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Robert Barclay Discusses More than Words Can Say - Feb 08,2012 | Join Book Club Girl, of the Book Club Girl blog as she welcomes Robert Barclay, author of If Wishes Were Horses, to discuss his new novel, More than Words Can Say. Chelsea Enright never expected to inherit her grandmothers lakeside cottage deep in the Adirondacks—a serene getaway that had been mysteriously closed up decades ago. This is no simple bequest, however, because when Chelsea finds her grandmothers WWII diaries, shes stunned to discover that they hold secrets she never suspected . . . and they have the power to turn her own life upside down. Even more surprising is the compelling presence of local doctor Brandon "Yale, and Chelsea soon finds her "short stay" has stretched into the entire summer. She cannot put this cottage and her familys past behind her easily—and the more she learns about the woman her grandmother truly was, the more Chelseas own life begins to change . . . and nothing will ever be the same again. | 2/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conor Grennan Discusses Little Princes - Feb 01,2012 | Join Book Club Girl on Air, of the blog Book Club Girl, as she welcomes Conor Grennan, author of Little Princes: One Mans Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal. An astonishing testament to true courage, the transformative power of love, and the ability of one man to make a real difference. In search of adventure, twenty-nine-year-old Conor Grennan embarked on a yearlong journey around the globe, beginning with a three-month stint volunteering at an orphanage in civil war–torn Nepal. But a shocking truth would forever change his life: these rambunctious, resilient children were not orphans at all but had been taken from their families by child traffickers who falsely promised to keep them safe from war before abandoning them in the teeming chaos of Kathmandu. For Conor, what started as a footloose ramble became a dangerous, dedicated mission to unite youngsters he had grown to love with the parents they had been stolen from—a breathtaking adventure, as Conor risked everything in the treacherous Nepalese mountains to bring the children home. “Funny, touching, tragic….A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land—and one man’s extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with their parents.” —Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts | 1/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chandra Hoffman Discusses Chosen - Dec 08,2011 | Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes author Chandra Hoffman to discuss her newest book, now in paperback, Chosen. It all begins with a fantasy: the caseworker in her "signing paperwork" charcoal suit standing alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn, set against a fluorescent-lit delivery-room backdrop. Its this blissful picture that keeps Chloe Pinter, director of the Chosen Childs domestic-adoption program, happy while juggling the high demands of her boss and the incessant needs of both adoptive and biological parents. But the very job that offers her refuge from her turbulent personal life and Portlands winter rains soon becomes a battleground involving three very different couples: the Novas, well-off college sweethearts who suffered fertility problems but are now expecting their own baby; the McAdoos, a wealthy husband and desperate wife for whom adoption is a last chance; and Jason and Penny, an impoverished couple who have nothing—except the baby everyone wants. When a child goes missing, dreams dissolve into nightmares, and everyone is forced to examine what he or she really wants and where it all went wrong. Told from alternating points of view, Chosen reveals the desperate nature of desire across social backgrounds and how far people will go to get the one thing they think will be the answer. “Gritty and suspenseful, Chosen draws us into the obstacle-strewn path of domestic adoption.” —Juliette Fay, author of Shelter Me Reading Group Guide for Chosen. | 12/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anna David Discusses Falling for Me - Nov 22,2011 | Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Anna David, author of Party Girl and Bought to discuss her new memoir, Falling for Me: How I Hung Curtains, Learned to Cook, Traveled to Seville, and Fell in Love. Like most women, whether they’ve chosen the Fortune 500 career path or have had five kids by 35, Anna David wondered if she’d made the right choices. Then she came upon the book Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmopolitan’s fearless leader from the mid-sixties to the late nineties. Immediately connecting with Gurley Brown’s unique message of self-empowerment combined with femininity, Anna vowed to use Sex as a lesson plan, venturing out of her comfort zone in the hope of overcoming the fears and insecurities that had haunted her for years. Embarking on a journey both intensely personal and undeniably universal, she becomes adventurous and spontaneous—reviving her wardrobe and apartment, taking French lessons, dashing off to Seville, and whiling nights away with men she never would have considered before. In the process, she ends up meeting the person really worth changing for: herself. “Funny, smart, and compulsively likeable, Anna David is this decade’s answer to Carrie Bradshaw. There won’t be a single second you won’t root for her as she bravely tries to answer the resonating question: how can I be my best self?” —Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author of The Department of Lost and Found | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sara Shepard Discusses Everything We Ever Wanted - Nov 16,2011 | Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Sara Shepard, bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars and Lying Game series to discuss her new novel for adults that is sure to appeal to her legions of teen fans as well, Everything We Ever Wanted. A recently widowed mother of two, Sylvie Bates-McAllister finds her life upended by a late-night phone call from the headmaster of the prestigious private school founded by her grandfather where her adopted son Scott teaches. Allegations of Scotts involvement in a hazing scandal throws the entire family into chaos. For Charles, Sylvies biological son, it dredges up a ghost from the past who is suddenly painfully present. For his wife Joanna, it forces her to reevaluate everything shes hoped for in the golden Bates-McAllisters. And for Scott, it illuminates harsh truths about a world he has never truly felt himself a part of. But the call also exposes a tangled web of secrets that ties the family together: the mystery of the school hazing, the event that tore Charles and Scott apart years earlier, and the intended recipient of a certain bracelet. The quest to unravel the truth takes the family on individual journeys and face-to-face with the long-dormant question: what if the life you always planned for and dreamed of isnt what you want after all? “Sara Shepard delivers the perfect read….A brilliant storyteller.”—Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of Very Valentine and Brava, Valentine “I could not put it down.”—Sarah Mlynowski, author of Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldnt Have) | 11/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Greg Olear Discusses Fathermucker - Nov 10,2011 | Join Book Club Girl as she interviews author Greg Olear about his new novel, Fathermucker. In Fathermucker, novelist Greg Olear follows the day in the life of a dad on the brink: Josh Lansky—second-rate screenwriter, fledgling freelancer, and stay-at-home dad of two preschoolers—has held everything together while his wife is away on business . . . until this morning’s playdate, when he finds out through the mommy grapevine that she might be having an affair. What Josh needs is a break. He’s not going to get one. Fathermucker is a sweet, heartrending, often hilarious look at family life from the dad’s perspective that Nick Hornby fans will most certainly respond to. As Jessica Anne Blau, author of Drinking Closer to Home and The Summer of Naked Swim Parties so insightfully points out, “Only a writer with the verve, daring, and great talent of Greg Olear could pull off a novel that deals with sippy cups, m**********n, autism spectrum disorder, affairs, and play-dates all at once.” “All kinds of funny—raucously, wickedly, sweetly, saucily, surprisingly, profanely funny…a wonderful novel.” —Jess Walter, author of The Financial Lives of the Poets “Deft and funny, true and real. If you read one book this year, read this one.” —Molly Jong-Fast, author of The Social Climber’s Handbook | 11/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adriana Trigiani Discusses Don't Sing at the Table - Nov 01,2011 | Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani to discuss her new memoir, now in paperback, Dont Sing at the Table. New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani shares a treasure trove of insight and guidance from her two grandmothers: time-tested, common sense advice on the most important aspects of a woman’s life, from childhood to the golden years. Seamlessly blending anecdote with life lesson, Don’t Sing at the Table tells the two vibrant women’s real-life stories—how they fell in love, nurtured their marriages, balanced raising children with being savvy businesswomen, and reinvented themselves with each new decade. For readers of Big Stone Gap, Very Valentine, Lucia, Lucia, and Rococo, this loving memoir is the Trigiani family recipe for chicken soup for the soul. "No one ever reads just one of Trigiani’s wonderfully quirky tales. Once you pick up the first, you are hooked.” —BookPage “Best-selling author Trigiani (Very Valentine) presents a loving paean to her Italian grandmothers... there is much warmth in these remembrances that will resonate with readers who enjoyed strong relationships with their own grandparents and know the value they can bring to our lives.” | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Amish Fiction Christmas Celebration - Oct 26,2011 | Book Club Girl gets into the Holiday Spirit with an Amish Christmas Celebration! Join us for a discussion with three bestselling authors of Amish fiction, Shelley Shepard Gray, Vannetta Chapman, and Amy Clipston, who are heading out this November for a Holiday Book Tour to celebrate their latest novels, all set in Amish country. Shelley Shepard Gray is the bestselling author of the Seasons of Sugarcreek and Families of Honor series. She will join us to discuss her hardcover debut, Christmas in Sugarcreek, featuring the beloved characters from her Seasons of Sugarcreek series. This heartwarming novel is about new beginnings, love, and the magic of Christmas. Vannetta Chapman is the author of the bestselling novel A Simple Amish Christmas and the upcoming Falling to Pieces: A Quilt Shop Murder, the first in a new Amish mystery series set in Shipshewana, IN. The first book introduces two women—one Amish, one English—who reluctantly form an unlikely alliance to solve a mystery. Also joining the discussion is Amy Clipston, author of the bestselling Kauffman Amish Bakery novels and the novella A Plain and Simple Christmas. She joins us to discuss her latest novel, Naomi’s Gift, about a woman who receives a surprise when a young widower enters her life, stirring up unexpected feelings in her. | 10/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marisa de los Santos Discusses Falling Together - Oct 05,2011 | Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes New York Times bestselling author Marisa de los Santos to discuss her new novel, Falling Together. What if