| | 62,739 (64,350) | 2,139 | 189 |  (3.77) | 172 | 0 | Douglas Jerome Preston was born on May 20, 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. in English literature from Pomona College in 1978. His career began at the American Museum of Natural History, where he worked as an editor and writer from 1978 to 1985. He also was a lecturer in English at Princeton University. He became a full-time writer of both fiction and nonfiction books in 1986. Many of his fiction works are co-written with Lincoln Child including Relic, Riptide, Thunderhead, The Wheel of Darkness, Cemetery Dance, and Gideon's Corpse. His nonfiction works include Dinosaurs in the Attic; Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado; Talking to the Ground; and The Royal Road. He has written for numerous magazines including The New Yorker; Natural History; Harper's; Smithsonian; National Geographic; and Travel and Leisure. He became a New York Times Best Selling author with his titles Two Graves and Crimson Shores which he co-wrote with Lincoln Child, and his titles White Fire, The Lost Island Blue Labyrinth and The Lost City of the Monkey God. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Relic … (more) |
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Douglas Preston has 18 past events. (show)  Northshire Mystery and Thriller Reading Group The Northshire Mystery and Thriller Reading Group will meet on Thursday November 20th at 2 pm in the bookstore conference room for a discussion of Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. If you are a member of this reading group, please stop by the bookstore to pick up your reserved copy of this title (and receive a 20% discount) Please email Sarah Knight at sknight@northshire.com to inquire or join this group!
Location: Street: Northshire Bookstore Conference Room Additional: 4869 Main Street City: Manchester Center, Province: Vermont Postal Code: 05255 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) MysteryPeople Presents: DOUGLAS PRESTON - The Kraken Project Saturday, May 24 at 4PM MysteryPeople Presents #1 New York Times-Bestselling Author Douglas Prestonspeaking & signing The Kraken ProjectAbout The Kraken Project: NASA is building a probe to be splashed down in the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn’s great moon, Titan. It is one of the most promising habitats for extraterrestrial life in the solar system, but the surface is unpredictable and dangerous, requiring the probe to contain artificial intelligence software. To this end, Melissa Shepherd, a brilliant programmer, has developed "Dorothy," a powerful, self-modifying AI whose true potential is both revolutionary and terrifying. When miscalculations lead to a catastrophe during testing, Dorothy flees into the internet.Former CIA agent Wyman Ford is tapped to track down the rogue AI. As Ford and Shepherd search for Dorothy, they realize that her horrific experiences in the wasteland of the Internet have changed her in ways they can barely imagine. And they’re not the only ones looking for the wayward software: the AI is also being pursued by a pair of Wall Street traders, who want to capture her code and turn her into a high-speed trading bot.Traumatized, angry, and relentlessly hunted, Dorothy has an extraordinary revelation—and devises a plan. As the pursuit of Dorothy converges on a deserted house on the coast of Northern California, Ford must face the ultimate question: is rescuing Dorothy the right thing?
Douglas Preston is the author of The Monster of Florence, currently being developed as a film starring George Clooney as Preston himself, and the New York Times bestsellers Impact, Tyrannosaur Canyon, and Blasphemy. He is the co-author, with Lincoln Child, of the famed Pendergast series of novels, including such bestselling titles as The Book of the Dead and The Wheel of Darkness, as well as The Relic, which was made into a number one box office hit movie. In order to have anything signed at a BookPeople event, a copy of the event book must be purchased from BookPeople. If you purchase your book from BookPeople in advance of the event, please save your receipt and present it at the event.
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Location: Street: 603 N Lamar Blvd City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78703-5413 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Nightmare Factory Book Club - discussing THE RELIC TUES, MAY 20 at 8PM Come join our crypt-keepers, Joe and Steven, every third Tuesday of the month with our horrific book club, The Nightmare Factory. This month's book is The Relic by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. Location: Street: 603 N Lamar Blvd City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78703-5413 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) The Next Big Thing: Suzanne McCourt, Spiri Tsintziras, Darrell Pitt and Robbie Coburn There has been an explosion of vibrant new writing talent in Australia of late, and since we opened our doors, the Wheeler Centre has been right at the heart of the 21st Century literary zeitgeist. Our first ever event was a Debut Monday, showcasing exciting new authors. The Next Big Thing is the evolution of that event. We’ve broadened our horizons to present to you not only first time authors, but also those dedicated scribes with several books to their name. These are the names we believe should be on everyone’s lips, the authors we love, but who may have slipped under your radar. Join us to discover them before everyone else does!
