Spotlight and Giveaway of Hello Summer by Mary Kay Andrews

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Meg Walker of Tandem Literary: Publicity & Marketing is celebrating the release of:

HELLO SUMMER

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HELLO, SUMMER—the next sizzling summer blockbuster by New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads, Mary Kay Andrews.

An intriguing mystery, inspiring tale of second chances, and moving family drama with a touch of romance, HELLO, SUMMER is a quintessential summer escape from the master of her genre.

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PRAISE FOR HELLO SUMMER:

An intriguing mystery, inspiring tale of second chances, and moving family drama with a touch of romance, HELLO, SUMMER is a quintessential summer escape from the master of her genre. “Hello, Summer is another gem by the always wonderful Mary Kay Andrews.” —PopSugar

“Hello, Summer is at a next level of fabulous. Yes it has the family house on the beach (why doesn’t my family have a beach house?) but it morphs into a political thriller all stemming from news reporting. Brilliantly done! Ten stars!”—Andrea Peskind Katz, GreatThoughts.com

“Andrews can be counted on for beach-worthy depictions of southern women with chutzpah and a talent for finding trouble with humor and romantic interest mixed in. Fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Kristy Woodson Harvey shouldn’t miss it.”—Booklist

“Hello, Summer is a terrific read. All the characters from Conley through her feisty G’mama and her housekeeper, to the local gossip and the secretive local radio DJ, are fully fleshed people. The world of modern journalism, small town politics and relationships are brought to vibrant life by Mary Kay Andrews’ deft touch.”—Authorlink

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ABOUT HELLO SUMMER:

New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads Mary Kay Andrews delivers her next blockbuster, HELLO SUMMER.

It's a new season...
Conley Hawkins left her family's small town newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon, in the rearview mirror years ago. Now a star reporter for a big-city paper, Conley is exactly where she wants to be and is about to take a fancy new position in Washington, D.C. Or so she thinks.

For small town scandals...
When the new job goes up in smoke, Conley finds herself right back where she started, working for her sister, who is trying to keep The Silver Bay Beacon afloat—and she doesn’t exactly have warm feelings for Conley. Soon she is given the unenviable task of overseeing the local gossip column, “Hello, Summer.”

And big-time secrets...
Then Conley witnesses an accident that ends in the death of a local congressman—a beloved war hero with a shady past. The more she digs into the story, the more dangerous it gets. As an old heartbreaker causes trouble and a new flame ignites, it soon looks like their sleepy beach town is the most scandalous hotspot of the summer.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

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MARY KAY ANDREWS is the New York Times bestselling author of 27 novels (including Hello, Summer; Sunset Beach; The High Tide Club; The Weekenders; Beach Town; Save the Date; Ladies’ Night; Christmas Bliss; Spring Fever; Summer Rental; The Fixer Upper; Deep Dish; Blue Christmas; Savannah Breeze; Hissy Fit; Little Bitty Lies; and Savannah Blues), and one cookbook, The Beach House Cookbook.

A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, she earned a B.A. in journalism from The University of Georgia. After a 14-year career working as a reporter at newspapers including The Savannah Morning News, The Marietta Journal, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she spent the final ten years of her career, she left journalism in 1991 to write fiction.

Her first novel, Every Crooked Nanny, was published in 1992 by HarperCollins. She went on to write ten critically acclaimed mysteries under her real name, Kathy Hogan Trocheck. In 2002, she assumed the pen name Mary Kay Andrews with the publication of Savannah Blues. In 2006, Hissy Fit became her first New York Times bestseller, followed by twelve more New York Times, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestsellers. To date, her novels have been published in German, Italian, Polish, Slovenian, Hungarian, Dutch, Czech and Japanese. 

She and her family divide their time between Atlanta and Tybee Island, GA, where they cook up new recipes in two restored beach homes, The Breeze Inn and Ebbtide—both named after fictional places in Mary Kay’s novels, and both available to rent through Tybee Vacation Rentals. In between cooking, spoiling her grandkids, and plotting her next novel, Mary Kay is an intrepid treasure hunter whose favorite pastime is junking and fixing up old houses.

