In The Dark Side, Jane Mayer chronicles the terrible and destructive decisions the Bush administration made in the name of fighting terrorism. It has received natioanl attention by both periodicals and politicians alike. Below are some highlights:

• In “Answering Terror with Terror,” Salon.com states: The Dark Side is about how the war on terror became ‘a war on American ideals,’ and Mayer gives this story all the weight and sorrow it deserves. Many books get tagged with the word ‘essential’; hers actually is.”
• “Mayer’s singular accomplishment is to fuse the years of events that have brought us to this pass into a single compelling narrative and to use her own considerable reportorial powers to fill in important connective and contextual events.” — Los Angeles Times
• Readers can find similar praise at Bloomberg.com and The New York Observer

In the nation’s capital? Meet Jane Mayer at Politics and Prose on July 24 at 7pm. View a complete tour schedule, here.

Click here to watch more videos and read an excerpt.

This is an intense story. Tell your most intense story at burnedbylove.com. Read the most intense love story ever—The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson.

Read more about The Gargoyle at Paper Cuts — The New York Times Book Blog, The Wall Street Journal, and MediaBistro.

Visit Christopher Reich’s website to enter the Rules of Deception Sweepstakes.

Visit Bookreporter’s Suspense Thriller Feature, read Janet Maslin’s review in the New York Times, and Entertainment Weekly’s review.

Watch the trailer and take a short quiz for the chance to enter the Rules of Deception Sweepstakes — if you complete all the answers correctly, you can enter to win an Apple iPod Touch. Visit the Sony eBook Store to download advance previews of Rules of Deception.

Click here to learn more about Just Too Good To Be True.

Harris serves up a treat that will capture and enchant audiences everywhere—a big, bold, and irresistible novel about football, family, and secrets. Visit www.elynnharris.com for a complete tour schedule and to view photographs. Also, read an interview with E. Lynn Harris on Yahoo! News.

Signed editions are now on sale. Click here for more information.

Click here to learn more about Stalking Susan.

Inside the desperate world of TV ratings, an investigative reporter discovers that a serial killer is targeting women named Susan and killing one on the same day each year.

Visit Julie Kramer’s website for a complete tour schedule, and to contact Julie.

Visit Christopher Reich’s website to enter the Rules of Deception Sweepstakes.

Read Janet Maslin’s review in the New York Times.

Watch the trailer and take a short quiz for the chance to enter the Rules of Deception Sweepstakes — if you complete all the answers correctly, you can enter to win a Sony Portable Reader System. Visit the Sony eBook Store to download advance previews of Rules of Deception.

Eleanor Coppola shares her extraordinary life as an artist, filmmaker, wife, and mother in a book that captures the glamour and grit of Hollywood and reveals the private tragedies and joys that tested and strengthened her over the past twenty years.

1. Eleanor Coppola often refers to the contradictions within herself, these oppositions are an ongoing theme in her life. Discuss how you see this theme play out throughout Notes on a Life. What sort of contradictory characteristics have you encountered in your own experiences?
2. Discuss the various locations to which Eleanor travels with Francis and what effect these settings have on her existence and emotional state. How does filming on location in foreign lands differ from her life at home in Napa Valley? What role does cultural heritage play in shaping the lives of the Coppola family?
3. How does Eleanor react to being thrust into the spotlight when her documentary, Hearts of Darkness, receives critical acclaim? How does this compare to her later artistic endeavors? What does this imply about the nature of fame?

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Christina Schwarz, author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club pick Drowning Ruth, once again turns her storytelling eye to the evocative landscape of Wisconsin, where life is not as simple–or as innocent–as it seems. Beautifully tracing the emotional labyrinth of a marriage on the brink of collapse, So Long at the Fair is the story of a man struggling to choose between the wife he still loves and the mistress he desires. The questions and topics that follow are intended to enhance your reading.

1. So Long at the Fair reveals the perspectives of multiple characters and dual timelines. In what way did this enhance your reading? How would the storytelling have been affected if you had just seen Jon’s point of view?
2. Jon is portrayed as a perfectionist who is compulsively clean and organized. Yet there are glimpses of areas in his life that defy this, such as an unorganized desk drawer, a car glove box in disarray, and his tendency to misquote the lyrics of well-known songs. What is the significance of these contradictions?

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