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Josh Baker

Josh Baker lives in Southern California.

Of his expertise, the author expresses “I was raised Catholic, but like many other young people, I abandoned my faith after high-school. By the grace of God, I was blessed with the gift of renewal later in life and returned home. Experiencing life through the eyes of a non-believer as well as a disciple of Jesus has empowered me to better relate to, and love all my neighbors.”

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Adriana Lisboa

A escritora brasileira Adriana Lisboa nasceu no Rio de Janeiro. Publicou doze livros, entre os quais seis romances, uma coletânea de poesia, uma coleânea de narrativas breves e livros para crianças e jovens. Seus livros foram traduzidos para nove idiomas, entre os quais inglês, alemão, espanhol, francês e árabe, e publicados em treze países.

Ganhou o Prêmio José Saramago pelo romance Sinfonia em branco, uma bolsa da Fundação Japão para o romance Rakushisha, uma bolsa da Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, no Brasil, e o prêmio de autor revelação da FNLIJ (Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil) por seu livro de poesia para crianças, Língua de trapos. Em 2007, o Hay Festival/Bogotá Capital Mundial do Livro incluiu-a na lista dos 39 mais imp

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Rick Talbot

Rick Talbot was born in Toronto, Canada. He grew up in the Saint James Town public-housing project, the most densely populated neighborhood in Canada. It was a community of contrasts and simultaneous hope and hardship among twenty-five thousand isolated elderly, mentally ill, new immigrants, and blue-collar families who lived side-by-side in a .27 square kilometer city block.

He started writing stories in elementary school, when his love of stories was nurtured by his parents. His first story was about a man named “electro” who had the power to control the electroweak force. Other interests were comics, books, movies, and the Commodore 64 computer.

He attended a Catholic elementary school, which instilled an early reverence for the Church. Th

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Johanna Craven

A lover of old stuff, folk music, and dance, Johanna Craven bases her books around little-known true events from the past, often set in bleak and beautiful places. She divides her time between Australia and the UK, and can very easily be persuaded to tell you about the time she accidentally swam with seals on Holy Island.

Find out more at www.johannacraven.com.

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Mya Robarts

Mya Robarts is a bookaholic who regrets nothing. She aspired to be a contemporary dance choreographer when she discovered a pull for expressing her choreography ideas in written form.

After years of writing short stories. Mya will release her debut novel "The V girl" in two languages.

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Josh Baker

Josh Baker lives in Southern California.

Of his expertise, the author expresses “I was raised Catholic, but like many other young people, I abandoned my faith after high-school. By the grace of God, I was blessed with the gift of renewal later in life and returned home. Experiencing life through the eyes of a non-believer as well as a disciple of Jesus has empowered me to better relate to, and love all my neighbors.”

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C. Toni Graham

C. Toni Graham is the author of the delightful illustrated children's book "Gabby Giggles". Her YA novel, "Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals" is the first installment of her debut trilogy. The second release in the series, "Crossroads and the Dominion of Four" is now available at all retailers. This fantasy saga is about four teenagers transported to the Otherworld. Here the teens are thrust into a magical world where they must defeat an evil druid and determine if other magical beings are allies or enemies as they face danger and challenges in their quest for answers. This fast paced fantasy is fueled with mystery, surprising plots and memorable characters. Crossroads is an extremely well-written story for readers of all ages.
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Marc-Uwe Kling

Marc-Uwe Kling wurde geboren. Er studierte an der Großen Akademie von Lagado, wie man ein Haus vom Dach her nach unten baut. Er hat über seinen Mitbewohner, ein kommunistisches Känguru, drei kapitalismuskritische Bücher geschrieben, welche sich total gut verkaufen. Außerdem macht er mit seiner Band „Die Gesellschaft“ Reformhauspunk und am Ende muss wieder der Steuerzahler für alles aufkommen. Hey. Ho. Let’s go.

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Friedrich Schiller

People best know long didactic poems and historical plays, such as Don Carlos (1787) and William Tell (1804), of leading romanticist German poet, dramatist, and historian Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

This philosopher and dramatist struck up a productive if complicated friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe during the last eighteen years of his life and encouraged Goethe to finish works that he left merely as sketches; they greatly discussed issues concerning aesthetics and thus gave way to a period, now referred to as classicism of Weimar. They also worked together on Die Xenien ( The Xenies ), a collection of short but harsh satires that verbally attacked perceived enemies of the

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Adriana Lisboa

A escritora brasileira Adriana Lisboa nasceu no Rio de Janeiro. Publicou doze livros, entre os quais seis romances, uma coletânea de poesia, uma coleânea de narrativas breves e livros para crianças e jovens. Seus livros foram traduzidos para nove idiomas, entre os quais inglês, alemão, espanhol, francês e árabe, e publicados em treze países.

Ganhou o Prêmio José Saramago pelo romance Sinfonia em branco, uma bolsa da Fundação Japão para o romance Rakushisha, uma bolsa da Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, no Brasil, e o prêmio de autor revelação da FNLIJ (Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil) por seu livro de poesia para crianças, Língua de trapos. Em 2007, o Hay Festival/Bogotá Capital Mundial do Livro incluiu-a na lista dos 39 mais imp

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Christoph Marzi

Christoph Marzi (geboren 1970 in Mayen und aufgewachsen in Obermendig) lebt heute mit seiner Familie im Saarland und denkt sich dort und woanders Geschichten aus, während der Garten, der das Haus umgibt, immer wilder und seltsamer wird.
Seine Romane erscheinen bei Heyne und Arena, die vielen Kurzgeschichten fühlen sich in diversen Anthologien wohl.
Der Roman LYCIDAS wurde 2005 mit dem Deutschen Phantastik Preis in der Kategorie „Bestes Roman-Debüt Deutschsprachig“ ausgezeichnet, die Kurzgeschichten-sammlung NIMMERMEHR erhielt den Deutschen Phantastik Preis 2009 in der Kategorie „Beste Kurzgeschichtensammlung“.
Einige seiner Bücher wurden ins Englische, Holländische, Spanische, Italienische, Rumänische, Tschechische, Serbische, Norwegische u

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Astrid Lindgren

Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, née Ericsson, (1907 - 2002) was a Swedish children's book author and screenwriter, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries. She has sold roughly 165 million copies worldwide. Today, she is most remembered for writing the Pippi Longstocking books, as well as the Karlsson-on-the-Roof book series.

