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Interview: Andrew Davidson, author of The Gargoyle

Aug 8, 2008

August 8, 2008

In this interview with Bookreporter.com's Sarah Rachel Egelman, debut author Andrew Davidson describes how a combination of unlikely inspiration and simple curiosity prompted him to write his highly anticipated first novel, THE GARGOYLE, and provides some insight into the story's recurring motifs, as well as the behavior of its characters.

Interview: Olivia Gardner, author of Letters to a Bullied Girl: Messages of Healing and Hope

Aug 8, 2008

August 8, 2008

When sisters Emily and Sarah Buder read a news article in 2006 about Olivia Gardner --- a teenage girl who had been the victim of excessive bullying for over two years --- they launched a letter-writing campaign at their school in hopes of offering her words of comfort. Their local project managed to take on a life of its own, and some of the thousands of letters and e-mails they received worldwide have been compiled and published in LETTERS TO A BULLIED GIRL: Messages of Healing and Hope.

Andrew Davidson, author of The Gargoyle

The narrator of THE GARGOYLE is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life.

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A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-foot-8, 170-pound, 43-year-old Sportswriter Plays in the NFL by Stefan Fatsis

August 2008

As players report to training camp for the 2008 National Football League season, sportswriter Stefan Fatsis offers gridiron fans a penetrating and insightful look behind the scenes. He portrays the modern NFL as a multi-billion dollar industry in which players, coaches and owners work towards one goal: winning.

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The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL by Mark Bowden

August 2008

Whether the December 28, 1958 championship battle between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants is the greatest football game ever played is a subject for debate. Regardless of one's view, there is no question that it changed the way Americans viewed professional football. THE BEST GAME EVER recounts in glorious detail that game and many of its participants, a veritable who's who of professional football.

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Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World by David Maraniss

August 2008

Critically acclaimed and bestselling author David Marannis, who knows his sports as well as his history and politics, has painted a magnificent portrait of the 1960 Rome Olympics --- the precursor to the modern Olympic Games --- and their place in sports history. 

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Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry

August 2008

In Larry McMurtry's memoir, the Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winner describes not his writing life, but his life as a book dealer. For half a century, he has worked as an antiquarian bookseller when not producing bestsellers of his own. BOOKS gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at this little known world of rare books. 

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Interview: C. W. Gortner, author of The Last Queen

Aug 1, 2008

August 1, 2008

Historical fiction author C. W. Gortner follows up his acclaimed debut novel, THE SECRET LION, with the newly released THE LAST QUEEN, which chronicles the rise and fall of Juana of Castile, the last Spanish monarch to inherit her country's throne.

Interview: Heather Terrell, author of The Map Thief

Aug 1, 2008

August 1, 2008

In Heather Terrell's second novel, THE MAP THIEF, Mara Coyne --- the protagonist of 2007's historical thriller THE CHRYSALIS --- returns with a new art-related mystery, this time involving stolen artifacts from an archaeological dig that may reveal more about history than expected.

August 2008

I have zipped across the country so much this summer that I am glad that this weekend I am confining my adventures to the pool chair and hammock here at the house. Seriously I zipped back and forth over the midsection of the country and up and down the East Coast so much that I am ready to send a holiday card to Larry Kellner, the CEO of Continental, as I have seen him on the opening video more than I have seen most of my friends.

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