When Carly Sears discovers her unborn child has a fatal heart defect, her brother-in-law comes up with a bizarre solution… time-travel to the future where doctors will be able to save the baby. In an original and intriguing twist on the suspenseful family sagas that have made Diane Chamberlain a much-loved and popular contemporary novelist, […]
Most of the time, when I read a Simon Stålenhag book, I spend days scanning the trees around my house, looking for a shudder in the leaves; for the hump of a giant robot rising over the treeline, just beginning to stand. Most of the time, I see them everywhere. His books infect me that […]
Monday, October 22, 2018 Meet J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy before his visit to Charlotte. His bestselling book is now being turned into a movie. J.D. Vance grew up in a poor Rust Belt city in Ohio and an Appalachian town in Kentucky and went on to write a number one New York Times […]
Local speaker and publisher Vera Cornish has published her own book in the hopes of spreading her message of empowerment through stories about her own life. Cornish, the publisher of The Urban Connection of the Capitol Region, has a career background in teaching children with autism and schizophrenia, as well as student services in higher education. […]
“After I had spent three years in the company, I realized that as a prostitute I had been regarded with more respect, and had been more highly valued than all the female employees, myself included. In those days I lived in a house with a private toilet. I could enter it at any time, and […]
Email Youngstar and Kings Will Dream chased Australian Horse of the Year Winx when second and third in the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia, on Oct. 6. Winx, who has won an astonishing 28 consecutive races, is a massive favorite to win an unprecedented fourth consecutive running of the Group […]
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – A children’s author visited a local school to talk his career, books and to encourage the students to follow their imaginations. Michael Buckley paid a visit to Jay Shideler Elementary to talk about the joy of reading, as well tips on how children can become authors. Buckley is known for his […]
And Richard Sears reached them. He used his genius for advertising and promotion to put a catalog in the hands of 20 million Americans in 1900, when the population was 76 million. The Wish Book or Big Book or Dream Book, as the catalog was variously called, could run a staggering 1,500 pages and offer […]
By now, football fans everywhere know at least some of the story behind the Detroit Lakes native who rose from relative obscurity to become a Minnesota Vikings wide receiver. But VonRuden, who grew up in Detroit Lakes and now lives in Oregon, has written about Thielen’s early life from the perspective of those who truly […]
Jessica Simpson‘s kids want to know everything about their sibling on the way — and they couldn’t be asking their parents funnier questions! “The questions I get on the daily from Maxwell and Ace are hilarious,” the shoe designer and singer, 38, who is pregnant with her third child, told PEOPLE exclusively while attending QVC’s FFANY […]
