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Editorial Content for Longbow Girl

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Cat S., Teen Board Member

From Linda Davies comes LONGBOW GIRL, perfect for anyone who watches “Doctor Who” or reads Ranger’s Apprentice. Set in Wales, Great Britain, this book tells the story of Merry Owen, a one-eyed archer who travels between the present and the time of the ancient book known as the Mabinogion. The Mabinogion is a collection of 11 stories from medieval Welsh manuscripts dating from around 1060 to 1200 --- one of them being the story of the Longbow Girl. Read More

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Set in the wilds of the Welsh mountains, the brave and beautiful longbow girl, Merry Owen, discovers a river that takes her back in time to the autocratic kingdom of King Henry VIII. While there she finds she must compete in an archery tournament to save her ancestors' land from being seized by their aristocratic neighbors the de Courcys. Merry's best friend James de Courcy (and heir to the de Courcy wealth) follows her back in time and the two get tangled up in their families' ancient histories. There are forces working against them both in the past and the present. Will they be able to survive their pasts to save their futures?

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Set in the wilds of the Welsh mountains, the brave and beautiful longbow girl, Merry Owen, discovers a river that takes her back in time to the autocratic kingdom of King Henry VIII. While there she finds she must compete in an archery tournament to save her ancestors' land from being seized by their aristocratic neighbors the de Courcys. Merry's best friend James de Courcy (and heir to the de Courcy wealth) follows her back in time and the two get tangled up in their families' ancient histories. There are forces working against them both in the past and the present. Will they be able to survive their pasts to save their futures?

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Set in the wilds of the Welsh mountains, the brave and beautiful longbow girl, Merry Owen, discovers a river that takes her back in time to the autocratic kingdom of King Henry VIII. While there she finds she must compete in an archery tournament to save her ancestors' land from being seized by their aristocratic neighbors the de Courcys. Merry's best friend James de Courcy (and heir to the de Courcy wealth) follows her back in time and the two get tangled up in their families' ancient histories. There are forces working against them both in the past and the present. Will they be able to survive their pasts to save their futures?

Editorial Content for In Real Life: A Novel

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Brynn S., Teen Board Member

Hannah has been friends with her best friend, Nick, for four years now. They talk every day, send each other packages in the mail filled with things like food and souvenirs and know everything about each other. Hannah is even starting to feel something for Nick that can only be described as “more-than-friend feelings.” But there’s always been one problem looming over their friendship: it’s purely an internet based one. Read More

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Hannah Cho and Nick Cooper have been best friends since 8th grade. They talk for hours on the phone and know everything there is to know about one another. There's just one problem --- Hannah and Nick have never actually met. Hannah has spent her entire life doing what she's supposed to, but when her senior year spring break plans get ruined by a rule-breaker, she decides to break a rule or two herself. She impulsively decides to road trip to Las Vegas, her older sister and BFF in tow, to surprise Nick and finally declare her more-than-friend feelings for him. Hannah's surprise romantic gesture backfires when she gets to Vegas and finds out that Nick has been keeping some major secrets.

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Hannah Cho and Nick Cooper have been best friends since 8th grade. They talk for hours on the phone and know everything there is to know about one another. There's just one problem --- Hannah and Nick have never actually met. Hannah has spent her entire life doing what she's supposed to, but when her senior year spring break plans get ruined by a rule-breaker, she decides to break a rule or two herself. She impulsively decides to road trip to Las Vegas, her older sister and BFF in tow, to surprise Nick and finally declare her more-than-friend feelings for him. Hannah's surprise romantic gesture backfires when she gets to Vegas and finds out that Nick has been keeping some major secrets.

About the Book

Hannah Cho and Nick Cooper have been best friends since 8th grade. They talk for hours on the phone, regularly shower each other with presents, and know everything there is to know about one another.

There's just one problem: Hannah and Nick have never actually met.

Hannah has spent her entire life doing what she's supposed to, but when her senior year spring break plans get ruined by a rule-breaker, she decides to break a rule or two herself. She impulsively decides to road trip to Las Vegas, her older sister and BFF in tow, to surprise Nick and finally declare her more-than-friend feelings for him.

 Hannah's surprise romantic gesture backfires when she gets to Vegas and finds out that Nick has been keeping some major secrets. Hannah knows the real Nick can't be that different from the online Nick she knows and loves, but now she only has night in Sin City to figure out what her feelings for Nick really are, all while discovering how life can change when you break the rules every now and then.

