I traveled to Leningrad in 1979 as a college student and the most moving and impactful part of that trip was a visit to the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery where nearly 500,000 of the one million casualties of the siege of Leningrad are entombed. More civilians are buried in that single cemetery than the total number of Americans who died during the entirety of World War II.
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When living in San Francisco, my husband discovered a linen closet hidden behind a mirror in our apartment. We’d lived there for over a year, never realizing the mirror was actually a door. It inspired me to create a world where every mirror could potentially have something to hide, even another dimension.
Lenore Borja – 4 November 2022 Continue reading
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The characters confront very difficult issues: school violence, abortion rights, euthanasia, homophobia, and political extremism. And one must be very SENSITIVE when addressing such topics.
M. Laszlo – 1 November 2022 Continue reading
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The medical community still hadn’t come to grips with how the virus was spread. I wanted to stay away from my family so I didn’t put them at risk, so my wife suggested I use my downtime to finish writing this book, escaping into a fantasy world I had created.
28 October 2022 Continue reading
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The story is first of all an adventure story about a life and death struggle and what that does to the people involved, but it’s also about love, betrayal, redemption and ultimately how we find our way in the world.
David Sklar – 25 October 2022 Continue reading
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There are only 171,000 words in the English language. You don’t want to run out.
Rob Roy O’Keefe – 22 October 2022 Continue reading
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…one story started “she dug a hole and hid him under a tarp, when they knew the law was coming”
Yvonne Martinez – 19 October 2022 Continue reading
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I’ve been joining book clubs that have read “The Book of Souls” and I spoke with many readers in those clubs that said this is not my typical genre of book. Those are the readers that I want…
Kevin Moore – 15 October 2022 Continue reading
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I wrote this book because I wanted to explore how my upbringing and the political and historical context had contributed to my excesses.
Isidra Mencos – 13 October 2022 Continue reading
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In 2010, I attended a lecture at the San Diego Museum of Art given by a senior curator who had reattributed an unnoticed painting in Yale’s art storage. I found the description of the process riveting, like a forensic detective searching four hundred years for clues and the power struggles that swirl around these attributions were a revelation to me.
Linda Moore – 11 October 2022 Continue reading
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