saying hello to an old friend meant saying good-bye to life as you know it? It’s been six years since Pen Calloway watched her best friends walk out of her life. And through the birth of her daughter, the death of her father, and the vicissitudes of single motherhood, she has never stopped missing them. Pen, Cat, and Will met on their first day of college and formed what seemed like a magical and lifelong bond, only to see their friendship break apart amid the realities of adulthood. When, after years of silence, Cat—the bewitching, charismatic center of their group—e-mails Pen and Will with an urgent request to meet at their college reunion, they can’t refuse. But instead of a happy reconciliation, what awaits is a collision of past and present that sends Pen and Will, with Pen’s five-year-old daughter and Cat’s hostile husband in tow, on a journey across the world. With her trademark wit, vivid prose, and gift for creating authentic, captivating characters, Marisa de los Santos returns with an emotionally resonant novel about our deepest human connections. As Pen and Will struggle to uncover the truth about Cat, they find more than they bargained for: startling truths about who they were before and who they are now. They must confront the reasons their friendship fell apart and discover how—and if—it can ever fall back together. “The mix of perfectly realized personalities and genuine emotion make this a winner.” — Publishers Weekly | 10/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Evan Mandery Discusses Q: A Novel - Sep 26,2011 | Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes author Evan Mandery to discuss his new novel, Q. “Q, Quentina Elizabeth Deveril, is the love of my life.” Shortly before his wedding, the unnamed hero of this uncommon romance is visited by a man who claims to be his future self and ominously admonishes him that he must not marry the love of his life, Q. At first the protagonist doubts this stranger, but in time he becomes convinced of the authenticity of the warning and leaves his fiancée. The resulting void in his life is impossible to fill. One after the other, future selves arrive urging him to marry someone else, divorce, attend law school, leave law school, travel, join a running club, stop running, study the guitar, the cello, Proust, Buddhism, and opera, and eliminate gluten from his diet. The only constants in this madcap quest for personal improvement are his love for his New York City home and for the irresistible Q. A unique literary talent, Evan Mandery turns the classic story of transcendent love on its head, with an ending that will melt even the darkest heart. “A philosophical, witty, wonderful, and altogether magical love story.” —M.J. Rose, author of The Hypnotist “Amiably outrageous….Mandery is a worthy son of those great writers of the 1970s, Vonnegut, Barthelme, and Barth.” —Joseph Skibell, author of A Curable Romantic “I’ve never read anything like it and enjoyed every minute of it!” —Jessica Anya Blau, author of Drinking Closer to Home | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kristine Gasbarre Discusses How to Love an American Man - Sep 20,2011 | Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Kristine Gasbarre to discuss her new memoir, How to Love an American Man. Kristine Gasbarre made a New York career of dating driven, inaccessible men. When she realizes her love life will never result in happiness if she continues on the same path, she makes a big decision—relocating to Italy to discover her roots and find out what defines her adoring grandpa. But upon receiving the news of his sudden passing, she is lured away. With nowhere left to go, Krissy returns to her small hometown for the first time in a decade to help care for her grandmother—a refined, private matriarch suf?fering from early dementia along with the loss of her husband. In her reluctant agreement to share the nearly lost love stories and transformative lessons from her rich sixty-year marriage, Krissy’s grandma becomes the one of?fering comfort as she coaches her granddaughter through the fear of loving. Grandma’s unapologetic femininity and secret giving spirit opens Krissy’s eyes about relationships, teaching her the single most important requisite for loving a man: first a woman has to learn the power of her own inner beauty. "Gasbarre’s reflections should resonate with many readers…including those who enjoyed Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love." — Booklist | 9/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matthew Norman Discusses Domestic Violets - Sep 08,2011 | Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes author Matthew Norman to discuss his debut novel, Domestic Violets. Tom Violet always thought that by the time he turned thirty-five, he’d have everything going for him. Fame. Fortune. A beautiful wife. A satisfying career as a successful novelist. A happy dog to greet him at the end of the day. The reality, though, is far different. He’s got a wife, but their problems are bigger than he can even imagine. And he’s written a novel, but the manuscript he’s slaved over for years is currently hidden in his desk drawer while his father, an actual famous writer, just won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His career, such that it is, involves mind-numbing corporate buzzwords, his pretentious archnemesis Gregory, and a hopeless, completely inappropriate crush on his favorite coworker. Oh . . . and his dog, according to the vet, is suffering from acute anxiety. Tom’s life is crushing his soul, but he’s decided to do something about it. (Really.) Domestic Violets is the brilliant and beguiling story of a man finally taking control of his own happiness—even if it means making a complete idiot of himself along the way. “Hysterical and often touching. . . . Domestic Violets is a fast, fun, hilarious read." says Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties and Drinking Closer to Home In the tradition of Jonathan Tropper and Tom Perrotta comes Matthew Normans Domestic Violets—a darkly comic family drama about one man’s improbable trials of love, loss, and ambition; of attraction, impotence, and infidelity; and of mid-life malaise, poorly-planned revenge, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. | 9/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nayana Currimbhoy Discusses Miss Timmins School for Girls - Jul 26,2011 | Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Nayana Currimbhoy to discuss her new novel, Miss Timmins School for Girls. A murder at a British boarding school in the hills of western India launches a young teacher on the journey of a lifetime In 1974, three weeks before her twenty-first birthday, Charulata Apte arrives at Miss Timmins School for Girls in Panchgani. Shy, sheltered, and running from a scandal that disgraced her Brahmin family, Charu finds herself teaching Shakespeare to rich Indian girls in a boarding school still run like an outpost of the British Empire. In this small, foreign universe, Charu is drawn to the charismatic teacher Moira Prince, who introduces her to pot-smoking hippies, rock ‘n roll, and freedoms she never knew existed. Then one monsoon night, a body is found at the bottom of a cliff, and the ordered worlds of school and town are thrown into chaos. When Charu is implicated in the murder—a case three intrepid schoolgirls take it upon themselves to solve—Charus real education begins. A love story and a murder mystery, Miss Timmins School for Girls is, ultimately, a coming-of-age tale set against the turbulence of the 1970s as it played out in one small corner of India. “An irresistible novel that hurls forward at breathtaking speed toward an unpredictable climax.” —Thrity Umrigar, bestselling author of The Space Between Us “Beautifully written, atmospheric…contains entire worlds. I couldn’t put it down.” —Gary Shteyngart, bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan | 7/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Talia Carner Discusses Jerusalem Maiden - Jul 12,2011 | Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Talia Carner, to discuss her new novel, Jerusalem Maiden. In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a young Orthodox Jewish woman in the holy city of Jerusalem is expected to marry and produce many sons to help hasten the Messiahs arrival. While the feisty Esther Kaminsky understands her obligations, her artistic talent inspires her to secretly explore worlds outside her religion, to dream of studying in Paris—and to believe that God has a special destiny for her. When tragedy strikes her family, Esther views it as a warning from an angry God and suppresses her desires in order to become an obedient "Jerusalem maiden." But when a surprising opportunity forces itself on to her preordained path, Esther finds her beliefs clashing dangerously with the passions she has staved off her entire life—forcing her to confront the most difficult and damning question of all: To whom must she be true, God or herself? “Exquisitely told, with details so vivid you can almost taste the food and hear the voices….A moving and utterly captivating novel that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.” —Tess Gerritsen, author of The Silent Girl “Talia Carner’s story captivates at every level, heart and mind.” —Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jennifer McMahon Discusses Don't Breathe a Word - Jun 22,2011 | Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes New York Times bestselling author Jennifer McMahon to discuss her new book, Dont Breathe a Word. McMahon is the author of Promise Not To Tell, Island of Lost Girls and Dismantled. On a soft summer night in Vermont, twelve-year-old Lisa went into the woods behind her house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she told her little brother, Sam, about a door that led to a magical place where she would meet the King of the Fairies and become his queen. Fifteen years later, Phoebe is in love with Sam, a practical, sensible man who doesn’t fear the dark and doesn’t have bad dreams—who, in fact, helps Phoebe ignore her own. But suddenly the couple is faced with a series of eerie, unexplained occurrences that challenge Sam’s hardheaded, realistic view of the world. As they question their reality, a terrible promise Sam made years ago is revealed—a promise that could destroy them all. | 6/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Amy Stolls Discusses The Ninth Wife - Jun 07,2011 | Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Amy Stolls to discuss her new novel, The Ninth Wife. What sane woman would consider becoming any mans ninth wife? Bess Gray is a thirty-five-year-old folklorist and amateur martial artist living in Washington, DC. Just as shes about to give up all hope of marriage, she meets Rory, a charming Irish musician, and they fall in love. But Rory is a man with a secret, which he confesses to Bess when he asks for her hand: Hes been married eight times before. Shocked, Bess embarks on a quest she feels she must undertake before she can give him an answer. With her bickering grandparents (married sixty-five years), her gay neighbor (himself a mystery), a shar-pei named Stella, and a mannequin named Peace, Bess sets out on a cross-country journey—unbeknownst to Rory—to seek out and question the wives who came before. What she discovers about her own past is far more than she bargained for. The Ninth Wife is a smart, funny, eye-opening tale of love, marriage, and the power of stories to unlock the true meaning of home and family. “I love this book’s deft, fresh take on male-female relationships.” —Marisa de los Santos, New York Times bestselling author of Belong to Me “A vibrant, nuanced novel about