Trisha Ping
Content by Trisha Ping
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Even after 12 installments, readers can't get enough of Janet Evanovich's best-selling Stephanie Plum novels.
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Not many widows of a certain age living in a gossip-loving small town would have the gumption to befriend their husband's mistress and illegitimate nine-year-old son.
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Describe your book in one sentence.
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Describe your book in one sentence.Fortunately, I am an experienced Twitterer and can do this. I think. I hope.
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Describe your book in one sentence.
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Kim Cash Tate went from law partner to novelist when her first book, Heavenly Places, was published in 2008.
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Novelist Susan Elizabeth Phillips has been delivering hilarious stories of happy endings for more than 25 years.
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In keeping with the travel theme of our March issue, BookPage chatted with Fodor's publisher Tim Jarrell about the history of his company—which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this ye
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It could be a fairy tale: a young German princess from a small principality is swept from obscurity to marry the heir to the Russian throne.
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Lionel Shriver’s anticipated follow-up to The Post-Birthday World tackles a tricky subject: health care in the United States.
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Readers of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess didn’t have to worry about the fate of its optimistic heroine, Sara Crewe.
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One hundred years ago this month, L.M. Montgomery published Anne of Green Gables.
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The subtitle of Michael Cox's engrossing debut, The Meaning of Night is A Confession, and the book takes no time getting down to it: The narrator, Edward Glyver, has killed a man, and
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Lauren Groff's exuberant debut follows in the footsteps of notable first novels like Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything I
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Tired of kissing people who claim to be Irish? Not interested in wearing green or adopting a brogue for the holiday weekend?
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Books inspired by Jane Austen's novels are numerous—there are at least a dozen sequels to Pride and Prejudice alone, not to mention more loosely based adaptations like Bridget
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Readers who pick up Goldie Hawn's new memoir in search of a steamy Hollywood tell-all may be disappointed.
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What's it about?
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Guides for shaping up after the holidays For millions of Americans, the increasing obesity rate isn't just a news story it's a personal matter.
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Guides for shaping up after the holidays For millions of Americans, the increasing obesity rate isn't just a news story it's a personal matter.
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Guides for shaping up after the holidays For millions of Americans, the increasing obesity rate isn't just a news story it's a personal matter.
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Guides for shaping up after the holidays For millions of Americans, the increasing obesity rate isn't just a news story it's a personal matter.
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Paul Giverney is a commercial writer with literary aspirations and the talent to back them up, given the chance.
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Over the course of six novels, a growing number of readers have followed the adventures of Maisie Dobbs, a former nurse turned private investigator in 1930s England.
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Anyone who has ever loved a series feels equal parts anticipation and worry when cracking the cover of the latest installment.
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Don’t start The Lifeboat right before bedtime.
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The much-maligned wife of president Abraham Lincoln tells her story in California writer Janis Cooke Newman's masterful Mary.
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Women who've had it with the formulaic stories flooding the fiction market will appreciate this unique book, which puts a more literal spin on the tired term "chick-lit." New York City artist Slo
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Like many women, Geraldine Brooks was inspired by Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, which she first read as a girl in Australia.
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First-time novelist Sheridan Hay gets off to a promising start with The Secret of Lost Things, a coming-of-age story set in a New York City bookshop that bears more than a passing resemblan
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Orange crates sealed with bumper stickers float, but not for long. So John Pollack discovered when he built his first boat at age six.
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Walter Zacharius always dreamed of writing a book. But Zacharius, the chairman and CEO of Kensington Publishing Corp., wasn't content to write just any old novel.
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Nowadays, young writers with major book deals are no longer a novelty.
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When writing about Irène Némirovsky, it's tempting to focus on the tragic circumstances of the last few years of her life.
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On the other hand, The CollegeHumor Guide to College is the book a graduate might get from a friend who's already in college an ironic, inside look at college life today.
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Standard coming-of-age dilemmas—figuring out who your real friends are, realizing your parents are people, deciding who you are—come with a twist when you’re a world-famous pop star.
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The events of September 11, 2001, changed the world—or at least, most Americans' perception of it.
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Environmental scientist Bill McKibben has spent the last 20 years thinking about climate change.
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Philipp Meyer's second novel, The Son, is one of the m
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The heft of A.S. Byatt’s latest work, The Children’s Book, promises a detailed, sprawling story.
