Win a Visit from Debut Novelist Stephen P. Kiernan for Your Book Club, Along with Copies of THE CURIOSITY and a Cabot Cheddar Cheese Gift Basket

Enter for a chance to win a very special experience for your book club --- a guest appearance by debut novelist Stephen P. Kiernan to discuss his book, The Curiosity. Also included in the grand prize will be a copy of The Curiosity for the members of your book club, as well as a Cabot Cheddar Cheese Gift Basket full of goodies to sample as you talk with Stephen. There are also prizes for the runners-up!

More about The Curiosity:
Dr. Kate Philo and her scientific exploration team make a breathtaking discovery in the Arctic: the body of a man buried deep in the ice. As a scientist in a groundbreaking project run by the egocentric and paranoid Erastus Carthage, Kate has brought small creatures --- plankton, krill, shrimp --- back to life for short periods of time. But the team's methods have never been attempted on larger life-forms.

Heedless of the potential consequences, Carthage orders that the frozen man be brought back to the lab in Boston and reanimated. The endeavor is named "The Lazarus Project." As the man begins to regain his memories, the team learns that he was --- is --- a judge, Jeremiah Rice, and the last thing he remembers is falling overboard into the Arctic Ocean in 1906. When news of the project and Jeremiah Rice breaks, it ignites a media firestorm and protests by religious fundamentalists.

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Win a Copy of PASTORS' WIVES by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen for Your Group

We are celebrating the release of Pastors’ Wives --- Lisa Takeuchi Cullen’s debut novel that follows three women whose lives converge and intertwine at a Southern evangelical megachurch--- with a special contest. 25 readers will have the opportunity to each win a copy of the book, which is now in stores, for their group. To enter, please fill out this form by Tuesday, July 9th at noon ET.

More about Pastors’ Wives:
Lisa Takeuchi Cullen’s debut novel, Pastors’ Wives, follows three women whose lives converge andintertwine at a Southern evangelical megachurch. Ruthie follows her WallStreet husband from New York to Magnolia, a fictional suburb of Atlanta, when he hears a calling to serve at a megachurch called Greenleaf. Candace is Greenleaf’s "First Lady," a force ofnature who will stop at nothing to protect her church and her superstar husband. Ginger, married to Candace’s son, struggles to play dutiful wife and mother while burying her calamitous past. All their roads collide in one chaotic event that exposes their trueselves.

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Win a Copy of THE MOURNING HOURS by Paula Treick DeBoard for Your Group

We are celebrating the upcoming release of The Mourning Hours by debut author Paula Treick DeBoard --- a gripping novel of betrayal and forgiveness as a family is forced to confront the devastating event that changed the trajectory of their lives --- with a special contest. 25 readers will have the opportunity to each win a copy of the book, which will be in stores on June 25th, for their group. To enter, please fill out this form by Tuesday, July 9th at noon ET.

More about The Mourning Hours:
Kirsten Hammarstrom hasn’t been home to her tiny corner of rural Wisconsin in years --- not since the mysterious disappearance of a local teenage girl rocked the town and shattered her family. Kirsten was just nine years old when Stacy Lemke went missing, and the last person to see her alive was her boyfriend, Johnny--- the high school wrestling star and Kirsten’s older brother. No one knows what to believe --- not even those closest to Johnny --- but the event unhinges the quiet farming community and pins Kirsten’s family beneath the crushing weight of suspicion. Now, years later, a new tragedy forces Kirsten and her siblings to return home, where they must confront the devastating event that shifted the trajectory of their lives.

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Win a Copy of THE ALMOND TREE by Michelle Cohen Corasanti for Your Group

We are celebrating the release of The Almond Tree --- Michelle Cohen Corasanti’s debut novel that delivers an inspirational story of unfathomable pain and an incredible perseverance --- with a special contest. 100 readers will have theopportunity to each win a copy of the book, which is now in stores, fortheir group. To enter, please fill out this form by Tuesday, July 9th at noon ET.

More about The Almond Tree:
The Almond Tree is a big-hearted story of a small Palestinian boy who learns to survive in a brutal environment and doesn’t simply endure, but emerges from the fire with the wisdom gleaned from the example of a father who has taught him that all menhave value, even their enemies. This is a tale of innocence moving through a vicious world, compassion learned against an environment of daily horrors, and wisdom forged through a boy’s journey through a life we would never wish upon our own children.

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Big Brother
by Lionel Shriver

For Pandora, cooking is a form of love. Alas, her husband, Fletcher, a self-employed cabinetmaker who crafts high-end, one-of-a-kind furniture, now spurns the “toxic” dishes that he’d savored through their courtship, and loses hours a day to manic cycling. But the couple’s comfortable, if sometimes strained, routine is about to implode. When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn’t recognize him. In the four years since the grown siblings last saw one another, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened?

