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Emily Gray Tedrowe, author of Blue Stars

Ellen is a Midwestern literature professor who is drawn into the war when her legal ward Michael enlists as a Marine. Lacey is a proud Army wife who struggles to pay the bills and keep things going for her son while her husband is deployed. Ellen and Lacey cope with the fear and stress of a loved one at war while trying to get by in a society that often ignores or misunderstands what war means to women today. When Michael and Eddie are injured in Iraq, Ellen and Lacey’s lives become intertwined in Walter Reed Army Hospital, where each woman must live while caring for her wounded soldier.

Emily Gray Tedrowe, author of Blue Stars

Ellen is a Midwestern literature professor who is drawn into the war when her legal ward Michael enlists as a Marine. Lacey is a proud Army wife who struggles to pay the bills and keep things going for her son while her husband is deployed. Ellen and Lacey cope with the fear and stress of a loved one at war while trying to get by in a society that often ignores or misunderstands what war means to women today.

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.