Dana Schwartz
Dana Schwartz was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago. She attended Brown University where she studied biology and public policy before realizing that she would only be happy if she tried to be a writer. While in college, she created the viral parody twitter account @GuyInYourMFA. Dana worked as a writer for Mental Floss, The Observer, and Entertainment Weekly, with additional bylines for GQ, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, and NewYorker.com.
Dana is the host and creator of the hit history podcast Noble Blood. She also writes for television. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Titus Müller
Geboren am 15.10.1977 in Leipzig. Studierte in Berlin Literatur, Geschichtswissenschaften und Publizistik. 1998 gründete er die Zeitschrift „Federwelt“ und war bis 2001 Herausgeber und Redakteur, bei einer Gesamtauflage von 18.000 Exemplaren. Heute erscheint die Zeitschrift im Uschtrin Verlag. 2002 veröffentlichte Titus Müller mit 24 Jahren seinen ersten Roman „Der Kalligraph des Bischofs“. 2005 wurde er mit dem C.S. Lewis-Preis ausgezeichnet, dotiert mit einem fünfwöchigen Schreiburlaub auf der Isle of Wight. Im gleichen Jahr belegte er den zweiten Platz beim Würth-Literaturpreis der Universität Tübingen.
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2008 erhielt sein Roman „Das Mysterium“ den Sir Walter Scott-Preis in Bronze als einer der drei besten historischen Romane der letzten zw -
Oleksandra Orlova
Українська письменниця і перекладачка, авторка дитячих і дорослих книжок, блогерка, літературна оглядачка.
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Народилася в Кам'янці-Подільському, де закінчила середню школу. У 2001 році переїхала до Києва, навчалася в Київському Міжнародному Університеті на факультеті журналістики і пізніше в Інституті розвитку дитини при НПУ ім. М. П. Драгоманова. З 2004 року розпочала активну творчу та наукову діяльність, які поєдналися у першому в Україні експериментальному проєкті з казкотерапії, писала казки та оповідання для дітей дошкільного віку, статті з психології. У 2007 році закінчила свою першу фантастичну повість «Катрусина любов», що була представлена серед конкурсних робіт у «Коронації слова». У 2009 році почала працювати педагогом за методом Мо -
Michael B. Curry
The descendant of enslaved Africans brought to North America by way of the trans-Atlantic slave routes, Presiding Bishop Curry was born in Chicago, IL, on March 13, 1953. Presiding Bishop Curry’s father was an Episcopal priest and his mother was a devout Episcopalian. She died at a young age, and Presiding Bishop Curry, along with his sister, was raised by his father and his grandmother. His father, mother and grandmother grounded him in Christian beliefs and practices through their example and their teachings.
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He attended public schools in Buffalo, NY, and, even at a young age, he learned about social activism through his father’s leadership and his own dedication to righting a broken world.
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Ayn Rand
Polemical novels, such as The Fountainhead (1943), of primarily known Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, originally Alisa Rosenbaum, espouse the doctrines of objectivism and political libertarianism.
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Fiction of this better author and philosopher developed a system that she named. Educated, she moved to the United States in 1926. After two early initially duds and two Broadway plays, Rand achieved fame. In 1957, she published Atlas Shrugged , her best-selling work.
Rand advocated reason and rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism as opposed to altruism. She condemned the immoral initiation of force and supported laissez-faire capitalism, which she defined as the system, based on recognizing individual rig -
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace was an acclaimed American writer known for his fiction, nonfiction, and critical essays that explored the complexities of consciousness, irony, and the human condition. Widely regarded as one of the most innovative literary voices of his generation, Wallace is perhaps best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which was listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. His unfinished final novel, The Pale King, was published posthumously in 2011 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Born in Ithaca, New York, Wallace was raised in Illinois, where he excelled as both a student and a junior tennis player—a sport he later wrote about with sharp insight and humor. H -
Martin Gilbert
The official biographer of Winston Churchill and a leading historian on the Twentieth Century, Sir Martin Gilbert was a scholar and an historian who, though his 88 books, has shown there is such a thing as “true history”
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Born in London in 1936, Martin Gilbert was educated at Highgate School, and Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with First Class Honours. He was a Research Scholar at St Anthony's College, and became a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford in 1962, and an Honorary Fellow in 1994. After working as a researcher for Randolph Churchill, Gilbert was chosen to take over the writing of the Churchill biography upon Randolph's death in 1968, writing six of the eight volumes of biography and editing twelve volumes of documents. In additio -
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen (often referred to in Scandinavia as H.C. Andersen) was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories — called eventyr, or "fairy-tales" — express themes that transcend age and nationality.
