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In Tom Rachman's "The Imposters," Dora Frenhofer, a once successful but now aging and embittered novelist, knows her mind is going. She is determined, however, to finish her final book, and reverse her fortunes, before time runs out. Alone in her London home during the pandemic, she creates, and is in turn created by, the fascinating real characters from her own life.

The alarm is growing worldwide about the dangers of bird flu or also known as avian influenza. Cary Groner is a science writer and a self-described “worst case scenario person.” In his new novel “The Way” a previous H5N1 pandemic has left the world a wasteland populated by the occasional settlement, access to water, and arable land.

A project that has been over a decade in the making “Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel” traces the trajectory of the 20th century novel through 32 titles from “The Immoralist” and “In Search of Lost Time” to “The Enigma of Arrival” and “Good Morning Midnight.”

Novelist Jennifer Rosner’s first book was “The Yellow Bird Sings” her latest is “Once We Were Home” which reveals a little-known history. It is based on the true stories of children stolen during wartime.

Jacqueline Gay Walley’s novel “The Waw” sees a woman leaving here New York life to follow an image she has seen of a small town of great beauty by the sea in England.

“I Cheerfully Refuse” is Leif Enger's latest novel set in a not-too-distant America. A tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed deeply beloved bookselling wife.

The novel, "The Missing Star," is based on the life of Vladimir Munk and Kitty Löwi. The book chronicles Vladimir and Kitty’s lives as children growing up under German occupation, and their deportation to the Terezin ghetto, where they met and fell in love. Julie Canepa is the author of the novel and co-author of documentary "Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk."

Susanna Hoffs co-founded The Bangles in 1981 and they released a string of chart-topping singles including “Manic Monday," “Walk Like an Egyptian,” “Hazy Shade of Winter,” and “Eternal Flame,” before embarking on a critically acclaimed solo career.Now, she has written a novel (just out in paperback) entitled "This Bird Has Flown." She joined us for an interview for The Creative Life series.

Hannah Rothschild's latest novel, "High Time," is an outlandish comedy of morals and manners about a highborn British family of outrageous characters - a delicious story of madness, mayhem, and mischief run amok.

Wanda Fischer has spent over 40 years broadcasting folk, bluegrass and blues music to radio listeners as host of WAMC-FM/Northeast Public Radio’s weekly “The Hudson River Sampler” show in 1982.Along with her love of music, Fischer is a published author. Her new novel is "A Few Bumps." She will sign and discuss the book on Friday, October 6 at The Book House in Albany, New York.