marriage, identity, and the moment when we realize that the shimmer of fantasy pales next to the tumultuous reality of ordinary, everyday happiness.” —Carolyn Parkhurst, author of The Dogs of Babel | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leah Stewart Discusses Husband and Wife - Jun 01,2011 | Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Leah Stewart, author of The Myth of You and Me, about her new novel in paperback, Husband and Wife. Sarah Price has never regretted trading her MFA for a steady job so that her husband, Nathan, could write fiction. But at age thirty-five, her world is turned upside-down by a shocking revelation: Nathans upcoming novel, Infidelity, is based on fact. Reeling from his betrayal, Sarah is plagued by dark questions. How well does she really know her husband? More important, how well does she know herself? For answers, Sarah looks back to her artistic twentysomething self to try to understand what exactly has happened to her dreams. And so begins her quest to discover which version of herself is the essential one—the artist, wife, mother, or someone else entirely—an eye-opening journey that leads Sarah hundreds of miles away from her marriage and back to herself. “Leah Stewart’s brilliantly written novel Husband and Wife is a deeply human book: funny, tender, smart, self-aware. When you read it you will laugh, you will cry, you will recognize others, you will recognize yourself.” — Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Castaways and Barefoot | 6/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shilpi Somaya Gowda Discusses The Secret Daughter - May 11,2011 | Join Book Club Girl of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Shilpi Somaya Gowda to discuss her acclaimed novel, The Secret Daughter. On the eve of the monsoons, in a remote Indian village, Kavita gives birth to a baby girl but faces a heartbreaking choice. In a culture that favors sons, the only way for Kavita to save her daughter's life is to give her away. It is a decision that will haunt her and her husband for the rest of their lives, even after the arrival of their cherished son. Halfway around the globe, Somer, an American doctor, decides to adopt a child after making the wrenching discovery that she will never have one of her own. When she and her husband Krishnan see a photo of the baby with gold-flecked eyes from a Mumbai orphanage, they are convinced the love they feel will overcome all obstacles. Interweaving the stories of Kavita, Somer, and the daughter they both love, Secret Daughter is a deeply moving family drama that poignantly explores the emotional terrain of love, loss and identity, witnessed through the lives of two families, worlds apart, and the child who binds their destinies. | 5/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sonya Sones Discusses The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus - May 10,2011 | Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Sonya Sones, author of The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus: A Story About Marriage, Motherhood and Mayhem--a funny, fierce, and piercingly honest coming-of-middle-age story about falling apart and putting yourself back together. My name is Holly. This story is about me— a writer whos way behind on her deadline. But, honestly, how can I concentrate on my work when my fiftieth birthdays rushing at me like a freight train, my hormones are making me feel like a Szechuan flambé, and my eighty-year-old mothers biting her nurses? Not to mention the fact that my daughters just begun applying to colleges (none of which are within a thousand-mile radius of home), and lately my husbands been such an irritating, finger-pointing stinker that Ive found myself dreaming of ways to spend his insurance money . . . My name is Holly. This book tells my story— a coming-of-middle-age story. | 5/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dorothea Benton Frank Discusses Lowcountry Summer - May 04,2011 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank to discuss her newest book, now in paperback, Lowcountry Summer. On the occasion of her 46th birthday, Caroline Wimbley Levine is concerned about filling the large shoes of her late, force-of-nature mother, Miss Lavinia, the former Queen of Tall Pines Plantation. Still, Caroline loves a challenge—and she simply will not be fazed by the myriad family catastrophes surrounding her. She'll deal with brother Trip's tricky romantic entanglements, son Eric and his mysterious girlfriend, and go toe-to-toe with alcoholic Frances Mae and her four hellcats without batting an eye, becoming more like Miss Lavinia every day . . . which is not an entirely good thing. Return with New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank to the South Carolina Lowcountry—as a new generation stumbles, survives, and reveals their secrets by the banks of the mighty Edisto River. “Frank…writes with genuine adoration for and authority on the South Carolina Lowcountry from which she sprang….[Her] stuff is never escapist fluff—it’s the real deal.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution | 5/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jacqueline Winspear Discusses A Lesson in Secrets - Apr 26,2011 | Join Book Club Girl of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Jacqueline Winspear to discuss her bestselling Maisie Dobbs series and the most recent book in the series, A Lesson in Secrets. The show is a culmination of a 4 month read-along of the entire series by book bloggers and fans that has been headquartered at http://bookclubirl.com. In the summer of 1932, Maisie Dobbss career takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment directed by Scotland Yards Special Branch and the Secret Service. Posing as a junior lecturer, she is sent to a private college in Cambridge to monitor any activities, "not in the interests of His Majestys Government." When the colleges controversial pacifist founder and principal, Greville Liddicote, is murdered, Maisie is directed to stand back as Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane and Detective Chief Inspector Richard Stratton spearhead the investigation. She soon discovers, however, that the circumstances of Liddicotes death appear inextricably linked to the suspicious comings and goings of faculty and students under her surveillance. To unravel this web, Maisie must overcome a reluctant Secret Service, discover shameful hidden truths about Britains conduct during the Great War, and face off against the rising powers of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei the Nazi Party—in Britain. As the storm clouds of World War II gather on the horizon, this pivotal chapter in the life of Maisie Dobbs foreshadows new challenges and powerful enemies facing the psychologist and investigator—and will engage new readers and loyal fans of this "outstanding" series (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review). | 4/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brunonia Barry Discusses The Map of True Places - Apr 20,2011 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes New York Times bestselling author Brunonia Barry to discuss her new novel in paperback, The Map of True Places. In Map of True Places, Barry tells the story of Zee Finch, a respected Boston psychotherapist who has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing boats. But the actions of a patient throw Zee into emotional chaos and take her back to places she though she'd left behind. What starts as a brief visit home to Salem begins a larger journey. Suddenly having to care for her ailing father after his longtime companion moves out, Zee must come to terms with a strained and awkward relationship that has always been marked by half-truths and haunted by the untimely death of her mother. Overwhelmed by her new role, Zee must destroy the existing map of her life and chart a new course—one that will guide her not only into her future but into her past as well. | 4/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Susan Juby Discusses Home to Woefield - Apr 05,2011 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Susan Juby to discuss her novel, Home to Woefield. Prudence Burns, a well-intentioned New Yorker full of back-to-the-land ideals, just inherited Woefield Farm—thirty acres of scrubland, dilapidated buildings, and one half-sheared sheep. But the bank is about to foreclose, so Prudence must turn things around fast! Fortunately she'll have help from Earl, her banjo-playing foreman with a family secret; Seth, the neighbor who hasn't left the house since a high school scandal; and Sara Spratt, an eleven-year-old who's looking for a home for her prize-winning chickens. Home to Woefield is about learning how to take on a challenge, face your fears, and find friendship in the most unlikely of places. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pamela Schoenewaldt Discusses When We Were Strangers - Mar 08,2011 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Pamela Schoenewaldt to discuss her debut novel, When We Were Strangers. "If you leave Opi, you'll die with strangers," Irma Vitale's mother always warned. Even after her beloved mother's passing, 20-year-old Irma longs to stay in her Abruzzo mountain village, plying her needle. But too poor and plain to marry and subject to growing danger in her own home, she risks rough passage to America and workhouse servitude to achieve her dream of making dresses for gentlewomen. In the raw immigrant quarters and with the help of an entrepreneurial Irish serving girl, ribbon-decked Polish ragman and austere Alsatian dressmaker, Irma begins to stitch together a new life . . . until her peace and self are shattered in the charred remains of the Great Chicago Fire. Enduring a painful recovery, Irma reaches deep within to find that she has even more to offer the world than her remarkable ability with a needle and thread. A moving, powerful, and evocative debut novel, When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt heralds the arrival of superb new voice in American fiction. | 3/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Heather Newton Discusses Under the Mercy Trees - Mar 02,2011 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog http://www.bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Heather Newton to discuss her compelling debut novel, Under the Mercy Trees. Thirty years ago, Martin Owenby came to New York City with dreams of becoming a writer. Now his existence revolves around cheap Scotch and weekend flings with equally damaged men. When he learns that his older brother, Leon, has gone missing, he must return to the Owenby farm in Solace Fork, North Carolina, to assist in the search. But that means facing a past filled with regrets, the family that never understood him, the girl whose heart he broke, and the best friend who has faithfully kept the home fires burning. As the mystery surrounding Leon's disappearance deepens, so too does the weight of decades-long unresolved differences and unspoken feelings—forcing Martin to deal with the hardest lessons about home, duty, and love. | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jessica Anya Blau Discusses Drinking Closer to Home - Feb 16,2011 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Jessica Anya Blau, author of the novel The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, to discuss her new novel, Drinking Closer to Home. There is nothing like ten days with one's family to bring forth old obsessions and stir up childhood memories. When Anna, Portia, and Emery’s mother, Louise, suffers a massive heart attack, the three grown children return to Santa Barbara to be with their father, Buzzy, as