Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Georgeanna “Georgey” Woolsey isn’t meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. So when war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. In proving them wrong, she […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Click to View the Book Club Kit. Listen to a Sample of the AudioBook. Most castles are protected by men. This one by women. A founding mother… 1774. Gently-bred noblewoman Adrienne Lafayette becomes her husband, the Marquis de Lafayette’s political partner in the fight for American independence. […]
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Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. A producer at the BBC and mother to a new baby, Tessa is at work in Belfast one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground in the two decades since the Good Friday Agreement, but they never […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Click to View the Book Club Kit. We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Watch Our Genre Swap Discussion with Paula McLain and Lisa Scottoline. What war destroys, only love can heal. Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Click to View or Download the Book Club Kit. Watch Laura Maylene Walter’s Meet the Author Video. Celeste Morton has eagerly awaited her passage to adulthood. Like every girl, she was born with a set of childhood markings–the freckles, moles, and birth marks on her body that […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Click to View or Download the Book Club Kit. Click to Watch the Book Trailer. Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. A TODAY Show #ReadwithJenna February Book Club Pick. Read the announcement here. Click to read the discussion guide. Virtual Event Alert! Join us, and libraries across Wisconsin, as we celebrate local author Lauren Fox’s new novel Send for Me on February 23rd! Lauren will discuss her new […]
