Bill O’Reilly talks about his new book, A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, in stores on September 23, 2008. Read an excerpt in Parade magazine, on stands September 21, and visit BillO’Reilly.com for more information.
Andrew Davidson’s The Gargoyle is an extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. Already a national sensation, the novel has received acclaimed reviews from WSJ.com, USAToday.com, and The New Yorker.
The Online Reading Group community has also adopted this book as a summer must-read. See what fellow readers have to say about The Gargoyle at Bookreporter.com, BookBrowse.com, and Bookgasm.com.
Download the comprehensive Readers’ Guide at doubleday.com/thegargoyle. Whether you read The Gargoyle with a book group or as a solo experience, this is a novel rich with topics for further exploration. Incorporating legends and locales drawn from a medieval monastery, Viking raiders, Victorian England, feudal Japan, Italian literary masterpieces, and other imaginative threads, Andrew Davidson weaves copious history into this singular love story. This guide is designed to illuminate many of those details, yielding facts behind the fiction while raising questions for contemplation or discussion.
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 national 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
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.
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.
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