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American Book Review picked the 100 best last lines from novels. Numbers 6 through 10 on the list: 6. “Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to th...

Self-help writer and professional speaker Tony Robbins talked to the Christian Science Monitor about what he has been listening to and watc...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Matthew Connelly's Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population . About the b...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Elizabeth Becka's Unknown Means . About the book , from the publisher: In Elizabeth Becka’s la...

The latest featured contributor to Writers Read: Robert Bryce , author of Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of “Energy Independence .”...

Lee Rourke , the editor of the literary magazine Scarecrow and co-editor at 3AM Magazine , is the author of a debut collection of short sto...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Marcia Preston's Trudy's Promise . About the book , from the publisher: An act of desperat...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Matt Haig's The Labrador Pact . About the book , from the author's website: The Last Family...

Naval historian David Cordingly , author of Cochrane the Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Thomas Cochrane and other books, named a ...

When Linda L. Richards is not writing highly acclaimed novels and contributing to crime fiction's estimable The Rap Sheet , she edits ...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Brian Fagan's The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations . About...

The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Ben Smith , who writes a blog about the candidates for the 2008 Democratic nomination for ...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Stephanie Grant's Map of Ireland . About the novel , from the publisher: In 1974, when Ann Aher...

Alice Waters is the founder of Chez Panisse and author or co-author of several books, including Chez Panisse Vegetables , Chez Panisse Ca...

Now showing at My Book, The Movie: Shelf Monkey by Corey Redeko p . In October 2007, Corey Redekop applied the Page 99 Test to his novel, ...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Seth Harwood's Jack Wakes Up . About the book , from the publisher: Four years ago, when his fi...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Will Lavender's Obedience . About the book , from the author's website: When the students i...

Novelist, short story writer and playwright Warren Adler tagged five "favorite works about ambition, political and otherwise" for...

The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Pamela Erens , author of the novel, The Understory , which won the Ironweed Press Fictio...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement by Sally McMillen . About the book , f...