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Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Some of his most famous fairy tales include "The Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling", "The -
Patrick J. Buchanan
One of America's best known paleoconservatives, Buchanan served as a senior advisor to Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. He ran for president in 1992, 1996 and 2000. Buchanan is an isolationist on the subject of American foreign policy and believes in a restrictive immigration policy.
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Karl Marx
With the help of Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867-1894), works, which explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form many regimes, and profoundly influenced the social sciences.
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German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.
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Albert Einstein
Special and general theories of relativity of German-born American theoretical physicist Albert Einstein revolutionized modern thought on the nature of space and time and formed a base for the exploitation of atomic energy; he won a Nobel Prize of 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
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His paper of 1905 formed the basis of electronics. His first paper, also published in 1905, changed the world.
He completed his Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Zurich before 1909.
Einstein, a pacifist during World War I, stayed a firm proponent of social justice and responsibility.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin of Britain revolutionized the study of biology with his theory, based on natural selection; his most famous works include On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871).
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Chiefly Asa Gray of America advocated his theories.
Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).
Charles Robert Darwin, an eminent English collector and geologist, proposed and provided scientific evidence of common ancestors for all life over time through the process that he called. The scientific community and the public in his lifetime accepted the facts that occur and then in the 1930s widely came to see the primary explanation of the process that now forms modernity. In modified form, the foundati -
Adam Hochschild
Hochschild was born in New York City. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964. Both were politically pivotal experiences about which he would later write in his book Finding the Trapdoor. He later was part of the movement against the Vietnam War, and, after several years as a daily newspaper reporter, worked as a writer and editor for the leftwing Ramparts magazine. In the mid-1970s, he was one of the co-founders of Mother Jones.
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Hochschild's first book was a memoir, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son (1986), in which he described the difficult relationship he had with his father. His later books -
Michael Parenti
Michael John Parenti, Ph.D. (Yale University) is an American political scientist, academic historian and cultural critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects. He has taught at universities as well as run for political office. Parenti is well known for his Marxist writings and lectures. He is a notable intellectual of the American Left and he is most known for his criticism of capitalism and American foreign policy.
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Anne Applebaum
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is a Polish-American journalist and writer. She has written extensively about Marxism–Leninism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She has worked at The Economist and The Spectator, and was a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post.
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin, originally Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, was a Soviet revolutionary, politician and statesman who became the leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953).
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Initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he consolidated power to become an informal dictator by the 1930s. Ideologically adhering to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, he formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies are called Stalinism. -
Gustave Le Bon
A social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded theories of national traits, racial superiority, herd behavior and crowd psychology.
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Bruce Gilley
Bruce Gilley is Professor of Political Science at the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University. His research centers on comparative and international politics and public policy. His work covers issues as diverse as democracy, climate change, political legitimacy, and international conflict. He is a specialist on the politics of China and Asia. He is the author of four university-press books, including The Nature of Asian Politics (2015), The Right to Rule: How States Win and Lose Legitimacy (2009) and China’s Democratic Future (2004) in addition to several co-edited volumes. His scholarly articles have appeared in journals including Comparative Political Studies and the European Journal of Political Research and hi
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Dominique Venner
Award-winning French historian, journalist and writer.
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Venner was a member of the Organisation de l'armée secrète and later became a European nationalist before withdrawing from politics to focus on a career as a historian. He specialized in military and political history. At the time of his death, he was the editor of the La Nouvelle Revue d'Histoire, a bimonthly history magazine. On 21 May 2013, Venner committed suicide inside the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. -
Alex Pheby
Alex Pheby is a British author and academic.
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His latest book is Mordew, the first in a fantasy trilogy.
His second novel, Playthings, was described as “the best neuro-novel ever written" in Literary Review. The novel deals with the true case of Daniel Paul Schreber, a 19th-century German judge afflicted by schizophrenia who was committed to an asylum. In 2016, Playthings was shortlisted for the £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize.
In 2019, his third novel, Lucia, which deals with the life of James Joyce's daughter, was joint winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize.
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Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell was born in 1987 and grew up in Africa and Europe. In 2008 she was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her first book, The Girl Savage, was born of her love of Zimbabwe and her own childhood there; her second, Rooftoppers, was inspired by summers working in Paris and by night-time trespassing on the rooftops of All Souls. She is currently working on her doctorate alongside an adult novel.
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D.T. Max
D.T. Max is a staff writer for the New Yorker. He lives outside of New York with his wife, two teenaged children and a rescued pomeranian-cocker named Nemo. He is the author of The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery (Random House). His biography Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (Viking), was a New York Times bestseller. His latest book, Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim was published in November 2022 by Harper.
