Editorial Content for American Heroes
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Esteemed author James Patterson has joined forces with Matt Eversmann, who retired from the Army after 20 years of service, and Tim Malloy, a documentary filmmaker and war correspondent, to pen AMERICAN HEROES. The book presents frank accounts of war as recalled and vividly set forth by Americans who served in combat over a span of approximately 70 years. Many of these men and women volunteered for service not knowing, but at times fearing, what the work would entail. Read More
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U.S. soldiers who served in overseas conflicts --- from World War II, Korea and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan --- share true stories of the actions that earned them some of America’s most distinguished military medals, up to and including the Medal of Honor. They never acted alone, but always in the spirit of camaraderie, patriotism and for the good of our beloved country. There has never been a better time for all of us to think about duty, sacrifice and what it means to be an American hero.
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U.S. soldiers who served in overseas conflicts --- from World War II, Korea and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan --- share true stories of the actions that earned them some of America’s most distinguished military medals, up to and including the Medal of Honor. They never acted alone, but always in the spirit of camaraderie, patriotism and for the good of our beloved country. There has never been a better time for all of us to think about duty, sacrifice and what it means to be an American hero.
About the Book
From the authors of WALK IN MY COMBAT BOOTS, bravery and selflessness are literally defined in these riveting first-person tales from our nation’s greatest heroes.
U.S. soldiers who served in overseas conflicts --- from World War II, Korea and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan --- share true stories of the actions that earned them some of America’s most distinguished military medals, up to and including the Medal of Honor.
They never acted alone, but always in the spirit of camaraderie, patriotism and for the good of our beloved country.
There has never been a better time for all of us to think about duty, sacrifice and what it means to be an American hero.
Editorial Content for A Woman Underground: A Cameron Winter Mystery
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Andrew Klavan has been so busy with his popular podcast “The Andrew Klavan Show” that it is a wonder he still has time to write. Thankfully, he has penned A WOMAN UNDERGROUND, the latest installment in his terrific series featuring former spy turned English professor Cameron Winter. Read More
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Cameron Winter is troubled in heart and mind. He’s plagued by memories of his time as a government operative investigating a notorious Turkish sex trafficker. The fact that the mission was left unfinished still haunts him and threatens to tear him apart. In the midst of his painful soul-searching, Winter crosses paths with an ex-flame --- his first love --- and the chance encounter ignites a passion he thought was long lost. But just as soon as she wanders back into Winter’s life, the woman vanishes, leaving Winter scrambling to track her down. His pursuit takes him deep into a world rent by partisan violence, where extremists clash and Winter sides with no one. As he faces his most dangerous case yet, victory might simply mean getting out alive.
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Cameron Winter is troubled in heart and mind. He’s plagued by memories of his time as a government operative investigating a notorious Turkish sex trafficker. The fact that the mission was left unfinished still haunts him and threatens to tear him apart. In the midst of his painful soul-searching, Winter crosses paths with an ex-flame --- his first love --- and the chance encounter ignites a passion he thought was long lost. But just as soon as she wanders back into Winter’s life, the woman vanishes, leaving Winter scrambling to track her down. His pursuit takes him deep into a world rent by partisan violence, where extremists clash and Winter sides with no one. As he faces his most dangerous case yet, victory might simply mean getting out alive.
About the Book
Ex-spy, English professor and sleuth Cameron Winter finds his past and present colliding as he tracks his first love in the newest entry in this USA Today bestselling series.
Cameron Winter is troubled in heart and mind. He’s plagued by memories of his time as a government operative investigating a notorious Turkish sex trafficker. The fact that the mission was left unfinished still haunts him and threatens to tear him apart. In the midst of his painful soul-searching, Winter crosses paths with an ex-flame --- his first love --- and the chance encounter ignites a passion he thought was long lost. But just as soon as she wanders back into Winter’s life, the woman vanishes, leaving Winter scrambling to track her down.
His pursuit takes him deep into a world rent by partisan violence, where extremists clash and Winter sides with no one. As he faces his most dangerous case yet, victory might simply mean getting out alive.
Like previous entries featuring this “complex and determined” series character (Bookreporter), A WOMAN UNDERGROUND harnesses multiple Edgar Award-winning author Andrew Klavan’s crime writing expertise to explore some of the biggest issues facing us today. The result is a poignant page turner with an intricate plot, shot through with high stakes action and unflinching humanity.
