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Did we get your attention with the editor’s guest post about the Austen-inspired Gothic fiction included in the anthology? Here’s a full description of Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature’s Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart: Stories by: Lauren Willig • Adriana Trigiani • Jo Beverley • Alexandra Potter • Laurie Viera [...] There were 76 entrants (that’s the spirit!) for the giveaway of Marisa de los Santos’s newest novel, Falling Together. Congratulations to lucky #16, Mary, and many thanks to author Sarah Pekkanen for sponsoring the giveaway! We’ve all heard stories at college reunions – the good, the bad, and the ugly, as the saying goes! Professional accomplishments (and failures), personal highs (and lows) … the truth behind the girl or guy who was voted “most likely to [fill in your own blank here].” Well, we’ve never heard a story like this one [...] Did you read Sarah Bird’s wonderful Spotlight on Bookstores about BookPeople in Austin, Texas? If you did, you got a taste of her fun writing style – her great ability to tell a story while making the reader part of the action. Here’s a bit about the story she tells in her latest novel, The Gap [...] I love a novel that takes me away to another time, another place … a novel that teaches me not only about a culture that is different from my own, but one that shows a similarity between the cultures. In the case of This Burns My Heart, the universal theme is that of marriage – the still-present [...] This is a very fun book giveaway from Chronicle Books! Lunch Lines is a 384-page book with tear-out jokes and riddles to put in your child’s lunch box, snack bag, or camp backpack. Let them know you’re thinking of them when they’re away each day. Here’s the official book description, and info about the author and illustrator: What’s [...] “On the day Contessa Carolina Fantoni was married, only one other living person knew that she was going blind, and he was not her groom.” And thus begins the story of the blind Contessa and her devoted Pellegrino Turri captured in Carey Wallace’s delightful debut novel, The Blind Contessa’s New Machine. Based on the true [...] Jane Roper is a Boston-area author whose first novel, Eden Lake, was published earlier this month. I haven’t yet had the opportunity to read Eden Lake, but it appeals to me; one of the blurbs I read is from Tom Perrotta: “Eden Lake is an unusually accomplished debut novel about love and loss and the absurdities of [...] You know I enjoy reading personal memoirs – yes, a memoir is personal by definition, but I use that phrase to identify memoirs of “real people” not celebrities (is there another term I’m not aware of?). By my definition, personal memoir is a narrative of a real person who finds herself in unusual – or even [...] Luanne Rice, author of twenty-six novels (22 of which have been consecutive New York Times bestsellers – wow!), has just published The Silver Boat, billed as a perfect summer beach read. Why wait for summer, when you can read it now: … a heartwarming yet heart-wrenching portrait of three far-flung sisters who come home to Martha’s Vineyard [...] |
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