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May 8, 2012

Jana Riess on Meeting Erik Larson

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Jana Riess, the author of FLUNKING SAINTHOOD and a longtime friend of TheBookReportNetwork.com, lives in Cincinnati and attended Erik Larson’s event this past Saturday afternoon at the Cincinnati Public Library. He is on tour for IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS: Love, Terror, and An American Family in Hitler's Berlin, which is just out in paperback. We asked her to share her thoughts on this event in the following Q&A.

Jana Riess

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Tayari Jones

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Ceri Radford

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Paul Levine

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Sandra Dallas

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Trapeze
by Simon Mawer - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Marian Sutro has one quality that marks her out --- she is a native French speaker. It is this that attracts the attention of the Special Operations Executive, which trains agents to operate in occupied Europe. Drawn into this strange, secret world at the age of 19, she finds herself parachuting into France from an RAF bomber to join the WORDSMITH resistance network.

Claire Cook

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Interview: Alison Bechdel, author of Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

May 3, 2012

In the midst of reading Alison Bechdel’s newest memoir, ARE YOU MY MOTHER?, an amazing thing happens: You begin to realize how truly universal this story is, regardless of the type of relationship you have with your own mother. The analytical search for identity forms and shapes us, and the older we get, the more we want to trace our foundations and understand the nature vs. nurture conflict that went us within our own beings as we developed.

Galaxy Craze

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