The Avid Reader Show

1Q1A - Avid Reader with Virginia Baily

18 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

One Question, One Answer is a mini interview series with leading authors produced and sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. P...

Virginia Baily author of Early One Morning

18 Oct 2015

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This epic novel is an unforgettably powerful, suspenseful, heartbreaking and inspiring tale of love, loss and war's reverberations down the years. - A...

Mary Gaitskill author of The Mare

18 Oct 2015

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Following her National Book Award–nominated Veronica, here is Mary Gaitskill’s most poignant and powerful work yet—the story of a Dominican girl...

Caitlin Doughty author of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

04 Oct 2015

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A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession.Most people want to avoid think...

1Q1A. The Avid Reader with Caitlin Doughty

03 Oct 2015

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One Question, One Answer is a mini interview series with leading authors. 1Q1A is sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop. Please visit o...

1Q1A - Avid Reader with Amy Stewart author Girl Waits With Gun

26 Sep 2015

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One Question, One Answer is a mini interview series with leading authors sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop. Please visit our websi...

Annie Jacobsen author of The Pentagon's Brain

24 Sep 2015

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The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 The Avid Reade...

Amy Stewart author of Girl Waits With Gun

23 Sep 2015

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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation’...

Anil Ananthaswami author of The Man Who Wasn't There

23 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Anil Ananthaswamy’s extensive in-depth interviews venture into the lives of individuals who offer perspectives that will change how you think about ...

1Q1A Avid Reader with Erika Swyler author of The Book of Speculation

23 Sep 2015

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One Question, One Answer is a mini interview series with leading authors sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop. Please visit our website at www.well...

1Q1A - Avid Reader with Bill Clegg

14 Sep 2015

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One Question, One Answer is a mini interview series with leading authors sponsored and produced by Wellington Square Bookshop. Please visit our websi...

Bill Clegg author of Did You Ever Have a Family

14 Sep 2015

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Elegant and heartrending, and one of the most accomplished fiction debuts of the year, Did You Ever Have a Family is an absorbing, unforgettable tale ...

Julia Pierpont author of Among The Ten Thousand Things: A Novel

07 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling ...

Sophie McManus author of The Unfortunates: A Novel

07 Sep 2015

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This extraordinary debut novel by Sophie McManus is a contemporary American tragedy of breathtaking scope: a dramatic story of pharmaceutical drug tri...

Kate Walbert author of The Sunken Cathedral: A Novel

07 Sep 2015

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From the National Book Award nominee and author of the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling A Short History of Women, a deeply moving, “lyrical, om...

Aatish Taseer author of The Way Things Were

26 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The Way Things Were opens with the death of Toby, the Maharaja of Kalasuryaketu, a Sanskritist who has not set foot in India for two decades. It falls...

Emily Mitchell author of Viral Stories

12 Jul 2015

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A guidebook introduces foreign visitors to a recognizable but dreamlike America, where mirrors are haunted and the Statue of Liberty wears a bowler ha...

Matthew Thomas author of We Are Not Ourselves

23 Jun 2015

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The instant New York Times bestseller the Washington Post calls a “stunning…superbly rendered” novel, and Entertainment Weekly describes as “a...

Erika Swyler author of The Book of Speculation

23 Jun 2015

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"Dazzling...[a] quirky, raucous, and bewitching family saga." --Sara Gruen, author of Water for ElephantsSimon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone ...

Laura Dave author of Eight Hundred Grapes

14 Jun 2015

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There are secrets you share, and secrets you hide....Growing up on her family’s Sonoma vineyard, Georgia Ford learned some important secrets. The se...

Lauren Acampora author of The Wonder Garden

04 Jun 2015

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John likes to arrive first. He enjoys standing quietly with a house before his clients arrive, and today, although he feels pinned beneath an invisibl...

James Hannaham author of Delicious Foods

04 Jun 2015

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Held captive by her employers--and by her own demons--on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely American ...

H.W. Brands author of Reagan: The Life

04 Jun 2015

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In his magisterial new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the twentieth century, a t...

Sy Montgomery author of The Soul of an Octopus

04 Jun 2015

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In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the o...

Courtney Maum author of I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

19 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

In this reverse love story set in Paris and London, which Glamour hailed as one of the “10 Best Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List Right This ...

Judith Claire Mitchell author of A Reunion of Ghosts

19 May 2015

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Three wickedly funny sisters.One family's extraordinary legacy.A single suicide note that spans a century ...Meet the Alter sisters: Lady, Vee, and De...

J. C. Hallman author of B & Me

19 May 2015

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A funny, frisky, often outrageous book about love, literature, and modern life—and a wink of the eye toU and I, Nicholson Baker’s classic book abo...

