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Past Meets Present: PW Talks with Kit Bakke
In Dot to Dot, Kit Bakke’s self-published first book for children, 12-year-old Dot comes to terms with her mother’s recent death with some across-the-centuries help from Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and Dorothy Wordsworth.
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Muslim Women's Rights: Two Views: PW Talks with Deborah Scroggins
In Wanted Women, Deborah Scroggins explores conflict in the Islamic world through the experiences of two fascinating and very different women .
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Writing Redemption: PW Talks with Naomi Benaron
Naomi Benaron talks about the resilience of the human spirit in her debut novel about the genocide in Rwanda, Running the Rift.
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A Sympathetic Torturer: PW Talks with Mark Allen Smith
Mark Allen Smith’s thriller debut, The Inquisitor, introduces a lead character, Geiger, who’s paid to extract information using torture.
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Lighting Fires: PW Talks with Greil Marcus
In The Doors, music critic Greil Marcus takes a serious look at the controversial 1960s band through its music.
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Going Public: PW Talks with Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis is not a man to mince words. And to the critics and curmudgeons resisting the new networked world at our doorstep, the message in his latest book, Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live, is clear: get with it.
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Q & A with Maggie Stiefvater
Maggie Stiefvater, who has her second big release of the year with The Scorpio Races, which hits bookstore shelves later this month, spoke with Bookshelf in a brief window between traveling on book tours and finishing her next manuscript.
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The Monday Interview with Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki
An interview with Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki, whose Midas Touch is out from Plata Publishing
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Into the Woods: PW Talks with Arundhati Roy
In Walking with the Comrades, novelist and activist Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things) travels into the forest with India’s Maoist indigenous communities at war with the government.
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My Friend the Book: PW Talks with Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby’s I Didn’t Ask to Be Born (but I’m Glad I Was) includes the beloved entertainer’s thoughts about his childhood friends, his family, and... erectile dysfunction.
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Death on the Ancient Nile: PW Talks with Nick Drake
Egypt: The Book of Chaos completes Nick Drake’s mystery trilogy set during the 18th dynasty.
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Q & A with Meg Wolitzer
Acclaimed novelist Meg Wolitzer (The Ten-Year Nap; Sleepwalking) returns to writing fiction for younger readers with The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman, a tale of three teens from very different families who find themselves immersed in the world of competitive youth Scrabble.
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A 21st-Century Father Brown?: PW Talks with C.C. Benison
C.C. Benison, a Canadian journalist and associate editor of Canada’s History magazine, begins a new cozy series featuring Father Tom Christmas with Twelve Drummers Drumming.
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Kidding Around: PW Talks with Ellen DeGeneres
In Seriously...I’m Kidding, comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres riffs on finding life’s little happy moments and all the funny stuff in between.
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Empress of All the Russias: PW Talks with Robert K. Massie
At 82, Robert Massie, biographer of Peter the Great, chronicles a remarkable successor, Catherine the Great.
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Q & A with Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright
A talk with Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright, co-authors of The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale, set in an actual, centuries-old London inn.
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Heart's Desire: PW Talks with Jennifer Arnold
Jennifer Arnold, author of last year’s bestselling Through a Dog’s Eyes (Spiegel & Grau), returns to investigating the inner workings of man’s best friend with In a Dog’s Heart. Howard is the founder of Canine Assistants, which trains service dogs, and also the creator of Choice Teaching, a method for training dogs through gentle incentive.
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On Wood-working: PW Talks with Tommy MacDonald
Tommy MacDonald is passionate about woodworking, and his enthusiasm for his hobby is contagious. His new book, Rough Cut: Woodworking With Tommy Mac is based on the first season of his successful PBS show of the same name.
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Life Among the Gods: PW Talks with N.K. Jemisin
Jemisin wraps up her lauded Inheritance Trilogy with The Kingdom of Gods, in which a lonely child-god attempts to befriend scheming mortals with disastrous consequences.
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The Copenhagen Connection: PW Talks with Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis
Danes Lene Kaaberbøl, a YA fantasy writer, and Agnete Friis, a children’s author and journalist, have, for their first collaborative effort, produced a crime novel, The Boy in the Suitcase, about illegal immigration in Europe. They answer collectively.
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