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Margaret Leroy, author of The Soldier's Wife

A novel full of grand passion and intensity, THE SOLDIER'S WIFE asks "What would you do for your family?" "What should you do for a stranger?" and "What would you do for love?"

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Robert Frost

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
 

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Robert Frost

Interview: Mary Kay Andrews, author of Summer Rental

Jun 10, 2011

Mary Kay Andrews is the New York Times bestselling author of such novels as HISSY FIT and SAVANNAH BLUES, and has penned 10 critically acclaimed mysteries, including the Callahan Garrity series. Her latest book, SUMMER RENTAL, sees three best friends from grade school now in their mid-30s and at the crossroads of life. Together they rent an old beach house on North Carolina's Outer Banks, hoping to solve all their problems.

Interview: Robert Dugoni, author of Murder One

Jun 10, 2011

Robert Dugoni is a writer turned lawyer turned writer, whose series featuring attorney David Sloane has earned him awards and critical praise.

Racing in the Rain

June 9, 2011

Amanda Hodgkinson: Her Father the Non-Reader

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In her debut novel, 22 BRITANNIA ROAD, Amanda Hodgkinson delivers a tale of a family desperate to put itself back together after WWII forces them apart. Below, Amanda speaks about her own father; a father who preferred to do rather than to read, but who still instilled in Amanda the desire to take risks and become a writer.   Photo: young Amanda and her father.

Helen Hayes

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
 

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Summer Golf Reading for 2011

These are not the best of times in the world of golf. Professional golf’s golden boy, Tiger Woods, has fallen upon hard times. Beset by revelations that have destroyed his image as an “all-American family man” and, perhaps more importantly, repeatedly disabled by serious physical injury, Woods is simply no longer the driving force of professional golf. It has been more than a year since his last professional tournament victory and now three years since his last major championship, the U.S. Open of 2008. 

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June 8, 2011

Meet Mark Sellers Jr.: Father of John Sellers

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There is no greater tribute to one’s parent than writing a book about them, even if the title of said book is THE OLD MAN AND THE SWAMP: A True Story About My Weird Dad, a Bunch of Snakes, and One Ridiculous Road Trip.

Bruce Lee

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
 

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