Editorial Content for The St. Ambrose School for Girls
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Heathers meets THE SECRET HISTORY in this thrilling coming-of-age novel set in a boarding school where the secrets are devastating --- and deadly.
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Heathers meets THE SECRET HISTORY in this thrilling coming-of-age novel set in a boarding school where the secrets are devastating --- and deadly.
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Heathers meets THE SECRET HISTORY in this thrilling coming-of-age novel set in a boarding school where the secrets are devastating --- and deadly.
When Sarah Taylor arrives at the exclusive St. Ambrose School, she’s carrying more baggage than just what fits in her suitcase. She knows she’s not like the other girls. If the shabby, all-black, non-designer clothes don’t give that away, the bottle of lithium hidden in her desk drawer sure does.
St. Ambrose’s queen bee, Greta Stanhope, picks Sarah as a target from day one and the most popular, powerful, horrible girl at school is relentless in making sure Sarah knows what the pecking order is. Thankfully, Sarah makes an ally out of her roommate, Ellen “Strots” Strotsberry, a cigarette-huffing, devil-may-care athlete. Also down the hall is Nick Hollis, the devastatingly handsome RA, and the object of more than one St. Ambrose student’s fantasies. Between Strots and Nick, Sarah hopes she can make it through the semester, dealing with not only her schoolwork and a recent bipolar diagnosis, but Greta’s increasingly malicious pranks.
Sarah is determined not to give Greta the satisfaction of breaking her. But when scandal unfolds, and someone ends up dead, her world threatens to unravel in ways she never could have imagined. THE ST. AMBROSE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS is a dangerous, delicious, twisty coming-of-age tale that will stay with you long after you turn the last page.
Editorial Content for Summer Sisters
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No writer captures the seasons of our lives better than Judy Blume. SUMMER SISTERS is an extraordinary novel of reminiscence and awakening --- an unforgettable story of two women, two families and the friendships that shape a lifetime.
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No writer captures the seasons of our lives better than Judy Blume. SUMMER SISTERS is an extraordinary novel of reminiscence and awakening --- an unforgettable story of two women, two families and the friendships that shape a lifetime.
About the Book
In the summer of 1977, Victoria Leonard’s world changes forever when Caitlin Somers chooses her as a friend. Dazzling, reckless Caitlin welcomes Vix into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family, opening doors to a world of unimaginable privilege, sweeping her away to vacations on Martha’s Vineyard, an enchanting place where the two friends become “summer sisters.”
Now, years later, Vix is working in New York City. Caitlin is getting married on the Vineyard. And the early magic of their long, complicated friendship has faded. But Caitlin begs Vix to come to her wedding, to be her maid of honor. And Vix knows that she will go --- because she wants to understand what happened during that last shattering summer. And, after all these years, she needs to know why her best friend --- her summer sister --- still has the power to break her heart.
Editorial Content for Tom Lake
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In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself to be one of America’s finest writers.
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In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself to be one of America’s finest writers.
About the Book
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself to be one of America’s finest writers.
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and they are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
TOM LAKE is a meditation on youthful love, married love and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.
August 15, 2023
I read somewhere that last Thursday was the last time that sun would be in the sky after 8pm in the New York area. Yes, the days of summer are being whisked away.
You can just about guarantee that it will rain or be overcast the night of August 30th as I am hosting book club at my house. We will be talking about ONE ITALIAN SUMMER by Rebecca Serle, with a goal that we virtually can be swept away to Italy. Last month when we had book group here, we had a torrential storm a few hours before we met. Luckily the couches that we were going to sit on were covered. We want ONE gorgeous night where we can discuss the book IN the pool!











