Editorial Content for An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir
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Ron Kaplan
When it comes right down to it, isn't everything an accident?
There's a school of philosophy that ponders the myriad outcomes that could have ensued if one had turned left instead of right at a street corner, picked the chicken over the fish, or opted for a morning class in economics rather than an afternoon session in medieval literature. Some don't result in happy endings, others do. Read More
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A long-time sports columnist for the New York Times interweaves stories from his life and the events he covered to explore the relationships between the games we play and the lives we lead.
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A long-time sports columnist for the New York Times interweaves stories from his life and the events he covered to explore the relationships between the games we play and the lives we lead.
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In this Deadspin/TMZ age, it is refreshing to find someone who cares deeply about getting the story straight and not skimping on the research. It's sad to think that Lipsyte might be part of a dying breed.
Editorial Content for The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes
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Joe Hartlaub
It's been some time since we last heard from Marcus Sakey, but THE TWO DEATHS OF DANIEL HAYES makes it more than worth the wait. I first heard Sakey discuss this book in the most general of terms during a signing appearance almost two years ago. He talked about the puzzling beginning, which is intriguing, to say the least. It stuck with me over these many months, and I wondered how he would ever write himself out of the corner into which he seemingly paints himself at the beginning of the book. The answer: amazingly well, indeed. Read More
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A man wakes up naked and cold, half-drowned on an abandoned beach. The only sign of life for miles is an empty BMW. Inside the car he finds clothes that fit perfectly, shoes for his tattered feet, a Rolex, and a bank envelope stuffed with cash and an auto registration in the name of Daniel Hayes. None of it is familiar. Is he Daniel Hayes, and if so, why doesn't he remember?
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A man wakes up naked and cold, half-drowned on an abandoned beach. The only sign of life for miles is an empty BMW. Inside the car he finds clothes that fit perfectly, shoes for his tattered feet, a Rolex, and a bank envelope stuffed with cash and an auto registration in the name of Daniel Hayes. None of it is familiar. Is he Daniel Hayes, and if so, why doesn't he remember?
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This book is a cat and mouse thriller, full of surprises that keep coming right up to the last page and will keep you up reading all night.
Editorial Content for Outrage
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Barbara Lipkien Gershenbaum
Robert K. Tanenbaum's OUTRAGE is not just an ordinary police procedural or a story about good vs. evil. It's a narrative that also embraces the consciences of the characters. A man sits in a cell wrongly accused and found guilty of a crime he did not commit. The District Attorney of New York, Roger "Butch" Karp, is thrown off his game when he realizes that the checks and balances he thought were working so well failed him. Read More
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District Attorney Butch Karp battles a failure of the system, a police detective desperate to solve a case for his own ends, and a homicidal maniac who will stop at nothing to protect the truth.
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District Attorney Butch Karp battles a failure of the system, a police detective desperate to solve a case for his own ends, and a homicidal maniac who will stop at nothing to protect the truth.
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Robert K. Tanenbaum is always on target with his characters, dialogue, plot and suspense, and he hits the ground running in OUTRAGE.
Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of several acclaimed books and short stories --- her next novel, THE GIRL IN THE BLUE BERET, will be published on June 28th. Bobbie Ann turned to her father-in-law, who served in WWII, as inspiration for this unforgettable story of love and courage.
Editorial content for Anthropology of an American Girl
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Norah Piehl
ANTHROPOLOGY OF AN AMERICAN GIRL is a perfect example of just how much the publishing landscape has changed in the past couple of decades. Originally self-published in 2003, it became a word-of-mouth sensation at the time, admired for its frank, honest, often painfully intimate portrait of a young woman's interior life. Even a few years earlier, a novel like this one would have languished for lack of a publishing contract. Instead, Hilary Thayer Hamann's debut earned her a (well-deserved) measure of fame and, eventually, a book deal. Read More
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A literary sensation, this extraordinarily candid novel about the experience of growing up female in America will strike a nerve in readers of all ages.
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A literary sensation, this extraordinarily candid novel about the experience of growing up female in America will strike a nerve in readers of all ages.
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This is what it's like to be a high-school-age girl.
To forsake the boyfriend you once adored.
To meet the love of your life, who just happens to be your teacher.
To discover for the first time the power of your body and mind.
This is what it's like to be a college-age woman.
To live through heartbreak.
To suffer the consequences of your choices.
To depend on others for survival but to have no one to trust but yourself.
This is ANTHROPOLOGY OF AN AMERICAN GIRL.
A literary sensation, this extraordinarily candid novel about the experience of growing up female in America will strike a nerve in readers of all ages.
Editorial Content for Maine
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Kathy Weissman
Maine isn't a pushover; the state has character and gumption. That's why I love it. J. Courtney Sullivan evidently does, too, for she's located her new novel in Cape Neddick, near Ogunquit, where the Kelleher family has owned a piece of land (won on a bet) since 1945. Here the 83-year-old matriarch, Alice, spends summers, irritably and sometimes competitively baby-sat by one branch or another of her fractious brood. Read More
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Three generations of women converge on the family beach house in this wickedly funny, emotionally resonant story of love and dysfunction from the author of the bestselling debut novel COMMENCEMENT.
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Three generations of women converge on the family beach house in this wickedly funny, emotionally resonant story of love and dysfunction from the author of the bestselling debut novel COMMENCEMENT.
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A Time Book of the Year
A Washington Post Book World Notable Book
For the Kellehers, Maine is a place where children run in packs, showers are taken outdoors, and old Irish songs are sung around a piano. As three generations of women arrive at the family's beach house, each brings her own hopes and fears. Maggie is thirty- two and pregnant, waiting for the perfect moment to tell her imperfect boyfriend the news; Ann Marie, a Kelleher by marriage, is channeling her domestic frustration into a dollhouse obsession and an ill-advised crush; Kathleen, the black sheep, never wanted to set foot in the cottage again; and Alice, the matriarch at the center of it all, would trade every floorboard for a chance to undo the events of one night, long ago.
Jerry Seinfeld
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.
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Jerry Seinfeld
June 14, 2011
The following are lists of books releasing the weeks of June 13th and June 20th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers.
June 14, 2011
The following are lists of books releasing the weeks of June 13th and June 20th that we think will be of interest to Teenreads.com readers.
