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Speaking of Writers

Di: Steve Richards
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  • Welcome to Speaking of Writers. Veteran broadcaster Steve Richards interviews local, regional and best selling authors. For more info email steve @ sval622@sbcglobal.net. Cover art photo provided by Janko Ferlič on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@thepootphotographer
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  • Robin Hosking- Journey Beyond
    May 17 2024

    This book is a visual journey taking the reader beyond their own mundane reality, leading them to a place of peace and calm within their mind.

    Author Information Robin is a Canadian Born author/surrealism abstract artist with a multi-cultural heritage of UK: Central Southern England, Northwestern European (Walse, Scottish-having descended through the Baldwin Clan, which is connected to the Stuart Clan which was the Clan of Mary Stuart who was the Queen of (Scots) Scotland. Irish as well as Norwegian, Swedish, Cyprus. African: Nigerian, Benin & Togo, Cameroon, Congo & Wester Bantu, Mali, and Senegal as well as First Nations Indigenous: Blackfoot and Cherokee. Growing up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as an under-privileged child. Robin persevered through life’s many challenges earning 5 post graduate diplomas. Robin has always enjoyed letting her mind go free and drawing with no thought or expectation as to what it would be and being amazed upon its completion. Seeing what the result was. This allowed Robin to escape reality if only for a short time to create what the soul wanted or needed to bare. Journey Beyond with Robin Hosking is Robin’s fifth book. Her first four being books of poetry.Book InformationJourney Beyond with Robin Hosking is a visually inspired book that will help the reader to transcend to a place of peace and calm. Helping the reader look within themselves to find the beauty of things they normally would have overlooked. Journey Beyond with Robin Hosking will help one to experience an inner, spiritual, and imaginative journey connecting them with a deeper part of themselves that they have forgotten. Allowing them to realize the truth of themselves.

    For more info on the book click HERE

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    8 min
  • Don Winslow- City in Ruins
    May 14 2024

    Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich.

    The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman – a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with.

    Life is good.

    But then Danny reaches too far.

    When he tries to buy an old hotel on a prime piece of real estate with plans to build his dream resort, he triggers a war against Las Vegas power brokers, a powerful FBI agent bent on revenge and a rival casino owner with dark connections of his own.

    Danny thought he had buried his past, but now it reaches up to him from the grave to pull him down. Old enemies surface, and when they come for Danny they vow to take everything – not only his empire, not just his life, but all that he holds dear, including his son.

    To save his life and everything he loves, Danny must become the ruthless fighter he once was – and never wanted to be again.

    Ranging from the gritty back rooms of Providence, RI to the power corridors of Washington, DC and Wall Street to the golden casinos of Las Vegas, City in Ruins is an epic crime novel of love and hate, ambition and desperation, vengeance and compassion.

    About the author

    Don Winslow is the author of twenty-one acclaimed, award-winning international bestsellers, including the New York Times bestsellers The Force and The Border, the #1 international bestseller The Cartel, The Power of the Dog, Savages, and The Winter of Frankie Machine. Savages was made into a feature film by three-time Oscar-winning writer-director Oliver Stone. The Power of the Dog, The Cartel and The Border sold to FX in a major multimillion-dollar deal to air as a weekly television series beginning in 2020. A former investigator, antiterrorist trainer and trial consultant, Winslow lives in California and Rhode Island.

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    14 min
  • Kevin Baker- The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
    May 5 2024

    Baseball is “the New York game” because New York is where the diamond was first laid out, where the bunt and the curveball were invented, and where the home run was hit. It’s where the game’s first stars were born, and where everyone came to play or watch the game. With nuance and depth, historian Kevin Baker brings this all vividly back to life: the still-controversial, indelible moments—Did the Babe call his shot? Was Merkle out? Did they fix the 1919 World Series? Here are all the legendary players, managers, and owners, in all their vivid, complicated humanity, on and off the field.
    In Baker’s hands the city and the game emerge from the murk of nineteenth-century American life—driven by visionaries and fixers, heroes and gangsters. He details how New York and its favorite sport came to mirror one another, expanding, bumbling through catastrophe and corruption, and rising out of these trials stronger than ever.
    From the first innings played in vacant lots and tavern yards in the 1820s; to the canny innovations that created the very first sports league; to the superb Hispanic and Black players who invented their own version of the game when white baseball sought to exclude them. And all amidst New York’s own, incredible evolution from a raw, riotous town to a new world city. The New York Game is a riveting, rollicking, brilliant ode to America’s beloved pastime and to its indomitable city of origin.

    About the author

    Kevin Baker (born 1958) is an American novelist, historian, and journalist. He was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up in New Jersey and Rockport, Massachusetts.

    He has been a professional writer since the age of 13, working originally for the Gloucester Daily Times, Gloucester, Mass., as a stringer covering covering school-boy sports. He had to learn to type to keep the job. He graduated from Columbia University, where he majored in political science, in 1980.

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    21 min

Sintesi dell'editore

Welcome to Speaking of Writers. Veteran broadcaster Steve Richards interviews local, regional and best selling authors. For more info email steve @ sval622@sbcglobal.net. Cover art photo provided by Janko Ferlič on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@thepootphotographer
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