Day: August 30, 2013

Nobel-Prize Winning Poet, Seamus Heaney, Dead at 74

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Nobel-prize winning Irish poet, Seamus Heaney dead earlier today. He was 74. Heaney died in a Dublin hospital, his family said, having suffered stroke in 2006 from which he never truly recovered. From CBC: The Northern Ireland-born Heaney was widely considered Ireland’s greatest poet since William Butler Yeats. He wrote 13 collections of poetry, two plays, four prose works on the process of poetry, and many other works.  Heaney was the third Irishman to win […]

This Just In… Secrets of a Real-Life Female Private Eye by Colleen Collins

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Secrets of a Real-Life Female Private Eye is part-memoir, part-reference non-fiction based on the experiences of a professional private investigator and writer. Researchers, writers, detective-fiction fans, armchair detectives and anyone curious about the real world of private investigators will find the book of interest. “Secrets of a Real-Life Female Private Eye is a research must-have.” — Holly Jacobs, award-winning author of Steamed. You can order Secrets of a Real-Life Female Private Eye here. Visit author Colleen […]

The Birth of the Mother of a Monster

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 Frankenstein author Mary Shelley was born on this day in 1797. According to Writer’s Almanac: After her marriage to the poet Percy Shelley, the couple went to stay in a lakeside cottage in Switzerland with the poet Lord Byron in the summer of 1816. One rainy night, after reading a German book of ghost stories, Byron suggested that they all write their own horror stories.  Everyone else wrote a story within the next day, but […]

Val McDermid to Appear at Agatha Christie Festival

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Mystery fans in England can look forward to a massive Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay on the English Rivera next month. The festival will begin on September 16, just one day after what would have been the mystery author’s 123rd birthday. Agatha Christie, the “Queen of Crime” was born in Torquay, not far from where the festival will be held and, according to the festival web site, Christie “spent many of the most important chapters […]

This Just In… Stage Daughter by Sheryl Sorrentino

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Sonya Schoenberg dreamed of someday becoming a famous actress, but instead, a hapless, one-time tryst with a Muslim man lands her the lifetime role of single mother. Alone and forsaken by her family, Sonya tries to keep her dream alive through her “stage daughter,” Razia, now a precocious pre-teen enrolled in a competitive performing arts school. But Raz prefers drawing to drama and has no problem defying her mom to get what she wants — […]

Where Do Books Go When They Die?

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No one likes to think about unwanted books. We’re focused on earlier phases: Making them. Writing them. Choosing them. Selling them. With all of that in our minds and hearts, dead books is the last thing on our minds. It has to be. But all of life is a cycle and, as it turns out, that’s just as true for books as it is for everything else. When Dalhousie University in Halifax found itself with […]

This Just In… Watch Over Me by Tara Sivec

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Addison Snow is your typical teenager. Her family loves her, friends make her laugh, and she’s wrapped up in the excitement of graduating high school and going off to college to pursue her dream of becoming an author. When her mother, who also happens to be Addison’s best friend, dies unexpectedly, her world comes to a crashing halt. Death changes everyone… Attempting to make the pain go away, Addison and her father travel down separate, […]