the coming of happy hour. Welcome to Crescent Cove, California.
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Meg Wolitzer is best known for her clever novels for adults—most recently, The Uncoupling
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In an early scene from Beatrice and Virgil, Yann Martel’s follow-up to mega-hit Life of Pi, a novelist, Henry, is stumped by a simple question: “What’s your book abo
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Although much of Chang-rae Lee’s fourth novel takes place during the Korean War and after the armistice in 1953, the author insists that The Surrendered is not a war story.
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Rebecca Stead, the Newbery-winning author of When You Reach Me, has written another heartfelt and funny novel set in New York City. In Liar & Spy, an awkward seventh grader, Georges, moves to a new apartment building and is recruited to join the Spy Club, run by a mysterious boy named Safer.
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What would it be like to assume another person’s pain?
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When Alice Tatnall Ziplinsky takes a job at Zip’s Candies, she sets in motion the events that will dominate the rest of her life: her leadership in a dysfunctional family business; her defens
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There’s nothing more to romance novels than a mullet-sporting hero, a giddy heroine and a happily-after-ever—right?
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The first book in The Books of Elsewhere series has a tall order to fill: publicity materials compare author Jacqueline West to Roald Dahl and Neil Gaiman.
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Kathleen Krull has written about many prominent figures, from Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president; to Cesar Chávez; to Houdini.
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Chevy Stevens has received a bigger reception for her first novel than many authors will ever see: fast-paced thriller Still Missing has a first print run of 150,000 copies, and at
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Reading The Scarpetta Factor, Patricia Cornwell’s 17th novel about medical examiner Kay Scarpetta and her gang of detectives and forensic criminolo
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The economy has tanked, unemployment’s up and we’ve all got better things to do than read about the woes and ruminations of prep school-educated rich folks, right?
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Luke May, the protagonist of Safe from the Neighbors,provides readers with a strange dilemma: as a character, he is hardly worthy of the masterful language that swirls around him.
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By all appearances, Thea Atwell lives a charmed life.
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a sly first novel about a squad of soldiers who spend a day with the Dallas Cowboys.
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Teen author Ally Carter, best known for the best-selling Gallagher Girls series, has always loved movies like To Catch a Thief, The Thomas Crown Affair and Ocean’s 11—<
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The story of how Jessica Verday came to write The Hollow, the first in her paranormal teen trilogy—and her publishing debut—sounds like a scene from the novel in itself.
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In her previous best-selling novels, The Dive from Clausen’s Pier and Songs Without Words, Ann Packer proved her agility at inhabiting people who live through unspeakable events: What happens when a restless young woman’s fiancé becomes a quadriplegic on a fun day at the lake? What happens when a model mom’s kids are her life, and then her daughter attempts suicide?
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At a time when teen fiction is dominated by vampires, werewolves and time travel, first-time author Ruta Sepetys has written a novel whose horrors are all too real.
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In Wendy Wan-Long Shang’s debut, The Great Wall of Lucy Wu, sixth-grader Lucy has a few problems.
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In Jonathan Dee’s sixth novel, A Thousand Pardons, a stay-at-home mother goes back to work after her husband’s dramatic breakdown.
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Memoirist and chaplain Kate Braestrup is the author of Here If You Need Me, a beloved memoir about losing a loved one an
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In Our Choice, Al Gore concedes that solving the earth’s climate crisis is not going to be easy, but it can be done.
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A series protagonist can almost feel like family to a diehard suspense fan, so it’s exciting when an author introduces a new character.
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Author Samuel Park reflects on unrequited love and publishing his first novel—a story he describes as Pride and Prejudice in South Korea.
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When beginning The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults, readers would be best advised to drop their expectations and instead pick up a pen and paper.
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Fans of Julia Glass’ beloved Three Junes will feel a sense of familiarity when they dive into The Widower’s Tale
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A veteran author of historical and paranormal romance novels, Sylvia Day woke up to find her latest book was a New York Times bestseller—before it came out in print.
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Stanley Fish just might be America’s most famous professor.
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Have you already torn through Fifty Shades of Grey and Bared to You?
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One of the most buzzed-about books of the summer, Before I Go to Sleep is a psychological thriller about murder, memory, trust and love. What would you do if you lost your memory?
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Many people are familiar with the 1957 Central High Crisis—when nine African-American students integrated the Little Rock public high school in the face of segregationist threats and protests
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Sandra Boynton may be the only New York Times best-selling writer with a Grammy nomination and more than 4,000 greeting cards under her belt.
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Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man was published in 1952 to great acclaim, and went on to win the National Book Award in 1953.
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The website of The Lost Symbol offers this teaser: “9.15.09: All Will Be Revealed.” Until that date, we can only rely on the publisher to keep us informed with hints about Dan Br
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Owen Laukkanen’s debut novel, The Professionals, has a clever concept and a breakneck pace.
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Bran Hambric has a crummy home life.
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When asked about their favorite element of The Mysterious Benedict Society novels, fans often cite the same thing: When it comes to Trenton Lee Stewart’s whirlwind adventure no
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Meg Wolitzer has written a string of smart, critically acclaimed novels for adults in the last decade.
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