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Author Talk: Carol Cassella, author of Gemini

Mar 4, 2014

Carol Cassella is a practicing anesthesiologist and bestselling author. Here, she talks about her most recent novel, GEMINI, and shares her thoughts on mysteries, medicine and writing.

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Author Talk: Jennifer Senior, author of All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

Mar 4, 2014

Jennifer Senior is a contributing editor at New York Magazine and author of ALL JOY AND NO FUN. Here, she talks to bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld about her new book and considering parenting from both a personal and sociological perspective.

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Jonas Jonasson's international publishing sensation --- with over six million copies sold --- is about a reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka), who decides it's not too late to start over.

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Three Souls by Janie Chang

THREE SOULS is a captivating tale, set in 1935 China, of the ghost of a young woman who watches her own funeral from above and learns she has been denied entry to the afterlife until she makes amends for her earthly mistakes under the guidance of her three souls --- yang, yin and hun.

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Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

In 1961 New Bremen, Minnesota, all is quiet and serene. The Minnesota River flows through the countryside, the town barber knows everyone’s name, and folks dutifully attend church every Sunday. But that serenity is thrown into turmoil as a series of tragic deaths lead 13-year-old Frank Drum and his family on a hunt for terrible truths. But at what cost comes wisdom?

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The Harem Midwife by Roberta Rich

Hannah and Isaac return in this opulent, riveting and suspenseful tale --- a continuation of Roberta Rich's thrilling debut THE MIDWIFE OF VENICE set in Medieval Constantinople.

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Editorial Content for The Apple Orchard

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The Apple Orchard

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs brings readers into the lush abundance of Sonoma County, in a story of sisters, friendship and the invisible bonds of history that are woven like a spell around us.

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs brings readers into the lush abundance of Sonoma County, in a story of sisters, friendship and the invisible bonds of history that are woven like a spell around us.

About the Book

Tess Delaney makes a living returning stolen treasures to their rightful owners. She loves illuminating history, filling the spaces in people’s hearts with stories of their family legacies.

But Tess’s own history is filled with gaps: a father she never met, and a mother who spent more time traveling than with her daughter.

Then Dominic Rossi arrives on the doorstep of the San Francisco shop Tess hopes to buy, and he tells her that the grandfather she never knew is in a coma. Tess has been named in his will to inherit half of Bella Vista, a 100-acre apple orchard in the magical Sonoma town called Archangel.

The rest is willed to Isabel Johansen. A half sister she hadn’t heard of.

Isabel is everything Tess isn’t: all softness to Tess’s hard angles, warm and nurturing where Tess is tightly wound. But against the rich landscape of Bella Vista, with Isabel and Dominic by her side, Tess begins to discover a world filled with the simple pleasures of food and family, of the warm earth beneath her bare feet. A world where family comes first and the roots of history run deep.