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Former Newsweek writer Laura Shapiro continues her exploration of America's relationship with food in Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America.
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The standard coming-of-age dilemmas—figuring out who your real friends are, having to see your parents as people, having to decide who you are—come with a twist when you're
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Katherine Neville thrilled audiences in 1988 with The Eight, an intense debut novel that drew comparisons to Umberto Eco and became a major bestseller.
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In her new memoir, Spent, fashion journalist Avis Cardella shares her struggle with compulsive shopping—and how she
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<B>Cruisin' together</B> If you prefer the ease and comfort (not to mention the all-you-can-eat buffet) that comes with traveling in your own floating hotel room, then Berlitz's <B&g
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Some authors write the same book over and over again. Sarah Hall is not one of those writers.
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A young woman has been murdered in 1909 New York City, and one traumatized girl holds the key to finding the killer in Jed Rubenfeld's highly anticipated literary mystery, The Interpretation o
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In her debut novel, The Stockholm Octavo, Karen Engelmann creates not only a convincing world and memorable characters, but a fate-changing card game. Mrs.
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<B>Fforde's genre-jumping sequel</B> In the alternate universe of Welsh author Jasper Fforde (1985 England), cloning pets is commonplace, time is flexible, literature is sacred, the Cri
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Whether she’s imagining the history of an ancient manuscript, as in People of the Book, or an English town determined to survive the plague in A Year of Wonders, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks is a master at bringing history’s little-known but fascinating stories to life.
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What do you think of when you hear the word "seduction"? Whatever it is, get ready to expand that definition after reading La Seduction, an insightful and timely exploration of French culture through its most enduring success strategy. New York Times Paris correspondant Elaine Sciolino has been living in France for nearly 10 years. She took time to answer a few of our questions about the way the concept of seduction informs just about every area of French life.
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A mentally ill mother and an absent father spell trouble for the 12-year-old heroine at the heart of Beth Hoffman’s sparkling debut, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt.
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In October 2008, Nina Sankovitch launched a year-long project: She would read one book a day, every day, for a year. The idea was to give some structure to her life after the tragic death of her older sister. In addition to reading the books, Sankovitch also committed herself to reviewing each of them on a website she created, ReadAllDay. As word of her task spread, her audience grew—and, once the project was completed, Sankovitch wrote a book of her own about her experience, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, an "affectionate and inspiring paean to the power of books and reading." We had to ask Sankovitch a few questions about this ambitious project.
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Growing up in small-town Australia, Gerard Freeman was raised on his mother's stories of her idyllic childhood on an English estate called Staplefield.
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Nicholas Sparks has been the undisputed master of the modern-day love story since the 1996 publication of his debut, The Notebook.
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It's a story almost too amazing to be true: An Olympic runner serving as an airman in World War II is marooned on a raft after a plane crash.
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After a long absence from the publishing scene, Texas author Robert James Waller brings readers High Plains Tango, the story of a California drifter who washes up in the small town of Salam
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Spring is just around the corner, and reading Kevin Henkes’ latest picture book is an excellent way to anticipate the change in seasons.
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Last year,
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Readers of the 2010 smash hit The Passage have waited more than two long years for the return of Peter, Alicia, Amy
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If the rising price of airline tickets has you spending your summer vacation on American shores instead of jetting off to the Cote d'Azur, Stephen Clarke's hilarious new book is the perfect antido
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Sarah and Nathan are just your average American couple: still in love after more than 10 years together, they have a toddler daughter and an infant son; Nathan is a well-regarded novelist poised fo
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Best-selling author Terry McMillan (Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back) fell asleep during her own high school commencement speech, so when she was asked to speak at her son's g
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CHRISTMAS WITH THE KENNEDYS
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There may be no American author more strongly identified with her creation than Louisa May Alcott is with Jo March.
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Not all questions can be put to rest with a Google search.
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If your goal is to make sure the graduate in your life eventually finds gainful employment, the book to give is The Intern Files: How to Get, Keep, and Make the Most of Your Internship.
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In novels like Kleopatra and Stealing Athena, Karen Essex has brought some of history’s most interesting women to life.
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You're an intelligent, confident, successful, beautiful woman, and something about that silly little advice book that was so popular back in 2005 just doesn't ring true.
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Though playwright Gordon Dahlquist's first novel is also set in Victorian London, the city he imagines contains a touch of magic.
