Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Amazon Blogs: Omnivoracious Daily Digest

Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for September 16, 2013.

If Louise Penny Was Accused of Murder.... Favorite Detectives of the Golden Age of British Crime Fiction

Louise Penny's latest novel, How the Light Gets In (an Amazon best mystery & thriller book of the month for September), once again features the fine sluething of her Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, of the Quebec Provincial Police homicide department.

Over the course of nine Inspector Gamache books, Penny has frequently explored the dance of the killer versus pursuer. So we posed a question: if…

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6 Books That Matter to Amanda Lindhout, Author of "A House in the Sky"

In my life's truly tough moments, I put aside books I'd normally devour and dig into the ones I need. Over the past few years (through advanced-stage cancer treatment, divorce, other assorted craziness), my book bar has been raised: it better dish out real home truths I can draw on when I need to keep calm and carry on, or I'll have to put it aside for another time.

One of the books

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National Book Award for Young People's Literature: The Longlist

It's award time again, and today the first of the category longlists for the National Book Award was announced--the Young People's Literature award.  The other category lists (poetry, fiction, nonfiction) will be announced over the next three days.  Last year Goblin Secrets took home the Young People's prize and the 2013 longlist includes familiar names and past award winners …

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