Narrated by Larissa "Lara" McCauley looking back twenty years earlier to 1983 where she focuses on the year she spent in Beirut with her husband Mac, an American journalist. According to Lara, Mac was everything she had; her parents having died when she and

The Scotiabank Giller Prize is one of the richest literary awards for Canadians. The fiction prize winner receives a monetary prize of $40,000. When compared to many popular American/European awards this is

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Bird lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and eighteen-year-old son who is about to enter graduate school. Her latest release How Perfect is That will be released this summer. I hope you enjoy reading about this witty and entertaining author.

Imagine living communally on a farm with other artists. Sally doesn´t have to imagine, she´s done it. Now she´s living in Hamilton, Ontario with her boyfriend, Newfoundland dog and a cat.

The Mercy of Thin Air is Ronlyn Domingue's first book although she has been writing for 28 years "in one capacity or another". Things are looking promising for this full-time writer who resides in Louisiana.

Rochelle Shapiro is a writer. If that isn't interesting enough Rochelle is also a phone psychic. In her debut novel she has meshed her experience as a psychic with her creative talents to craft Miriam the Medium

The last week of September an awareness campaign is rung by the American Library Association to enlighten readers about freedom of speech. During this week you are encouraged to read books that have been banned in previous years.

We read a lot of books over our lifetime. It is not always easy to remember what we did last week let alone the plot of a book we read a few years ago. Not every book moves to an easily embedded memory. Keeping a reading journal helps with

To say that Random House is one of the largest trade book publishers is really an understatement. This publishing giant has an international presence because of their reputation, past acquisitions and mergers with a number of large publishing