Editorial Content for The Smell of Other People's Houses

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Bryn D., Teen Board Member

Being a teenager is hard. We all know that. But imagine being a teenager in 1970s Alaska, a virtual wasteland, during a year in which the world and America were still finding their footing. Being a teenager is hard...but being a teenager under these circumstances is a whole different story.
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Ruth has a secret that she can’t hide forever. Dora wonders if she can ever truly escape where she comes from, even when good luck strikes. Alyce is trying to reconcile her desire to dance, with the life she’s always known on her family’s fishing boat. Hank and his brothers decide it’s safer to run away than to stay home --- until one of them ends up in terrible danger.

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Ruth has a secret that she can’t hide forever. Dora wonders if she can ever truly escape where she comes from, even when good luck strikes. Alyce is trying to reconcile her desire to dance, with the life she’s always known on her family’s fishing boat. Hank and his brothers decide it’s safer to run away than to stay home --- until one of them ends up in terrible danger.

About the Book

In Alaska, 1970, being a teenager here isn’t like being a teenager anywhere else. This deeply moving and authentic debut is for fans of Rainbow Rowell, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, and Benjamin Alire Saenz. Intertwining stories of love, tragedy, wild luck and salvation on the edge of America’s Last Frontier introduce a writer of rare talent.
 
Ruth has a secret that she can’t hide forever. Dora wonders if she can ever truly escape where she comes from, even when good luck strikes. Alyce is trying to reconcile her desire to dance, with the life she’s always known on her family’s fishing boat. Hank and his brothers decide it’s safer to run away than to stay home --- until one of them ends up in terrible danger.
 
Four very different lives are about to become entangled. This unforgettable book is about people who try to save each other --- and how sometimes, when they least expect it, they succeed. 

 

Editorial Content for America's First Daughter

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In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph --- a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy.

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In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph --- a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy.

About the Book

From her earliest days, Patsy Jefferson knows that though her father loves his family dearly, his devotion to his country runs deeper still. As Thomas Jefferson’s oldest daughter, she becomes his helpmate, protector and constant companion in the wake of her mother’s death, traveling with him when he becomes American minister to France.

It is in Paris, at the glittering court and among the first tumultuous days of revolution, that 15-year-old Patsy learns about her father’s troubling liaison with Sally Hemings, a slave girl her own age. Meanwhile, Patsy has fallen in love --- with her father’s protégé William Short, a staunch abolitionist and ambitious diplomat. Torn between love, principles, and the bonds of family, Patsy questions whether she can choose a life as William’s wife and still be a devoted daughter.

Her choice will follow her in the years to come, to Virginia farmland, Monticello, and even the White House. And as scandal, tragedy and poverty threaten her family, Patsy must decide how much she will sacrifice to protect her father's reputation, in the process defining not just his political legacy, but that of the nation he founded.

Editorial Content for The Crooked Heart of Mercy

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Award-winning Canadian author Billie Livingston’s heart-wrenching U.S. debut about a young couple whose lives are torn apart by tragedy and how they come together to heal each other’s many wounds.

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Award-winning Canadian author Billie Livingston’s heart-wrenching U.S. debut about a young couple whose lives are torn apart by tragedy and how they come together to heal each other’s many wounds.

About the Book

From acclaimed Canadian novelist Billie Livingston comes this powerful U.S. debut that unfolds over a riveting dual narrative --- an unforgettable story of ordinary lives rocked by hardship and scandal that follows in the tradition of Jennifer Haigh, A. Manette Ansay and Jennifer Egan.
 
Ben wakes up in a hospital with a hole in his head he can't explain. What he can remember he’d rather forget. Like how he’d spend nights as a limo driver for the wealthy and debauched…how he and his wife, Maggie, drifted apart in the wake of an unspeakable tragedy…how his little brother, Cola, got in over his head with loan sharks circling.
 
Maggie is alone. Again. With bills to pay and Ben in a psych ward, she must return to work. But who would hire her in the state she’s in? And just as Maggie turns to her brother, Francis, the Internet explodes with video of his latest escapade. The headline? Drunk Priest Propositions Cops.
 