Connect with MKA

Website: https://marykayandrews.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marykayandrewsauthor

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marykayandrews/

Bookshop.org:  https://bookshop.org/shop/marykayandrews

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Spotlight and Giveaway of My Kind of People by Lisa Duffy

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 Megan Rudloff of Atria Books/Simon & Schuster is celebrating the release of:

MY KIND OF PEOPLE

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From Lisa Duffy, the beloved author of The Salt House and This Is Home, comes My Kind of People, a profound novel about the power of community and a small town’s long-buried secrets as a group of New England islanders rally around a recently orphaned girl.

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PRAISE FOR MY KIND OF PEOPLE:

“There’s a beautiful thing that happens, as if by magic, midway through every Lisa Duffy novel: I blink awake to the world around me and realize I’ve been transported, transformed, and utterly invested in the lives of characters who feel like friends. My Kind of People is indeed filled with *my* kind of people: layered, conflicted, underestimated souls who are deeply impacted by one another as their lives intersect and entwine. A moving story of healing, resilience, and every imaginable type of love—between neighbors, parents, spouses, surrogates, and new and old friends—finding a way.” —Jessica Strawser, bestselling author of Not That I Could Tell

“Lisa Duffy writes with wisdom and empathy about an endearingly authentic cast of characters. In disarmingly spare prose, she tells a moving story about family, marriage, and community, and the challenge of knowing when to break ties and when to come together. Don't let the summery island setting fool you—this is a beach read with substance and heart.” —Karen Dukess, author of The Last Book Party

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ABOUT MY KIND OF PEOPLE:

On Ichabod Island, a jagged strip of land thirteen miles off the coast of Massachusetts, ten-year-old Sky becomes an orphan for the second time after a tragic accident claims the lives of her adoptive parents. Grieving the death of his best friends, Leo’s life is turned upside down when he finds himself the guardian of young Sky. Back on the island and struggling to balance his new responsibilities and his marriage to his husband, Leo is supported by a powerful community of neighbors, many of them harboring secrets of their own.

Maggie, who helps with Sky’s childcare, has hit a breaking point with her police chief husband, who becomes embroiled in a local scandal. Her best friend Agnes, the island busybody, invites Sky’s estranged grandmother to stay for the summer, straining already precarious relationships. Their neighbor Joe secretly knows about issues between Sky’s adoptive parents in the months leading up to their accident, and struggles with keeping this to himself. And among them all is a mysterious woman, drawn to Ichabod to fulfill a dying wish.

Emotionally complex, deeply moving, and perfect for fans of Celeste Ng, Mary Beth Keane, and Ann Leary, My Kind of People is a riveting, impassioned, acutely sensitive novel about the resilience of community and what unites us all in the face of tragedy.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

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Lisa Duffy is the author of The Salt House, named by Real Simple as a Best Book of the Month upon its June release, as well as Bustle’s 17 Best Debut Novels by Women in 2017 and This Is Home, a favorite book club pick.

Lisa received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts. Her writing can be found in numerous publications, including Writer’s Digest. 

She lives in the Boston area with her husband and three children. My Kind of People is her third novel.

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FEATURING: THE WOMEN OF THE COPPER COUNTRY by Mary Doria Russell

The determination and power of women who literally had none in the 1900's is one of the themes in THE WOMEN OF THE COPPER COUNTRY.

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Spotlight and Giveaway of Secrets From A Happy Marriage by Maisey Yates

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Samantha McVeigh of Harper Collins is celebrating the release of:

SECRETS FROM A HAPPY MARRIAGE

 

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SECRETS FROM A HAPPY MARRIAGE by Maisey Yates | HQN | Trade Paperback | Pub Date: 5/12/2020 | Women’s Fiction | ISBN: 9781335014924|

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ABOUT SECRETS FROM A HAPPY MARRIAGE:

New York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates’s new novel introduces the women of the Lighthouse Inn B&B. They might not have it all together, but this summer, they’ll discover that together, they might still have it all. 