Lauren Acampora author of The Wonder Garden

19 May 2015

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In her stunning debut collection, The Wonder Garden, Lauren Acampora brings to the page with enchanting realism the myriad lives of a suburban town an...

Abigail Thomas author of What Comes Next and How to Like It

06 May 2015

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In her bestselling and beloved memoir A Three Dog Life, Abigail Thomas wrote about the tragic loss of her husband. In What Comes Next and How to Like ...

Tanya James author of The Tusk That Did The Damage

18 Apr 2015

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About the Book:From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes, a tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral com...

Col. Chris Hadfield author of Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

13 Apr 2015

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Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Spa...

T. C. Boyle author of The Harder They Come: A Novel

01 Apr 2015

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Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle makes his Ecco debut with a powerful, gripping novel that explores the roots of violence and an...

M.O. Walsh author of My Sunshine Away

20 Mar 2015

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Review: Try and restrain yourself from flying through the pages of this wonderful novel. Instead savor this lush Louisiana mystery that takes you back...

William Nicholson author of Amherst

02 Mar 2015

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The Times: ‘A beguiling meditation on poetry and love… After reading this I’m resolved to become more familiar with Nicholson the novelist and t...

Sarah Gerard author of Binary Star

02 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The language of the stars is the language of the body. Like a star, the anorexic burns fuel that isn't replenished; she is held together by her own gr...

Matteo Pericoli author of Windows on the World: 50 Writers, 50 Views

01 Mar 2015

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Fifty of the world's greatest writers share their views in collaboration with the artist Matteo Pericoli, expanding our own views on place, creativity...

Daniel Galera author of Blood Drenched Beard

25 Feb 2015

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Dwight Garner, The New York Times: “Mr. Galera has a lovely sense of the rhythms of beach town life in the off season, the salty air and the diesel ...

Katherine Heiny author of Single, Carefree, Mellow

23 Feb 2015

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Maya is in love with both her boyfriend and her boss. Sadie’s lover calls her as he drives to meet his wife at marriage counseling. Gwen pines for h...

Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm

21 Feb 2015

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Minneapolis Star Tribune: “Unbecoming inverts everything we expect from a heist story: The pacing is deliberate, the characters are recognizably hum...

Paula Hawkins author of The Girl on a Train

10 Feb 2015

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A debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives.Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. E...

Emma Hooper author of Etta & Otto & Russell & James

04 Feb 2015

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Moving from the hot and dry present of a quiet Canadian farm to a dusty, burnt past of hunger, war, and passion, from trying to remember to trying to ...

Nathan Filer author of The Shock of the Fall

04 Feb 2015

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***This book has also been published as Where the Moon Isn't.***Winner of the 2013 Costa First Novel Award "A stunning novel. Ambitious and exquisitel...

Christina Baker Kline author of Orphan Train

28 Jan 2015

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Orphan Train is a gripping story of friendship and second chances from Christina Baker Kline, author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be.Penobs...

Paul Strohm author of Chaucer's Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury

15 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

A lively microbiography of Chaucer that tells the story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of The Canterbury TalesIn 1386, Geoffrey Chauc...

The Avid Reader Show - Best Books of 2014

15 Dec 2014

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Sam discusses his staffs picks for the Best Books of 2014 with store manager, Donna. The Avid Reader Show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop i...

Stanley Warren Poetry

25 Nov 2014

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About Stanley Warren..My first area of creative expression has been poetry. I have written some 1500 poems, of which several dozen have been published...

Assaf Gavron author of The Hilltop

25 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Hailed as “The Great Israeli Novel” (Time Out Tel Aviv) and winner of the prestigious Bernstein Prize, The Hilltop is a monumental and daring work...

Nell Zink author of The Wallcreeper

30 Oct 2014

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Fiction. "Who is Nell Zink? She claims to be an expatriate living in northeast Germany. Maybe she is; maybe she isn't. I don't know. I do know that th...

Johanna Skibsrud author of Quartet for the End of Time

30 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Inspired by and structured around the chamber piece of the same title by the French composer Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time is a mesmer...

Theodore Gray author of Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything

30 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

In his highly anticipated sequel to The Elements, Theodore Gray demonstrates how the elements of the periodic table combine to form the molecules that...

Azar Nafisi author of The Republic of Imagination

30 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the ba...

Mandy Aftel author of Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent

17 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Mandy Aftel is widely acclaimed as a trailblazer in natural perfumery. Over two decades of sourcing the finest aromatic ingredients from all over the ...

