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I started writing the Deverry series in February of 1982. Twenty seven years later, The Silver Mage, the final novel -- the last of fifteen -- has just been published.  I've heard it said that writing a novel is like exploring an unknown country.  If that's true, then call me Lewis and Clark.  I feel like I've crossed an entire continent.  When I began, I thought I was writing a short story, but the more I wrote, the more characters appeared, each with stories to tell.  Those stories took place in differing landscapes and differing periods of what turned out to be over a thousand years of imaginary history.  Unifying them and placing them into some sort of pattern took me several years before I could finish the first novel in the sequence, Daggerspell.  That original short story?  It now forms the last section of Volume 6, A Time Of Omens.  

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Excerpt - Kindred in Death J.D. Robb (Putnam)

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Romance Feature - Bed of Roses Nora Roberts (Berkley)

Travel Feature - Venice is a Fish Tiziano Scarpa (Gotham)

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Video - The Curse of the Good Girl Rachel Simmons (The Penguin Press)

Video - Lighting their Fires Rafe Esquith (Viking)

Video - The Audacity to Win David Plouffe (Viking)

Video - Invictus John Carlin (Penguin)

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 The American Diabetes Association has named November as the month to spread awareness about diabetes in America. Diabetes is a disease that results from when a person's body either doesn't produce insulin (type 1) or does but the person's body doesn't respond to it (type 2). Insulin helps control blood sugar levels and diabetic people have high blood sugar levels, which can cause health problems, though today there are many ways to manage the disease.

In the United States, 24 million people have diabetes. Another 57 million are pre-diabetic, which means they are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes. About 95% of the people diagnosed with diabetes have type 2. The only way to really know if you have the disease is to have a blood test done by your doctor, as there are no noticeable symptoms.

Diabetes is a disease that affects people of all different backgrounds but there are specific factors, such as family history of diabetes and overall health, which can indicate whether you may be at risk.  The American Diabetes Association has simple test you can take here to see if you are at risk of developing diabetes.

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Fifteen Books from Penguin Group (USA) Are Amazon's Editors Picks for 2009 

Penguin Group (USA) books are prominently featured on Amazon's annual list of Editors Picks for 2009, securing fifteen titles on the Top 100. In addition to the Editors Picks, Amazon also ranked the Top 100 Customer Favorites (according to customer orders through October); twelve books from Penguin Group (USA) were included on this list.

The Penguin Group (USA) titles among the Top 100 Amazon Editors Picks are:

• #11 The Gamble by Thomas Rick (The Penguin Press)
• #14 This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathon Tropper (Dutton)
• #19 The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Amy Einhorn/Putnam)
• #24 Both Ways Is The Only Way I Like It by Maile Meloy (Riverhead)
• #28 Born Round by Frank Bruni (The Penguin Press)
• #39 The Defector by Daniel Silva (Putnam)
• #40 The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Riverhead)
• #43 Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (The Penguin Press)
• #52 The Magicians by Lev Grossman (Viking)
• #63 Everything Matters by Ron Currie (Viking)
• #71 Green Metropolis by David Owen (Riverhead)
• #74 Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby (Riverhead)
• #86 Rapt by Winifred Gallagher (The Penguin Press)
• #90 D-Day by Antony Beevor (Viking)
• #94 Inherent Vice by Thoman Pynchon (The Penguin Press)
• #97 Imperial by William T. Vollmann (Viking)

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Penguin Young Readers Group Lands a Record-Breaking Eleven Titles on The New York Times Bestseller Lists

Penguin Young Readers Group scores eleven titles on the New York Times bestseller lists, a record-breaking performance, for the week of November 15th. For the previous two weeks, the Group dominated the New York Times children's bestseller lists, landing ten titles each week, and has managed to top its own record this week. Congratulations to all involved in this impressive accomplishment.

For the week of November 15th, on the children’s picture books list, Skippyjon Jones, Lost in Spice by Judy Schachner (Dutton) is #6 in its seventh week; Otis, written and illustrated by Loren Long (Philomel) is #8 in its sixth week; Strega Nona’s Harvest, written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola (Putnam), is #9 in its seventh week; and Miss Smith and the Haunted Library by Michael Garland (Dutton) is #10 in its third week. On the children’s chapter books list, Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Razorbill) is #6 in its 52nd week; Fire by Kristin Cashore (Dial) is #7 in its fourth week; and Return to the Hundred Acre Wood by David Benedictus (Dutton) is #9 in its fourth week. On the children's paperback books list, Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Puffin) is #2 in its 41st week; and Impossible by Nancy Werlin (Speak) is #10 in its fifth week. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead (Razorbill) is #10 on the children’s series list in its fifteenth week. In addition, DK’s Lego Star Wars by Simon Beecroft (DK) is #2 on the picture books list in its fourth week.