they wait for Louise to either recover or die. Anna can’t stop thinking about sex with strangers, although in junior high she was terrifyingly certain that her free-loving parents had syphilis (from which they would shortly die). Portia’s beach-bunny teen years feel far away as she struggles with an unfaithful husband who has left her feeling boneless and unsure. And though Emery’s greatest childhood fear was that The Law would catch up with their parents for any one of their numerous transgressions (marijuana plants in the backyard; peeing in public; the time Louise quit being a housewife and gave Emery's care over to eight-year-old Portia), now his only worry is that he won’t be able to create his own family, a newer, better, improved version that will trump the impetuousness and chaos that ruled his childhood home. But this time together will also bring to the surface sometimes painful, often heartbreaking secrets that will shake the foundations of everything the three siblings know about themselves and assume about their family. Secrets that may, perhaps, change the way they view the past as well as the future. | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Laura Lippman Discusses 'The Girl in the Green Raincoat' - Feb 08,2011 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman to discuss her new book, The Girl in the Green Raincoat. In the third trimester of her pregnancy, Baltimore private investigator Tess Monaghan is under doctor's orders to remain immobile. Bored and restless, reduced to watching the world go by outside her window, she takes small comfort in the mundane events she observes . . . like the young woman in a green raincoat who walks her dog at the same time every day. Then one day the dog is running free and its owner is nowhere to be seen. Certain that something is terribly wrong, and incapable of leaving well enough alone, Tess is determined to get to the bottom of the dog walker's abrupt disappearance, even if she must do so from her own bedroom. But her inquisitiveness is about to fling open a dangerous Pandora's box of past crimes and troubling deaths . . . and she's not only putting her own life in jeopardy but also her unborn child's. Previously serialized in the New York Times, and now published in book form for the very first time, The Girl in the Green Raincoat is a masterful Hitchcockian thriller from one of the very best in the business: multiple award-winner Laura Lippman. | 2/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mary Glickman Discusses Home in the Morning - Dec 15,2010 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog http://www.bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Mary Glickman, author of the debut novel, Home in the Morning. A powerful debut from a new literary talent, Home in the Morning tells the story of a Jewish family confronting the tumult of the 1960s—and the secrets that bind its members together Jackson Sassaport is a man who often finds himself in the middle. Whether torn between Stella, his beloved and opinionated Yankee wife, and Katherine Marie, the African American girl who first stole his teenage heart; or between standing up for his beliefs and acquiescing to his prominent Jewish family’s imperative to not stand out in the segregated South, Jackson learns to balance the secrets and deceptions of those around him. But one fateful night in 1960 will make the man in the middle reconsider his obligations to propriety and family, and will start a chain of events that will change his life and the lives of those around him forever. Home in the Morning follows Jackson’s journey from his childhood as a coddled son of the Old South to his struggle as a young man eager to find his place in the civil rights movement while protecting his family. Flashing back between his adult life as a successful lawyer and his youth, Mary Glickman’s riveting novel traces the ways that race and prejudice, family and love intertwine to shape our lives. | 12/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beth Hoffman Discusses Saving CeeCee Honeycutt - Dec 09,2010 | Join Book Club Girl of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Beth Hoffman, author of the New York Times bestseller, now in paperback, Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt. Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt knows about hurts. She lives in a home where shocking events and misery are daily occurrences. CeeCee’s mother, Camille, is lost in a psychotic fantasy world where she’s still a young beauty queen and her father purposefully spends very little time at home. When Camille is struck and killed by an ice cream truck, CeeCee needs a place to go and the answer arrives when Tootie Caldwell, a great-aunt from Savannah, who CeeCee’s never even heard of suddenly arrives. Upon entering the house, Tootie instantly senses that something is terribly wrong. She volunteers to take CeeCee back to Georgia, and CeeCee’s father eagerly agrees. As unthinkable as the relinquishment of his daughter seems, it just might prove to be the greatest gift he could give her. With nothing but a few meager possessions, CeeCee climbs into her aunt’s car. The beautiful world Aunt Tootie has created in Savannah leaves CeeCee wonderstruck, as does Tootie’s coterie of eccentric friends—including Oletta, the housekeeper famous for her wise reflections on life and her gooey-sweet homemade cinnamon rolls, and Miz Thelma Rae Goodpepper, the stunning nextdoor neighbor with a taste for the exotic. A summer filled with adventure ensues, and the lessons learned from these fascinating and diverse women help CeeCee take her first timid steps toward becoming a normal little girl. With lots of love and laughter and some good old-fashioned fun, CeeCee begins to heal. Aunt Tootie and Oletta know all about pain and unresolved grief, and with their loving guidance, CeeCee begins sorting through the events of her childhood and discovers a few good memories of her mother hiding in the ruins. As she comes to terms with her past, she's finally free to begin a new life where she can bloom. | 12/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wally Lamb Discusses Wishin and Hopin - Dec 03,2010 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes New York Times Bestselling author Wally Lamb (She's Come Undone, I Know This Much is True and The Hour I First Believed) to discuss his newest book in paperback, Wishin' and Hopin'. In Wally Lamb’s pitch perfect new novel, it is 1964. LBJ and Lady Bird are in the White House, Meet the Beatles is on everyone’s turntable, and ten-year-old Felix Funicello (distant cousin of the iconic Annette!) is doing his best to navigate fifth grade—easier said than done when scary movies still give you nightmares and you bear a striking resemblance to a certain adorable cartoon boy. But there are several things young Felix can depend on: the birds and bees are puzzling, television is magical, and this is one Christmas he’s never going to forget. | 12/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mitali Perkins & Melissa Wiley Discuss Emily of Deep Valley + Carney's House Party - Nov 16,2010 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog http://www.bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Mitali Perkins, acclaimed author of Bamboo People and Secret Keeper and Melissa Wiley, author of The Martha Years and The Charlotte Years of the Little House on the Prairie series. Both authors will share their thoughts on Maud Hart Lovelace's classic Betsy-Tacy series and the Deep Valley books, Emily of Deep Valley, Carney's House Party and Winona's Pony Cart which are being reissued in October 2010 with new forewords by Perkins and Wiley as well as new historical background material about the real people behind the characters. Lovelace based the books in her Betsy-Tacy and Deep Valleys series on her own friends growing up in Mankato (Deep Valley), Minnesota. In addition to Perkins and Wiley, well-known fans of the series include Anna Quindlen, Meg Cabot, Laura Lippman, Judy Blume, Nora Ephron, Annie Barrows, Mary Kay Andrews, Ann Martin and more. Join us as we discuss Lovelace's enduring legacy, Lois Lenski and Vera Neville, mulitculturalism, using the books in a homeschooling curriculum, the upcoming 2012 Betsy-Tacy Convention and more! | 11/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andrea Israel & Nancy Garfinkel Discuss The Recipe Club - Nov 03,2010 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog http://www.bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes authors Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel to discuss their novel, The Recipe Club. Loyalty, loss, and the ties that bind: These are the ingredients of The Recipe Club, a "novel cookbook" that combines an authentic story of friendship with more than eighty delicious recipes. Lifelong friends Lilly and Val are united as much by their differences as by their similarities. In childhood, "LillyPad" and "ValPal" form an exclusive two-person club, writing intimate letters in which they share hopes, fears, deepest secrets . . . and recipes—from Lilly's "Lovelorn Lasagna" to Valerie's "Forgiveness Tapenade." The Recipe Club sustains Lilly and Val's bond across the decades: through the challenges of independence, the joys and heartbreaks of first love, and the emotional complexities of family relationships, identity, mortality, and goals deferred—until the fateful day when an act of kindness becomes an unforgivable betrayal. People magazine said of The Recipe Club that it's “A look at the difficulties of sustaining childhood bonds, it’s also a satisfying meditation on how nourishment for the body can replenish the soul.” | 11/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Susan Henderson Discusses Up From the Blue - Oct 26,2010 | Join Book Club Girl (of the blog http://www.bookclubgirl.com) as she welcomes Susan Henderson, Pushcart Prize winner and founder of Lit Park (http://www.litpark.com) to discuss her debut novel Up From the Blue. Tillie Harris's life is in disarray—her husband is away on business, the boxes in her new home aren't unpacked, and the telephone isn't even connected yet. Though she's not due for another month, sudden labor pains force Tillie to reach out to her estranged father for help, a choice that means facing the painful memories she's been running from since she was a little girl. An extraordinary debut from a talented new voice, Up from the Blue untangles the year in Tillie's life that changed everything: 1975, the year her mother disappeared. Up from the Blue deftly portrays a family with contradictions we can all relate to—it’s beautiful and maddening, hopeful and condemning, simple, yet like a knot that takes a lifetime to untangle. You will love it completely, even as it hurts you…it’s a heartbreaking, rewarding story that still haunts me.” — Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | 10/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jess Walter Discusses The Financial Lives of the Poets - Oct 12,2010 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Jess Walter, the award winning and acclaimed author of The Financial Lives of the Poets. In the winning and utterly original novels Citizen Vince and The Zero, Jess Walter ("a ridiculously talented writer"—New York Times) painted an America all his own: a land of real, flawed, and deeply human characters coping with the anxieties of their times. Now, in his warmest, funniest, and best novel yet, Walter offers a story as real as our own lives: a tale of overstretched accounts, misbegotten schemes, and domestic dreams deferred. A few years ago, small-time finance journalist Matthew Prior quit his day job to gamble everything on a quixotic