Named in honor of mystery fiction reviewer and Deadly Pleasures contributor Barry Gardner, the winners of the Barry Awards are selected each year by the magazine’s subscribers and online visitors.
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The Macavity Award is named for the "mystery cat" of T.S. Eliot's OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS. Each year the members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries in four categories.
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October 13, 2010
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Today's guest blogger is Bernhard Schlink, best known for his book THE READER. He has a new book out that may prove to be just as impactful as THE READER and promises to stir up some excellent conversation for your book club. It's called THE WEEKEND and deals with terrorism from a different point of view - that of the terrorist and his friends and family as they gather upon his release from prison. In today
October 13, 2010
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Check out the first two videos of Teenreads.com's five-part Mega-Size, Supertastic, Awesome Interview with Lauren Kate. The first three interviews are all about the writing of FALLEN and TORMENT, and writing in general, while the last two are about the books, the characters, and other interesting odds and ends (like what the series might bring in the future)...
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GAH, everytime I see these covers I get the shivers. Sooo good, amiright?
October 13, 2010
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Andy Mulligan, author of TRASH, tells Teenreads.com 10 Random Things, like how not to cook fish simply, and what made him cry recently.
October 12, 2010
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I've been to a fair number of author events in my day from luncheons to bookstore readings to schmancy book launch cocktail parties and the more I think about it the more I realize I have rarely been to one of these events where there weren't other authors in attendance showing their support.
October 12, 2010
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Enjoy the re-telling of beloved classics with a modern twist of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre in Linder’s JANE, Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen in Delsol’s STORK and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Zindel’s A GIRL, A GHOST, AND
October 2010
Nicholas Evans has been a favorite author of mine for years. He writes brilliantly about human emotion and the human spirit. While he is best known for THE HORSE WHISPERER, I still am haunted by the story in THE DIVIDE, which brilliantly explored the unraveling of a marriage. There are lines he has written there that are brutally honest and refreshingly stark and bold. In each of his books, he treads into relationships that work only because he is brave enough to go there. And thinking of this, I realize how apt it is that his new book is called THE BRAVE.
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October 2010
Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi Alpers finds Alexandrine Paradis’s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession.
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Oct 12, 2010
Writer and artist Gareth Hinds takes on one of the greatest stories of all time in The Odyssey, his graphic-novel adaptation of Homer’s classic. Here he discusses his inspiration, the challenges of adaptation, and more.