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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Lee Goldberg and his latest book, Murder by Design

    Interview With an Author: Lee Goldberg

    Lee Goldberg is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than seventy novels. His latest novel is Murder by Design, and he recently talked about it with Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog.

  • Author Meg Elison and her book, Foundling Fathers

    Interview With an Author: Meg Elison

    Bestselling writer Meg Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. She was a Clayton B. Ofstad endowed distinguished writer-in-residence at Truman State University, as well as a…

  • Author Rasheed Newson and his book, There's Only One Sin in Hollywood

    Interview With an Author: Rasheed Newson

    Rasheed Newson is the author of the national bestseller My Government Means to Kill Me, which was selected as a Lambda Literary finalist for Gay Fiction and was named one of the “100 Notable Books of…

  • priya parmer and her book the original

    Interview With an Author: Priya Parmar

    Priya Parmar is the author of the novels Exit the Actress and Vanessa and Her Sister. Her latest novel is The Original, and she recently talked about it with Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog.

  • Vincent Yu and his book Seek Immediate Shelter

    Interview With an Author: Vincent Yu

    Vincent Yu is a sales manager at W.W. Norton/Liveright and the winner of the 2021 Ashley Bourne Prize for fiction from Ploughshares. His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly…

  • Author Leah Weiss and her latest novel, The Creek, the Crone, and the Crow

    Interview With an Author: Leah Weiss

    Leah Weiss is an acclaimed southern writer living in Virginia. Her debut novel If the Creek Don't Rise was released in 2017 and selected as Library Reads, Indie Next, and SIBA Okra Pick. It was…

  • Author Meg Shaffer and her latest novel, The Book Witch

    Interview With an Author: Meg Shaffer

    Meg Shaffer is the USA Today bestselling author of The Lost Story and The Wishing Game, which was a Book of the Month finalist for Book of the Year as well as a Reader's Digest and Washington Post…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    Brokeula

    • By: Seidlinger, Michael J.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    James  Sugre is a vampire. He has lived for centuries, but has made some questionable choices. Bad choices, when it comes to investments. Now, he is broke. He has no money and is deep in debt. He can’t even afford his own reflection (they are available for a fee from Vampire Nation, an international conglomerate that both governs and provides for the world’s vampire population).

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    Mazywood

    • By: Due, Tananarive
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    Wishes. We all make them, either silently to ourselves or possibly as a breathless whisper as we drop a coin in a fountain. The reason behind them can range from whimsical to deadly serious. And, in the "real world," they are, to quote Douglas Adams, "mostly harmless." In the world of fiction, however, wishes are entirely different. 

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    Another Fine Mess

    Похоронное бюро Эванс существует почти столько же, сколько и город на юго-востоке Техаса, в котором оно расположено. Это семейный бизнес, передающийся из поколения в поколение, под руководством женщин из семьи Эванс. Нынешняя глава семьи — Дьюси, дочь Пай, которая таинственно исчезла восемнадцать лет назад…
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    Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    В 2020 году В. Э. Шваб познакомила читателей с Адди Лару, молодой женщиной, которая заключает фаустовскую сделку, чтобы избежать нежелательного брака во Франции начала XVIII века. В книге «Невидимая жизнь Адди Лару» Шваб прослеживает судьбу Адди на протяжении веков, и как она, благодаря своей хитрости и силе воли, формирует...
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    Good Dirt

    • By: Wilkerson, Charmaine
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Когда Эбони «Эбби» Фриман было десять лет, она стала единственной свидетельницей неудачного ограбления дома, в результате которого был застрелен ее пятнадцатилетний брат Баз, а бесценная семейная реликвия была уничтожена. Тот факт, что Эбби — дочь известной афроамериканской семьи...
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    But Not Too Bold

    Жизнь Далии изменилась тем утром, когда служанка нашла машинописную записку со словами: «НАЙМИТЕ НОВОГО ХРАНИТЕЛЯ КЛЮЧЕЙ; СРОЧНО; ДО РАССВЕТА». Все в Капризном Доме знали, что означает эта записка и кто её написал. Её автором была Леди Капризного Дома, Леди Анатема, гигантская паучиха-человек...
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    The Murder of Mr. Ma

    • By: Nee, John Shen Yen, Rozan, SJ
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    В Лондоне 1924 года застенчивого молодого учёного Лао Шэ вызывают в дом математика Бертрана Рассела. По прибытии Рассел объясняет, что его друг и коллега, судья Ди Жэнь Цзе, был по ошибке арестован вместе с группой китайских агитаторов. Рассел опасается, что если личность Ди будет раскрыта…