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November 1, 2013

The Unknown Early Work of Michael Crichton - Part One

By Tom Callahan
It was a real-life mystery that could have been a film noir. Between 1966 and 1972, a writer by the name of John Lange published eight paperback suspense novels. These were the kind of books with racy and sexy covers once found in drug stores, airports and bus stations. One of them even got nominated for an Edgar Award in 1971. Then John Lange just disappeared, apparently vanishing right off the face of the earth. His books soon followed and fell out of print for decades, perhaps showing up now and then in a garage sale or used bookstore.

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Shannon Powers

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Amanda Assenza

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Short Story Collections (Also: We Love You, Alice Munro)

We're certainly not short on love for short stories over here at 20SomethingReads.com. So we were super excited when we found out that Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature last week. Munro --- who writes mainly about female protagonists and small-town dramas --- is a gracious and deserving winner, and her triumph inspired us to put together a bookshelf of some of our favorite short story collections.

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Andrew Grant

Andrew Grant is the author of RUN, FALSE POSITIVE, FALSE FRIEND, FALSE WITNESS, INVISIBLE and TOO CLOSE TO HOME. He was born in Birmingham, England. He attended the University of Sheffield, where he studied English literature and drama. He ran a small independent theater company, and subsequently worked in the telecommunications industry for 15 years. Grant and his wife, the novelist Tasha Alexander, live on a wildlife preserve in Wyoming.

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Quinn Colter

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Ronald H. Balson, author of Once We Were Brothers

Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, the Butcher of Zamosc. Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his accuser, Solomon, encourages attorney Catherine Lockhart to bring Rosenzweig to justice, revealing that the true Piatek was abandoned as a child and raised by Solomon's own family, only to betray them during the Nazi occupation. But has Solomon accused the right man?

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