March 11, 2020
 March 11, 2020 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 Thursday, March 12th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD by Therese Anne Fowler, which is this month's Barnes & Noble Book Club pick and will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On selection. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!  Today's Featured Book and Contest:  In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who’s headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans --- a family with new money and a secretly troubled teenage daughter --- raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace. With little in common except a property line, these two families quickly find themselves at odds: first, over an historic oak tree in Valerie's yard, and soon after, the blossoming romance between their two teenagers. A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD asks big questions about life in America today --- What does it mean to be a good neighbor? How do we live alongside each other when we don't see eye to eye? --- as it explores the effects of class, race and heartrending love in a story that’s as provocative as it is powerful. A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick. Don't miss Carol Fitzgerald's commentary in the March 20th Bookreporter.com Weekly Update newsletter. Click here to enter the contest This is a special newsletter for our Spring Preview contests, which will mail on select days in March and April. This newsletter is separate from our weekly Bookreporter.com newsletter, which mails every Friday. You can subscribe to that newsletter here. Please visit the other websites in TheBookReportNetwork.com: ReadingGroupGuides.com, Teenreads.com, Kidsreads.com and AuthorsOnTheWeb.com. |
