Michelle Moran is a huge book group favorite and will speak with your group via a speakerphone chat! This is your opportunity to ask the author any question you want! Which characters in the novel are real? Which are fictional? What is it like to be an author? How do you become one? Make your next meeting super special by inviting Michelle to join the discussion.

» Watch the book trailer for Cleopatra’s Daughter

“A classic romance. . . . It’s been done countless times, but rarely as engagingly as Shelton does it in this novel.” –Boston Globe

Jamie is a free-spirited artist and devoted single mom with a slightly unorthodox living situation: in exchange for free rent, she looks after the grandson of her much older landlord. But when Harris Goddard dies of a heart attack–naked and splayed out in Jamie’s bed–nobody believes that he and Jamie were just roommates.

» Visit author Sandi Kahn Shelton at her official website, www.SandiShelton.com

“Hugely engaging . . . has tremendous verve . . . American Lightning throws valuable new light on an episode that seems, for us today, particularly pertinent. Terrorism happened here.” —Los Angeles Times

In this masterpiece of narrative history, acclaimed author Howard Blum evokes the original “crime of the century” and an aftermath even more dramatic than the crime itself–a seminal episode in America’s history that would spark national debate and draw into its orbit master sleuth William J. Burns, crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, and industry-shaping filmmaker D. W. Griffith.

» Read a Q&A with author Howard Blum at Powell’s Books

“Tender . . . [a] sweet coming-of-age story, thanks to its young, wise-beyond-her-years, Scout Finch–esque heroine.”—
–Entertainment Weekly

Kenny Lugo has grown up in a family that’s not really hers. Her mother died of cancer when Kenny was very young, and Aunt Glo—who is, in fact, her daddy’s girlfriend—took her in when her father was sent to jail for drug trafficking. Now, as Kenny approaches her eighteenth birthday and the end of the government checks Glo has been receiving looms, she is desperate to prove that this house and these people really do belong to her.

» Visit author Sheri Reynolds’ website: www.SheriReynolds.com

“Reading this book is a touching and soul-penetrating experience.”
—Mark Victor Hansen, cocreater of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series

Have you ever experienced a miracle? A prayer was answered or an accident was averted? For many, these mysterious and inspiring events are proof positive that God exists. This collection of life-changing stories celebrates the breakthrough moments when the hand of a divine power is felt: a doctor opens the chest of a dying heart patient to discover her heart is healed; marines watch as a fellow soldier in Iraq is hit by a powerful explosion but remains uninjured; a young woman loses her boyfriend on 9/11 and receives a message that brings her peace.

» Listen to an interview with editor Jennifer Skiff at BlogTalkRadio.com

» Watch a video of editor Jennifer Skiff discussing God Stories

Spice up your discussion with some pure passion: Turn up the heat with the spicy bite of chili and the tangy flavor of passion fruit in this seductive potion. If passion fruit is in season, use fresh strained juice.

» Download Pure Passion Drink Recipe (from Scribd.com)