Enter the June Book Club Buzz!
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Eileen Goudge DOMESTIC AFFAIRS

Beth Harbison SECRETS OF A SHOE ADDICT

Coming July 1:
Kate Jacobs COMFORT FOOD

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Greetings,
We extend a warm welcome to the authors who have recently joined our Invite an Author program, and who are eager to speak to your book club by phone. Their many terrific titles include debut novels, historical fiction, and comic novels. You'd rather host an author in your home? Take a moment to visit our new Invite an Author by Location page, which lists authors available to visit your book club in person.
Enter to win two sizzling summer reads: Eileen Goudge's Domestic Affairs and Beth Harbison's Secrets of a Shoe Addict, the featured titles in our June Book Club Buzz contests. If you're hungry for summer recipes to pair with your reading, our Featured Author Recipes page, with fabulous dishes from Eileen, Beth, and other authors, should satisfy.
On July 1, check your inbox for a new book giveaway - Kate Jacobs's Comfort Food - along with one of Kate's favorite family recipes.
Happy reading - and eating!
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BOOK CLUBS RECOMMEND |
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Reading Suggestions from Book Clubs Around the Country
The Literary Lyres of San Fernando Valley in Woodland Hills, California, recommend:
Plum
Wine by Angela Davis-Gardner (University of Wisconsin, 2006), Fiction, 332
pages
"Plum Wine is
beautifully written and has broad appeal. Barbara Jefferson, an American,
is teaching at a Japanese university, when her friend and mentor, Michiko dies,
leaving Barbara a Japanese chest filled with bottles of homemade plum wine.
Each bottle is dated with a consecutive year and wrapped with rice paper, on
which Michiko has written her life story. Barbara engages a Japanese gentleman
to translate the diaries, and they embark upon a personal relationship. The
story takes place during the Vietnam era and reflects back over Hiroshima and
the devastation that war can cause. It spans many years and shows us the
dangers of history repeating itself. It is a love story as well as a morality
tale with psychological suspense. The mother of one of our members is Japanese
and lived in a relocation camp during World War II. She was able to bring her
unique and personal perspective to the Japanese American experience. Our group
unanimously enjoyed the book, and the author was gracious enough to participate in our discussion via speaker phone."
Paired with: Japanese cuisine, including Japanese cucumber salad, Benihana-style fried rice, soy rice crackers, tempura vegetables, plum wine and Michi-San's Japanese Slipper - a big hit with the girls!
More Book Recommendations
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To Chat With Your Book Club
Our directory of authors ready to chat with your book club on the phone continues to grow. We're pleased to welcome the following authors to the Invite an Author program:
Shobhan Bantwal, The Forbidden Daughter Rebecca Barry, Later, at the Bar S.A. Bodeen, The Compound Melodie Bowsher, My Lost and Found Life Carleen Brice, Orange MInt and Honey Jessica Brody, The Fidelity Files Barbara Delinsky, The Secret Between Us Lesley Dormen, The Best Place to Be Ellen Feldman, Scottsboro Nancy Goldstone, The Four Queens Joanna Hershon, The German Bride Tara Ison, The List Daphne Kalotay, Calamity and Other Stories Alison Larkin, The English American Yael Goldstein Love, Overture Kate Maloy, Every Last Cuckoo Robert Marshall, A Separate Reality Ruthanne Lum McCunn, God of Luck DeLaune Michel, The Safety of Secrets Kathleen Reid, A Page Out of Life Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict Lisa Rosenbaum, A Day of Small Beginnings Michele Scott, A Vintage Murder Amy Wallen, MoonPies and Movie Stars Melanie Wells, My Soul to Keep Janet Ruth Young, The Opposite of Music
These authors join our roster of terrific writers, including Cai Emmons, Martha Frankel, Jane Guill, Judy Larsen, Jewell Parker Rhodes and Marie Myung-Ok Lee.
Please browse our complete list of available authors and their books. Once you've decided which author(s) you'd like to invite, contact the author(s) directly through our website and arrange a date to speak with them.
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