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James Madison, father of the U.S. Constitution, fourth president, and misunderstood founding father. Madison is the subject of a new biography by bestselling author Lynne Cheney, wife of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Brad Meltzer is best known for his legal thrillers, his "Heroes For my Son" and "Heroes For My Daughter" books, and as the host of the History Channel TV show "Brad Meltzer's Decoded." And now he's just published his first two children's books - "I am Abraham Lincoln" and "I am Amelia Earhart."
Shirley Jones had sex! That's been the media reaction to the Oscar-winning actress's memoir. But she's okay with that, because she understands that it's Shirley Partridge and Marian Paroo that readers of her book are having trouble with.
A. Wrighton‘s epic fantasy “Defiance: Dragonics & Runics Part I" combines her love of history with her love of fantasy-sci fi. Those against the Council’s oppressive reign have long since been cast out to the fringes of society, their numbers and determination dwindling. Now there may be new hope for the Rogue Dragonics....
In Eric Thomas's novel "DRT" an overnight traffic reporter blames himself for a horrible fatal accident - and is then visited by the ghost of the driver. Or is he?
As Christopher Ryan‘s hardboiled mystery-thriller “City of Woe” unfolds, how long can two detectives stick to strict police procedure when confronted with increasingly bizarre events that suggest the serial killer they're after may be a .. demon? "City of Woe" is the first recipient of The Bookcast's "Book of Exceptional Quality" distincton.
bScott Bartlett‘s novel “Royal Flush” asks, can a man who throws his dates in a dungeon find a girlfriend? It's the humorous tale of a man known only as The King. As his Kingdom careens toward catastrophe, he cruises seedy taverns looking for likely maidens. The King’s incompetence and weakness for beautiful women drag him deeper and deeper into trouble. He is even portrayed as a cross-dresser by the Kingdom Crier (the Kingdom’s most popular tabloid).
Harvey Helms kept a diary for a number of years,the story of a young gay man who accidentally ends up as one of the very first male beauty advisors selling behind a department store cosmetic counter in the south. Now in his memoir called “blush: the unbelievably absurd diary of a gay beauty junkie,” Harvey introduces us to she-dragons, man drama, lipstick, Tammy Faye Baker, Senator Jesse Helms, plus more than a large dose of gay-man craziness
Legend has it that the Minotaur was confined to the Labyrinth and slain by Theseus. But as David Gelber tells in his historical fantasy "Minotaur Revisited" the truth is far different.
It’s a tale of revenge, redemption, and the world’s most beautiful crime. Adam Mansbach‘s novel “Rage is Back” introduces us to Dondi Vance, son of two famous — or infamous — graffiti artists from New York City’s “golden era” of subway bombing.
Is "historical fantasy" a contradiction in terms? It may be. but that's how indie author Amre Cortadino describes her novel "Valley of the Shadows." Based very broadly on the Old Testament's Psalm 23, this book is the first in a series.
Shame is very powerful. Useful in the moment, destructive when it lingers, shame is a burden all of us carry. Unless we learn how to free ourselves of that burden. Now Hollye Dexter and Amy Ferris, along with 25 other women they reached out to share their stories of the burdens of shame they carried.
When she was growing up Karen Fisher-Alaniz had little interest in her father's experiences in World War II. But one day, many years later, Murray Fisher gave his daughter over 400 pages of letters he had written to his parents during the war.
From that moment on, Karen knew she could not leave questions unanswered any longer.
And what she discovered, about her own father, amazed, astonished, and humbled her in ways she never expected.
Teen heroine Alex must locate the pirate spy known as The Horseman, in "Tangled Omens" by Joni Parker. In her new role as a Tracker, the fifteen-year-old Alex is on the trail of The Horseman who is in cahoots with the pirates to steal Elfin gold. And Alex is experiencing new aspects of her own gifts bestowed on her by her Titan ancestors.
In "A Working Theory of Love," the debut novel by Scott Hutchins, 30-something Neill Bassett has signed on to help develop an artificial intelligence that is based on his late father's five-thousand-page journal. Thus Neill's day is filled "talking" with his father's journal, in an effort to make a computer sound more human. But can a computer - in his father's words - help Neill's romantic life?
When a sudden illness strikes her husband Elliot and then all too swiftly claims his life, newspaper reporter and mother Leslie Brody finds herself a stunned and unprepared widow. But her book “The Last Kiss” does not dwell on Elliot’s death, or her loss. Instead she shows how they resolutely made the most of the time they had left together.