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To the Editor: The Naval Health Research Center serves as the Navy hub for the Department of Defense's Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (GEIS), in which it monitors influenza-like illness among recruit trainees of all military services, military dependents, and crew members of large Navy ships (population, >1000). The center works in collaboration with the Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which monitors populations located on the border between California and Mexico. The first two human cases of novel swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus (S-OIV), known as swine flu, in...

Perhaps the most anticipated popular fiction offering of the year for readers of this column is Heart of the Assassin, (Scribner, $25.95) Robert Ferrigno's final volume in his trilogy about a future America split by civil war and dominated by Islamic rule. http://frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36278#disqus_thread

Best-selling author Piers Paul Read will be Raymond Arroyo's guest on EWTN's The World Over this Friday, 8:00 EST. Be sure to tune in to hear Mr. Read's fascinating insights into faith, literature, and his new novel, The Death of a Pope. Or watch online at the EWTN website. Already well on its way to being the Ignatius Press bestseller of the year, The Death of a Pope has been hailed as a "spiritual thrill ride" (Catholic San Francisco) an "an enjoyable and fast-paced read" (The American Catholic), an "exciting, enthralling, and unusual thriller" (Catholic Media Review), and "subtly...

Piers Paul Read is perhaps best known for his non-fiction account of the 1972 airline disaster involving Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, a plane carrying 45 passengers that crashed in the Andes. His book, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, became a world-wide bestseller and, in 1993, was made into a film starring Ethan Hawke. Mr. Read is also an accomplished novelist and playwright, as well as a journalist, biographer, and social commentator. His recent works include the novels Knights of the Cross and Alice in Exile, and the non-fiction titles The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights...

The Lord of the World by Rev. James V. Schall, SJ    3/09/09   In 2001, St. Augustine's Press published a new edition of Robert Hugh Benson's 1907 novel, The Lord of the World. A friend of mine in Vermont recently urged me to read it, and I did.   Ralph McInerny, in a brief introduction, writes: "The novel wonderfully conveys the flatness and boredom of a world without God. Boredom becomes a condition for recognizing our need for something more than this -- a few more decades of life and then a total void."   This novel is...

I've written several books using Dragon NaturallySpeaking software and have pitched to my agent a book on how to write a novel using the software. It'd be useful to hear how others have fared. Any experiences with the software that would contradict my very good experience?

Hi I am a Christian Illustrator working on a graphic version of the gospel of John. Fully illustrated like a graphic novel but word for word from the Bible. But of course not cartoony or wild superhereo like. More movie like in the look and style it will have. You can see a sample of my work here http://www.pwlawrence.com Any way here is what I need help on. I am terrible at raising money for projects and was wondering if any of the very smart people on the site had any ideas or suggestions for me on this part of...

BOUNCERS kicked a Melbourne man out of a Cairns pub after paranoid patrons complained that he was reading a book called The Unknown Terrorist. Teacher Michael Chalk, who was in Cairns for an education conference, left the novel on a ledge at Shenannigans to go and dance. But he was stunned when a bouncer approached him on the dance floor and escorted him outside. Mr Chalk, 40, was then told to "move on" because of the book he was reading. In an eerie parallel, the main character of The Unknown Terrorist is mistaken for a terrorist and subjected to a...

The Samson Effect - a novel by Tony Eldridge Book Description Since discovering an ancient scroll in a cave in Hebron, Israel, American biblical archeologist Thomas Hamilton and his trusted friend and colleague, Israeli biblical linguist Michael Sieff, have been consumed with the notion of the Samson Effect - the idea that a long-lost elixir can allow an ordinary person to perform superhuman feats. When they happen upon a worn Hebrew parchment that not only confirms the existence of the Samson Effect but could potentially lead them to its source, the scholars embark on an impassioned crusade for the truth...

There is a excellent book on the bookshelves titled Mass Exodus by Carlos Perez (SgtMaj USMC). Though it is written from conversations with his father, it can be realted to real life exploits. Support this fine American!

