![]() ![]() Long a passionate Civil War buff, Linda has studied the era avidly for almost thirty years. For her devotion to her craft, the Romance Writers of America awarded her their prestigious Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Since then, Linda has successfully published historicals, contemporaries, paranormals, mysteries and thrillers before coming home, in a literal sense, and concentrating on novels with a Western flavor. Later, when she decided to write novels, she endured her share of rejection before she sold Fletcher’s Woman in 1983 to Pocket Books. Linda traces the birth of her writing career to the day when a Northport teacher told her that the stories she was writing were good, that she just might have a future in writing. Raised in Northport, Washington, Linda pursued her wanderlust, living in London and Arizona and traveling the world before returning to the state of her birth to settle down on a spacious property outside Spokane. ![]() ![]() The daughter of a town marshal, Linda Lael Miller is a #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than 100 historical and contemporary novels, most of which reflect her love of the West. ![]()
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In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had to sit down and tell myself several times: I’m at home, it’s Night, someone’s banging on the door only then did I manage to control my nerves. Unfortunately this has been happening to me lately, and has to do with my Ailments. I felt weak and began to reel, as if about to lose consciousness. I sprang up and stood by the bed, unsteadily, because my sleepy, shaky body couldn’t make the leap from the innocence of sleep into wakefulness. So when I was woken in the middle of the Night by hammering on the door – violent, immoderate and thus ill-omened – I was unable to come round. Meanwhile I had fallen very fast asleep I had helped myself with an infusion of hops, and I also took two valerian pills. Had I examined the Ephemerides that evening to see what was happening in the sky, I wouldn’t have gone to bed at all. 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(I)t seems to encompass real change, psychologically and historically, in the way that only a novel can." - Michael Hofmann, London Review of Books "If Doctor Glas is a wonderful book, The Serious Game is almost better.With an Introduction by Elena Balzamo (translated from the French by Ken Hollings).General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Basilio tries to figure out whether Simoun is Elias or Ibarra.īasilio never did go for the treasure all these years because the stranger (Elias) told him that he could get the treasure only if no one else came looking for it. He has a spade and begins digging for the treasure buried thirteen years ago. The newcomer turns out to be Simoun, the jeweler. ![]() Remember, it is deep in the night and Filipinos attribute supernatural things to balete trees which are believed to house evil spirits and other creatures of middle earth. 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