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Loretta Claiborne was born partially blind, intellectually challenged, and unable to walk or talk until the age of four. Eventually, though, she began to run. And before she knew it, she had crossed the finish line of twenty-six marathons, twice placing among the top one-hundred women in the Boston Marathon. She introduced President Bill Clinton at the 1995 Special Olympics World Summer Games, won medals in dozens of its events, and holds the current women's record in her age group for the 5000 meters at seventeen minutes.

Today, Claiborne is a celebrated athlete who was honored in 1996 with ESPN's ESPY Arthur Ashe Award for Courage. Her life is recounted in Walt Disney Productions The Loretta Claiborne Story (originally broadcast on ABC-TV and now on DVD) and in the biography "In Her Stride" published by WorldScapes.

Considering all of Claiborne's achievements, these are just small steps in her life's mission to show that persons with intellectual and physical disabilities are equal to those without.

"I figured if my story could change a person's mind about another person, or especially a child's mind about another child, then it was the right thing to do," Claiborne says.

Running is not the only part of Claiborne's life. She holds a 4th-degree black belt in karate, communicates in four languages, including American Sign Language, and holds three honorary doctorate degrees from Quinnipiac University, Villanova University, and York College of Pennsylvania, making her the first person with an intellectual disability known to receive such honors, according to Special Olympics Incorporated.

Website: https://www.lorettaclaiborne.com/

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https://hankphillippiryan.com

Hank Phillippi Ryan is the USA Today bestselling author of 13 thrillers, winning the most prestigious awards in the genre: five Agathas, four Anthonys, and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. She is also on-air investigative reporter for Boston’s WHDH-TV, with 37 EMMYs and dozens more journalism honors. Book critics call her “a master of suspense,” “a superb and gifted storyteller,” and she’s the only author to have won the Agatha in four different categories: Best First, Best Novel, Best Short Story and Best Non-Fiction. Her 2019 standalone, The Murder List, won the Anthony Award for Best Novel. International bestseller A.J. Finn says, “exciting, explosive, relentless,” and the Library Journal starred review calls it “A must-read.” Hank’s 2020 novel is the chilling psychological standalone The First to Lie, now nominated for the prestigious Mary Higgins Clark Award. The Publishers Weekly starred review says “Stellar… Hank Phillippi Ryan could win a sixth Agatha with this one.” and bestseller Sarah Pekkanen says “Book clubs will gobble it up.” Watch for Her Perfect Life on September 14, 2021.

Hank is a founder of MWA University and National Sisters in Crime past president.

https://rhysbowen.com/

Rhys Bowen is the New York Times bestselling author of more than forty novels, including The Victory Garden, The Tuscan Child, and the World War II-based In Farleigh Field, the winner of the Left Coast Crime Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel and the Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel. Bowen’s work has won twenty honors to date, including multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. Her books have been translated into many languages, and she has fans around the world, including seventeen thousand Facebook followers. A transplanted Brit, Bowen divides her time between California and Arizona.

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STAR WARS FANS GET READY.....

This interview will be out of this world!!!

Elsa Charretier is a French comic book writer, illustrator and comic book artist who has worked on a

number of Star Wars projects so far, mainly Star Wars Adventures from IDW Publishing and its spin-off

mini-series Star Wars: Forces of Destiny. She often works with another French comic book writer,

Pierrick Colinet.

Self-taught, and after debuting on Cowl (Image Comics) in 2014, she co-created the award-winning The

Infinite Loop comic book series with writer Pierrick Colinet. Since then, she has been dividing her time

between creating new creator-owned books (Superfreaks) and drawing established characters.

Clients include Random House (GGRM's Windhaven graphic novel), DC Comics (Harley Quinn, Starfire...),

Marvel Comics (The Unstoppable Wasp), Lucasfilm, IDW Publishing, Disney, and the New York Magazine.

Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNGQYWmnSwhhf8wYFoicR0g

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LynDee Walker is the national bestselling author of two crime fiction series featuring strong heroines and "twisty, absorbing" mysteries. Her first Nichelle Clarke crime thriller, FRONT PAGE FATALITY, was nominated for the Agatha Award for best first novel and is an Amazon  Bestseller. In 2018 she introduced readers to Texas Ranger Faith McClellan in FEAR NO TRUTH. Reviews have praised her work as "well-crafted, compelling, and fast-paced," and "an edge-of-your-seat ride" with "a spider web of twists and turns that will keep you reading until the end."

The attention to detail she brings to her tales is the result of a long career as an award-winning journalist who covered everything from ribbon cuttings to high level police corruption. She's worked closely with the various law enforcement agencies that she reported on. Her work has appeared in newspapers and magazines across the U.S.

Her website is LynDee Walker dot com and she shares her love for family, her readers, travel, and coffee in the Author section.

Her latest, is Book 3 in the Faith McCllelan series, "No Sin Unpunished."

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R. Franklin James grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, graduated from UC Berkeley, and flourished in a career of public policy and political advocacy. In 2013, the first book in her five- star Hollis Morgan Mystery Series, The Fallen Angels Book Club, was published by Camel Press. In 2019, she launched the Remy Loh Bishop series with another hit, The Appraiser. She launches a new series featuring protagonist Johanna Hudson with the debut  this month of "The Inheritance".