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Ainslie Hogarth
Ainslie Hogarth is the author of four novels. You can find her short fiction in Hazlitt, Maisonneuve, Room Magazine, Black Static, and more.
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Jeff Fynn-Paul
Jeff Fynn-Paul is an economic historian with an interest in the history of democracy. He lives in The Hague.
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Henry Makow
Henry Makow (born November 12, 1949) is a Canadian conspiracy theorist, author, columnist, and inventor of the boardgame Scruples.
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Makow was born in Zürich, Switzerland. As an infant, he moved with his family to Canada, settling in Ottawa. At the age of 11 he began to write the syndicated advice-to-parents column "Ask Henry," which ran in 50 newspapers in the early 1960s[citation needed] and was published in book form in 1962.[1] He appeared as a guest on What's My Line? and stumped the panel.
He received his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto in 1982, and lives in Winnipeg. In 1984, he invented Scruples, a game of moral dilemmas which was translated into five languages and sold seven million copies worldwide.[citatio -
Casper ter Kuile
Casper ter Kuile is helping to build a world of joyful belonging.
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He's the author of The Power of Ritual (2020), and co-host of the award-winning podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. Casper is a Ministry Innovation Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and holds Masters of Divinity and Public Policy from Harvard University.
With his team at Sacred Design Lab, he co-authored the seminal paper How We Gather (2015) and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Atlantic Magazine, and Washington Post.
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Ernest Callenbach
Ernest Callenbach was an American author, film critic, editor, and simple living adherent. He became famous due to his internationally successful semi-utopian novel Ecotopia.
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Ulf Stark
Ulf Gottfrid Stark was a Swedish author and screenwriter (he adapted several of his own books for film and wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen).
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Stark collaborated with the illustrators Anna Höglund and Mati Lepp.
From 1989 to 1998 he was an elected member of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books Svenska barnboksakademin. In 1998 he received the Nordic Children's Book Prize.
Stark was born and grew up in Stureby, Stockholm Municipality, which place features in several of his books. Stark's interest in writing started early; during his time at secondary school he was introduced to writing by his classmate Peter Curman, and in 1964 he wrote his first poetry Ett hål till livet. Following this, Stark's interest i -
Britnee Meiser
Britnee is a writer, amateur crocheter, and small creature enthusiast living in Brooklyn, New York. She's the author of ALL MY BESTS and JANE STAYS DREAMING. Her chapter book series, WITCHES OF PECULIAR, is published under the pseudonym Luna Graves.
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Burnett Bolloten
Burnett Bolloten (Wales, United Kingdom, 1909 – Sunnyvale, California, 1987) was a writer and scholar of the Spanish Civil War.
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Son of a Liverpool jeweler, he was born in the UK. Not wishing to follow his father's career, he began to travel around the Mediterranean. While on vacation in Barcelona, he was witness to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, a conflict that he covered as correspondent for the United Press agency. Initially a supporter, however not militant, of the Communist Party, he became disappointed with it during the course of the war, eventually coming to the conclusion that the Communists had betrayed the Republic. After the war he moved to Mexico and spent several years there with his first wife, Gladys Evie Green, inter -
I.W. Gregorio
My reviews:
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As Julie Ann Peters says: "Writers have enough critics in the world. I don't want to be a critic. I support writers in whatever way I can." As such, I have a very simple rating system:
*5-star reviews are for books that I LOVED and would buy for someone as a gift.
*4-star reviews are for books that I liked/admired and would recommend to someone else.
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I. W. Gregorio is a practicing surgeon by day, masked avenging YA writer by night. A graduate of the Yale School of Medicine, she studied creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University. While a surgical resident, she published in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News and Washington Post. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and -
Elli H. Radinger
Elli H. Radinger is a German free journalist and author.
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Meredith McCardle
Meredith McCardle is a recovered lawyer who lives in South Florida with her husband and two young daughters. Like her main character in the Annum Guard series, she has a fondness for strong coffee, comfortable pants, and jumping to the wrong conclusions. Unlike her main character, she cannot travel through time. Sadly. She is the author of THE EIGHTH GUARDIAN and BLACKOUT.
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Matthew Bunson
Matthew Bunson (born 1966) is an American author of more than fifty books, a historian, professor, editor, Roman Catholic theologian, Senior Contributor for EWTN, the Catholic multimedia network, Senior Fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and Faculty Chair at Catholic Distance University.