Fellow Freepers, I've recently written a 139,000 word fantasy novel (swords & sorcery type stuff). After an overwhelmingly enthusiastic response from dozens of test readers, I've decided to seek an agent to help get the book published. I'm taking a stab in the dark here in case... 1) Anyone knows an actual agent who deals in the fantasy genre. 2) Anyone knows a published fantasy author who may be willing to "blurb" my manuscript, if it is worthy. (That means reading all or part of the book and, if they enjoy it, to offer a quote that I can include...

ROME (CNS) – Curiosity about the New Testament figure of Judas and a feeling that his reputation as the worst sinner in history "isn't fair, isn't right" led British novelist Jeffrey Archer to attempt a new version of the story.Archer, presenting The Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot at a March 20 press conference in Rome, said he is a practicing Anglican who wanted his new book to be backed up by solid biblical scholarship. So he convinced Father Francis J. Moloney, provincial of the Salesians in Australia and a former president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America,...

Unscruplously Sexy and Liberating, November 19, 2005 Reviewer: K. Blunt "kblunt1" (LA, CA United States) - See all my reviews What an amazing journey Larry Kramer takes us on with this book. He takes us back to a time long gone but never forgotten. One of the most imporant books in gay literature. 3 of 5 people found the following review helpful: Unbridled Genius. One of the best , December 18, 2004 Reviewer: Jesse Liberty "Programmer, Author" (MA USA) - See all my reviews It is as if James Joyce were alive and queer in 1973 New York. Kramer is...

Has anyone seen the movie "10th and Wolf?' It was by the writer of the new TV show 'The Black Donnelly's" who also won an Oscar for the movie "Crash" Bobby Moresco. It was about the South Philadelphia mob post Little Nicky Scarfo. Also has anyone read the police novel " A Sense of Duty" by Philadelphia Bulletin columnist and ex-police officer M. Tremoglie? I understand it is supposed to be made into a movie. It is also about South Philadelphia.

'Les Bienveillantes' tells the story of a Nazi officer with no regrets. 'Les Bienveillantes' shot to the top of the French best-seller list in September shortly after its release at the end of August and found wide critical acclaim. Dominique Chabrol tells the story behind the book. The author's story is almost as fascinating as the one is his book: son of a famous spy novelist, an American raised in France and now living in Barcelona, a former activist stationed in the globe's hot spots, and now winner of two top literary prizes in a country where writers rank almost...

AN AMERICAN’S fictional memoirs of a Nazi murderer have set the French literary world alight, earning blockbuster sales, a top award and the contempt of some intellectuals.As Paris enters its round of autumn book prizes, the cosy Gallic publishing world is struggling to cope with the runaway success of Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones), an epic first novel written in French. Jonathan Littell, 39, made history this week when his 900-page book became the first by a native English-speaker to win the Grand Prix of the Académie Française, the guardian of the French language. The American novel, compared by critics...

MIDI - P.S. I LOVE YOU As I write this novel...filthy, yes, it's true The contents must stay hidden...or my campaign is through If I'm smeared, I know that Rove's behind it I'm hoping he won't find it Or else I am screwed...my campaign is through I'll write about children and their privates I might have to deny it Or else I am screwed...my campaign is through As I write this novel...I just got aroused But it is family values that I'm gonna espouse Do not read this to your children, mothers In fact, don't read the others Or...

This is an interview with my nephew about his first novel. I just got my copy yesterday and am going to try to devour it over the next few days.      10 Questions For Will BeallInterviewed by Walter Reichert   Will Beall’s debut novel, LA REX, is rip roaring good yarn, that lets the tension of the streets trickle into the reader’s mind, soon becoming like a vice grip, and propelling the narrative forward with such precision and speed that you can’t look away.Following a rookie cop, with an agenda all his own, but one that proves LA isn’t that...

“When women stop reading, the novel will be dead,” declared Ian McEwan in the Guardian last year. The British novelist reached this rather dire conclusion after venturing into a nearby park in an attempt to give away free novels. The result? Only one “sensitive male soul” took up his offer, while every woman he approached was “eager and grateful” to do the same. Unscientific as McEwan’s experiment may be, its thesis is borne out by a number of surveys conducted in Britain, the United States and Canada, where men account for a paltry 20 percent of the market for fiction....

Has anyone else read Oliver North's Mission Compromised? I just finished it.