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BEA 2016: A Rather 'Adult' Adult Breakfast
The Thursday adult author breakfast at BEA mixed humor with difficult subjects like slavery and the continuing divisions within our country.
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BEA 2016: Raise a Glass to the Millionaire Next Door
If Thomas J. Stanley were alive today, he would have be none too pleased with the celebration that is taking place today at the Globe Pequot booth.
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BEA 2016: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Overcoming Bias
While his 20-season National Basketball Association career spanning the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers is certainly remarkable, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s impact on the American cultural landscape transcends sports.
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BEA 2016: Zygmunt Miloszewski: Domestic Abuse, He Wrote
Zygmunt Miloszewski, one of Poland’s bestselling novelists, has made the long trip to Chicago to celebrate "Rage" (AmazonCrossing, Aug.), the third in his thriller series featuring state prosecutor Teodor Szachi.
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BEA 2016: Thomas Mullen: When Black Cops Didn’t Matter
Thomas Mullen has been playing with genres for a long time. He has mixed historical fiction with magical realism, played with the spy novel, and is now mixing a police procedural with a fact-based piece of historical fiction.
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BEA 2016: Brunonia Barry: Salem Still Has Witches
“History casts a long shadow here,” says Brunonia Barry of Salem, Mass., the town where her family has lived since the 1630s and the place where she has set all three of her novels, the New York Times bestselling The Lace Reader, The Map of True Places, and The Fifth Petal (Crown, Jan. 2017).
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BEA 2016: Jennifer Chiaverini: Booth and the Women Who Loved Him
The average person today thinks of John Wilkes Booth, the actor who shot President Lincoln in 1865, only as an assassin. But he was also a handsome actor with adoring fans, as well as a family man.
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BEA 2016: Kristina Riggle: A Novel of Note
Kristina Riggle was inspired to write "Vivian in Red" (Polis, Sept.), a multigenerational story with a family mystery, after her agent urged her to expand her horizons from the usual short time-line focus on a particular family or small town.
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BEA 2016: Meg Little Reilly: Tackling Big Issues
Meg Little Reilly describes herself as a “writer, environmentalist, quilter, aspiring banjo player, hiker of mountains and swimmer of lakes.”
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BEA 2016: Marie Benedict: Einstein’s Family Helper
The first Einstein is Albert. The “other” Einstein is Mileva Maric, the first wife of the famous physicist, whose role in helping to formulate the special theory of relativity in 1905 has been speculated on, but never really known—with the truth mostly lost to history.
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BEA 2016: Michael Schumacher: Life and Death on the Great Lakes
Michael Schumacher doesn’t know why he is so fascinated with the Great Lakes, but it’s been a lifelong passion.
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BEA 2016: Rabbi Evan Moffic: A Jewish Spin on the Christian Jesus
Rabbi Evan Moffic’s first book, "What Every Christian Needs to Know About Passover" (Abingdon, 2015), prompted enough questions from Christians and Jews alike that the rabbi knew it was time for a second.
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BEA 2016: Beth Macy: An Untold Story
Beth Macy, the author of the New York Times bestseller Factory Man, is known for writing about marginalized people and outsiders.
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BEA 2016: David Unger: The Corruption Virus
David Unger’s "The Mastermind" is a novel loosely based on the hard-to-believe true story of Rodrigo Rosenberg, a Guatemalan attorney, who, in 2009, planned his own assassination.
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BEA 2016: Stacey Kade: Survivor Tale
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Stacey Kade, working as a copywriter in a Chicago area insurance company, noticed her colleagues gathered around the television in their media center. She joined them as the horrors at the World Trade Center unfolded.
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BEA 2016: Affinity Konar: Working Through Pain
Affinity Konar’s new novel, "Mischling" (Sept.), her debut with Little, Brown, follows what was a years-long writing journey.
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BEA 2016: Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Reader Participation
There’s almost nothing typical about Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s latest book.
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BEA 2016: Christine Sneed: Stories Living a New Life
Christine Sneed’s new story collection, The Virginity of Famous Men (Bloomsbury, Sept.), has been with her for a while. She first wrote a (different) story with that title about 12 years ago, but decided it wasn’t good enough.
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BEA 2016: Noah Hawley: Always Write
As writer and television producer Noah Hawley puts it, with Emmy, Golden Globe, PEN, Critics Choice, and Peabody Awards under his belt, “I certainly don’t have to write another book if I don’t want to, but I find it’s a very important thing to me to be a novelist.
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BEA 2016: Robyn Carr : An Award Winning Carr
With more than 40 novels under her belt, including several popular romance series, it’s no wonder that Robyn Carr is the 2016 Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
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