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"bio": "Leesa Cross-Smith is a homemaker and writer from Kentucky. She is the author of seven books: GOODBYE EARL, HALF-BLOWN ROSE, THIS CLOSE TO OKAY, SO WE CAN GLOW, WHISKEY & RIBBONS, EVERY KISS A WAR, and the forthcoming AS YOU WISH. HALF-BLOWN ROSE received Coups De Cœur recognition from the American Library in Paris and was the Amazon Editors’ Spotlight for June 2022, the inaugural pick for Amazon’s Editorial Director Sarah Gelman’s Book Club Sarah Selects, and the Barnes & Noble Book Club Pick for June 2022. THIS CLOSE TO OKAY was a Goodreads Choice 2021 Nominee for Best Fiction, a Book of the Month Book of the Year 2021 Nominee, a Book of the Month Early Release Pick for December 2020, the Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick for February 2021 and the Marie Claire Book Club Pick for March 2021. She was longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize and SO WE CAN GLOW was listed as one of NPR's Best Books of 2020. WHISKEY & RIBBONS won the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Gold Medal in Literary Fiction, was longlisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and was one of O Magazine's 2018 Top Books of Summer. EVERY KISS A WAR was nominated for the PEN Open Book Award (2014) and was a finalist for both the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (2012) and the Iowa Short Fiction Award (2012). Find more @ LeesaCrossSmith.com",
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"bio": "SOFÍA SEGOVIA SOFÍA SEGOVIA, es una autora mexicana y bestseller internacional conocida por su narrativa imaginativa y sensorial, pero con una conexión innegable a la realidad. En su obra explora y muestra piezas perdidas del rompecabezas de la historia y de la identidad mexicana. Huracán es su primera novela. El murmullo de las abejas (2015), su novela bestseller fue nombrada Descubrimiento Literario del Año por Penguin Random House GE y Novela del Año por iTunes. Tiene 19 traducciones. Peregrinos fue nombrada una de las mejores novelas de 2018 por Grupo Reforma y está en traducción como Tears of Amber. Próximamente vienen más traducciones. The Murmur of Bees, publicada por @Amazonpub en abril 2019, fue nominada al National Book Award 2019. El pasado como memoria del futuro (UDEM 2019), es su primer libro de no ficción. Sofía Segovia's international bestseller The Murmur of Bees (2019) was nominated to National Book Award, won a Sovas Award - Audiobook Narration - Fiction, Best Voiceover - 2019. Tears of Amber 2021 was an instant bestseller in Amazon.Sofía loves to travel but lives and writes surrounded by the mountains of her hometown, Monterrey, Mexico, with her family (close and extended), the Frenchie Amélie, the Brussels Griffon Leeloo Dallas, and Mika the Exotic Short Hair cat. They keep her busy and real, but imaginative. Without their hustle and bustle, she could not concentrate to write.Sofía Segovia, geboren in Monterrey, Mexiko, studierte Kommunikationswissenschaften in Monterrey und wollte eigentlich Journalistin werden, doch dann entdeckte sie ihre Liebe für fiktives Schreiben. Mit Das Flüstern der Bienen stand sie wochenlang auf den Bestsellerlisten in Mexiko und wurde international von den Kritikern hoch gelobt. Heute reist sie dorthin, wo ihre Romane sie hinführen, und lebt mit ihrem Mann, drei Kindern und drei Haustieren in den Bergen von Monterrey.",
"raw_bio": "SOFÍA SEGOVIA SOFÍA SEGOVIA, es una autora mexicana y bestseller internacional conocida por su narrativa imaginativa y sensorial, pero con una conexión innegable a la realidad. En su obra explora y muestra piezas perdidas del rompecabezas de la historia y de la identidad mexicana. Huracán es su primera novela. El murmullo de las abejas (2015), su novela bestseller fue nombrada Descubrimiento Literario del Año por Penguin Random House GE y Novela del Año por iTunes. Tiene 19 traducciones. Peregrinos fue nombrada una de las mejores novelas de 2018 por Grupo Reforma y está en traducción como Tears of Amber. Próximamente vienen más traducciones. The Murmur of Bees, publicada por @Amazonpub en abril 2019, fue nominada al National Book Award 2019. El pasado como memoria del futuro (UDEM 2019), es su primer libro de no ficción. Sofía Segovia's international bestseller The Murmur of Bees (2019) was nominated to National Book Award, won a Sovas Award - Audiobook Narration - Fiction, Best