notion: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse. When his big idea—and his wife's eBay resale business— ends with a whimper (and a garage full of unwanted figurines), they borrow and borrow, whistling past the graveyard of their uncertain dreams. One morning Matt wakes up to find himself jobless, hobbled with debt, spying on his wife's online flirtation, and six days away from losing his home. Is this really how things were supposed to end up for me, he wonders: staying up all night worried, driving to 7-Eleven in the middle of the night to get milk for his boys, and falling in with two local degenerates after they offer him a hit of high-grade marijuana? Or, he thinks, could this be the solution to all my problems? Following Matt in his weeklong quest to save his marriage, his sanity, and his dreams, The Financial Lives of the Poets is a hysterical, heartfelt novel about how we can reach the edge of ruin—and how we can begin to make our way back. | 10/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kristina Riggle Discusses The Life You've Imagined - Sep 13,2010 | Join Book Club Girl of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Kristina Riggle (http://www.kristinariggle.net/) author of Real Life and Liars, to discuss her new novel, The Life You've Imagined. Is the life you're living all you imagined? Have you ever asked yourself, "What if??" Here, four women face the decisions of their lifetimes in this stirring and unforgettable novel of love, loss, friendship, and family. Anna Geneva, a Chicago attorney coping with the death of a cherished friend, returns to her "speck on the map" hometown of Haven to finally come to terms with her mother, the man she left behind, and the road she did not take. Cami Drayton, Anna's dearest friend from high school, is coming home too, forced by circumstance to move in with her alcoholic father . . . and to confront a dark family secret. Maeve, Anna's mother, never left Haven, firmly rooted there by her sadness over her abandonment by the husband she desperately loved and the hope that someday he will return to her. And Amy Rickart—thin, beautiful, and striving for perfection—faces a future with the perfect man . . . but is haunted by the memory of what she used to be. Kristina Riggle's The Life You've Imagined takes a provocative look at the choices we make—and the courage we must have to change. | 9/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joyce Maynard Discusses Labor Day - Aug 30,2010 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Joyce Maynard author of Labor Day. With the end of summer closing in and a steamy Labor Day weekend looming in the town of Holton Mills, New Hampshire, lonely, friendless thirteen-year-old Henry spends most of his time watching television, reading, and daydreaming with only his emotionally fragile, long-divorced mother for company. But everything changes on the Thursday before the holiday weekend when a mysterious bleeding man named Frank asks Henry for a hand. Over the next five days, Henry will learn some of life's most valuable lessons, about the breathless pain of jealousy, the power of betrayal, and the importance of putting those we care about above ourselves—and that real love is worth waiting for. From acclaimed author Joyce Maynard comes a beautiful, poignant tale of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery as seen through the eyes of a young teenager—and the man he later becomes. | 8/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Katrina Kittle Discusses The Blessings of the Animals - Aug 26,2010 | Join Book Club Girl of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Katrina Kittle to discuss her new novel, The Blessings of the Animals. Veterinarian Cami Anderson has hit a rough patch in her life. Stymied by her recent divorce, she is on a quest to unravel the secret ingredients of a happy, long-lasting marriage. Are today’s wedding vows realistic, practical, and applicable? Or is the entire institution of marriage outdated and obsolete? Surrounded by several couples approaching different milestones in their relationships, Cami reflects on the deepest meanings of love and partnership. As her parents prepare to celebrate their 50th anniversary, her brother and his partner find themselves legally blocked from marriage. Her best friend and soon-to-be-ex-sister-in-law have become newly engaged, while her teenaged daughter’s romance begins to develop its own complications. And now Cami’s ex-husband and two other men are becoming tangled in her own post-marriage love life. Amidst this circus of relationships, Cami begins to make sense of marriage’s great mysteries—and disconnects. How could the battle for same-sex marriage continue on when half of heterosexual marriages are ending in divorce? Why are fewer people marrying today than ever before, and marrying much later? Surrounded by a humorous gang of animals—an angry horse, an escape-artist goat, and a 3-legged cat—Cami also comes to terms with her own divorce as she learns the lessons of forgiveness, adaptation, and joy that help her master the art of simply moving on. New York Times bestselling author Sara Gruen says: “In this beautifully crafted novel, Katrina Kittle deftly illustrates the devastation of betrayal and loss, the healing power of love and compassion, and the joy and comfort that comes from knowing—and relating to—animals. A must-read not only for animal lovers, but for anyone who has found the courage to come back from heartbreak and find love again, without reservation, without fear.” | 8/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Syrie James Discusses Dracula My Love - Aug 16,2010 | Join Book Club Girl of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Syrie James, author of The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen, to discuss her newest work of historical fiction, Dracula My Love: The Secret Journals of Mina Harker. James offers readers a breathtaking new perspective on Bram Stoker’s classic tale of the king of the vampires with Dracula, My Love. In these “Secret Journals of Mina Harker,” the object of Dracula’s desire relates for the very first time the shocking story of her scandalous seduction and sexual rebirth. Who is this magnetic, fascinating man? And how could one woman fall so completely under his spell? Mina Harker is torn between two men. Struggling to hang on to the deep, pure love she's found within her marriage to her husband, Jonathan, she is inexorably drawn into a secret, passionate affair with a charismatic but dangerous lover. This haunted and haunting creature has awakened feelings and desires within her that she has never before known, which remake her as a woman. Although everyone she knows fears him and is pledged to destroy him, Mina sees a side to him that the others cannot: a tender, romantic side; a man who's taken full advantage of his gift of immortality to expand his mind and talents; a man who is deeply in love, and who may not be evil after all. Yet to surrender is surely madness, for to be with him could end her life. It may cost Mina all she holds dear, but to make her choice she must learn everything she can about the remarkable origins and sensuous powers of this man, this exquisite monster, this . . . Dracula! | 8/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emily Tedrowe Discusses Her Debut Novel 'Commuters' - Aug 03,2010 | Join Book Club Girl of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Emily Gray Tedrowe to discuss her debut novel, COMMUTERS. At seventy-eight, Winnie Easton has finally found love again with Jerry Trevis, a wealthy Chicago businessman who has moved to the small, upstate town of Hartfield, New York, to begin his life anew. But their decision to buy one of the town's biggest houses ignites anger and skepticism—as children and grandchildren take drastic actions to secure their own futures and endangered inheritances. With so much riding on Jerry's wealth, a decline in his physical health forces hard decisions on the family, renewing old loyalties while creating surprising alliances. A powerfully moving novel told from alternating perspectives, Commuters is an intensely human story of lives profoundly changed by the repercussions of one marriage, and by the complex intertwining of love, money, and family. "Tedrowe explores the reconfigurations of a family and the strange alliances that can occur between young and old, love and work. And she writes brilliantly about money…. A deeply satisfying debut." —Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street “A poignant meditation on desire, heartrending loss, and dreams deferred.” —Robin Antalek, author of The Summer We Fell Apart | 8/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Diane Noble Discusses The Sister Wife - Jul 08,2010 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Diane Noble to discuss her first book in a new Brides of Gabriel historical series set during the formation of the Mormon edict of polygamy. Award-winning author Noble explores the inner conflicts, emotions, and decisions of three women married to the same man in The Sister Wife. Set in the heart of the earliest days of a new nineteenth-century sect known as the Saints, The Sister Wife is a riveting account of two women forced into a practice they don't understand, bound by their devotion to Prophet Joseph Smith. When Mary Rose marries Gabriel, neither of them could foresee how quickly the community would turn to the practice of plural marriage. Devastated when Gabe is faced with an order from the Prophet to marry her best friend, Bronwyn, Mary Rose tries to have the faith to carry through with the marriage. But can she really be married to the same man as her very best friend? Can Mary Rose and Bronwyn face betraying both their husband and their God to do what they feel is right? | 7/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Aidan Donnelley Rowley Discusses Life After Yes - Jun 14,2010 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Aidan Donnelley Rowley to discuss her debut novel, Life After Yes. In Life After Yes, a young woman deals with the aftermath of her father’s death while she struggles to commit to a future with her fiancé in Life After Yes, the poignant, wry, and very accomplished debut novel from Aidan Donnelley Rowley. A story of hope and light in the darkness in the bestselling vein of Juliette Fay, Cecilia Ahearn, and Jacqueline Sheehan, newcomer Rowley has captured all the angst and pain of truly becoming an adult, and has done so with unusual heart and grace, inspiring Julie Buxbaum to rave, “Her flawed and complex characters will stick with you long after Life After Yes’s final pages.” Gretchen Rubin, author of the New York Times bestselling book The Happiness Project, calls Life After Yes “[A] funny and a wickedly accurate picture of the life of a particular breed of Manhattanites—and it’s also thought-provoking and deeply moving.” | 6/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Perry Discusses Coop - Jun 07,2010 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Michael Perry, author of Population: 485 about his new book in paperback, a humorous and heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country. Living in a ramshackle Wisconsin farmhouse—faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home—Michael Perry plumbs his unorthodox childhood for clues to how to proceed as a farmer, a husband, and a father. Whether he's remembering his younger days—when his city-bred parents took in sixty or so foster children while running a sheep and dairy farm—or describing what it's like to be bitten in the butt while wrestling a pig, Perry flourishes in his trademark humor. But he also writes from the quieter corners of his