Awards:
Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing (1958)

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.

Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaign

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Kevin Brooks

Kevin Brooks was born in 1959 and grew up in Exeter, Devon, England. He studied Psychology and Philosophy at Birmingham, Aston University in 1980 and Cultural Studies in London in 1983. Kevin Brooks has been in a variety of jobs including: musician, gasoline station attendant, crematorium handyman, civil service clerk, hot dog vendor at the London Zoo, post office clerk, and railway ticket office clerk.

Kevin Brooks's writing career started with the publication of Martyn Pig in 2002 through The Chicken House which won the Branford Boase Award 2003 and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. He also wrote Lucas (2002) which was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and Booktrust Teenage Prize in 2003 also winning the North Eas

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Tsitsi Dangarembga

Spent part of her childhood in England. She began her education there, but concluded her A-levels in a missionary school back home, in the town of Mutare. She later studied medicine at Cambridge University, but became homesick and returned home as Zimbabwe's black-majority rule began in 1980.

She took up psychology at the University of Zimbabwe, of whose drama group she was a member. She also held down a two-year job as a copywriter at a marketing agency. This early writing experience gave her an avenue for expression: she wrote numerous plays, such as The Lost of the Soil, and then joined the theatre group Zambuko, and participated in the production of two plays, Katshaa and Mavambo.

In 1985, Dangarembga published a short story in Sweden cal

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921 – 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist.

Dürrenmatt was born in the Emmental (canton of Bern), the son of a Protestant pastor. His grandfather Ulrich Dürrenmatt was a conservative politician. The family moved to Bern in 1935. Dürrenmatt began to study philosophy and German language and literature at the University of Zurich in 1941, but moved to the University of Bern after one semester. In 1943 he decided to become an author and dramatist and dropped his academic career. In 1945-46, he wrote his first play, "It is written". On October 11 1946 he married actress Lotti Geissler. She died in 1983 and Dürrenmatt was married again to another actress, Charlotte Kerr, the following year.

He was a proponent of epic theate

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Sue Townsend

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Susan Lillian "Sue" Townsend was a British novelist, best known as the author of the Adrian Mole series of books. Her writing tended to combine comedy with social commentary, though she has written purely dramatic works as well. She suffered from diabetes for many years, as a result of which she was registered blind in 2001, and had woven this theme into her work.

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D.H. Lawrence

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism, and personal letters. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct.

Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage." At the time

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Judy Blume

Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. She has spent her adult years in many places doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Adults as well as children will recognize such Blume titles as: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Blubber; Just as Long as We're Together; and the five book series about the irrepressible Fudge. She has also written three novels for adults, Summer Sisters; Smart Women; and Wifey, all of them New York Times bestsellers. More than 80 million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into thirty-one languages. She receives thousands of letters a year from readers of all ages who share their feelings and concern

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Erich Kästner

Erich Kästner (1899–1974) was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known for his humorous, socially astute poetry and children's literature.
A stout pacifist and democrat, he was expelled from the national writers' guild during the Nazi era, with many of his books being burned in public. Today, he is widely regarded as one of Germany's most prolific and beloved children's book authors.

AKA:
Έριχ Καίστνερ (Greek)

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W.C. Ryan

W. C. Ryan is also known as William Ryan, who has won acclaim for his historical crime novels in the Captain Korolev series. The first book, The Holy Thief, was shortlisted for a Crime Writer's Association's New Blood Dagger, a Barry Award, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award,, and the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year. The second, The Bloody Meadow, was shortlisted for the Ireland AM Crime Novel of the Year, and the third, The Twelfth Department, was also shortlisted for the Ireland AM Crime Novel of the Year as well as the CWA's Historical Fiction Dagger and was a Guardian Crime Novel of the Year. Hi s books have been published in eighteen countries. William lives in London and teaches creative writing at City University.

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Andrew Martin

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Andrew Martin (born 6 July 1962) is an English novelist and journalist.

Martin was brought up in Yorkshire, studied at the University of Oxford and qualified as a barrister. He has since worked as a freelance journalist for a number of publications while writing novels, starting with Bilton, a comic novel about journalists, and The Bobby Dazzlers, a comic novel set in the North of England, for which he was named Spectator Young Writer of the Year. His series of detective novels about Jim Stringer, a railwayman reassigned to the North Eastern Railway Police in Edwardian England, includes The Necropolis Railway, The Blackpool Highflyer, The Lost Luggage Po

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Chandler Alexander

Dear Readers,

I hope my GoodReads profile finds you and yours in the best of health and strength. First, let me give thanks to you from the bottom of my heart for your support in making my dream of becoming an author come true. I am truly grateful.

Author-hood for me began in the Mississippi Delta where I was born and raised. It was those experiences and hardships of growing up that shaped my prospective on life and opened my eyes to real social and economic epidemics that I am sure people have heard of but haven’t really felt or lived.

So here I am to bring forth those experiences to you as a reader. My goal is to put readers in uncomfortable and intense situations in hopes of them feeling and tasting the darkness, the sadness, and the pain t

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Robin Jarvis

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