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4/12/12 – Allison Winn Scotch – THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME

“Like S.J. Watson’s recent Before I Go To Sleep, here’s a novel that investigates the role of memory and how our past and present selves are linked. Good for book clubs that want both entertainment and something worth discussing; from the New York Times best-selling Time of My Life.”
–Library Journal on THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME

“Who would we be without our memories, good and bad? This funny, poignant, and absorbing page-turner raises that question and many others, about the nature of love, trust, family and friendship. I’m still thinking about the main character and her surprising journey long after I turned the final page.”
–J. Courtney Sullivan, NY Times best-selling author of COMMENCEMENT on THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME

5/8/12 – RAE MEADOWS – MERCY TRAIN

“Rae Meadows has written a richly textured novel of three generations of mothers and daughters who by finding each other, find themselves. In these beautifully interwoven stories of birth and death, love and loss, Violet, Iris, and Samantha explore the genetic threads that connect each to the others. Mercy Train is a powerful novel of women’s secrets and strength.”
- Sandra Dallas, New York Times best-selling author of Prayers for Sale and Whiter Than Snow on MERCY TRAIN

5/9/12 – Meg Mitchell Moore – THE ARRIVALS (Paperback)

“Moore handles the shifts in perspective with ease, nimbly evoking the reader’s sympathy for each family member….All of the characters manage to be both achingly familiar and cliché-free.”
-Entertainment Weekly

“Moore keeps the proceedings moving with an assurance and outlook reminiscent of Laurie Colwin, evoking emotional universals with the simplest of observations.”
-Publishers Weekly

5/29/12 – Meg Mitchell Moore – SO FAR AWAY

Meg Mitchell Moore has taken the hot button topic of cyber bullying and crafted a story so compellingly real you will never forget her thirteen-year-old heroine, Natalie Gallagher. Moore’s pitch-perfect rendering of this girl’s voice is nothing short of stunning.
-Laura Harrington, author of ALICE BLISS on SO FAR AWAY

“This sweet and thoughtful novel is both tense and elegiac, exploring the damage we inflict on ourselves and each other, and the strength it takes to heal.”
Publishers Weekly on SO FAR AWAY

5/29/12 – Camille Noe Pagan – THE ART OF FORGETTING (Paperback)

9/27/12 – Sarah Jio – BLACKBERRY WINTER

Last year, Jio triumphed with two paperback originals, The Violets of March and The Bungalow, which together have 100,000 copies in print. Here she returns with a story that leaps from 1930s Seattle, when single-mother Vera Ray comes off the night shift into a May Day snowstorm (a “blackberry winter” storm) and finds that her son and been abducted, to the present day, when Seattle Herald reporter Claire Aldridge learns about the long-ago abduction and starts investigating. Sweet, absorbing women’s fiction, from what I know of her previous work.
–Library Journal on BLACKBERRY WINTER

10/2/12 – Jessica Grose – SAD DESK SALAD

Sad Desk Salad by Jessica Grose is the Devil Wears Prada for the blogger age. A laser focused snapshot of our time, the novel gives readers an insider’s perspective on the 24/7 grindhouse of celebrity-obsessed new media. Funny and heartfelt, a must-read.”
— Valerie Frankel, author of Four of a Kind