Beyond her prolific output as an author, Rae James sits on the board of Bouchercon, Capitol Crimes, the Sacramento Chapter of Sisters In Crime, and is a member of Mystery Writers of America, and Northern California Publishers and Authors.

The Inheritance is the tale of a 30 year-old genealogist, forced to face the pain of her own past while discovering that her talents can be used to solve more than her clients' ancestor family lines -- including blackmail and murder. Johanna Hudson discovers that the intersection of unintended consequences and murder is unavoidable, and her determination to find an heir puts her in the path of a killer who is just as determined to stop her.

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John Hart’s “The Unwilling” Combines Crime, Suspense and Searing Glimpses into the Human Mind and Soul

In this 200th episode of Charlotte Readers Podcast, we celebrate with special guest and six-time New York Times bestselling and award-winning author, John Hart, whose latest book, “The Unwilling” is the subject of this episode.

In his very first historical novel, John Hart returns to the South. The book is set in Charlotte, during the height of the Vietnam War. It’s a novel inspired by the courage and sacrifice shown by soldiers who fought in that conflict.

Booklist calls the book “another scorcher.” Mystery and Suspense Magazine describes the book as “a very enjoyable, twisty ride.” AARP uses the words “unforgettable and propulsive.” Several New York Times bestselling authors say the book “is crime fiction at its absolute best,” “richly complex,” and “somehow, raw, tender, brutal and exquisite–all at the same time. Exceptional.”

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https://mattcoylebooks.com/

Matt Coyle is the author of the best-selling Rick Cahill crime novels. He knew he wanted to be a crime writer when he was fourteen and his father gave him the simple art of murder by Raymond Chandler. He graduated with a degree in English from University of California at Santa Barbara. His foray into crime fiction was delayed for thirty years as he spent time managing a restaurant, selling golf clubs for various golf companies, and in national sales for a sports licensing company.

Writing at night for over a decade his debut novel, Yesterday’s Echo, was finally published in 2013. The wait was almost worth it as it won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, the San Diego Book Award for Best Mystery, the Ben Franklin Award for Best New Voice in Fiction.

Matt’s second book in the Rick Cahill series, Night Tremors, was a Bookreporter.com Reviewers’ Favorite Book of 2015 and was an Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Award finalist.

Dark Fissures (Cahill #3) was a finalist for the Macavity and Lefty awards and was a 2016 Top Pick for Bookreporter.com.

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Blood Truth (Cahill #4) was a Shamus finalist, Lefty Award finalist, a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Silver Award winner for Thriller/Suspense, and a top pick by Bookreporter.com for Best Mysteries of 2017.

Wrong Light (Cahill #5) was a Lefty Award finalist, a San Diego Book Award finalist and was nominated for a Shamus Award. It was also a top pick by Bookreporter.com for Best Mysteries of 2018.

Lost Tomorrows (Cahill #6) was a winner of the Shamus Award and the Lefty Award for Best Mystery.

Blind Vigil (Cahill #7) is a Lefty and Barry Award Finalist.

His short story, The #2 Pencil, was a finalist for a Derringer and Macavity Award.

Matt lives in San Diego with his yellow Lab, Angus, where he is writing his eighth crime novel.

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There was an undercurrent to Ken Burns’ unvarnished telling of the life of Ernest Hemingway this week. We are each a tempest of advantage and flaws. How we play the cards life deals us determines our fate. Empathy for the struggles of others defines our legacy.

Paolo Bacigalupi Explores Climate Change and Corruption in Near-Future Sci-Fi, “The Water Knife”

In today’s episode, we visit with New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist

Paolo Bacigalupi, author of “The Water Knife.”

In a world where water is scarce, Angel Velasquez is an assassin known as “water knife,” in which he sabotages the water supply of his employer’s competitors. After his paths cross with climate refugee, Maria Villarosa, and award-winning journalist, Lucy Monroe, his loyalty is tested.

The Los Angeles Times wrote, “The book's nervous energy recalls William Gibson at his cyberpunk best . . . But this is no pastiche; Bacigalupi weaves an engrossing tale all his own, crackling with edgy style.”

Paolo Bacigalupi is an internationally bestselling author of speculative fiction. He has won numerous awards. His work often focuses on questions of sustainability and the environment, most notably the impacts of climate change. In The Water Knife, he imagines a future without water that may not be that far off.

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Marriage Counselor Lori Epting Offers Secrets to a Good Marriage in “From Chaos to Connection”

In this episode 198, we visit with Lori Epting, author of “From Chaos to Connection: A Marriage Counselor’s Candid Guide for the Modern Couple.” Lori is an experienced marriage counselor who has guided thousands of couples through the myriad of challenges and obstacles in a marriage.

Using blunt, honest lessons and real-life anecdotes, From Chaos to Connection is a path for disconnected couples to navigate the ups and downs of life and find true happiness in their marriage.

Gary Chapman, author of the New York Times bestselling book, “The 5 Love Languages” had this to say about the book: ““Whatever the present state of your marriage, it can always be better: more supportive, connected, loving, and caring. Reading From Chaos to Connection is like sitting down with a seasoned counselor who under- stands the dynamics of building a healthy marriage. The book stimulates the ‘Yes, we can make things better’ attitude. It is a hope-filled book for all who want a growing marriage.”

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