Lisa Unger
Latest Book – Last Girl Ghosted
In development at Netflix – Confessions on the 7:45
Lisa Unger is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of seventeen novels, including THE STRANGER INSIDE. With millions of readers worldwide and books published in twenty-six languages, Lisa Unger is widely regarded as a master of suspense. In 2019, she received two Edgar Award nominations, an honor held by only a few writers including Ruth Rendell and Agatha Christie. The Edgar-nominated UNDER MY SKIN is also a finalist for the prestigious Hammett Prize, and the Macavity Award for Best Novel. And the original short story THE SLEEP TIGHT MOTEL is a #1 bestselling single.
Unger’s critically acclaimed books have been voted “Best of the Year” or top picks by the Today show, Good Morning America, Entertainment Weekly, Amazon, IndieBound and many others. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Travel+Leisure. She lives on the west coast of Florida with her family.
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Book Club Reads
Book Club Reads
Culled from the favorites of three East Coast Book Clubs.
Please write to us with your book club favorites – info@roamingthearts.com
Recent Book Club Favorites:
Theo of Golden – Allen Levi
Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
Fifteen Dogs – Alexis Andre
The Correspondent – Virginia Evans
How to Read a Book – Monica Wood
The Safe Keep – Yael Van Der Wouden
The Vesper Wilds – Lauren Groff
Our 2020 Covid List – In case you missed them:
American Dirt- Jeannine Cummins Apeirogon-Colum McCann Ask Again, Yes –Mary Beth Keane Behold The Dreamers –Imbolo Mbue Bel Canto –Ann Patchett Born A Crime- Trevor Noah Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman Fates and Furfies – Lauren Groff In The Midst of Winter – Isabel Allende Mrs. Hemingway – Naomi Wood Pachinko –Min Jin Lee Tattooist Artist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris The Extraordinary life of Sam Hell- Robert Dugoni The Great Alone – Kristin Hannah The Great Believers –Rebecca Makkai The Inn At Lake Devine –Elinor Lipman The Man with a Load of Mischief –Martha Grimes The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey The Storyteller’s Secret – Sejal Badani This Tender Land-William Kent Krueger -
Site Visitor User Guide
Roaming the Arts: Visitor User Guide
Welcome to Roaming the Arts, an arts discovery site built for readers, listeners, collectors, browsers, and fans who enjoy finding writers, musicians, bands, and visual artists worth exploring. The site is designed as an arts browser: a place to roam through books, music, art, videos, artist websites, author pages, and creative recommendations at your own pace.
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The homepage is the best place to begin if you want to see what is new, featured, or recently updated. Scroll through current posts, browse featured artists and authors, and use the visible category buttons or top menu options to move into the areas that interest you most.
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Les Standiford
Locations: Florida and others.
Les Standiford
Les Standiford is the author of twenty-one books, including the critically acclaimed works of non-fiction, Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean –a History Channel Top Ten Pick & the One Read choice of more than a dozen public library systems; Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America, and Washington Burning: How a Frenchman’s Vision for Our Nation’s Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army–both publisher’s nominees for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awards; The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived our Holiday Spirits (a New York Times Editors Choice); Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction that Changed America (a New York Times best-seller); and most recently, Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles, a featured alternate of the History Book Club.
He is also the author of novels, including the acclaimed John Deal mystery series as well as the stand-alone thrillers Black Mountain and Spill (adapted as a feature film).
He has received the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University in Miami and was appointed holder of the Peter Meinke Chair in Creative Writing at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg for the Spring of 2016.
He and his wife, Kimberly, a psychotherapist and artist, are the parents of three children, Jeremy, Hannah, and Alexander. They live in Pinecrest, Florida, in a home built of native Florida pine and maintained by the spirit of John Deal.
