Neil Bradbury
NEIL BRADBURY, Ph.D. is Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, where he teaches and conducts research on genetic diseases. A full-time scientist and educator, Bradbury has won numerous awards for his unique approach to teaching physiology. He has presented his research around the world and authored more than 80 scientific articles and book chapters. He currently lives in Illinois with his wife and two border collies. A TASTE FOR POISON is his first book.
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Megan Rosenbloom
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“Mozart’s Starling is a delightful, enlightening, breathless flight through the worlds of Carmen and Star, two European starlings who join their human counterparts in exploring life and music and nature, helping to shed light on the connection between humans and birds--those of us bound to terra firma, and those of us who are free to soar.”
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Val McDermid
Val McDermid is a No. 1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven million copies.
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Herman offers a rare combination of skills for a historian – her research is intensely scholarly, yet she writes the story in a colorful, witty manner. “History is so fascinating that it never has to be presented in a boring way,” she explains. “These were flesh and blood people, just like you and me, facing war and plague, falling in love, living among splendid art and gut-wrenching poverty. Sometimes people ask me if I plan to write novels. And I say, with all the things that really h -
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John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. In January 2012, his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, was met with wide critical acclaim, unprecedented in Green's career. The praise included rave reviews in Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and from award-winning author Markus Zusak. The book also -
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Britt Wray
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Andy Clarke
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Disambiguated authors:
(1) Andy Clarke - British Comics Artist (Current profile)
(2) Andy Clarke - AKA Andrew Clark
(3) Andy Clarke - Self-published author of Gardening at the Backyard
(4) Andy Clarke - founder of COSIGN conferences, Kinonet Consultancy, Videogames & Art
(5) Andy Clarke - Biology teacher, WJEC, EDUQAS, A/AS-Level
(6) Andy Clarke - Web Design, CSS, Stuff & Nonsense, Inspire guides
(7) Andy Clarke - Camp inspector/photographer for Vicarious Books, Sea View Camping
(8) Andy Clarke - Food & Drink, Event Host
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Andy Clarke is a British comics artist who came to prominence working at 2000 AD and became known to a wider audience with his late