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Title: Bahamarama Author: Bob Morris Length: 298 pages Genre: mystery Plot Basics: Former football player Zack Chasteen gets let out of...

Voting remains open for another two days on Word Nerd's "What Classic to Read Next" poll. Word Nerd's going to be on anoth...

Mindy Klasky is this week's featured author. She's got a new book out in stores, Girl's Guide to Witchcraft. WN: You’ve got a ...

If you haven't heard, author Mitch Albom ( Tuesdays with Morrie , The Five People you Meet in Heaven ) is going to be in Oshkosh. And s...

Title: Dzur Author: Steven Brust Length: 285 pages Genre: fantasy Plot Basics: After being on the run, wise-cracking assassin Vlad Talt...

Title: Dead Girls Don't Wear Diamonds Author: Nancy Martin Length: ~250 pages Genre: mystery/chick lit Plot Basics: Nora Blackbird,...

Word Nerd spent part of Monday and last Friday on airplanes, but instead of using the time to devour some novels written by other people, sh...

For you Wisconsin-based readers, this week's featured author might put you in a warmer frame of mind; Bob Morris is the author of the Ca...

Today be Sept. 19th, which means that it's Talk Like A Pirate Day. You can brush up on your pirate vocabulary and more, here . There are...

Title: The Sorceress and the Cygnet Author: Patricia A. McKillip Length: 231 pages Genre: fantasy Plot Basics: A young Wayfolk man, Cor...

Word Nerd has an over-abundance of books (even for her) checked out of the library and stacked on her floor right now. She thinks she'll...

Shanna Swendson is this week's featured author. She's the author of Enchanted, Inc., and Once Upon Stilettos. Her third book in the...

Title: Looking for Rachel Wallace Author: Robert B. Parker Length: 219 pages Genre: mystery Plot Basics: Spenser is hired by a publishi...

No... not that OED (Oxford English Dictionary) Try the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form . So far, this new tome only goes up t...

Title: Enchanted, Inc. Author: Shanna Swendson Length: 308 pages Genre: paranormal chick-lit Plot Basics: Katie Chandler has always see...

*And the purple and the green ones too. Word Nerd is gearing up for some editing. That's right. Her novel. Word Nerd has a trip on an ai...

This week's author is debut novelist Diana Peterfreund . Peterfreund's got a background that ranges from geology to food criticism b...

*(Author Answers Column) The Author Answers column will now be appearing on Wednesdays. The change is due to Word Nerd's real job and wa...

Title(s): Dragons of Winter Night & Dragons of Spring Dawning Authors: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Genre: Fantasy Length(s): 339...

For spending the first half of August finishing her novel, Word Nerd managed to get a hefty amount of reading in during the month as well. B...