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Five Myths on How Men Approach Marriage

A woman tells her friends she’s engaged and there are celebrations in the streets. My congratulations! A man tells his friends and we roll out the funeral procession. My condolences. Somewhere along the way, marriage and masculinity became mutually exclusive. Maybe it’s always been that way, but I don’t buy it.

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Readers Love Wedlock by Wendy Moore

Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore, makes even the most shocking story of today’s socialites look tame by comparison. A favorite of book groups and historical fiction fans alike, Wedlock is the true story of the disastrous marriage and remarkable divorce of one of 18th-century England’s richest, most free-wheeling heiresses.

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Readers Rave About The Birthday Present by Barbara Vine

When we think of the staid traditions of Parliament, “adventure sex” doesn’t usually come to mind (but maybe in our world full of political scandal, it should). In The Birthday Present, Barbara Vine tells a compulsively readable story of obsessive desire and dark twists of fate.

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Incredible Reader Response to Secrets of Eden

We’ve been blown away by the growth of Read It Forward over the last several months. For example, we received over 20,000 requests for Chris Bohjalian’s Secrets of Eden! Wow. That’s a lot of hungry readers out there. We wish we could send books to everyone who enters for the chance to get one, but alas, it’s impossible. We send as many as we can every month.

We want everyone to have the pleasure of dipping in to Secrets of Eden, so we’re providing an excerpt for everyone to download for free (see the link below). Secrets of Eden really is an extraordinary literary thriller, a page-turning read with characters who will haunt you long after you finish reading.

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A Journal for Jordan by Dana Canedy

Praised by reviewers as “a gift,” “hauntingly beautiful, gripping, important,” “heartfelt,” “gut-wrenching,” and “powerful,” this inspiring story is now in paperback and perfect for your book group.

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Angels of Destruction by Keith Donohue

“Beautiful and wrenching…finds the miraculous in the everyday by exploring the fissures that grief leaves.”
—Washington Post

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Kissing Games of the World

“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

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American Lightning

“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

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The Sweet In-Between

“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

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God Stories

“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

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