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When Stephen King completed his Dark Tower series in 2004, fans rejoiced and worried. King had been saying for years that he was planning to retire after finishing the saga.
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With anticipation for the third film in the Twilight Saga franchise at a fever pitch, author Stephenie Meyer gives readers a look at an intriguing side character in The Short Second Life of
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When disgraced Elizabethan scholar Henry Cavendish becomes executor of his friend Alonzo Wax’s estate, he thinks his biggest problem will be paying off his impractical friend’s debts an
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Nelson DeMille hit a home run with readers in 1990, when he released the mob novel The Gold Coast.
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No discussion of chick lit would be complete without mentioning the long-awaited novel from the genre's biggest star Bridget Jones's Diary author Helen Fielding.
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Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world's most beloved authors—his No.
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Dynamic Texas preacher Joel Osteen proved to be as successful an author as he is a pastor: his congregation at Lakewood Church in Houston is 28,000 strong and one of the fastest-growing in America, a
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How many 70-year-olds can also claim the title of best-selling debut novelist?
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With Father's Day fast approaching, we've taken the opportunity to delve into several new books that examine the bond between fathers and children.
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<B>Remembering Dear Ol' Dad</B> With Father's Day fast approaching, we've taken the opportunity to delve into several new books that examine the bond between fathers and children.
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<B>Remembering Dear Ol' Dad</B> With Father's Day fast approaching, we've taken the opportunity to delve into several new books that examine the bond between fathers and children.
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<B>Remembering Dear Ol' Dad</B> With Father's Day fast approaching, we've taken the opportunity to delve into several new books that examine the bond between fathers and children.
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At the beginning of Beth Hoffman’s charming debut novel, young CeeCee Honeycutt has serious problems.
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The vampire craze sweeping literature is not unlike the virus that decimates the world in Justin Cronin’s The Passage.
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Under the Dome opens with a signature Stephen King moment: a woodchuck, foraging for food, hides from a passing human—and is chopped in half as an impenetrable dome appears a
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I'll admit it: when I first heard of an entire book devoted to a creature that is is, in America at least, often little more than the allergy-afflicted child's pet of choice, I was dubious.
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Charismatic and controversial, Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest has been the subject of many a narrative.
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Susan Gregg Gilmore hit the Southern fiction scene with a bang with her delicious debut, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen.
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Spring is in full swing, as the blossoming flowers and green leaves prove.
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Spring is in full swing, as the blossoming flowers and green leaves prove.
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Spring is in full swing, as the blossoming flowers and green leaves prove.
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Spring is in full swing, as the blossoming flowers and green leaves prove.
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Sweet and spicy gingersnaps make the world a better place. Or at least, they’re a starting point in Mara Rockliff’s second picture book, The Busiest Street in Town.
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It sounds like a familiar story: twin sisters, different as night and day, start relationships with the same man that end in disaster.
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Jacqueline Winspear's introspective sleuth/psychologist Maisie Dobbs works in 1930s London.
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Romances with books can be just as rocky as the human variety.
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Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine have spent their careers spreading the word: style isn't something you're born with, but something you can learn.
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After writing two witty novels about gay life in Washington, D.C.,
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Kate Atkinson’s Started Early, Took My Dog opens with an epigraph from the old rhyme “For want of a nail,” an adage that exemplifies the attention to the large co
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The buzz on Stephen King’s latest novel, 11/22/63, is that it’s about a man who goes back in time to save JFK.
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There are a lot of confused would-be writers out there—a fact that no one knows better than our own Author Enablers, Kathi Kamen Goldmark and Sam Barry.
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For an author who gives a lot of interviews, Charlaine Harris knows how to keep a secret. She's working on a new series, but can’t share the details (“people who talk don’t write”), she's cagey about where Sookie’s telepathic abilities came from, and she won’t say whether Sookie really wants to live her life with a vampire.
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She's shaken the boughs of her family tree (Cousins), won the Canadian Governor General Award for poetry (Celestial Navigation) and chronicled the brutality of the Civil War in the Miss
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Thriller writer Andrew Gross honed his writing skills collaborating with James Patterson on books like Jester.
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Go big or go home. He who dies with the most toys wins. There's no end to the figures of speech we've created to explain—or is it justify?—our growing belief that bigger=best.
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Just when you think you’ve read every possible take on World War II, along comes a story like The Postmistress
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