Charles Seife author of Virtual Unreality

07 Oct 2014

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Digital information is a powerful tool that spreads unbelievably rapidly, infects all corners of society, and is all but impossible to control—even ...

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

27 Sep 2014

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“ Haunting and riveting ... In several moving passages, Mandel's characters look back with similar longing toward the receding pre-plague world, rem...

Maria Venegas author of Bulletproof Vest The Ballad of an Outlaw and His Daughter

15 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

“Maria Venegas is a transfixing writer. Her voice is tough, vulnerable, humorous, insightful and always rousingly alive. American readers have rare...

Ellen Cooney author of The Mountaintop School for Dogs And Other Second Chances

15 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

“Is there such a thing as a Rescue Book? Well, there is now. This is a miracle of a book. It’s even a spiritual handbook. And it is for readers yo...

David Mitchell author of The Bone Clocks: A Novel

15 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

The New York Times bestseller by the author of Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize“With The Bone Clocks, [David] Mitchell rises to mee...

Cristina Henriquez author of The Book of Unknown Americans

17 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Arturo and Alma Rivera have lived their whole lives in Mexico. One day, their beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter, Maribel, sustains a terrible injury...

James McBride author of The Good Lord Bird

17 Aug 2014

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From the National Book Foundation..James McBride’s novel takes a pivotal, troubled sequence in American history—John Brown’s abolitionist campai...

Amy Bloom author of Lucky Us

17 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

KIRKUS REVIEWOn a journey from Ohio to Hollywood to Long Island to London in the 1940s, a couple of plucky half sisters continually reinvent themselve...

Dave Goldberg author of The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality

03 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Physicist Dave Goldberg speeds across space, time and everything in between showing that our elegant universe—from the Higgs boson to antimatter to...

JoJo Moyes author of One Plus One & Me Before You

27 Jul 2014

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Me Before YouLouisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afiel...

Paul Bogard author of The End of Night Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light

19 Jul 2014

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Streetlamps, neon signs – an ever-present glow that has changed the natural world and adversely affected our health; Paul Bogard illuminates the pro...

Kevin Birmingham author of The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce Ulysses

26 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

"A great story--how modernism brought down the regime of censorship--told as a great story. Kevin Birmingham's imaginative scholarship brings Joyce an...

The Fourth Revolution The Global Race to Reinvent the State by John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge

26 Jun 2014

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Dysfunctional government: It’s become a cliché, and most of us are resigned to the fact that nothing is ever going to change. As John Micklethwait ...

Katie Crouch author of Abroad

22 Jun 2014

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Not since Donna Tartt’s The Secret History has a novel this intoxicating captured the headiness and dark temptations of university life.The old Etru...

Laline Paull author of The Bees

19 Jun 2014

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Laline Paull’s ambitious and bold first novel, “The Bees,” follows Flora 717, a sanitation worker doomed by her birth to the lowest caste of her...

Sam Kean author of The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

18 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

In The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, Sam Kean travels through time with stories of neurological curiosities: phantom limbs, Siamese twin brains, ...

Julia Fierro author of Cutting Teeth

08 Jun 2014

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One of the most anticipated debut novels of 2014, Cutting Teeth takes place one late-summer weekend as a group of thirty-something couples gather at a...

Julia Glass author of And The Dark Sacred Night

08 Jun 2014

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In this richly detailed novel about the quest for an unknown father, Julia Glass brings new characters together with familiar figures from her first t...

Karina Wolf author of The Insomniacs (Children's Book)

19 May 2014

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When the Insomniacs move twelve time zones away for Mrs. Insomniac's new job, the family has an impossible time adapting to the change.The Avid Reader...

Maggie Shipstead author of Astonish Me

10 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

From the author of the widely acclaimed debut novel Seating Arrangements, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fi...

David James Poissant author of The Heaven of Animals: Stories

10 May 2014

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In each of the stories in this remarkable debut, award-winning writer David James Poissant explores the tenuous bonds of family—fathers and sons, hu...

Michael Smerconish author of Talk

10 May 2014

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Talk follows a rising star in conservative talk radio who is forced to balance his ambition with his conscience as he wields outsize influence in the ...

Bee Ridgway author of The River of No Return

10 May 2014

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In Bee Ridgway’s wonderfully imaginative debut novel, a man and a woman travel through time in a quest to bring down a secret society that controls ...

Adam Pelzman author of Troika

08 May 2014

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A stripper unwittingly becomes a sexual surrogate for a wealthy Russian immigrant and his paralyzed wife in Pelzman’s beautifully rendered debut.

Dinaw Mengestu author of All Our Names

24 Apr 2014

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From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 award, and a 20...

