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1835-1910 Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He is called  the "greatest humorist the United States has ever produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature" Mark   Twain  is a pen  name , his  real   name  was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. " Mark " " Twain " is a riverboat term for measuring two fathoms (12 feet):  mark  (measure)  twain  (two). This can be explained by understanding that Clemens was a riverboat operator on the Mississippi before his writing career.  

Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen was a doctor long before she was an author.She is  now retired from medicine, writes full time, and lives in Maine. Her books have been published in forty countries around the world , and have sold more than 30 million copies! 

" I wanted to create books with a wide-range of unforgettable characters, with heat and romance, and lots of guns. It wouldn’t be complete without a slice of humor and charm." Meet the crime-solving duo of the Florida Keys: Madison who has all the charm of the girl next door, not to mention a deadly aim and Fab, her best friend, a femme fatale private investigator with a taste for danger and stilettos. 

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American.  It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father.....a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man.....has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey,,,,,first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.  Pictured in left hand photograph on the cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr.  Is.....President Obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy.  Pictured in right hand photograph on the cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham.....President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mothe...

In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury , who died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91, inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays.....  Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time.! His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles , The Illustrated Man , Dandelion Wine , and Something Wicked This Way Comes . Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel "Fahrenheit 451" is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction,  Firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never quest...

100 Hot Books  Have you read any good books lately? Still like to read? Yeah....me too. Nothing like a good book and the time to enjoy it. Just switch off the world and tune in that good book. I do love that comfy chair, with my feet in the air, reading to my hearts content. Kids got me one of those Kindle Fires and it has been great! I'm at the........ Kindle Store a lot checking out the books. There are some real good authors out there that are getting published that wouldn't have had a chance in the literary world of yesterday. Now, thanks to self publishing many authors are in print now that wouldn't have had a chance at all in the publishing jungle. Written for average people who want to understand the process of self-publishing, The Self-Publisher's Journal seeks to present a realistic view of self-publishing. With this book, average people, whether or not they have ever self-published, can understand the steps to self-publishing and ...