Rachel Henderson’s family is falling apart. Becoming a widow—especially at this age—is heartbreaking. With her teenage daughter, Emma, leaving soon for college, Rachel needs a friend—but local diner owner Adam is the last person she ever thought she’d lean on. 

From the outside, her little sister, Anna, has a picture-perfect marriage. But the weight of it is suffocating her. The only way for her to breathe again comes at a high price, one she’s not so sure she can pay. 

After raising two daughters on her own, their mother, Wendy, knows just how hard life can be. She’s done things she’s not proud of, things she desperately wants to keep from her girls—until keeping quiet is no longer an option. 

As long-held secrets bubble up and their old lives unravel, this family will need all their strength to start again and open their hearts up to the possibility of more. But most of all, they’ll need each other.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

New York Times Bestselling author Maisey Yates lives in rural Oregon with her three children and her husband, whose chiseled jaw and arresting features continue to make her swoon. She feels the epic trek she takes several times a day from her office to her coffee maker is a true example of her pioneer spirit.

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Spotlight and E-book Giveaway of The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner

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Jennifer Rosner is celebrating the release of her book:

THE YELLOW BIRD SINGS

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PRAISE FOR THE YELLOW BIRD SINGS:

This stunning debut novel sings with the power of a mother’s love and the heartbreaking risks she’ll endure.”
―Booklist

"The Yellow Bird Sings keeps your heart in your throat, your eyes pricked with tears...The little light that shines in this terrible darkness—the precious little hope that anchors Róza’s and Shira’s souls—is very bright.”
―BookPage (starred review) 

"Rosner...offers a vibrant, affecting portrait of the mother-daughter relationship.”
―Library Journal (starred review)

“Desperately moving and exquisitely written. If you only read one book this year, make it The Yellow Bird Sings.”
–AJ Pearce, author of Dear Mrs Bird

“Music and love course through this beautiful novel, twin rivers of wonder. The Yellow Bird Sings is a powerful hymn to the resilience and determination of a mother’s love in the face of the inhuman horrors of war. Jennifer Rosner has written a book that will break your heart, and then put it back together again, a little larger than before.”
–Alex George, author of The Paris Hours

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ABOUT THE YELLOW BIRD SINGS:

In Poland, as World War II rages, a mother hides with her young daughter, a musical prodigy whose slightest sound may cost them their lives. 

As Nazi soldiers round up the Jews in their town, Róża and her 5-year-old daughter, Shira, flee, seeking shelter in a neighbor’s barn. Hidden in the hayloft day and night, Shira struggles to stay still and quiet, as music pulses through her and the farmyard outside beckons. To soothe her daughter and pass the time, Róża tells her a story about a girl in an enchanted garden: 

“The girl is forbidden from making a sound, so the yellow bird sings. He sings whatever the girl composes in her head: high-pitched trills of piccolo; low-throated growls of contrabassoon. Music helps the flowers bloom…” 

In this make-believe world, Róża can shield Shira from the horrors that surround them. But the day comes when their haven is no longer safe, and Róża must make an impossible choice: whether to keep Shira by her side or give her the chance to survive apart. 

Inspired by the true stories of Jewish children hidden during World War II, Jennifer Rosner’s debut is a breathtaking novel about the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter. 

Beautiful and riveting, The Yellow Bird Sings is a testament to the triumph of hope—a whispered story, a bird’s song—in even the darkest of times.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

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THE YELLOW BIRD SINGS is Jennifer’s debut novel. It tells the story of a Jewish mother and her child hiding for their lives during WW2, and is grounded in interviews, travel, and historical research.

Jennifer previously published a memoir, IF A TREE FALLS, about raising her deaf daughters in a hearing, speaking world, and discovering genetic deafness in her family dating back to the 1800s. 

In both the novel and memoir, she explores themes of silence and sound, loneliness and connection. Her short writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Massachusetts Review, The Forward, and elsewhere.

In addition to writing, Jennifer teaches philosophy. She received her BA from Columbia University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She has taught at Stanford and at Mount Holyoke College. Currently, she teaches the Clemente Course in the Humanities, a college-level course for women living in economic distress. 

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