heart, chronicling experiences as joyful as the birth of his child and as devastating as the death of a dear friend. | 6/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jessica Jiji Discusses Sweet Dates in Basra - Jun 02,2010 | Join Book Club Girl of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Jessica Jiji, author of Sweet Dates in Basra for a book club discussion. Just when her family should be arranging her marriage, Kathmiya Mahmoud, a young Marsh Arab maiden, is sent from her home in Iraq's idyllic countryside to the unfamiliar city of Basra, where she must survive on her paltry earnings as a servant. Her only asset—her exquisite beauty—brings more peril than peace. Worse, her mother appears to be keeping a secret about her own mysterious past, one that could threaten Kathmiya's destiny forever. In this lost Iraq of the 1940s, a time of rich traditions and converging worlds, Kathmiya meets Shafiq, a Jewish boy whose brotherhood with his Muslim neighbor Omar proves that religion is no barrier to friendship. But in a world where loss of honor is punishable by death, the closeness that grows between Kathmiya and Shafiq becomes dangerous as a doomed love takes root. When British warplanes begin bombing Iraq and the country's long-simmering tensions explode, the power of an unbreakable boyhood bond and a transcendent love must overcome the deepening fractures of a collapsing society. Set during the tumultuous years surrounding the Second World War, Sweet Dates in Basra is the redemptive story of two very different cultures, and a powerful reminder that no walls can confine the human spirit. | 6/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Minrose Gwin Discusses The Queen of Palmyra - May 17,2010 | Join Book Club Girl of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Minrose Gwin to discuss her acclaimed novel, The Queen of Palmyra. In the turbulent southern summer of 1963, Millwood's white population steers clear of "Shake Rag," the black section of town. Young Florence Forrest is one of the few who crosses the line. The daughter of a burial insurance salesman with dark secrets and the town's "cake lady," whose backcountry bootleg runs lead further and further away from a brutal marriage, Florence attaches herself to her grandparents' longtime maid, Zenie Johnson. Named for Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, Zenie treats the unwanted girl as just another chore, while telling her stories of the legendary queen's courage and cunning. The more time Florence spends in Shake Rag, the more she recognizes how completely race divides her town, and her story, far from ordinary, bears witness to the truth and brutality of her times—a truth brought to a shattering conclusion when Zenie's vibrant college-student niece, Eva Greene, arrives that fateful Mississippi summer. Minrose Gwin's The Queen of Palmyra is an unforgettable evocation of a time and a place in America—a nuanced, gripping story of race and identity. | 5/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dorothea Benton Frank Discusses Return to Sullivan's Island - May 12,2010 | Join Book Club Girl, of the blog www.bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank to discuss Return to Sullivan's Island. In Return to Sullivans Island, Dorothea Benton Frank revisits the enchanted landscape of South Carolina’s Lowcountry made famous in her beloved New York Times bestseller Sullivans Island. Frank focuses on the next generation of Hamiltons and Hayes, earning high praise from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which writes, “Frank brings to vivid life the rich landscape and its unpretentious folks….A reader need only close her eyes for a moment to feel that thick-sticky heat, smell the wild salt marshes.” If you enjoy getting lost in the works of Anne Rivers Siddons, Rebecca Wells, and Pat Conroy—novels brimming with atmosphere and strong Southern charm—you are going to love Dotty Frank’s Return to Sullivans Island. Newly graduated from college, Beth Hayes must put all her grand ambitions on hold when the family elders elect her to house-sit the Island Gamble, ghosts and all. Instead of conquering new worlds, Beth will rest and rejuvenate while basking in memory and the magic of white clapboards and shimmering blue waters. But there is much about life and her family's past that she does not yet understand—and her simple plans begin unraveling with the intrusion of developer Max Mitchell. Still, everything here happens for a reason—and disappointment, betrayal, even tragedy are more easily handled when surrounded by loving family and loyal friends. | 5/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rebecca Wells Discusses the Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder - May 05,2010 | Join Book Club Girl of the blog http://bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Rebecca Wells, author of the megabestselling beloved novels Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Little Altars Everywhere and Ya Yas in Bloom to discuss her newest novel in paperback, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder. The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder is the sweet, sexy, funny journey of Calla Lily's life set in Wells's expanding fictional Louisiana landscape. In the small river town of La Luna, Calla bursts into being, a force of nature as luminous as the flower she is named for. Under the loving light of the Moon Lady, the feminine force that will guide and protect her throughout her life, Calla enjoys a blissful childhood—until it is cut short. Her mother, M'Dear, a woman of rapture and love, teaches Calla compassion, and passes on to her the art of healing through the humble womanly art of "fixing hair." At her mother's side, Calla further learns that this same touch of hands on the human body can quiet her own soul. It is also on the banks of the La Luna River that Calla encounters sweet, succulent first love, with a boy named Tuck. But when Tuck leaves Calla with a broken heart, she transforms hurt into inspiration and heads for the wild and colorful city of New Orleans to study at L'Académie de Beauté de Crescent. In that extravagant big river city, she finds her destiny—and comes to understand fully the power of her "healing hands" to change lives and soothe pain, including her own. When Tuck reappears years later, he presents her with an offer that is colored by the memories of lost love. But who knows how Calla Lily, a "daughter of the Moon Lady," will respond? A tale of family and friendship, tragedy and triumph, loss and love, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder features the warmth, humor, soul, and wonder that have made Wells one of today's most cherished writers, and gives us an unforgettable new heroine to treasure. | 5/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Todd Johnson Discusses The Sweet By and By - Apr 26,2010 | Book Club Girl on Air welcomes Todd Johnson, author of The Sweet By and By, a novel about five North Carolina women who are about to change the way you think about friendship. For Rhonda, a gritty, fun-loving hairdresser in tight jeans, the sights and smells of Ridgecrest Nursing Center are depressing. But before she can change her mind about working there, two residents glue themselves to her: Margaret, droll and whip-smart, with a will of iron that never fails her even when her body does, and Bernice, an avid country music fan who is rarely lucid. Together with Lorraine, their church-going, God-questioning nurse, and her daughter, April, bright and ambitious, they lock arms in courage and humor for a journey that speaks to us all—of how we live and die, of how we love and forgive. Kathryn Stockett, the bestselling author of THE HELP said of The Sweet By and By: “I am in love with this book -- the langugage, the story, the sass. Five women bickering, judging, loving, growing old together. You won’t stop laughing, even when your heart is hurting. Keep a pencil close -- you’ll be underlining all your favorite, funny lines.” | 4/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Zoe Fishman Discusses Balancing Acts - Apr 12,2010 | Join Book Club Girl (http://bookclubgirl.com) as she welcomes Zoe Fishman, author of Balancing Acts, a poignant debut novel about the transformative powers of yoga and friendship for four women on the verge of realizing their dreams. Zoe Fishman’s Balancing Acts is a must for fans of The Friday Night Knitting Club, The Reading Group, The Jane Austen Book Club, and Girls in Trucks. The charming and poignant stories of four former college friends going through mid-life crises who help each other balance their former dreams with their present lives through the power of yoga and friendship, Balancing Acts brims with wit, sensitivity, and wisdom—with characters women readers can really relate to and take into their hearts. | 4/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Malena Watrous Discusses If You Follow Me - Apr 06,2010 | Join Book Club Girl of the blog www.bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Malena Watrous to discuss her debut novel If You Follow Me. "I love, love, love If You Follow Me," says Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author of Prep. Beautifully wrought and deftly written, If You Follow Me tells the story of Marina, who moves to Japan to teach English shortly after her father’s tragic suicide, and finds unexpected solace with her Japanese supervisor and seemingly indifferent neighbors. If You Follow Me is at once a fish-out-of-water tale, a dark comedy of manners, and a strange kind of love story. Alive with vibrant and unforgettable characters—from an ambitious town matchmaker to a high school student-cum-rap artist wannabe with an addiction to self-tanning lotion—it guides readers over cultural bridges even as it celebrates the awkward, unlikely triumph of the human spirit. | 4/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adriana Trigiani Discusses Brava, Valentine! - Mar 31,2010 | Valentine Roncalli, the heroine from Very Valentine returns in this follow up from the New York Times Bestselling author. Valentine now finds her dream of taking over the Angelini Shoe Company in peril while she struggles with a long-distance relationship. Throwing herself into her work, trying to forge her own career path, Valentine is taken to sun-kissed Buenos Aires where a long-buried family secret rocks her family and she finds herself torn between a past love that nurtured her, and a new one that promises to sustain her. | 3/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thrity Umrigar Discusses The Weight of Heaven - Mar 23,2010 | Join Book Club Girl of www.bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Thrity Umrigar, acclaimed and bestselling author of The Space Between Us as she discusses her newest novel in paperback, The Weight of Heaven. In the rich tradition of the acclaimed works of Indian writers such as Rohinton Mistry, Akhil Sharma, Indra Sinha, and Jhumpa Lahiri, The Weight of Heaven is an emotionally charged story about unexpected death, unhealed wounds, and the price one father will pay to protect himself from pain and loss. Additionally, it offers unique perspectives, both Indian and American, on the fragmented nature of globalized India. | 3/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rachael Herron Discusses How to Knit a Love Song - Mar 17,2010 | Book Club Girl, of the blog www.bookclubgirl.com welcomes Rachael Herron (www.pensfatales.com) to discuss her delightful debut novel. Abigail is more than ready for a change when she inherits a cottage from her beloved mentor, knitting guru Eliza Carpenter. Leaving the oppressive city for the greener pastures of a small California