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‘It’s going to be a spicy one’. So said Russ Cook, otherwise known as the Hardest Geezer, as he announced his latest challenge – to run the length of New Zealand. He earned his nickname after running the length of Africa in just 352 days – a gruelling journey through sixteen countries over mountains and deserts (not to mention being robbed at gunpo…
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When 18-year-old Donovan Shears sent a text message to a number he had just made up he wasn’t expecting a reply. It was 1998 and he had his first mobile phone that could send text messages. So, he made up some numbers and fired off the simple greeting ‘hullo’. One recipient was another 18-year-old called Kirsty who thought the message was from a fr…
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Author Jessica James debuts with FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, a second chance friends to lovers to enemies to lovers romance about Valerie, a former pop punk star who gets the band back together and finds herself falling all over again for Caleb, her bandmate and first love.저자 Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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LET'S CALL HER BARBIE is a fab fiction novel about the people who made Barbie a star: Ruth Handler, Jack Ryan, and Charlotte Johnson (Barbie’s Fashion designer!). Renée Rosen pulls back the curtain on all the obstacles that stood in the way of one of the boldest toy lines in history, and how how Handler made the Mattel company what it is.…
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Jenn chats with Cynthia Weiner about her arresting debut A GORGEOUS EXCITEMENT, her experiences growing up on the Upper East Side in the 1980s, the “preppy” murder that haunted the summer of 1986, and crafting fiction out of lived experience and “current” events.저자 Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Both outgoing and incoming American Presidents have been generous with their displays of forgiveness. Four years ago, the clear up was in full swing after the storming of the Capitol on 6th January 2020. Some 1,600 people were convicted, some for violent assault. Now Trump has set them all free. Perhaps even more surprising, however, is Biden’s off…
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Evelyn got a chance to chat with Zeeva Bukai about THE ANATOMY OF EXILE. The Abadi Family saga begins when a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story between a Palestinian and a Jew ends in tragedy. The family flees to America to mend, but encounters only more turmoil that threatens to tear the family apart.…
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Debut novelist Sandra Chwialkowska discusses her experiences writing for TV and how it helped her launch THE ENDS OF THINGS, a twisty suspense novel about Diana, a mysterious woman who vanished from a resort, and Laura – the woman who Diana befriended, and who was in closest proximity to her before she went missing.…
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The dying wish of Lee, Sandra Schnakenburg’s housekeeper, was for Sandra to write her story after she passed-- but it was a story Sandra did not know. Sandra stopped by the show to talk about uncovering Lee’s fascinating and moving life and bringing it to the page.저자 Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Kate Winkler Dawson discusses THE SINNERS ALL BOW: TWO AUTHORS, ONE MURDER, AND THE REAL HESTER PRYNNE, a riveting true crime history that explores a murder that divided 19th-century America, using modern investigative techniques to answer some lingering questions.저자 Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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As we know the universe is governed by certain laws. One concerns putting away Christmas tree decorations: only when you have packed them all away will you find one you missed. I have done this so many times that I have grown wise. I pack the boxes and then wait several days. I just know I’ve missed something. This year it was a green sparkly star …
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Author Judith Lindbergh “joined” us to chat about AKMARAL, a story of the Sauromatae – nomads descended from the Amazons (as described by Herodotus). Lindbergh discusses the research behind Akmaral herself, the titular character raised to be a warrior – and how she balanced battle and compassion while building her character.…
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TENDER is a brilliant and raw graphic novel about a woman obsessed with her vision for a picture-perfect, curated life. Beth Hetland, a cartoonist and an instructor of comics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, stopped by to talk about this riveting work.저자 Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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With Gen Z leading the charge 2024 is going to be another year where the cost of Christmas is loaded onto credit cards. But when did our love affair with credit begin? Back in the 1950’s the Bank of America sent an unsolicited credit card to every one of its 60,000 customers. Known as the ‘Fresno Drop’ it was a spectacular success, and within two y…
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Author Sylvia Mercedes comes to chat about the reissue of BRIDE OF THE SHADOW KING, the first in a Romantic Fantasy series that introduces us to Faraine, an outcast princess who meets Vor, the titular shadow king – and though they are star crossed, Vor is pledged to marry her sister. Check out these artists mentioned in the interview for some extra…
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