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Cover of Twenty Five by Moshea, a boy in a number 25 vest standing in front of a giant wolf on the lawn of a red-brick group home

Twenty Five, a Lycan Found-Family Fantasy for Mature Teens and Adults Drawn from Author Moshea's Years in Group Homes

Darie Nani··1 min read

Ten-year-old Jean-Eza's arrival at a group home changes the lives of 24 other boys, who discover their hidden Lycan nature and form a pack. Its author has spent decades studying child psychology, fostering, coaching and tutoring young people.

Ana Braunstein, author of the This Case and My Life series

Ana Braunstein Turns Her Award-Winning Short Film This Case and My Life Into a Four-Book Series

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

The screenwriter and actress first told the story of attorney Chris Roberts on screen. The four novels follow him from a Manhattan law firm into marriage, fatherhood and a family home in Connecticut.

Anthony Eddolls and his wife, Chris, by the ocean at sunset

Anthony Eddolls on His FBI Thriller Series and Where Agent David Stilley Goes Next

Darie Nani··1 min read

The Maui-based crime novelist, who publishes through his own company, Robert Anthony Books, also talks about finding readers as an independent author and the scams aimed at new writers.

The hand-lettered title cartouche of the 1768 Mason-Dixon manuscript survey of the West Line, framed by drawn trees, with the signatures of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in brown ink

The Original 1768 Mason-Dixon Line Map, Once Owned by Malcolm Forbes, Is Up for Auction Again

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

Drawn and signed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the western section of their survey carries an $800,000 to $1.2 million estimate at Brunk Auctions in Asheville on October 29, the same range Christie's set when it last sold in 2002.

Maureen Hughes, true crime author

True Crime Author Maureen Hughes on Spotting a Rehearsed Answer and Staying Safe While Investigating the Mob

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

The former police officer and bodyguard has written about organized crime for 26 years, from a newspaper heiress's ties to Johnny Roselli to a 1956 Cairo case ruled a suicide.

Tom LeNoble seated on a sofa in a dark, studded interior, hands clasped

Tom LeNoble, Who Joined Facebook at 50, on How to Reinvent Yourself

Darie Nani··1 min read

The former head of customer service at MCI, Walmart.com and Palm now advises founders and executives on changes of direction, and his memoir has won seven book awards, including a 2026 NYC Big Book Award.

Anne Carson, in glasses and a grey jacket, speaks at a clear acrylic lectern at the 2024 National Book Awards finalist reading in New York.

Anne Carson Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature : Always Trying To Do Something Else

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

The Canadian poet and classicist took the call over tea in her Reykjavík kitchen, calls her own career "inadvertent" and is already working out how to give the prize money away.

A wooden bookshelf at the 2026 American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago displays frequently challenged books, with Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer facing out on the top shelf.

Gender Queer Tops the American Library Association's Ranking of the Most Challenged Books Since 1990

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

Ellen Hopkins has 14 of the 153 titles, more than any other author, while To Kill a Mockingbird ranks No. 65.

Author Rick Tabor in his study, in front of bookshelves

Rick Tabor's Sci-Fi Political Thriller The Blink of Humanity Explores the Dire Cost of Political Corruption

Darie Nani··1 min read

The Blink of Humanity follows a bioengineer with epilepsy and her robot companion as they set out to bring a corrupt US president to justice after a nuclear attack on Chicago.

Chris Scharff, author of Memories: My Life Story

Hanns Scharff's Son Chris Scharff Traces His Family's Path From Wartime Germany to Africa and America in WWII Memoir

Darie Nani··1 min read

Born in Greiz in 1936, the Carlsbad author spent 20 years in South Africa and Rhodesia before joining his father in Los Angeles, and in retirement met one of the American pilots his father had interrogated.

Elizabeth M. Lykins, author and spiritual coach

Physician Associate and Spiritual Coach Elizabeth M. Lykins Says Lasting Change Begins in Stillness

Darie Nani··1 min read

An urgent care provider since 1996, Elizabeth wrote Reflections on Transcendence, which features 59 paintings by her lifelong friend, the late expressionist Steven D. Lyons, who selected each painting to match the text.

Lisa F. Crites holding her memoir Beautifully Unbroken

Beautifully Unbroken Review: The Shower Shirt Inventor's Breast Cancer Memoir Begins with the Loss of Her Mother

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

The medical journalist who patented The Shower Shirt after her own mastectomy tells the story behind it, and the story of the mother she lost two weeks after her wedding, in a memoir that will be of most use to a woman with surgery ahead of her.