Audiobook available, read by Adam Barr
Editorial Content for Lifeform
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Toward the end of LIFEFORM is a piece titled “Headtrip.” In it, Jenny Slate rides a train on her way to an event promoting her work. It is a project she began many years ago with the man who is now her ex-husband. As the train travels to the city she used to live in when she was younger, it is physically taking her farther from her current husband, her baby daughter and the life she is happily --- if somewhat anxiously --- living now. Read More
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Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her, and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love, but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love because of past injury. And then what happened was that she became a wild-pregnant-mammal-thing, and then she exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her vagina. Herein lies an account of this journey, told in five phases --- Single, True Love, Pregnancy, Baby and Ongoing --- through luminous, laugh-out-loud funny essays that take the form of letters to a doctor, dreams of a stork, fantasy therapy sessions, gossip between raccoons, excerpts from an imaginary olden timey play, obituaries, theories about post-partum hair loss, graduation speeches and more.
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Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her, and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love, but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love because of past injury. And then what happened was that she became a wild-pregnant-mammal-thing, and then she exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her vagina. Herein lies an account of this journey, told in five phases --- Single, True Love, Pregnancy, Baby and Ongoing --- through luminous, laugh-out-loud funny essays that take the form of letters to a doctor, dreams of a stork, fantasy therapy sessions, gossip between raccoons, excerpts from an imaginary olden timey play, obituaries, theories about post-partum hair loss, graduation speeches and more.
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From actor, comedian, the co-creator of Marcel the Shell and the New York Times bestselling author of LITTLE WEIRDS, Jenny Slate, comes a wild, soulful, hilarious collection of genre-bending essays depicting the journey into motherhood as you’ve never seen it before.
What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her, and in that period there was a deep dark loneliness that she had to face and befriend, and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love, and in that period she was like chimes, or a flock of clean breaths, and her spine lying flat was the many-colored planks on the xylophone, but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love, because of past injury. And then what happened was that she became a wild-pregnant-mammal-thing and then she exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her vagina during a global plague and then she was expected to carry on like everything was normal. But was this normal, and had she or anything ever been normal?
Herein lies an account of this journey, told in five phases --- Single, True Love, Pregnancy, Baby and Ongoing --- through luminous, laugh-out-loud funny, unclassifiable essays that take the form of letters to a doctor, dreams of a stork, fantasy therapy sessions, gossip between raccoons, excerpts from an imaginary olden timey play, obituaries, theories about post-partum hair loss, graduation speeches and more.
No one writes like Jenny Slate.
Audiobook available; read by Jenny Slate, George Saunders, Vanessa Bayer and Will Forte
Editorial Content for Shock Induction
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Samantha Deel endures a life of daily misery. Her parents quaff NyQuil by the bottle while heaping abuse and scorn upon her. While under the haze of nighttime cold medicine, her father shot a man who was in the midst of taking his own life. Samantha must contend with their cruelty while also tending to the care of her infirm but lecherous uncle. Singing provides the one pure enjoyment in her life, but her parents rebuke her aspirations. Sam is willing to resort to self-harm to achieve her goals, or at the very least drown out the naysayers. Read More
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The best and brightest students at a seemingly reputable high school are disappearing. Every day it seems another overachiever is lost to an apparent suicide. But something far more sinister is lurking beneath the surface. These kids have been under surveillance since birth, monitored and measured by an online service called “Greener Pastures.” It’s here that billionaires observe and recruit the next generation of talent. The highest test scores, the best grades and the most niche extracurriculars just might land these teenagers an enticing offer at auction. A couple billion dollars in exchange for the remainder of your life and intellectual labor sounds like a pretty fair deal. Doesn’t it? In SHOCK INDUCTION, students must choose between the risk of following their dreams or the security of money and a lifetime of servitude to the world’s wealthiest and most elite.
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The best and brightest students at a seemingly reputable high school are disappearing. Every day it seems another overachiever is lost to an apparent suicide. But something far more sinister is lurking beneath the surface. These kids have been under surveillance since birth, monitored and measured by an online service called “Greener Pastures.” It’s here that billionaires observe and recruit the next generation of talent. The highest test scores, the best grades and the most niche extracurriculars just might land these teenagers an enticing offer at auction. A couple billion dollars in exchange for the remainder of your life and intellectual labor sounds like a pretty fair deal. Doesn’t it? In SHOCK INDUCTION, students must choose between the risk of following their dreams or the security of money and a lifetime of servitude to the world’s wealthiest and most elite.
