_____________________________ 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 […]
April 2016 Book Club Contest
_____________________________ Book clubs will love the elements of real history and themes of friendship, family, and trust that permeate this thoughtful and generation-spanning novel. The Secrets of Flight The Secrets of Flight by Maggie Leffler This captivating, breakout novel—told in alternating viewpoints—brings readers from the skies of World War II to the present day, where […]
March 2016 Book Club of the Month Contest
_____________________________ Book Clubs will find that love goes on in WHEN I’M GONE When I’m Gone by Emily Bleeker Dear Luke, First let me say—I love you…I didn’t want to leave you… Luke Richardson has returned home after burying Natalie, his beloved wife of sixteen years, ready to face the hard job of raising their […]
February 2016 Book Club of the Month Contest
_____________________________ Southern Noir heads to the holy city of Charleston, South Carolina in this present day hard-boiled mystery. Burning Heat Burning Heat by David Burnsworth Brack Pelton, an Afghanistan War Veteran, steps out of a run down bar in the projects after a long night. Before he gets to his truck, he finds himself in the middle of […]