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...romance genre will never have its Le Carre, but spy novels have never had a Nora Roberts--an author who has made the transition from paperbacks beloved by the romance cognoscenti to hard-covers marketed successfully for mainstream readers. "Nora is the standard that nobody's going to eclipse," says Kate Duffy, an editorial director at Kensington Books, America's largest publisher of romance novels--but not, to Duffy's regret, of those by Nora Roberts. "Authors don't know how Nora does it. She is unique. She is a phenomenon. She has a gift, an extraordinary talent. It just...
...million copies of her books have been printed. Last year 14 of her titles appeared on New York Times best-seller lists. This year she will have seven new novels and six reissues published. Spoilsports who say Joyce Carol Oates writes too much have obviously never heard of Nora Roberts...
Freshman goaltender Nora Guyer was also impressive between the pipes...
Adapted by Delia and Nora Ephron from the former's novel, which drew from their lives, the film is scarcely a tragedy. But it is a meditation on the inconvenience of mortality, about the way a parent's final illness can intrude on his children at the worst possible moment, about how the business of conducting him out of this life with some dignity has to be improvised amid all the distractions of the day: the fender bender, the shrilling of the cell phone, the dog eager to gnaw that phone into silence...
...Nora Roberts, a romance novelist, has written 134 books; over 100 million are in print