_____________________________ 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 […]
July 2016 Book Club Contest
_____________________________ Transport your book club to the Golden Age of Hollywood with the lush writing of Adriana Trigiani’s All the Stars in the Heavens All the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana Trigiani Adriana Trigiani, the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster epic The Shoemaker’s Wife, returns with her biggest and boldest novel […]
June 2016 Book Club Contest
_____________________________ Book clubs will love this unforgettable story of nature and human nature! Leaving Blythe River Leaving Blythe River by Catherine Ryan Hyde New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde returns with an unforgettable story of courage. Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Not only […]
May 2016 Book Club Contest
_____________________________ Book clubs will love this story of second chances and confronting the past! We’re All Damaged We’re All Damaged by Matthew Norman Andy Carter was happy. He had a solid job. He ran 5Ks for charity. He was living a nice, safe Midwestern existence. And then his wife left him for a handsome paramedic down […]