Author and Boulder native David Roberts almost didn't get to publish "Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer."
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Jodi Picoult has evolved into the "issues" writer for popular fiction, and she tackles another thorny one in "Sing You Home," her latest tale of someone's personal tragedy.
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The world of George R.R. Martin`s enormous "A Song of Ice and Fire" cycle is wonderfully huge. It has its own illnesses, religions and politics; its own disturbing and believable brand of magic; and, above all, its beautifully wrought characters -- even more of them in the fifth and latest book, "A Dance with Dragons.
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It`s the holy grail of cover blurbs for science-fiction writers, and I am prepared to bestow it upon Longmont author Dan Simmons today:
"With his new novel, 'Flashback,` Dan Simmons has become the next Robert Heinlein."
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There is a type of man who populates Jim Shepard's latest collection of short stories. He is sensitive, educated, perceptive, empathic and deeply grateful to his wife or girlfriend for sex.
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There are two good reasons for taking a job in a bank or other private financial institution. One: You can earn a decent living, or better, without getting too much dirt under your fingernails.
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In the quirky, humorous little mystery, "Chihuahua of the Baskervilles," Boulder author Esri Allbritten introduces a kooky cast involved in what appears to be criminal macabre entertainment.
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A Superior man whose life was transformed when he was contacted by a daughter he never knew existed has turned the experience into a memoir that he hopes will speak to fathers, as well as families touched by adoption.
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Lincoln Steffens, one of the original muckrakers, dubbed Clarence Darrow "attorney for the damned," a tribute to Darrow's support of underdogs -- strikers, bombers, anarchists, murderers -- against governments and industry.
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With his first novel, "2030," comedian, actor and filmmaker Albert Brooks has dived headlong into the if-this-goes-on tradition of science fiction.
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D r. Marina Singh is an Indian-American doctor employed by a pharmaceutical company that has been spending buckets of money to develop what it hopes will be a miracle fertility drug.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel's new novel, "Devil's Plaything," is surely the first thriller in which the protagonist spends a considerable amount of time driving his grandmother around the mean streets of San Francisco.
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