If you plan on making a night out of it, the MOAT offers a pre-event package from 5pm to 6pm: $20 for a meal and a glass of wine. Bookings essential; call (03) 9094 7820 or email info@themoat.com.au.
Suzanne McCourt lives in Melbourne. The Lost Child is her first novel.
Robbie Coburn lives in the small farming district of Woodstock in rural Victoria. His first full collection of poems, Rain Season, was published by Picaro Press in 2013.
Darrell Pitt began his lifelong appreciation of Victorian literature when he read the Sherlock Holmes stories as a child, quickly moving on to H.G. Wells and Jules Verne.
Spiri Tsintziras (rodneyvc)… (more)Event location: The Moat, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria. 3000  Two GravesDouglas Preston, Lincoln Child Douglas Preston Douglas Preston reads from Cold Vengence. signs Cold Vengeance ($26.99 Grand Central) the latest Pendergast. Doors open 5:0o pm cash bar and buffet Program at 6 P Lincoln Child joins via Skype You are cordially invited... Saturday, August 6 Arizona Biltmore, Grand Ballroom Phoenix PRESTON & CHILD in disputation together Discussing their latest Pendergast novel COLD VENGEANCE Doors Open 5:00 p.m. Cash bar and buffet Program at 6:00 p.m. with Douglas Preston live, Lincoln Child via Skype Q&A, booksigning, and cocktails with Doug (aripoisonedpen)… (more) Book Discussion Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence. When Douglas Preston moved to a lovely farmhouse in Florence with his family he discovered his dream villa was the site of a gruesome double murder. Teaming up with journalist Mario Spezi to investigate the murders, the two became suspects themselves. (DPLFictionRoom) Douglas Preston Douglas Preston signs Gideon's Sword. At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth: His father was framed and deliberately slaughtered. With her last breath, she begged her son to avenge him. Now, with a new purpose in his life, Gideon crafts a one-time mission of vengeance, aimed at the perpetrator of his father's destruction. His plan is meticulous, spectacular, and successful. But from the shadows, someone is watching. A very powerful someone, who is impressed by Gideon's special skills. Someone who has need of just such a renegade. For Gideon, this operation may be only the beginning . . . Douglas Preston was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1956, and grew up in the deadly boring suburb of Wellesley. His first job was as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. His stint at the museum resulted in his first nonfiction book, Dinosaurs in the Attic, as well as his first novel, Relic, co-authored with Lincoln Child, which was made into a movie by Paramount Pictures. Relic was followed by a string of other thrillers co-written with Child, many featuring eccentric FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast. Preston spends his free time riding horses in New Mexico and gunkholing around the Maine coast in an old lobster boat. He counts in his ancestry the poet Emily Dickinson, the newspaperman Horace Greeley, and the infamous murderer and opium addict Amasa Greenough. (aripoisonedpen)… (more) Douglas Preston Douglas Preston discusses Gideon's Sword. Co-author of the bestselling Agent Pendergast books Douglas Preston discusses Gideon's Sword(Grand Central, $26.99), the first book in the newest Preston/Child series. The mystery introduces Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thief - a man on a mission to avenge his father's death. Preston's bestselling work of nonfiction, The Monster of Florence, is being made into a major motion picture. Preston is a Research Associate at the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, a member of PEN New Mexico, and a board member of the School of American Research in Santa Fe. He also continues a magazine writing career by contributing regularly to The New Yorker, and has also written for National Geographic, Smithsonian, Harper's, and others. (herebebooks)… (more) Satuday, January 16 at 2 pm Douglas Preston Douglas Preston signs Impact. Satuday, January 16 at 2 pm Douglas Preston and John Lescroart discuss their new books at The Poisoned Pen (laamsden)
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