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June 2, 2015

Today's Featured Title and Contest June 2, 2015
 

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Wednesday, June 3rd at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of EIGHT HUNDRED GRAPES by Laura Dave, which is now in stores. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Today's Featured Book and Contest: EIGHT HUNDRED GRAPES by Laura Dave

A breakout novel from an author who “positively shines with wisdom and intelligence” (Jonathan Tropper, THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU). “Laura Dave writes with humor and insight about relationships in all their complexity, whether she's describing siblings or fiancés or a couple long-married. EIGHT HUNDRED GRAPES is a captivating story about the power of family, the limitations of love, and what becomes of a life’s work” (J. Courtney Sullivan, MAINE).

There are secrets you share, and secrets you hide…

Growing up on her family’s Sonoma vineyard, Georgia Ford learned some important secrets. The secret number of grapes it takes to make a bottle of wine: 800. The secret ingredient in her mother’s lasagna: chocolate. The secret behind ending a fight: hold hands.

But just a week before her wedding, 30-year-old Georgia discovers her beloved fiancé has been keeping a secret so explosive, it will change their lives forever.

Georgia does what she’s always done: she returns to the family vineyard, expecting the comfort of her long-married parents, and her brothers, and everything familiar. But it turns out her fiancé is not the only one who’s been keeping secrets…

Bestselling author Laura Dave has been dubbed “a wry observer of modern love” (USA Today), a “decadent storyteller” (Marie Claire) and “compulsively readable” (Woman’s Day). Set in the lush backdrop of Sonoma’s wine country, EIGHT HUNDRED GRAPES is a heartbreaking, funny and deeply evocative novel about love, marriage, family, wine and the treacherous terrain in which they all intersect.

-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to visit Laura Dave's official website.
-Connect with Laura Dave on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Click here to enter the contest by Wednesday, June 3rd at 11:59am ET.
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