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Swayze memoir in the works.
A “deeply personal memoir” by Patrick Swayze and his wife is coming out this fall.
“The currently untitled book will offer an intimate account of Patrick Swayze’s childhood, career and marriage, as well as his brave fight against a diagnosis of stage-four pancreatic cancer, from which he has gleaned wisdom and has remained resolutely optimistic,” according to a statement released by Atria Books.
The 56-year-old actor, known for such films as “Ghost” and “Dirty Dancing,” stars in the new A&E drama “The Beast.” “With everything I’ve been fortunate enough to do in my life, and covering such a wide range of diverse subject matters, I’m told that my story has been inspirational to people,” Swayze, diagnosed with cancer last year, said in a statement from Atria.
“I will write from heart about these experiences and aside from the sheer pleasure of doing it, if people happen to garner inspiration from it, or incentive, or find a new way to love, it would be wonderful. The Associated Press
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Terminal Freeze, by Lincoln Child
At dusk, when the stars rose one by one into a frozen sky, Usuguk approached the snowhouse as silently as a fox. There had been a fresh snowfall that morning, and the village elder stared across the gray-white arctic desolation that ran away endlessly on all sides to a bleak and empty ice horizon. Here and there, ribs of dark permafrost jutted out of the snow cover like the bones of prehistoric beasts. The wind was picking up, and ice crystals stung his cheeks and worried at the fur of his parka hood. A scattering of surrounding igloos stood unlit, dark as tombs.
Usuguk paid no attention to any of this. He was aware only of an overwhelming sense of dread, of the rapid pounding of his heart.
As he entered the snowhouse, the small band of women gathered around the moss fire looked up at him quickly, their expressions tense, worried.
Children’s fiction best sellers
1. The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
2. Scat, by Carl Hiaasen
3. The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo
4. Envy, by Anna Godbersen
5. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
6. One False Note, by Gordon Korman
7. Inkdeath, by Cornelia Funke
8. The Maze of Bones, by Rick Riordan
9. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
10. 3 Willows, by Ann Brashares
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