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March 31, 2016

Today's Featured Title and Contest March 31, 2016
 

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Friday, April 1st at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE ONE-IN-A-MILLION BOY by Monica Wood, which releases on April 5th. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Today's Featured Book and Contest: THE ONE-IN-A-MILLION BOY by Monica Wood
The incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young boy assigned to help her around the house --- a friendship that touches each member of the boy’s unmoored family.

For years, guitarist Quinn Porter has been on the road, chasing gig after gig, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness records-obsessed son. When the boy dies suddenly, Quinn seeks forgiveness for his paternal shortcomings by completing the requirements for his son’s unfinished Boy Scout badge.

For seven Saturdays, Quinn does yard work for Ona Vitkus, the wily 104-year-old Lithuanian immigrant the boy had visited weekly. Quinn soon discovers that the boy had talked Ona into gunning for the world record for Oldest Licensed Driver --- and that’s the least of her secrets. Despite himself, Quinn picks up where the boy left off, forging a friendship with Ona that allows him to know the son he never understood, a boy who was always listening, always learning.

THE ONE-IN-A-MILLION BOY is a richly layered novel of hearts broken seemingly beyond repair and then bound by a stunning act of human devotion.

-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to visit Monica Wood's official website.
 
Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET on Friday, April 1st.

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