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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Authors Nathan Marsak and Arnold Hylen and book, Los Angeles Before the Freeways

    Entrevista con un autor: Nathan Marsak

    Arnold Hylen (1908-1987) se formó en el Instituto de Arte Chouinard y encontró trabajo como fotógrafo para Fluor Corporation, donde trabajó desde principios de la década de 1940 hasta la de 1970…

  • Author T.J. Klune and his latest novel, The Bones Beneath My Skin

    Entrevista con un autor: TJ Klune

    TJ Klune es el autor número 1 en ventas del New York Times y del USA Today, ganador del Premio Literario Lambda, y autor de La Casa en el Mar Cerúleo, Bajo la Puerta Susurrante, En la Vida de las…

  • Author Margarita Montimore and her latest novel, The Dollhouse Academy

    Entrevista con una autora: Margarita Montimore

    Margarita Montimore es autora de Acts of Violet, Asleep From Day y Oona Out of Order, que fue un éxito de ventas de USA Today y una selección del Club de Lectura Good Morning America. Tras obtener una…

  • Author Kemper Donovan and his two novels, The Busy Body and Loose Lips

    Entrevista con un autor: Kemper Donovan

    Kemper Donovan presenta el podcast "Todo sobre Agatha". Graduado de la Universidad de Stanford y de la Facultad de Derecho de Harvard, trabajó en la empresa de gestión literaria Circle of Confusion…

  • Author Chris Nichols and his latest book, Bowlarama!: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling

    Entrevista con un autor: Chris Nichols

    Chris Nichols es un conservacionista con una larga trayectoria y editor sénior de la revista Los Angeles. Durante muchos años, colaboró con el Comité Moderno de Conservación de Los Ángeles, donde…

  • Author Mallory O’Meara and her latest book, Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman

    Entrevista con una autora: Mallory O'Meara

    Mallory O'Meara es la autora superventas de La dama de la laguna negra, que ganó el premio SCIBA 2019 a la biografía y el premio Rondo 2019 al libro del año, Girly Drinks, que ganó un premio James…

  • But Not Too Bold, a novella by Hache Pueyo

    Entrevista con un autor: Hache Pueyo

    Hache Pueyo es una escritora y traductora argentino-brasileña. Obtuvo una beca otherwise por su trabajo sobre género en la ficción especulativa, y su obra ha aparecido como H. Pueyo en The Magazine of…

  • Author Edward Underhill and his latest book, The In-Between Bookstore

    Entrevista con un autor: Edward Underhill

    Edward Underhill creció en los suburbios de Wisconsin, donde no podía ir caminando a ningún sitio, así que tuvo que buscarse la vida. Estudió música en la universidad, pasó varios años viviendo en…

  • Author Jess Armstrong and her latest novel, The Secret of the Three Fates

    Entrevista con un autor: Jess Armstrong

    Jess Armstrong es la autora superventas de USA Today de los misterios de Ruby Vaughn. Su primera novela, La maldición de Penryth Hall, ganó el concurso de novela policiaca de Minotaur Books/Mystery…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    Real Easy

    • By: Rutkoski, Marie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    One woman murdered. Another woman missing. A police detective traumatized by her recent past. An unidentified killer. Was this their first victim or the latest in a series of murders? Will they strike again? If so, when?In Real Easy, Marie Rutkoski, who has been known until now for her outstanding...
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    The Mary Shelley Club

    • By: Moldavsky, Goldy
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Last year, Rachel Chavez survived a home invasion. In an attempt to provide her with a new start, her mother, who teaches at Manchester Prep, an affluent Manhattan high school, moves them from their Long Island house to a Brooklyn apartment and enrolls Rachel at Manchester Prep.Since the attack, Rachel...
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    Under the Whispering Door

    Wallace Price is a successful, driven attorney, and a founding partner of a powerful law firm. He is a person of privilege with everything he wants or needs, and then suddenly, he isn’t. Wallace dies unexpectedly. He was not particularly old and was in fairly good health, although his heart...
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    A Quilt for David

    • By: Reigns, Steven
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    On September 3, 1990, Dr. David Acer, a dentist who worked in Jensen Beach, Florida, died from complications from AIDS. Four days after his death, Kimberly Bergalis, a young woman who was also HIV+, accused Dr. Acer of infecting her with the AIDS virus during a recent visit to his...
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    Out of body

    • By: Ford, Jeffrey, 1955-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A small-town librarian, a senseless killing and a centuries-old horror have been preying on a community for over a hundred years. These are the building blocks used by Jeffrey Ford as a foundation for his chilling horror novella Out of Body.On his way to work as the librarian at his...
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    The Extraordinaries

    Nick Bell is far from an ordinary teen. He experiences attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and is required to take daily medication. Two years ago, his mother was killed in a bank robbery, leaving him and his father to reconstruct their lives together. He met his best friend, Seth Gray...
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    In Five Years: A Novel

    • By: Serle, Rebecca
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    “Where do you see yourself in five years?” This is a question that almost everyone has been asked at some point in their life. It may give us pause. We may think we know. But the answer we give is always a guess because no one really knows what the...