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October 2008

All the leaves in New York City are now in full autumn mode. They look beautiful, but they’re quickly falling to the ground. My son will be crunch-crunch-crunching along as he goes trick-or-treating tonight. Like the various colors of the leaves, we have lots of different kinds of books featured this month on Kidsreads.com. Read on, and I’m sure you’ll find one that you’ll love.

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October 2008

All the leaves in New York City are now in full autumn mode. They look beautiful, but they’re quickly falling to the ground. My son will be crunch-crunch-crunching along as he goes trick-or-treating tonight. Like the various colors of the leaves, we have lots of different kinds of books featured this month on Kidsreads.com. Read on, and I’m sure your children will find one that they love.

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Interview: M.J. Rose, author of The Memorist

Oct 31, 2008

October 31, 2008

In this interview with Bookreporter.com's Joe Hartlaub, international bestselling author M. J. Rose recalls the specific event during a family vacation in Vienna that inspired the plot of her latest work of fiction, THE MEMORIST, and explains the role that music --- including the work of Beethoven, who is a central figure in the novel --- has played in her writing process.

Interview: Katherine Neville, author of The Fire

Oct 31, 2008

October 31, 2008

Katherine Neville's latest work of fiction, THE FIRE, resumes the story she began 20 years ago in her critically acclaimed, bestselling debut novel, THE EIGHT, involving a magical chess set wielding dangerous powers that once belonged to the legendary emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Charlemagne.

Interview: Carla Neggers, author of Cold Pursuit

Oct 31, 2008

October 31, 2008

New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers has written over 50 novels, including TEMPTING FATE, THE WIDOW, THE ANGEL and the newly released COLD PURSUIT.

October 2008

Happy Halloween!

We have a lot of spooky books to share with you this month. First up, bestselling author Neil Gaiman tells the tale of a boy who lives in a graveyard in THE GRAVEYARD BOOK. Ironically, it's safer for the protagonist, Nobody Owens, inside the cemetery with lots of ghosts than outside.

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When a book comes to life on the big screen, do you prefer reading the book before seeing the movie, or seeing the movie before reading the book?

October 29, 2008, 181 voters

Marie Bostwick, author of A Single Thread

A SINGLE THREAD is a sometimes humorous and always touching story that features the strong, first person voice and lyrical style, small town values and the quilting imagery readers of Marie Bostwick’s historical novels have come to love.

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Carla Neggers, author of Cold Pursuit

A number of prominent figures have been killed under mysterious circumstances in the past year. All unconnected. But when an esteemed U.S. ambassador is slain in a questionable hit-and-run in Washington, D.C. and his stepdaughter vanishes mere hours later in the mountains of northern New England, suspicions are raised by a Secret Service agent and a recovering Special Forces soldier in COLD PURSUIT, the newest novel by New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers.

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Christopher Fowler, author of The Victoria Vanishes

It’s a case tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit. A lonely hearts killer is targeting middle-aged women at some of England’s most well-known pubs --- including one torn down eighty years ago.

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