About the Book
From the bestselling author of FIGHT CLUB comes a dark, satirical parable about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we make in the face of an uncertain future.
In SHOCK INDUCTION, the best and brightest students at a seemingly reputable high school are disappearing. Every day it seems another overachiever is lost to an apparent suicide. But something far more sinister is lurking beneath the surface.
These kids have been under surveillance since birth, monitored and measured by an online service called “Greener Pastures.” It’s here that billionaires observe and recruit the next generation of talent. The highest test scores, the best grades and the most niche extracurriculars just might land these teenagers an enticing offer at auction. A couple billion dollars in exchange for the remainder of your life and intellectual labor sounds like a pretty fair deal. Doesn’t it?
In a high school only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine, students must choose between the risk of following their dreams or the security of money and a lifetime of servitude to the world’s wealthiest and most elite. But how much of a choice do they truly have?
Audiobook available, read by Michael David Axtell
Editorial Content for Run
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Blake Crouch’s latest release isn’t exactly new, but it could not have come at a better time. Originally self-published in 2011, RUN deals with subject matter that is all too relevant in our highly combustible society. Crouch dedicates the book to his readers who have been there since the beginning, and the present he is extolling is a novel of dark ferocity that will haunt your waking dreams. Read More
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Five days ago, the epidemic of rage began. Four days ago, the rash of senseless murders swept the nation. Three days ago, the president addressed the country and begged for peace --- even as the murders increased tenfold. Two days ago, the killers began to mobilize. One day ago, the power went out. And tonight, the killers are reading the names of those to be killed over the Emergency Broadcast System. Jack Colclough is listening over the battery-powered radio on his kitchen table in Albuquerque, and he just heard his name. People are coming to his house to kill him, his wife, his daughter and his son. He has no idea what’s happening, or why, but the time for questions is long past. His only chance is to run.
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Five days ago, the epidemic of rage began. Four days ago, the rash of senseless murders swept the nation. Three days ago, the president addressed the country and begged for peace --- even as the murders increased tenfold. Two days ago, the killers began to mobilize. One day ago, the power went out. And tonight, the killers are reading the names of those to be killed over the Emergency Broadcast System. Jack Colclough is listening over the battery-powered radio on his kitchen table in Albuquerque, and he just heard his name. People are coming to his house to kill him, his wife, his daughter and his son. He has no idea what’s happening, or why, but the time for questions is long past. His only chance is to run.
About the Book
A gripping apocalyptic thriller about a man and his family running for their lives in an America gone mad --- from the New York Times bestselling author of DARK MATTER and RECURSION.
No time to think. No time to ask why. Only time to run.
Five days ago, the epidemic of rage began.
Four days ago, the rash of senseless murders swept the nation.
Three days ago, the president addressed the country and begged for peace --- even as the murders increased tenfold.
Two days ago, the killers began to mobilize.
One day ago, the power went out.
And tonight, the killers are reading the names of those to be killed over the Emergency Broadcast System.
Jack Colclough is listening over the battery-powered radio on his kitchen table in Albuquerque, and he just heard his name. People are coming to his house to kill him, his wife, his daughter and his son.
He has no idea what’s happening, or why, but the time for questions is long past.
His only chance is to run.
Following an ordinary family on a desperate race through an America that’s destroying itself, RUN is a terrifying, brutally stripped-down thriller from master storyteller Blake Crouch.
Audiobook available, read by Scott Brick
Editorial Content for Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments
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Let me begin by saying that I do not love football. I get that other people do (although I don’t quite understand those who root for schools with which they have no connection), and more power to them. I give major props to diehard fans for sitting in a freezing stadium with wind chill factors in the single digits or other adverse weather conditions. Sure, I’ll have it on in the background once baseball season is over, but I have the same feelings as those who complain that the games --- which are played on the clock --- are too long. Read More
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After his bestselling home run books WHY WE LOVE BASEBALL and THE BASEBALL 100, Joe Posnanski turns from the national pastime to the number one sport in America. WHY WE LOVE FOOTBALL is Posnanski’s newest must-have deep dive into the archives and legends of the sport, and the result is a rousing tale of the 100 greatest moments in football lore. This is the best kind of sports writing. Entertaining, enlightening, heartbreaking, hilarious and always fascinating, these stories of the sport offer a panoramic look across its history. From hidden gems and classic tales to famous moments told from previously unheard perspectives, this book is the football book for even its most ardent fans.