Voiceover - 2019. Tears of Amber 2021 was an instant bestseller in Amazon.Sofía loves to travel but lives and writes surrounded by the mountains of her hometown, Monterrey, Mexico, with her family (close and extended), the Frenchie Amélie, the Brussels Griffon Leeloo Dallas, and Mika the Exotic Short Hair cat. They keep her busy and real, but imaginative. Without their hustle and bustle, she could not concentrate to write.Sofía Segovia, geboren in Monterrey, Mexiko, studierte Kommunikationswissenschaften in Monterrey und wollte eigentlich Journalistin werden, doch dann entdeckte sie ihre Liebe für fiktives Schreiben. Mit Das Flüstern der Bienen stand sie wochenlang auf den Bestsellerlisten in Mexiko und wurde international von den Kritikern hoch gelobt. Heute reist sie dorthin, wo ihre Romane sie hinführen, und lebt mit ihrem Mann, drei Kindern und drei Haustieren in den Bergen von Monterrey.",
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"bio": "David Sheff is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Beautiful Boy. Sheff's other books include Game Over, China Dawn, and All We Are Saying. His many articles and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Wired, Fortune, and elsewhere. His ongoing research and reporting on the science of addiction earned him a place on Time Magazine's list of the World's Most Influential People. Sheff and his family live in Inverness, California.",
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"bio": "J.B. Salsbury is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her husband and two kids. Her love of good storytelling led her to earn a degree in Media Communications. With her journalistic background, writing has always been at the forefront, and her love of romance propelled her career as an author.She spends the majority of her day behind the computer where a world of battling alphas, budding romance, and impossible obstacles claws away at her subconscious and begs to be released to the page.Never miss a release: more information onher books, or just to say hello, visit JB on her website, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Web: ",
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"bio": "Katie Alender (rhymes with “calendar”!) grew up in South Florida. She is the third of four children (three girls and a boy) and the child of three very loving and encouraging parents.She attended high school at the Palm Beach County School of the Arts, studying Communication Arts. From there, she went on to the Florida State University Film School, which led her to Los Angeles, where she worked in TV production and development before becoming an author.She enjoys writing, reading, sewing (especially quilts), and hanging out with her husband, her daughters, and her dogs, Scooter and Frodo.Her first brush with publication was the article “So You Want to Live On Mars?” published in Sassy magazine in December 1991. Source: ",
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"bio": "Ginger Scott is a USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Amazon-bestselling author from Peoria, Arizona. She was also nominated for both the Goodreads Choice and Rita Awards. She is the author of several young and new adult romances, including bestsellers The Moon and Back, The Varsity Series, The Hard Count, This Is Falling and Wild Reckless.A sucker for a good romance, Ginger's other passion is sports, and she often blends the two in her stories. She has been writing and editing for newspapers, magazines and blogs for a hella long time. She has told the stories of Olympians, politicians, actors, scientists, cowboys, criminals and towns. For more on her and her work, visit her website at she's not writing, the odds are high that she's somewhere near a baseball diamond, either watching her son field pop flies like Bryce Harper or cheering on her favorite baseball team, the Arizona Diamondbacks. Ginger lives in Arizona and is married to her college sweetheart whom she met at ASU (fork 'em, Devils).Sign Up for Ginger's Newsletter! Ginger online here:Facebook: amazon.com/author/gingerscottBookbub: ",