Francis is an unlikely priest with a drinking problem and little interest in celibacy. A third DUI, a looming court date…. When Maggie takes him in, he knows he may be down to his last chance. And his best shot at healing might lie in helping Maggie and Ben reconnect --- against all odds.
 
Simmering with dark humor and piercing insights, THE CROOKED HEART OF MERCY is a startling reminder that redemption can be found in the most unlikely of places.

Editorial Content for The Kitchen House

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In this gripping New York Times bestseller and book club classic with almost 1 million copies in print, Kathleen Grissom brings to life a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War, where a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate.

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In this gripping New York Times bestseller and book club classic with almost 1 million copies in print, Kathleen Grissom brings to life a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War, where a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate.

About the Book

Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of the highly anticipated GLORY OVER EVERYTHING, established herself as a remarkable new talent with THE KITCHEN HOUSE, now a contemporary classic. In this gripping novel, a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate at a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War.

Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young, white Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen house and is placed, as an indentured servant, under the care of Belle, the master’s illegitimate slave daughter. Lavinia learns to cook, clean, and serve food, while guided by the quiet strength and love of her new family.

In time, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, caring for the master’s opium-addicted wife and befriending his dangerous yet protective son. She attempts to straddle the worlds of the kitchen and big house, but her skin color will forever set her apart from Belle and the other slaves.

Through the unique eyes of Lavinia and Belle, Grissom’s debut novel unfolds in a heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of class, race, dignity, deep-buried secrets, and familial bonds.

Editorial Content for A Place for Us

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Now in paperback, from international bestseller Harriet Evans, in the vein of Jojo Moyes and Liane Moriarty, an engrossing new novel about Martha, a wife and mother of three, who, on the eve of her 80th birthday, decides to reveal a secret that may tear her family apart and destroy the idyllic life she and her husband have spent the last 50 years building.

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Now in paperback, from international bestseller Harriet Evans, in the vein of Jojo Moyes and Liane Moriarty, an engrossing new novel about Martha, a wife and mother of three, who, on the eve of her 80th birthday, decides to reveal a secret that may tear her family apart and destroy the idyllic life she and her husband have spent the last 50 years building.

About the Book

"The day Martha Winter decided to tear apart her family began like any other day."

When Martha sits down one late summer’s morning to write out the invitations to her 80th birthday, she knows that what she will reveal that day will possibly ruin the perfect family idyll she and her husband David have spent over 50 years building…

But she has to let her family know what she and David have sacrificed. She can’t live a lie any more.
The invitation goes out far and wide, calling her three children and their families back home to Winterfold, their rambling house in the heart of the English countryside. They are Bill, the doctor; Florence, the eccentric academic; and Daisy…the child who never fit in. As the story unfolds, each character reveals their own secrets, joys, and tragedies they are wrestling with through.

Week of March 28, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of March 29th include MAKE ME, the 20th installment in Lee Child's Jack Reacher series; THE ENGLISH SPY by Daniel Silva, another action-packed tale of high-stakes international intrigue featuring the inimitable Gabriel Allon; Philippa Gregory's THE TAMING OF THE QUEEN, a riveting Tudor tale featuring King Henry VIII’s sixth wife, Kateryn Parr, the first English queen to publish under her own name; and UNFORGETTABLE, a deeply moving, at times laugh-out-loud funny memoir about the colorful life of Scott Simon and his mother, who spent their last days together in a hospital ICU reflecting on their lifetime's worth of memories.

Week of March 21, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of March 21st include FINDERS KEEPERS, Stephen King's latest bestseller about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes much too far; THE GUILTY, the fourth thriller in David Baldacci's series starring Will Robie, the government's most professional, disciplined and lethal assassin; THE DREAM LOVER by Elizabeth Berg, a lush historical novel based on the sensuous Parisian life of the 19th-century writer George Sand; and DEAD WAKE, in which Erik Larson tells the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era.

Week of March 14, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of March 14th include THE MARTINI SHOT, George Pelecanos' debut collection of stories, in which all of the characters are fighting against odds, against enemies, or against themselves; A LOVE LIKE BLOOD, the first novel for adults by YA writer Marcus Sedgwick, a gripping saga of love, revenge and obsession --- and vampires; and SISTERS OF HEART AND SNOW by Margaret Dilloway, the poignant story of estranged sisters reunited when a mysterious request from their ailing mother reveals a long-buried family secret.