March 29, 2011
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Have you, like me, ever read descriptions of book buzz panels, and wished you had been in the audience? Want to know more about how books are promoted? Want to just know more about what book clubs should be thinking about?
The first time was easy. No one ever suspected the victim had been murdered. The crime long buried, the dark passions guiding the killer's hand are still alive.
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Samantha is lost in the joys of new motherhood --- the softness of her 8-month-old daughter's skin, the lovely weight of her child in her arms --- but in trading her artistic dreams to care for her child, Sam worries she's lost something of herself.
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On a scorching day in August 1954, 13-year-old Jubie Watts leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family for a Florida vacation. Crammed into the Packard along with Jubie are her three siblings, her mother, and the family's black maid, Mary Luther.
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Joy Harkness had built a career and a safe life in New York. When offered a position at Amherst College, she impulsively leaves the city. A tumbledown Victorian house proves an unlikely choice; nevertheless, it becomes the home that changes Joy forever.
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Joy Harkness had built a career and a safe life in New York. When offered a position at Amherst College, she impulsively leaves the city. A tumbledown Victorian house proves an unlikely choice; nevertheless, it becomes the home that changes Joy forever. As the restoration begins to take shape, so does her outlook on life. Amid the half-wanted attention of the campus’s single, middle-aged men and the legitimate dramas of her community, Joy learns that second chances are waiting to be discovered within us all.
In the small southern China town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the 19th century, two young girls bump heads and become thick as thieves.
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March 28, 2011
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March 28, 2011
Posted by Stephen
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Author Sarah Blake discuess her World War II novel The Postmistress in Part I of this special interview, and what it's like writing about war in post 9/11 America. A book club favorite, The Postmistress is in stores!
March 2011
Seventeen-year-old Carrie Bradshaw is finally in New York. But can she manage to prove herself as a writer so she can remain in the city of her dreams? As the countdown of her summer ticks away, she grapples with writer's block, men and friendships in another delightful installment of her adventures.
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