beach town, she intends to turn her cozy little windfall into a knitting shop and spend her days spinning, designing, and purling. But she's not going to be welcomed with open arms by her new neighbor. Eliza's disgruntled nephew, the gorgeous Cade, now owns everything surrounding Abigail's ramshackle new home, and he views this sexy city girl as an unwanted interloper. But chemistry working overtime is drawing two very different people closer than they ever thought possible. And when the past that Abigail thought she'd left behind comes calling, she'll have to somehow learn to trust her handsome adversary with much more than just her heart. | 3/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robin Antalek Discusses The Summer We Fell Apart - Jan 26,2010 | Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Robin Antalek, author of The Summer We Fell Apart, a poignant, funny, and totally engrossing novel of family disasters and sibling rivalry—and it marks the debut of a pitch-perfect new voice in contemporary American fiction. Antalek’s tale of the trials and many tribulations of the hapless and more than a little dysfunctional Haas family recalls the work of Sue Miller and Ann Beattie—and is a wonderful introduction to a superb writer whose short fiction has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Glimmer Train’s Family Matter’s and Short-Story Award and the Bellingham Review’s Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. | 1/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Wroblewski Discusses The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - Jan 14,2010 | Join Book Club Girl of www.bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes David Wroblewski, author of the bestselling Story of Edgar Sawtelle, an Oprah's Book Club Pick. Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose remarkable gift for companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong friend and ally. Edgar seems poised to carry on his family's traditions, but when catastrophe strikes, he finds his once-peaceful home engulfed in turmoil. Forced to flee into the vast wilderness lying beyond the Sawtelle farm, Edgar comes of age in the wild, fighting for his survival and that of the three yearling dogs who accompany him, until the day he is forced to choose between leaving forever or returning home to confront the mysteries he has left unsolved. Filled with breathtaking scenes—the elemental north woods, the sweep of seasons, an iconic American barn, a fateful vision rendered in the falling rain—The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a meditation on the limits of language and what lies beyond, a brilliantly inventive retelling of an ancient story, and an epic tale of devotion, betrayal, and courage in the American heartland. | 1/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lynne Hinton Discusses Christmas Cake - Dec 16,2009 | Join Book Club Girl on Air as she welcomes Lynne Hinton, author of Christmas Cake, the long-awaited sequel to her beloved national bestseller Friendship Cake, in which she returns to the town of Hope Springs with a heartwarming story that celebrates the close and lifelong bonds among women. Set in a small fictional Southern community as unforgettable as Jan Karon’s Mitford, Christmas Cake movingly addresses issues of life and death, faith and love—and good cooking! | 12/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Laura Kasischke Discusses In a Perfect World - Dec 03,2009 | Join Book Club Girl of www.bookclubgirl.com as she welcomes Laura Kasischke, author of In a Perfect World. In her new novel, Kasischke tells the story of Jiselle, a young flight attendant who has just settled into a fairy tale life with her new husband and stepchildren. But as a mysterious new illness spreads rapidly throughout the country, she begins to realize that her marriage, her stepchildren, and their perfect world are all in terrible danger. | 12/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sheramy Bundrick Discusses Sunflowers - Nov 03,2009 | Join Book Club Girl of (www.bookclubgirl.com) as she talks with author Sheramy Bundrick about her new novel Sunflowers. A novel of Vincent Van Gogh, Sunflowers is an arresting and beautiful tale of a young French prostitute’s passionate, doomed relationship with a troubled artist. Vividly evoking a bygone time and place, Bundrick brings her characters to breathtaking life as she seamlessly blends historical fact with riveting speculation. A story that will captivate readers of Susan Vreeland and Karen Essex, and admirers of Tracy Chevalier’s New York Times bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring, Sheramy Bundrick’s exceptional debut, Sunflowers, will linger long in the mind like a breathtaking landscape or an exquisite portrait done in oils. | 11/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brunonia Barry Talks about The Lace Reader - Oct 21,2009 | Join Book Club Girl of www.bookclubgirl.com as she talks to Brunonia Barry about her compelling novel The Lace Reader. Narrated by self-proclaimed unreliable narrator Towner Whitney, The Lace Reader is set in Salem, MA and searches for the truth behind events that transpired years earlier, and is a haunting and unforgettable tale. | 10/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adriana Trigiani Discusses Viola in Reel Life - Sep 30,2009 | Join Book Club Girl on Air and bestselling author Adriana Trigiani as they discuss Trigiani's first novel for young adults, Viola in Reel Life. In Viola in Reel Life, Trigiani tells the story of Viola, who is abruptly transplanted from her Brooklyn home to an all-girls boarding school in Indiana, far from her best friend and in an entirely new world she would prefer to experience from behind the lens of her video camera. | 9/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Francine Prose Discusses Goldengrove - Sep 24,2009 | Join Book Club Girl (www.bookclubgirl.com) as she talks to bestselling, award-winning author Francine Prose about her newest novel Goldengrove. Focusing on a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister, this masterful coming-of-age work is radiant with the possibility of summer and charged by the restless sexual tension of teenage life. | 9/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jacqueline Sheehan Discusses Now & Then - Sep 14,2009 | The author of the NY Times bestselling novel Lost & Found joins Book Club Girl, of the blog www.bookclubgirl.com to discuss her new novel Now & Then. Set in the present day and in 19th cent. Ireland, Now & Then is a poignant and beautiful tale of a remarkable journey. It is a miraculous evocation of a breathtaking place in a volatile age filled with rich, unforgettable, deeply human characters and one unforgettable dog named Madigan. | 9/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tom Piazza Discusses City of Refuge - Sep 10,2009 | Join Book Club Girl of www.bookclubgirl.com as she talks with Tom Piazza about his novel City of Refuge, in which two families, one white and one black, deal with Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. | 9/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jennifer Haigh Discusses The Condition - Aug 18,2009 | Join Book Club Girl as she talks with bestselling author Jennifer Haigh about her acclaimed novel The Condition. In The Condition, Haigh (author of Mrs. Kimble and Baker Towers) tells the story of a family broken by their daughter's illness and examines the way all of their lives are affected years later. | 8/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Frances de Pontes Peebles Discusses The Seamstress - Aug 06,2009 | Frances de Pontes Peebles discusses her novel The Seamstress, the story of two sisters in Brazil--an enthralling novel of love and courage, loyalty and adventure, that brings to life a faraway time and place. | 8/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Garth Stein Discusses The Art of Racing in the Rain - Jul 22,2009 | Join Book Club Girl and NYT Bestselling author Garth Stein as they discuss his novel The Art of Racing in the Rain -- a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope—a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it. | 7/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Liz Rosenberg Talks about Home Repair - Jul 08,2009 | Author Liz Rosenberg joins Book Club Girl to discuss her new novel, Home Repair, in which a woman who has been left by two men, finds herself taking care of both of their children, and her own mother, and ultimately discovers that she's gained much more than she's lost. | 7/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marisa de los Santos Discusses Belong To Me - Jun 23,2009 | Bestsellng author Marisa de los Santos talks about her new novel, Belong to Me, in which three unforgettable women are entangled in a web of trust, betrayal, love, and loss that challenges them in ways they never imagined. | 6/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Deborah Johnson Discusses The Air Between Us - Jun 03,2009 | Deborah Johnson talks about her acclaimed debut novel The Air Between Us, set in the segregated South in the 1960s. This show is held in conjunction with Books-a-Million, where the book is the Literary Book Club Pick of the month. | 6/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Bloggers Panel at BEA - Jun 01,2009 | UPDATE: This will now air on Monday, June 1st at 6pm EST!. Check back to listen in! Book Club Girl (www.bookclubgirl.com) moderates a panel of six book bloggers at this year's Book Expo America where they will address how bloggers, publishers and booksellers can work better together. Dawn Rennert from www.sheistoofondofbooks.com Candace Levy from www.bfishreads.blogspot.com Amy Riley from www.myfriendamysblog.com Julie Peterson from www.bookingmama.blogspot.com Natasha Maw from www.blog.mawbooks.com Stephanie Coleman-Chan from www.thewrittenword.wordpress.com | 6/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kelly Corrigan Talks about The Middle Place - May 27,2009 | Kelly Corrigan talks to Book Club Girl about her bestselling and utterly absorbing memoir of being in the "middle place," as a daughter caring for her ill father, and a mother dealing with her own cancer. | 5/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lily Koppel Talks about Red Leather Diary - Apr 29,2009 | Lily Koppel joins Book Club Girl to discuss her unique memoir about the journal she discovered in a steamer trunk outside her apartment in NYC and the journey it sent her on to find the its enthralling author, 60 years after she wrote it. | 4/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adriana Trigiani Discusses Very Valentine - Apr 07,2009 | Bestselling author of Lucia, Lucia and Big Stone Gap, Adriana Trigiani joins Book Club Girl to discuss her latest New York Times bestseller Very Valentine, in which she introduces readers to two new families she'll follow in a planned triology of books. | 4/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mary Kay Andrews Talks about Deep Dish - Mar 25,2009 | Bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews dishes with Book Club Girl about her newest book in paperback, Deep Dish.Gina Foxton, chef extraordinaire and former runner-up Miss Teen Vidalia Onion, is hosting her own show, Fresh Start, on Georgia public tv. She's also dating the producer. But when Fresh Start goes bad—and her boyfriend is caught in flagrante delicto with the boss's wife—Gina decides it's time to pursue bigger dreams.But she comes up against one Tate Moody and the two engage in the cook off of their lives in this tasty romp from the author of Savannah Blues. | 3/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Judith