Our Authors
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Al-Qazwini, Imam Sayid Hassan; Brad Crawford: American Crescent: A Muslim Cleric on the Power of His Faith, the Struggle Against Prejudice, and the Future of Islam and America, Random House, 2007 & 2008 - In this inspiring narrative, one of this country’s most important Muslim leaders reveals the story of his life and his faith, and why Islam is good for America. |
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Beaver, Jim: Life's That Way, Pulnam/Amy Einhorn Books, 2009 - An exquisitely rendered memoir about love, loss and learning to live again, after the death of the actor's wife. (Jim is best known for his role as Ellsworth on HBO's Deadwood.) Debut Author |
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Bramwell, Tony and Rosemary Kingsland: Magical Mystery Tours: My Life with the Beatles, St. Martin's Press 2005 & 2006 - Bramwell offers a fond, intimate portrait of the Fab Four. His recollections illuminate the players from their days as young "scousers" in working-class Liverpool to their formation as a group, and from their exhausting early stints to their astonishing stardom. |
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Brown-Waite, Eve: First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps poster boy won my heart and a Third World adventure changed my life, Broadway Books - a wildly funny, fish-out-of-water memoir about a pampered young woman who decides to save the world. Debut Author |
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Colesberry, Adrian: How to Make Love to Adrian Colesberry, Gotham, 2008 - A purported self-help manual for the 11 women who will one day make love to the author, a stand-up comedian, charting his transformation from "cowed divorcé to sexual pervert." |
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Cuadros, Paul: A Home on the Field: How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America, Harper/Rayo, 2006; HarperPerennial 2007 - An award winning investigative reporter tells the poignant true story of a Southern town coming to grips with the influx of Latino workers and their families through the lives of an all-Latino high school soccer team that Cuadros coached to a state championship in just three seasons. |
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Cummings, Quinn: I Was Only Trying to Help, Hyperion, 2008 - Called by USA Today "Erma Bombeck with an edge”, child-actor (and Oscar Nominee) turned entrepreneur and blogger Quinn Cummings has penned an honest, smart, and laugh-out-loud funny story about how her do-gooder impulses continually landed her in hot water. Debut Author |
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Fittipaldi, Lisa: A Brush with Darkness: Learning to Paint After Losing My Sight, Andrews McMeel, 2004 - In this moving memoir, Lisa Fittipaldi paints a vivid picture of the perceptual and emotional darkness that accompanied her vision loss, and her arduous journey back into the sighted world through mastery of the principles of art and color. Rights sold to Germany. |
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Kline, Barbara: White House Nannies, Tarcher, 2005 & 2006 - Barbara Kline is the other Chief of Homeland Security. When D.C. power parents are having a baby, or their household is spinning out of control, they call Kline, president of the capital's premier nanny agency. A hilarious, behind-the-scenes look at the District as never seen before. Optioned by FOX. Debut Author, Foliospeak Author |
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Lerman, Phillip: Dadditude: How a Real Man Became a Real Dad, Da Capo, 2007 - A funny fatherhood memoir that chronicles how a real man learned to become a real dad without giving up his real manhood. Foliospeak Author |
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Lindeen, Laurie: Petal Pusher: A Rock and Roll Cinderella Story, Atria, 2007 & 2008 - Set in the years between the meteoric launches of Madonna and Courtney Love, Petal Pusher takes readers on a stirring journey of rock from the big-haired 1980s to the grunge-filled 1990s, when Laurie Lindeen brought her all-girl band, Zuzu's Petals, to compete in the indie rock arena. Debut Author |
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Mckee, Steve: My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey, De Capo, 2008 - 16-year-old Steve McKee watched his father die of a heart attack. At fifty-two, Steve learned that he was his father's son more than he had ever hoped-he, too, has serious heart disease. Steve set out to find the man who died before the son could know him. And what might he learn of himself? Foliospeak Author |
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Meckelson, Doug and Diane Haithman: Elder Wisdom Circle Guide for a Meaningful Life: Seniors Across America Offer Advice to the Next Generation, Plume, 2007 - Meckelson founded the Elder Wisdom Circle in 2001. It comprises volunteers aged 60-100 who try to assist younger people who ask questions through a Web site. Meckelson and L.A. Times staff writer Haithman have divided representative correspondence by useful subject matter. |
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Shields, Charles: Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, Holt, 2006 & 2007 - The story of Lee's struggle to create her famous novel, this biography draws on six hundred interviews and much new information, to create an evocative portrait of a writer, her dream, and the place and people whom she made immortal. Debut Author, Foliospeak Author |
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Shields, Charles: I Am Scout, Holt for Young Readers, 2008 - This first-ever comprehensive biography of Harper Lee written for a young audience tells the story of how Miss Lee struggled to become an author and created one of the most popular novels of the 20th century. Junior Library Guild Premiere Selection. Foliospeak Author |
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Shields, Charles: And So It Goes, Holt, 2008 - The first biography of Kurt Vonnegut, JR., authorized by Vonnegut himself, before his death. World rights sold. Foliospeak Author |
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Spinner, Jackie; Spinner, Jenny: Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq, Scribner, 2006 & 2007 - When she arrived in Iraq in May 2004, Jackie Spinner, a writer for the Washington Post, entered a war zone where traditional reporting had become impossible. In her gripping account, she goes beyond the headlines, and is transformed from rookie correspondent into a seasoned reporter. Debut Author, Foliospeak Author |
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Watson, Bruce: The Man who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made: The Life and Times of A. C. Gilbert, the Man Who Saved Christmas, Viking, 2002 & 2003 - The biography of A.C. Gilbert, the inventor of erector sets, explores the popular toy that helped boys create their own miniature world and it taught them to use their ingenuity to play at being men. |
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White III, Neil: The Outcasts, Morrow, 2009 - This book tells the story of imprisonment, friendship and transformation after spending a year in the last leper colony in the continental United States. Debut Author, Foliospeak Author |
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Woodlief, Jennifer: A Hall of White, Atria Books, 2009 - A narrative account of the worst disaster in American skiing history, the 1982 Lake Tahoe Avalanche, in which seven people were killed and one woman was saved after spending nearly five days buried alive. |
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