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Lauren Tarshis

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Lauren Tarshis often wonders how she came to spend most of her waking moments thinking about disasters, as the author of the children's historical fiction series "I Survived." Each book takes readers into the heart of history's most thrilling and terrifying events, including the sinking of the Titanic, the Shark Attacks of 1916, Hurricane Katrina, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the San Francisco earthquake, 9/11, the Battle of Gettysburg and many more. Lauren conducts extensive research to bring her topics to life. She has traveled to most of the locations where her books are set. Her goal is to open...

Viorica Marian

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Toni Morrison once said "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. "The Power of Language is the book I've always wanted to read. I live my life in more than one language, as do many people around the world, but most popular science books about language are centered on monolingualism. I wrote The Power of Language so others could dive into the fascinating minds and worlds of bilinguals and multilinguals. The book is a psycholinguistic journey into the interaction between language and mind in speakers of more than one language.