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After his bestselling home run books WHY WE LOVE BASEBALL and THE BASEBALL 100, Joe Posnanski turns from the national pastime to the number one sport in America. WHY WE LOVE FOOTBALL is Posnanski’s newest must-have deep dive into the archives and legends of the sport, and the result is a rousing tale of the 100 greatest moments in football lore. This is the best kind of sports writing. Entertaining, enlightening, heartbreaking, hilarious and always fascinating, these stories of the sport offer a panoramic look across its history. From hidden gems and classic tales to famous moments told from previously unheard perspectives, this book is the football book for even its most ardent fans.
About the Book
A moving celebration of the history of American football from the New York Times bestselling author of WHY WE LOVE BASEBALL.
After his bestselling home run books WHY WE LOVE BASEBALL and THE BASEBALL 100, Joe Posnanski turns from the national pastime to the number one sport in America. WHY WE LOVE FOOTBALL is Posnanski’s newest must-have deep dive into the archives and legends of the sport, and the result is a rousing tale of the 100 greatest moments in football lore.
This is the best kind of sports writing. Entertaining, enlightening, heartbreaking, hilarious and always fascinating, these stories of the sport offer a panoramic look across its history. From hidden gems and classic tales to famous moments told from previously unheard perspectives, this book is the football book for even its most ardent fans.
From Patrick Mahomes' magic to the Ice Bowl, from Doug Flutie's Hail Mary pass to a plethora of football "miracles," WHY WE LOVE FOOTBALL is an unforgettable, conversational masterpiece you won’t ever want to end, and a can't-miss take on football from one of the greatest sportswriters of our time.
Audiobook available, read by Joe Posnanski
Editorial Content for Stay in the Light
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In 1917, author and renowned spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame became deeply involved in an otherworldly case that came to be known as the Cottingley Fairies. Two young girls took photos of what appeared to be actual fairies. Even though many refuted and debunked these pictures, they raised awareness of these possible ancient beings with which we shared the earth, and interest in them has never waned. Read More
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After her terrifying experience at the hands of the Watchers, Mina has escaped to a cottage on the west coast of Ireland. She obsessively researches her former captors, desperate to find any way to prolong the safety of humankind. When Mina encounters a stranger near her home, she fears the worst --- for she knows the figure is not what it seems. Soon, people she has encountered start to disappear. Mina knows the Watchers' power is growing. She flees for her life, but when she reports her fears, she finds her sanity questioned. Can she convince people that the Watchers are real, and ready to strike --- or will she suffer the fate she has dreaded since she first encountered those malevolent beings?
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After her terrifying experience at the hands of the Watchers, Mina has escaped to a cottage on the west coast of Ireland. She obsessively researches her former captors, desperate to find any way to prolong the safety of humankind. When Mina encounters a stranger near her home, she fears the worst --- for she knows the figure is not what it seems. Soon, people she has encountered start to disappear. Mina knows the Watchers' power is growing. She flees for her life, but when she reports her fears, she finds her sanity questioned. Can she convince people that the Watchers are real, and ready to strike --- or will she suffer the fate she has dreaded since she first encountered those malevolent beings?
About the Book
The sequel to THE WATCHERS, now adapted into a major motion picture produced by M. Night Shyamalan, from critically acclaimed Irish horror writer A.M. Shine.
YOU MAY HAVE ESCAPED...BUT YOU'LL NEVER BE FREE.
After her terrifying experience at the hands of the Watchers, Mina has escaped to a cottage on the west coast of Ireland. She obsessively researches her former captors, desperate to find any way to prolong the safety of humankind.
When Mina encounters a stranger near her home, she fears the worst --- for she knows the figure is not what it seems. Soon, people she has encountered start to disappear.
Mina knows the Watchers' power is growing. She flees for her life, but when she reports her fears, she finds her sanity questioned. Can she convince people that the Watchers are real, and ready to strike --- or will she suffer the fate she has dreaded since she first encountered those malevolent beings?
A chilling modern twist on the Gothic horror novel, perfect for fans of Kealan Patrick Burke, T. Kingfisher and classic horror.
Audiobook available, read by Jacqueline Milne
October 25, 2024
Last weekend's Morristown Festival of Books was a huge success. I was lucky to moderate three panels, and each was special in its own way. It was wonderful to see large audiences of readers at every program. At least two events on Saturday were standing-room only. The entire day warmed my heart, especially observing the long lines at the signing tent. Above you can see me with some of the authors I interviewed, along with my friend, Julia, who also moderated a panel.