Author Birthdays - March | Washoe County Library System

1) A week in December

Author

Faulks, Sebastian

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Born 4/20/1953 - Sebastian Faulks

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In the blustery final days of 2007, seven characters will reach an unexpected turning point: a hedge fund manager pulling off a trade, a professional football player recently arrived from Poland, a young lawyer with too much time on his hands, a student led astray by Islamist theory, a hack book reviewer, a schoolboy hooked on pot and reality TV, and a Tube train driver whose Circle Line train joins these lives in a daily loop. And as the novel

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2) Racing the light: a novel

Author

Crais, Robert

Series

Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels volume 19

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Born 4/20/1953 - Robert Crais

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"Private investigator Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner Joe Pike are back on the case in this brilliant new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais"--

3) The third victim

Author

Margolin, Phillip

Series

Robin Lockwood novels volume 1

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Born 4/20/1944 - Philip Margolin

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When a series of abductions, tortures, and murders are traced to the home of a prominent attorney in rural Oregon, a rookie lawyer becomes a second chair to a legendary criminal defense attorney who holds a dangerous secret.

4) Tamsin

Author

Beagle, Peter S

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Born 4/20/1939 - Peter S. Beagle

5) Run silent, run deep

Author

Beach, Edward Latimer

Series

Rich Richardson series volume 1

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Born 4/20/1918 - Edward L., Jr. Beach

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The classic submarine novel of World War II. Richardson, an Annapolis graduate, takes his submarine Walrus deep while avoiding depth charges of enemy destroyers in World War II.

6) A high wind in Jamaica

Author

Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren

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Born 4/19/1900 - Richard Hughes

7) In the darkroom

Author

Faludi, Susan

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Born 4/18/1959 - Susan Faludi

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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age. 'In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had absconded from her life. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful dodger...

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9) Soldiers of fortune

Author

Davis, Richard Harding

Series

G.K. Hall large print bestsellers

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Born 4/18/1864 - Richard Harding Davis

10) High fidelity

Author

Hornby, Nick

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Born 4/17/1957 - Nick Hornby

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""I've always loved Nick Hornby, and the way he writes characters and the way he thinks. It's funny and heartbreaking all at the same time."—Zoë Kravitz From the bestselling author of Funny Girl, About a Boy, A Long Way Down and Dickens and Prince, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll. Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs,...

11) The River

Author

Lewis, Beverly

Series

Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction

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Born 4/17/1949 - Beverly Lewis

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"When two sisters return home for a visit after leaving the Amish world, both are troubled by the secrets--and the people--they left behind"--Provided by publisher.

12) Our town, a play in three acts

Author

Wilder, Thornton

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Born 4/17/1897 - Thornton Wilder

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Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the town of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play. It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, "You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly...

13) Out of Africa

Author

Dinesen, Isak

Series

[The Modern library of the world's best books]

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Born 4/17/1885 - Karen Blixen

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In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and...

14) Ordinary light: a memoir

Author

Smith, Tracy K

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Born 4/16/1972 - Tracy K. Smith

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"A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples with her identity as an artist, her family's racial history, and her mother's death from cancer"-- "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a deeply moving memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. Tracy K. Smith had a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest...

15) Take a Girl Like You

Author

Amis, Kingsley

Series

NYRB Classics

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Born 4/16/1922 - Kingsley Amis

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Take a Girl Like You may well be Kingsley Amis’s most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work: the sheer squalor—emotional, material, sexual, you name it—of modern life. It also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in Amis’s rogue-ridden world: Jenny Bunn, a girl from the (English) north country come south to teach school in a small smug town where she hopes to find love and

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16) The crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Author

France, Anatole

Notes

Born 4/16/1844 - Anatole France

17) Midwinter blood: a thriller

Author

Kallentoft, Mons

Series

Malin Fors novels volume 1

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Born 4/15/1968 - Mons Kallentoft

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Malin Fors, a divorced mother of a teenager and talented police superintendent in a small, isolated town, investigates the murder of an obese man who was found hanging from an oak tree, naked and horribly mutilated, in the middle of a snow-covered plain outside of town.

18) Next in line

Author

Archer, Jeffrey

Series

William Warwick novels volume 5

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Born 4/15/1940 - Jeffrey Archer

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"London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the "people's princess." Which means for Scotland Yard, the focus is on the elite Royalty Protection Command, and its commanding officer. Entrusted with protecting the most famous family on earth, they quite simply have to be the best. A weak link could spell disaster. Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are sent in to investigate the team....

19) The half-finished heaven: the best poems of Tomas Tranströmer

Author

Tranströmer, Tomas

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Born 4/15/1931 - Tomas Tranströmer

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The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has a prestigious worldwide reputation many expect that he will someday win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Transtromer's, as well as one of his first translators, has carefully chosen and translated the finest of Transtromer's poems to create this collection.

20) 84, Charing Cross Road

Author

Hanff, Helene

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Born 4/15/1916 - Helene Hanff

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Correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York, and a used-book dealer in London