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  • Writer, filmmaker, and photo hound Ransom Riggs is the author of the “chilling, wondrous” ( People ) no. 1 New York Times bestseller Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children , a unique mix of young adult fantasy and vintage photography that… more

  • Under the name John Wesley Harding, novelist, singer, and songwriter Wesley Stace has released 15 albums in genres ranging from folk to pop music. He has performed on stage with artists such as Rosanne Cash and Bruce Springsteen, and his songs… more

  • Isabel Allende takes traditional Latin-American magical realism and bends it to her own purposes to weave beguiling historic, political, and feminist narratives. Her first international bestseller was The House of the Spirits, which was adapted… more

  • • Recorded Oct 28, 2009 Explicit Content

    ( This recording contains explicit content. ) Praised for his unsentimental portrayals of contemporary life among Native Americans, Sherman Alexie writes stories and novels that are by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. His work has earned… more

  • Looking for Alaska , the first novel by John Green, won the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a Printz honor book. Along with his brother Hank, Green started a… more

  • ( This recording contains explicit content. ) Not suitable for individuals under 18 Walter Mosley is the author of more than twenty-five critically acclaimed books, including the best-selling Easy Rawlins mystery series. His work includes literary… more

  • Chilean author Isabel Allende has written many books, including Portrait in Sepia, Eva Luna, the memoir Paula, and a new novel on the legend of Zorro. Her novel, Daughter of Fortune, was an Oprah book club selection, and The House of the Spirits… more

  • • Recorded May 18, 2005

    Walter Mosley is the best-selling author of Little Scarlet , Fear Itself , and Bad Boy Brawley Brown ; the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series of mysteries; and other works of fiction and nonfiction in nearly every genre. His latest book and first… more

  • With the publication of his first novel, Jonathan Safran Foer became a certified literary wunderkind at the age of 25. The assured and hilarious prose of Everything Is Illuminated tells the story of a young man's search for the woman who saved… more

  • After graduating high school at the age of 15 Christopher Paolini needed something to do. So, he sat down to write his debut novel, Eragon, the first of an emerging three-part fantasy series about dragons and their riders. His parents, owners of a… more

  • Joyce Carol Oates, now the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, has published more than 70 books of poetry, short stories, essays and literary criticism, including novels and plays. She has twice… more