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Featured Book: Jennifer Pelland:  

Unwelcome Bodies $14.95 Signed by the Author Apex Publications

Waltham author Jennifer Pelland has stormed the gates of SciFi/Fantasy writing with Unwelcome Bodies, a new collection of wide-ranging short stories. Pelland's Nebula-Nominated tales chart the territories of caste, ostracism, love, and morality. Each copy of Unwelcome Bodies is signed by Pelland.

Franz Wright

Walking to Martha’s Vineyard Alfred A. Knopf $15 Paperback

God's Silence Alfred A. Knopf $24 Hardcover

Amy Butler Greenfield

A Perfect Red HarperCollins $26.95 Hardcover

Amy Butler Greenfield is the author of the highly acclaimed A Perfect Red, which was released in June of 2005. Her grandfather and great-grandfather were dyers, and she has long been fascinated by the history of color. Born in Philadelphia, she grew up in the Adirondacks and graduated from Williams College. As a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, she studied imperial Spain and Renaissance Europe. www.amybutlergreenfield.com

Jon Papernick

The Ascent of Eli Israel Arcade (15% Off!) Now $11.86 Paper SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE

Jon Papernick grew up in Toronto and worked as a journalist in Israel in the aftermath of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin which informed his debut collection of stories, The Ascent of Eli Israel. His work has been anthologized in Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction From the Edge and in an upcoming volume titled Scribblers on the Roof. www.jonpapernick.com

Sharon Pywell

Sharon Pywell has been published in Antioch Review, Western Humanities Review, Southern Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. She is a former MacDowell Fellow and author of the novel What Happened to Henry.

What Happened to Henry Berkley $14 Paper

Everything After Putnam, $24.95 Hardcover

Jennifer Rose

Jennifer Rose is the author of The Old Directon of Heaven and Hometown for an Hour, and is the recipient of awards and fellowships in the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Poetry Society of America, among others. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Nation, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She works as a city planner, specializing in downtown revitalization.

The Old Direction of Heaven Truman State University Press $15 Paper

Hometown for an Hour Ohio State Unviersity Press $12.95 Paper 0821416561

Lora Brody

Lora Brody is the author of twenty-two cookbooks including The Kitchen Survival Guide, The Entertaining Survival Guide, Bread Machine Baking: Perfect Every Time, Desserts from Your Bread Machine: Perfect Every Time, Growing Up on the Chocolate Diet, and Pizza, Focaccia, Flat, and Filled Breads from Your Bread Machine: Perfect Every Time. Her most recent book is The New England Table. Her recipes have appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times. www.lorabrody.com

Chocolate American Style Clarkson Potter $35 Hardcover

The New England Table Chronicle $35 Hardcover

Ed Gaffney

Ed Gaffney took ten years of work as a criminal lawyer, added an overactive imagination, and came up with a new career as a novelist. Premeditated Murder is his first novel and he is currently at work on his second. He is married to New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann and has two children. www.edgaffney.com

Premeditated Murder Dell $6.99 Paper SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE

Suffering Fools Dell, $6.99 Paper SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE

Suzanne Brockmann

Suzanne Brockmann is the New York Times Bestselling, Rita Award-winning author of the Troubleshooter series from Ballantine Books, and the Tall, Dark and Dangerous series from Mira Books. Her most recent books are Out of Control and Over the Edge. www.suzannebrockmann.com

Suzanne Brockmann Out of Control Random House $6.99 Paper

Over the Edge Random House $4.99 Paper

Mark Fidler is the author of over 7 Young Adult books including Signed Ball and Baseball Sleuth. His most recent book is Two-Faced Forward published by Bir Books.

Mark Fidler Two-Faced Forward BLR Books $11.95 Paper

Angel Logan

Angel Logan grew up in Wooster, Ohio and studied liberal arts at the University of Akron. She has since made Waltham, Massachusetts her home with her husband Dana. Angel hopes to give her readers a vision into the window of life, to help them find their wings to fly, with her thought provoking and picturesque poetry collection that captures the essence of life's journey through a season of promise.

Angel Logan Wings of an Angel XLibris $31.99 Paper

David Hackett Fischer

David Hackett Fischer is the Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. He has written a number of acclaimed books including Albion’s Seed and Paul Revere’s Ride. His most recent book, Washington’s Crossing, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in history.

David Hackett Fischer Washington’s Crossing Oxford $17.95 Paper

Paul Revere’s Ride Oxford $19.95 Paper

Olga Broumas

Olga Broumas was born and raised in Greece. She won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1977, the first non-native speaker of English to win the prize. She has also received Guggenheim, NEA, Witter Bynner, and State Arts Fellowships and has published seven collections of poetry and four books of translation from Nobel laureate Odysseas Elytis. She is the poet-in-residence at Brandeis University and the Director of Creative Writing.

Olga Broumas Rave Poems, 1975-1998 Copper Canyon $20 Paper

Susanne Santoro Whayne

Susanne Whayne is a teacher and writer. She has written close to a dozen books for children. Her most recent work is Petropolis, which was illustrated by her brother, Christopher.

Susanne Santoro Whayne Petropolis Chronicle $16.95 Hardcover