Akhil Sharma author of Family Life

23 Apr 2014

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"Outstanding…Every page is alive and surprising, proof of [Sharma’s] huge, unique talent."—David SedarisHailed as a "supreme storyteller" (Phila...

Alice LaPlante author of A Circle of Wives

23 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

When Dr. John Taylor is found dead in a hotel room in his hometown, the local police find enough incriminating evidence to suspect foul play. Detectiv...

Charles Belfoure author of The Paris Architect

20 Apr 2014

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In Occupied Paris during World War II, a gentile architect designs hiding places for Jews escapingthe Germans.* On October 13, the New York Post selec...

Kevin Powers author of The Yellow Birds

20 Apr 2014

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“In this powerful novel of the Iraq war, beautiful and poetic language is juxtaposed with brutal devastation. Terrified young American soldiers tryi...

Daniel Levine author of Hyde

20 Apr 2014

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“A gloriously disturbing portrait of man’s animal nature ascendant, Hyde brings into the light the various horrors still hidden in the dark heart ...

Phil Klay author of Redeployment

20 Apr 2014

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Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what ha...

Jane Christmas author of "And Then There Were Nuns"

16 Mar 2014

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The Avid Reader interviews Jane Christmas author of And Then There Were NunsWith humor and opinions aplenty, a woman embarks on an unconventional ques...

Elisabeth Elo author of "North of Boston"

16 Mar 2014

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The Avid Reader interviews Elisabeth Elo author of North of BostonDennis Lehane meets Smilla’s Sense of Snow: a big discovery in the world of female...

Helene Wecker author of The Golem & the Jinni

16 Mar 2014

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The Avid Reader interviews Helene Wecker best selling author of The Golem & the JinniIn The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythi...

Lara Vapnyar author of The Scent of Pine

16 Mar 2014

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The Avid Reader interviews Lara Vapnyar author of The Scent of PinesThroughout her acclaimed, award-winning career, novelist Lara Vapnyar has consiste...

Sherill Tippins author of "Inside the Dream Palace"

16 Mar 2014

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The Avid Reader interviews Sherill Tippins author of Inside the Dream PalaceThe Chelsea Hotel, since its founding by a visionary French architect in 1...

Ransom Riggs author of Hollow City

16 Mar 2014

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The Avid Reader interviews Ransom Riggs author of Hollow CityMiss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was the surprise best seller of 2011—an u...

Sue Monk Kidd author of "The Invention of Wings"

16 Mar 2014

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The Avid Reader Interviews Sue Monk Kidd best selling author of "The Invention of Wings"From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magni...

Gary Shteyngart author of Little Failure

16 Mar 2014

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The Avid Reader interviews Gary Shteyngart author of Little FailureNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAfter three acclaimed novels, Gary Shteyngart turns to mem...

Wil S. Hylton author of "Vanished - A Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II"

16 Mar 2014

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The Avid Reader interviews best selling author Wil S. Hylton author of "Vanished - A Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II""A powerful...

J. Michael Lennon Author of "Norman Mailer - A Double Life"

16 Mar 2014

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The Avid Reader interviews Michael Lennon author of Norman Mailer: A Double LifeNorman Mailer was one of the giants of American letters and one of the...

Phoenixville Rising - Avid Reader Interviews author Rob Cadigan

16 Mar 2014

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The Avid Reader, Sam Hankin, interviews best selling author Rob Cadigan author of Phoenixville Rising"PHOENIXVILLE RISING is a beautifully written lov...

My Mistake-A Memoir by Daniel Menaker - The Avid Reader Show

16 Mar 2014

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The Avid Reader, Sam Hankin, interviews best selling author Daniel Menaker.A wry, witty, often tender memoir by a former New Yorker editor, magazine w...

Brothers Emanuel by Ezekiel J. Emanuel

16 Mar 2014

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The Avid Reader interviews National Best Selling Author Ezekiel J. EmanuelFor years, people have been asking Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel, the brash, ou...

Kristina Morgan author of "Mind Without a Home: A Memoir of Schizophrenia"

20 Nov 2013

Contributed by Lukas

In her brutally honest, highly original memoir, Kristina Morgan takes us inside her head to experience the chaos, fragmented thinking, and the startli...

Kelly A. Barson author of "45 Pounds (More or Less)"

20 Nov 2013

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Welcome to the world of infomercial diet plans, wedding dance lessons, embarrassing run-ins with the cutest guy Ann’s ever seen—-and some surprise...

Emily Croy Barker author of The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

16 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

An imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world—where she will need to learn the skills of magic to survive.

Anthony Marra author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

16 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

A story of the transcendent power of love in wartime, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is a work of sweeping breadth, profound compassion, and lasti...