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...literary apprenticeships go, Hill's was tough to beat. "I'd come home from school and find my mom [novelist Tabitha King] in her office clattering away at the keyboard, and my dad would be in his office sitting in front of his word processor," he says. "By the time I was 11 or 12, it seemed perfectly natural to go to your room and make stuff...
...auguries are mixed. The Percy Jackson books, written by Rick Riordan, a former high school teacher now based in Texas, became a word-of-mouth sensation after the first one hit shelves in 2005. Parents loved that they were based on Greek myths: Percy (played by Logan Lerman in the movie) is actually Perseus, a demigod son of Poseidon. He faces down remodeled versions of such perils as Medusa (in New Jersey), the land of the lotus eaters (in Vegas) and Ares, the god of war (a Hell's Angel). Olympus is on top of the Empire State Building. Hades...
...financial crisis do you remember most? -Carlos Lopez, Tulsa, Okla. I remember Sunday, the 14th of September, 2008, when we realized that despite everything we tried, we didn't have the authority to prevent the failure of Lehman Brothers. It was going to be ... Catastrophic is too strong a word, but it was going to be a big problem...
...Flight," concentrates on Bill's immediate family before and after the convention that will determine if his State Senate bid is successful. Everyone - Bill's mother Lois, his brother Joey and all three sister-wives - got in a tizz over two events involving Bill's eldest son Ben. Word of the not-quite-inadvertent kiss has spread, a news story soon topped by the bulletin that Bill "exiled" his son. Moments before Bill's big debate at the convention, Barb tells him to reconcile with Ben - "right away, this minute, or I swear I'll check myself into the boobyhatch...
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