David Almond
David Almond is the winner of the 2001 Michael L. Printz Award for Kit's Wilderness, which has also been named best book of the year by School Library Journal, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly. His first book for young readers, Skellig, is a ... [... more]
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Kelly DiPucchio
lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband and three children. She is also the author of the upcoming , illustrated by Ponder Goembel (Harper, Spring 2005). Her first book, , illustrated by Howard Fine, will come out in May 2004 from Hyperion. [... more]
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Daniel Laurence
Daniel Laurence dreams of adventure on the high seas from his home in Minnesota. Mr. Laurence is a parent, an elementary educator, and a children's reading specialist. This is his first book. [... more]
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Alessandro Boffa
Alessandro Boffa was born in Moscow. He completed his studies in biology in Rome, and now divides his time between Italy and Thailand. This is his first book. In this wickedly hilarious collection of fables, Alessandro Boffa introduces us to ... [... more]
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Ruth Rogers
Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers founded London's River Cafe in 1987. Their first book, Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers, founders of London's renowned River Cafe, are famous for their innovative approach to traditional Italian fare. In was an instant ... [... more]
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Barbara Ware Holmes
Barbara Ware Holmes has written several books for children. This is her first book for Knopf. Homer Aldrich Winthrop was a neurologist who died of a neurological illness. That's all Homer Jr.'s mother will say about his father, who died when he ... [... more]
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John Banville
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His first book, From the internationally acclaimed author of The Book of Evidence and Ghosts comes a mesmerizing novel that is both a literary thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse ... [... more]
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Spike Lee / AUTHOR CATALOG
Like the hard-hitting sounds of a Public Enemy jam, the words of the band's lead singer, Chuck D, excite the mind and senses. In his first book, Chuck D pours out commentary that takes on Hollywood, race, the music industry, the murders of Tupac ... [... more]
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Mary Ford-Grabowsky
This is the first book to introduce the fourteen joyful and highly symbolic events that make up the Via Lucis, the Christian Way of Light, an ancient spiritual tradition celebrating the post-Resurrection life of Christ on Earth. The Stations of ... [... more]
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W. Terrence Gordon
Written by W. Terrence Gordon, Illustrated by Susan Willmarth Linguistics For Beginners is the first book to ever make the arcane labors of linguistics accessible to general readers. It begins with a lucid definition of language and proceeds to ... [... more]
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Lynne Ewing
Lynne Ewing writes extensively for magazines, television, and film. Her first book for young adults, The music pulses, the lights flash, and Kata and Ana dance. For a moment the raucous crowd is tamed, and together the two girls soar above their ... [... more]
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Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S.
ANN LOUISE GITTLEMAN, M.S., C.N.S., is one of the foremost nutritionists in America. Prior to writing her first book, the national best-seller Beyond Pritikin, she was Nutritional Director at the Pritikin Longevity Center in Santa Monica, ... [... more]
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