_____________________________ Secret follows secret in this exploration of marriage, identity, feminism, and passion. Book clubs will love the story of Angela Dunnewald’s romantic and artistic journey in Vanishing Point Vanishing Point by E. V. Legters Years into a secure marriage, Angela feels she’s fraying. Her attorney husband can be controlling, and her best friend demanding; Angela’s days, […]
Book Club Contest for May 2017
_____________________________ Book clubs will love this mystery about a crime reporter searching for her kidnapped son who must untangle the connection to her brother’s long-ago disappearance. The Last Time She Saw Him by Jane Haseldine Julia Gooden remembers nothing about the worst night of her life. Thirty years ago, her nine-year-old brother Ben—the person who […]
April 2017 Book Club Contest
_____________________________ Every Wild Heart will capture the heart of your book club with its exploration of love and the strength of the bond between a mother and daughter. Every Wild Heart by Meg Donohue From USA Today bestselling author Meg Donohue comes a mystery, a love story, and a mother-daughter tale about two women on […]
March 2017 Book Club Contest
_____________________________ Book Clubs will love this gripping story about the power of friendship. The Orphan’s Tale The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan’s Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast […]
February 2017 Book Club Contest
_____________________________ Book clubs will love the picture that bestselling author Christina Baker Kline paints about one of the most famous American paintings and the relationship between artist and subject in A Piece of the World. A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash […]
January 2017 Book Club Contest
_____________________________ Book Clubs will explore the special sibling relationship in Sisters One, Two, Three. Sisters One, Two, Three by Nancy Star After a tragic accident on Martha’s Vineyard, keeping secrets becomes a way of life for the Tangle family. With memories locked away, the sisters take divergent paths. Callie disappears, Mimi keeps so busy she has […]
November 2016 Book Club Contest
_____________________________ Poignant, moving, and unforgettable, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto shows how music touches, and changes, us all. The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom “Talent is a piece of God’s shadow, and under that shadow, human stories intersect.” A Spanish war orphan born in a burning church and raised by a […]
October 2016 Book Club Contest
_____________________________ Dear Amy, a tightly-spun novel of psychological suspense, will keep book clubs hot on the trail of a cold case. Dear Amy by Helen Callaghan In Helen Callaghan’s chilling, tightly-spun debut novel of psychological suspense, a teenage girl’s abduction stirs dark memories of a twenty-year-old cold case… Margot Lewis is a teacher at an […]
September 2016 Book Club Contest
_____________________________ Book clubs will love this memoir that explores the breadth and depth of sisterly love. Marrow Marrow by Elizabeth Lesser The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant—one the donor and one the […]
August 2016 Book Club Contest
_____________________________ Book Clubs will examine the transition of The Goodbye Year The Goodbye Year by Kaira Rouda Melanie, a perfectionist mom who views the approaching end of parenting as a type of death, can’t believe she has only one more year to live vicariously through her slacker senior son, Dane. Gorgeous mom Sarah has just begun […]