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"bio": "Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of the global bestsellers 'The Romanovs' and 'Jerusalem: the Biography,' 'Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar' and Young Stalin and the novels Sashenka and One Night in Winter and \"Red Sky at Noon.\" His books are published in 48 languages and are worldwide bestsellers. He has won prizes in both non-fiction and fiction. He read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, where he received his Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD).'The Romanovs' is his latest history book. He has now completed his Moscow Trilogy of novels featuring Benya Golden and Comrade Satinov, Sashenka, Dashka and Fabiana.... and Stalin himself. Buy in the UK: thrilling work of fiction. Montefiore weaves a tight, satisfying plot, delivering surprises to the last page. Stalin's chilling charisma is brilliantly realised. The novel's theme is Love: family love, youthful romance, adulterous passion. One Night in Winter is full of redemptive love and inner freedom.\" Evening Standard\"Gripping and cleverly plotted. Doomed love at the heart of a violent society is the heart of Montefiore's One Night in Winter... depicting the Kafkaesque labyrinth into which the victims stumble.\" The Sunday Times\"Compulsively involving. Our fear for the children keeps up turning the pages... We follow the passions with sympathy... The knot of events tugs at a wide range of emotions rarely experienced outside an intimate tyranny.\" The Times\"The novel is hugely romantic. His ease with the setting and historical characters is masterly. The book maintains a tense pace. Uniquely terrifying. Heartrending. Engrossing. \" The Scotsman “Delicately plotted and buried within a layered, elliptical narrative, One Night in Winter is also a fidgety page-turner which adroitly weaves a huge cast of characters into an arcane world.” Time Out“A novel full of passion, conspiracy, hope, despair, suffering and redemption, it transcends boundaries of genre, being at once thriller and political drama, horror and romance. His ability to paint Stalin in such a way to make the reader quake with fire is matched by talent for creating truly heartbreaking characters: the children who find themselves at the centre of a conspiracy, the parents…. A gripping read and must surely be one of the best novels of 2013. ” NY Journal of Books \"Not just a thumpingly good read, but also essentially a story of human fragility and passions, albeit taking place under the intimidating shadow of a massive Stalinist portico.\" The National \"Seriously good fun... the Soviet march on Berlin, nightmarish drinking games at Stalin's countryhouse, the magnificence of the Bolshoi, interrogations, snow, sex and exile... lust adultery and romance. Eminently readable and strangely affecting.\" Sunday Telegraph\" \"Hopelessly romantic and hopelessly moving. A mix of lovestory thriller and historical fiction. Engrossing.\" The Observer“Gripping. Montefiore’s characters snare our sympathy and we follow them avidly. This intricate at times disturbing, always absorbing novel entertains and disturbs and seethes with moral complexity. Characters real+fictitious ring strikingly true.It is to a large extent Tolstoyan …..” The Australian“Enthralling. Montefiore writes brilliantly about Love - from teenage romance to the grand passion of adultery. Readers of Sebastian Faulks and Hilary Mantel will lap this up. A historical novel that builds into a nail-biting drama … a world that resembles… Edith Wharton with the death penalty.” Novel of",
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"bio": "C.L. Taylor is an award winning Sunday Times bestselling author of ten gripping psychological thrillers including THE GUILTY COUPLE, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick for summer 2023 and SLEEP, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick for autumn 2019. Her books are not a series and can be read in any order:2014 - THE ACCIDENT / Before I Wake (U.S.) 2015 - THE LIE2016 - THE MISSING2017 - THE ESCAPE2018 - THE FEAR2019 - SLEEP2020 - STRANGERS2021 - HER LAST HOLIDAY2022 - THE GUILTY COUPLE2024 - EVERY MOVE YOU MAKEShe has also written two Young Adult thrillers, THE TREATMENT and THE ISLAND.C.L. Taylor's books have sold in excess of two million copies, been number one on Amazon Kindle, Kobo, iBooks and Google Play and have been translated into over 25 languages and optioned for TV.She lives in Bristol with her partner and son.Sign up to join the CL Taylor Readers' Club to receive THE LODGER for free:cltaylorauthor.com/newsletter",
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