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He is the author of the books Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire, The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, The Vampire Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of American Catholic History, and Pope Francis, the first English-language biography of Pope Francis in 2013.
Bunson has a B.A. in history, an M.A. in Theology, a Master of Divinity, a Doctorate in Ministry and a Ph.D. in Church History from the Graduate Theological Foundation. He is on the faculty of the -
Bartul Vlahović
Bartul Vlahović rođen je 3. listopada 1990. godine u Splitu.
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Diplomirao je na Ekonomskom fakultetu i tako stekao zvanje magistra poslovne ekonomije.
2019. godine sa Sonjom Šumić osnovao je Nakladu Fragment.
Uredio je i grafički obradio velik broj knjiga Naklade Fragment, ali i ostalih izdavačkih kuća.
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Austin Wright
Austin McGiffert Wright was a novelist, literary critic and professor emeritus of English at the University of Cincinnati.
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He grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, son of the geographer John Kirtland Wright and Katharine McGiffert Wright, and namesake of his uncle, Austin Tappan Wright, writer of the utopian novel, Islandia. He graduated from Harvard University in 1943. He served in the Army (1943–1946). He graduated from the University of Chicago, with a master's degree in 1948, and a Ph.D. in 1959.
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Barbara Almond
Dr. Barbara Almond was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. She authored books on psychiatry, including The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood. With her husband Richard, also a psychiatrist, Almond wrote The Therapeutic Narrative, a book about psychiatric conditions in literary characters.
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Matteo Farinella
Matteo Farinella is a London based neuroscientist and cartoonist. He works at the intersection between science and art, producing info-comics and scientific illustrations. He collaborated with high-profile scientific projects and institutions such as UCL, HarvardX, Columbia University and OpenWorm. He is also very passionate about education and public engagement with science.
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Arwen Lynch
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Professional joy seeker, Arwen Lynch has studied and taught Tarot since 1985. She added Lenormand to her list in 2014 after falling in love with the system. She doesn't compare Tarot to Lenormand but finds the two systems each beautiful in their own way. As a teacher, Arwen has taught Tarot to writers from the pre-published to NYTimes/USAToday bestsellers.
She also writes fiction as Marilu Mann with another creative partner.
Currently living in enchanting New Mexico, Arwen makes her home with one very patient husband and a slew of four footed creatures. She enjoys doing weekly free Tarotscopes on YouTube and reviewing decks and products.
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Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Otto Lagerfeld was a German creative director, artist, photographer and caricaturist who lived in Paris. He was known as the creative director of the French luxury fashion house Chanel (from 1983 until his death), as well as creative director of the Italian fur and leather goods fashion house Fendi and his own eponymous fashion label. Over the decades, he collaborated on a variety of fashion and art-related projects.
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Aljoscha Jelinek
Ich bin Aljoscha Jelinek
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Seit über fünf Jahren arbeite ich als selbstständiger Autor auf dem deutschen Markt und bin in einer Vielzahl von Formaten unterwegs.
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Manfred Theisen
Manfred Theisen studierte Germanistik, Anglistik und Politik, forschte zwei Jahre für das Innenministerium in der Sowjetunion und leitete eine Tageszeitungsredaktion. Seine Bücher wurden ausgezeichnet, auf die Auswahllisten der Rundfunkanstalten gesetzt und in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt. Der Autor hat vier Kinder und lebt mit seiner Familie in Köln. Auf Anfrage hält er Lesungen und führt Workshops durch.
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Joel McKay
Joel McKay is an award-winning author of fantasy and dark fiction, including the YA fantasy novel The Dungeoneers and the Treasure of Roan, the horror novella Wolf at the Door and dark anthology It Came From the Trees and Other Violent Aberrations. He lives in Northern B.C.
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Mark Benecke
Mark Benecke is a German forensic biologist and medical examiner.
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Parimalasri Docktor
Parimala Sri was born and raised in India. She currently resides in Philadelphia. Bucket list to reality is the publishing of "Where is he?"
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Avery Timmons
Avery Timmons is an Illinois-based young adult author holding a Bachelor of Arts in
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Stina Jensen
Stina Jensen liebt es, authentische Figuren mit all ihren Stärken und Schwächen zu zeichnen und auf dem Papier zum Leben zu erwecken. Dabei entführt sie ihre Leserschaft stets an Sehnsuchtsorte, die sie selbst bereist hat.
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Ihre INSELfarben-Romane sowie die WINTERknistern-Reihe steigen regelmäßig in die Tolino-Bestseller-Liste ein. Sie ist Mitglied bei DeLiA, dem Verband der deutschen Liebesromanautorinnen.