Archive for June, 2009
Monday, June 15th, 2009
OMG!
New Attolia book info!
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Impossible, by Nancy Werlin
Apparently Nancy Werlin primarily writes ‘literary suspense’ novels for YA/teen readers. She began publishing in the mid-1990s, and Impossible is her first book that is explicitly on the border of fantasy. She has a B.A. from Yale College, and won an Edgar Award for a novel entitled Locked Inside at some point. She was born [...]
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
City of Masks (Stravaganza, book 1), by Mary Hoffman
Mary Hoffman is English; she was born in a railroad town, but moved to London when she was quite small. She has a degree in English Literature from Cambridge and a diploma in linguistics from the University College of London. Just after that, in 1970, she started writing children’s books; to date she has published [...]
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
Bound, by Donna Jo Napoli
Donna Jo Napoli is a linguistics professor at Swarthmore College and an author of children’s books. She used to have a cat named Taxi, for the sheer joy of calling the cat and watching the neighbors make faces. She takes modern dance and yoga classes for fun, and bakes bread. She has also coauthored a [...]
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Cybele’s Secret, by Juliet Marillier
Juliet Marillier is the author of a number of books, one of which was Wildwood Dancing, which I read and reviewed earlier. This novel is a companion (not a direct sequel; it follows a different character) to that one, and continues the story of the Transylvanian sisters. Ms. Marillier is a musician by training and [...]
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
The Smoke Thief (The Drakon, book 1), by Shana Abe
I saw this book and the second (review forthcoming) in a bookstore recently on a shelf much too high for me to reach, so I asked my husband to retrieve them for me, thinking, “I’ve seen someone recommend these recently.” Well, it turned out that it was one of the Ja(y)nes at Dear Author who [...]