Ryan Hendricks Talks about Laws of Harmony - Mar 10,2009 | Judith Ryan Hendricks, author of Bread Alone, talks about her new novel, Laws of Harmony, with Book Club Girl and book club readers who call in. Laws of Harmony is an emotionally gripping tale of one woman’s struggle to remake herself in the wake of loss and deception, told in the wise, empowering, and heart-renewing prose of an accomplished writer. | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Isabel Allende Talks about The Sum of Our Days with Book Club Girl - Feb 26,2009 | Bestselling author Isabel Allende talks about her newest memoir, The Sum of Our Days, with Book Club Girl and book club members who call in. In this sequel to her beloved bestselling book, PAULA, Allende tells the inspirational story of a remarkable woman—mother, step-mother, grandmother, wife and lover, fiercely loyal friend, and dedicated writer—-and of the unusual extended family she creates after the tragic loss of her daughter Paula. | 2/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elizabeth Noble Talks about Her Novel Things I Want My Daughters to Know - Feb 18,2009 | Bestselling author of The Reading Group, Elizabeth Noble, talks with Book Club Girl and book club members who call in, about her newest novel, Things I Want My Daughters to Know. Before succumbing to cancer, Barbara Forbes, mother of 4 girls, leaves letters to each of her daughters to teach them about both her life and their own in this beautiful novel. | 2/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Juliette Fay, author of Shelter Me - Feb 03,2009 | Join Book Club Girl on February 3rd at 12:00pm EST for a very special episode featuring Juliette Fay, author of the acclaimed debut novel, Shelter Me, which has been "Bookmarked" by Target as a book club pick. The author will be interviewed by one of her closest friends, Julia Tanen (president of The Tanen Group publicity agency in Boston) about this moving novel, and their work together on the charity "Spread the Bread" -- in fact, the charitable angle of baking it forward is of key importance in this book, which features the author's signature "Pology Cake" as a way for her protagonist to reconnect with all those in her life who she has strayed from in her time of personal turmoil. Shelter Me is reaping praise from book reviewers and readers coast to coast: Malena Lott of Athena's Bookshelf glows in praise of Shelter Me, saying "Shelter is a central theme in this beautifully written drama about a newly-minted window with a baby and young son. Her richly drawn characters and emotional depth provide a satisfying read that lasts long after you’re finished with the book...I love, love, loved Shelter Me. Read it and weep." Bake up something tasty, invite your best friend, and join us as we chat with Juliette Fay here at AuthorsOnAir.com! | 2/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Irene Pepperberg discusses Alex & Me - Jan 30,2009 | THIS SHOW IS AT 3PM EST on 1/30/2009. "Sometimes a single individual changes the world, even if it is a parrot.” — Frans de Waal, author of Our Inner Ape. Join us for an interview with Irene Pepperberg about her New York Times bestseller, Alex & Me, the heartwarming story of a precocious parrot and his trainer who together revealed the secret world of animal intelligence. The show is held in conjunction with Books-a-Million bookstores, where Alex & Me is the Pet Book Club Pick for January, and listeners are encouraged to call in with questions. Hosted by Collins marketing director Jean Marie Kelly. | 1/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wally Lamb Talks about His Novel The Hour I First Believed - Jan 28,2009 | Wally Lamb talks with the readers of www.bookclubgirl.com about his new novel The Hour I First Believed, an extraordinary tour de force, at once a meditation on the human condition and an unflinching yet compassionate evocation of character. | 1/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rishi Reddi, interviewed about her book, Karma and Other Stories - Jan 26,2009 | In this interview, debut author Rishi Reddi discusses her story collection, Karma and Other Stories. The collection weaves a multigenerational tapestry of characters pining for their Indian past while building new lives in modern America. | 1/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Grogan discusses Marley & Me - Dec 18,2008 | An interview with John Grogan about his New York Times bestseller, Marley & Me. The show is held in conjunction with Books-a-Million bookstores, where Marley & Me is the pet book club pick of December. | 12/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Laura Moriarty, author of The Rest of Her Life Talks to Book Club Girl - Dec 18,2008 | Laura Moriarty talks with the readers of the blog www.bookclubgirl.com about her luminous and compassionate novel The Rest of Her Life in which she examines how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another. | 12/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Diana Spechler, author of Who By Fire talks with Book Club Girl - Nov 21,2008 | Book Club Girl of www.bookclubgirl.com talks with Diana Spechler about her debut novel Who By Fire. In her novel, Spechler examines what happens to a family years after their youngest daughter has been kidnapped and how people try to rescue one another. | 11/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Diana Spechler Interviewed about her novel Who By Fire - Nov 03,2008 | An interview with Diana Spechler about her new novel, Who By Fire. Spechler's novel is a sharp, captivating story of a family grieving from the loss of their youngest daughter and trying to understand the role of faith in their lives. | 11/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Interview with Thrity Umrigar, author of First Darling of the Morning - Oct 27,2008 | An interview with Thrity Umrigar about her new memoir, First Darling of the Morning. In her memoir, Umrigar unflinchingly recounts her turbulent upbringing from childhood to adolescence, exquisitely set against the backdrop of 1960s and '70s Bombay. | 10/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Diane Hammond Interviewed at Book Group Expo - Oct 27,2008 | Diane Hammond, author of Hannah's Dream talks with Nicole from this weekend's Book Group Expo in San Jose, CA. | 10/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Garth Stein Interviewed by Carol Fitzgerald at Today's Book Group Expo - Oct 27,2008 | The bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain talks with Carol Fitzgerald of www.readinggroupguides.com from today's Book Group Expo in San Jose, CA. | 10/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marisa de los Santos Interviewed at Book Group Expo - Oct 26,2008 | Bestselling author Marisa de los Santos is interviewed from this weekend's Book Group Expo about her book group favorites Love Walked In and Belong to Me. | 10/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Diana Spechler Interviewed at Today's Book Group Expo - Oct 25,2008 | Diana Spechler, author of Who By Fire, is interviewed from today's Book Group Expo in San Jose, CA about her debut novel. | 10/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DeLaune Michel, author of The Safety of Secrets Talks with Book Club Girl - Oct 22,2008 | Book Club Girl, of www.bookclubgirl.com, along with book club members and callers, talks with DeLaune Michel about her novel The Safety of Secrets. Michel's novel is about bonds formed in childhood that are challenged years later, and of secrets uncovered and the damage they cause. | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sue Monk Kidd Talks about The Secret Life of Bees Book and Film - Oct 16,2008 | Book Club Girl interviews Sue Monk Kidd about the film adaptation of her bestselling book The Secret Life of Bees, that opens nationwide on Friday, October 17th starring Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Sophie Okonedo. | 10/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ann Patchett, author of Run, talks with Book Club Girl - Sep 24,2008 | Book Club Girl, along with live callers, hosts a discussion with New York Times bestseller Ann Patchett about her newest novel in paperback, Run. | 9/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Debra Dean, author of Madonnas of Leningrad Talks with Book Club Girl - Aug 21,2008 | Book Club Girl, of the blog www.bookclubgirl.com talks with author Debra Dean, a book club and live callers, about her novel The Madonnas of Leningrad. Dean tells the story of Marina, who, years earlier, helped to pack up the treasures of the Hermitage as the Nazis approached Leningrad. Now an elderly woman in America, as Alzheimers is ravaging her memory, Marina finds herself living more in the past, while the events of her current life, her children and grandchildren slip from her grasp. | 8/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Club Girl Talks with Victoria Lustbader, Author of Stone Creek - Jul 23,2008 | Book Club Girl, of the blog www.bookclubgirl.com, along with live callers, hosts a discussion with Victoria Lustbader about her novel Stone Creek. Lustbader tells the story of Lily, a woman who loves her husband but is now regretting their decision not to have children and Danny, a widower with a young son. What occurs when Lily and Danny meet is undeniable and immediate. An unforgettable novel, Stone Creek brilliantly illuminates how love can be found with more than one person. | 7/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Club Girl Interview with Masha Hamilton, author of The Camel Bookmobile - Jun 29,2008 | Stephanie, reporting live from the American Library Association conference in Anaheim, CA interviews Masha Hamilton, author of The Camel Bookmobile. | 6/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Club Girl Interview with Yxta Maya Murray, author of The King's Gold - Jun 28,2008 | Nicole, reporting live from the American Library Association conference in Anaheim CA interviews author Yxta Maya Murray about her latest book The King's Gold. | 6/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Club Girl Talks with Laurie Viera Rigler, author of Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict - Jun 25,2008 | Book Club Girl, of the blog www.bookclubgirl.com, talks with author Laurie Viera Rigler and book club members about her novel Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict. In this highly imaginative novel, a modern day woman wakes up to find herself living in Jane Austen's time -- and only her in-depth knowledge of Austen's novels helps her to survive (with some mishaps of course). | 6/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Club Girl Talks to Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between Us - May 22,2008 | Book Club Girl of the blog www.bookclubgirl.com, hosts a book club discussion with Thrity Umrigar, author of the acclaimed book group favorite The Space Between Us. | 5/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Club Girl Talks to Katrina Kittle Author of The Kindness of Strangers - Apr 10,2008 | Book Club Girl of the blog www.bookclubgirl.com hosts a discussion between Katrina Kittle, author of the acclaimed novel, The Kindness of Strangers and a book group that has read the book. Listeners are invited to call in or send in questions via that chat that Book Club Girl will ask the author. | 4/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Club Girl Discusses Light of Day with Author Jamie Saul - Mar 11,2008 | Book Club Girl discusses the novel Light of Day with author Jamie Saul and a book group in New York City. | 3/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 100 Episodes |
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