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Authors of the Week

Anne Perry

Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Blind Justice (2013) and A Sunless Sea (2012), and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Death on Blackheath (2014) and Midnight at Marble Arch (2013). She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as eleven holiday novels, most recently A New York Christmas (2014), and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk (2010), set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Scotland and Los Angeles.

Alyson Noël

Alyson Noël is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Soul Seeker series, the Immortals series, the Riley Bloom series, and eight previous novels for St. Martin’s Press. She lives in Laguna Beach, California, where she is at work on her next book.

Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel was born and raised on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. Her most recent novel, Station Eleven, was a 2014 National Book Award Finalist. She is also the author of three previous novels: Last Night in Montreal (2009), The Singer’s Gun (2010), and The Lola Quartet (2012). All four of her novels were Indie Next Picks, and The Singer's Gun was the 2014 winner of the Prix Mystère de la Critique in France.

Bruce Hale

Edgar-nominated author Bruce Hale is passionate about inspiring reluctant readers to open books (and actually read them). He has written or illustrated over 30 seriously funny books for children, including the award-winning Chet Gecko Mysteries series, Snoring Beauty (one of Oprah’s Recommended Reads for Kids), as well as his two new series, Clark the Shark and School for S.P.I.E.S.

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