When the pressures of westward expansion and debt threaten toĭestroy everything he’s built, he sets Washington, a young man he owns, Spent his life fighting not only for his country but also for wealth and Richardson, a troubled Revolutionary War veteran, has Wash introduces a remarkable new voice in American literature.Įarly 1800s Tennessee, two men find themselves locked in an intimate South to West Africa and deep into the ancestral stories that reside in Journey across continents and through time, from the burgeoning American This luminous debut, Margaret Wrinkle takes us on an unforgettable It's Not Love, It's Just Paris by Patricia Engel: focuses on the inhabitants of a woman's rooming house in Paris.Wash by Margaret Wrinkle: historical novel effects of slave breeding in early 1800s Tennessee.Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly: contemporary novel about a woman whose friend's child disappears while she is in charge.Marriage and expectations, adapting to change.
What will book clubs talk about?įamily, the importance of money, ambition, the true meaning of success, Hasn’t been watching your own family in action. Vividly you’ll be looking over your shoulder to make sure the author Man Alive!Ĭaptures Owen and Toni Lerner and their nearly grown children so Pain with generosity and devastating humor as she explores how much weĪre each allowed to change within a family-and without. Mary Kay Zuravleff depicts family-on-family Sense of their world? More important, what will happen to his family?īolt of lightning that lifts Lerner into the air sends the entire What will happen to his patients, who rely on him to make When the coin he’s feeding into a parking meter is struckīy lightning, Lerner survives, except that now all he wants to do isīarbecue. It takes is a quarter to change pediatric psychiatrist Dr.
TINDERBOX BY LISA GORNICK PLUS
(Come back on tomorrow forīEA Book Group Speed Dating Session: Part 2.)Īre the books I learned about at the session, plus my top pick fromĮach publisher. The eight publishers that stopped by my table. Here is Part 1 of my recap of that event, covering four of Table to tell us about their hottest titles that will prompt the bestĭiscussions. Attendees sit at round tables, and the publicityĪnd marketing people from various publishing houses move from table to My favorite panel at BEA each year is the one geared to book clubs.įor the second year, the Reading Groups Guides panel has been set up in a
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