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I’ll Be Seeing You
by Suzanne Hayes and Loretta Nyhan

It's January 1943 when Rita Vincenzo receives her first letter from Glory Whitehall. Glory is an effervescent young mother, impulsive and free as a bird. Rita is a sensible professor's wife with a love of gardening and a generous, old soul. Glory comes from New England society; Rita lives in Iowa, trying to make ends meet. They have nothing in common except one powerful bond: the men they love are fighting in a war a world away from home. Brought together by an unlikely twist of fate, Glory and Rita begin a remarkable correspondence.

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The Middlesteins
by Jami Attenberg

Now Available in Paperback
For more than 30 years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie is fixated on food --- thinking about it, eating it --- and if she doesn’t stop, she won’t have much longer to live. When Richard abandons his wife, it is up to their distant daughter, easygoing son and perfectionist daughter-in-law to save Edie’s life.

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Little Night
by Luanne Rice

Now Available in Paperback
Clare Burke’s life took a devastating turn when she defended her sister, Anne, from an abusive husband and ended up serving prison time for assault. Nearly 20 years later --- long estranged from her sister --- Clare is living a quiet life in Manhattan as an urban birder and nature blogger, when Anne’s daughter, Grit, shows up on her doorstep. When it appears that Anne has followed Grit, each woman wonders what their long-awaited reunion will bring.

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The Perfume Collector
by Kathleen Tessaro

Grace Monroe is a young newlywed eager to make a success of her marriage. But all of her aspirations are suddenly forgotten when she receives some shocking news: she has inherited a large sum of money from a woman she’s never met. Then, upon discovering her husband may not be who she thought he was, she flees her marriage and finds herself in Paris, embarking upon a journey to find not only the identity of her mysterious benefactor but also the hidden secrets of her own past.

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Sight Reading
by Daphne Kalotay

On a Boston street one warm spring day, Hazel and Remy spot each other for the first time in years. Although their brief meeting may seem insignificant, behind them lie two decades in which their life paths have crisscrossed, diverged and ultimately interlaced. As their story unfolds from 1987 to 2007, from Europe to America, from conservatory life to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, each discovers the surprising ways in which the quest to create something real and true can lead to the most personal of revelations.

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What a Mother Knows
by Leslie Lehr

Michelle Mason can't remember that day, that drive, that horrible crash that killed the young man in her car. All she knows is she's being held responsible, and her daughter is missing. Despite a shaky marriage, a threatening lawsuit, and troubling flashbacks pressing in on her, Michelle throws herself into searching. Her daughter is the one person who might know what really happened that day, but the deeper Michelle digs, the more she questions the innocence of those closest to her, even herself. As her search hurtles toward a shattering revelation, Michelle must face the biggest challenge of her life.

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Archipelago
by Monique Roffey

Now Available in Paperback
When a flood destroys Gavin Weald’s home in Trinidad and rips his family apart, life as he knows it will never be the same. A year later, he returns to his house and tries to start over, but when the rainy season arrives, his daughter’s nightmares about the torrents make life there unbearable. So father and daughter --- and their dog --- embark upon a voyage to make peace with the waters. Their journey takes them far from their Caribbean island home, as they sail through archipelagos, encounter the grandeur of the sea, and meet with the challenges and surprises of the natural world.

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The Way Back to Happiness
by Elizabeth Bass

No one could blame Bev Putterman for becoming estranged from her sister. No one but Bev, anyway. Growing up, Diana was difficult and selfish yet always their mother’s favorite. And then came the betrayal that took away the future Bev dreamed of. Yet if Diana caused problems while alive, her death leaves Bev in a maelstrom of remorse. She longs to provide a stable home for Diana’s 14-year-old daughter, Alabama. But between her commitment-phobic boyfriend and her precarious teaching position, Bev’s life is already in upheaval without an unruly teenager around.

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The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines
by Shohreh Aghdashloo

Shohreh Aghdashloo is an Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actress whose prolific work on stage and screen has been lauded for decades in both her native Iran and her adopted home in the United States. But the transition from a young girl first swept away by American movies in a Tehran theater to an acclaimed international performer has been a hard-fought and sometimes dangerous battle. In her stunning memoir, Aghdashloo invites readers to retrace her journey from the vibrant Tehran of her youth through the menace of revolution to a place of promise and dreams.

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When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
by Monica Wood

Now Available in Paperback
1963, Mexico, Maine: The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors. But when Dad suddenly dies on his way to work, Mum and the four deeply connected Wood girls are set adrift. When We Were the Kennedys is the story of how this family saves itself, at first by enlisting the help of Mum's brother, a charismatic Catholic priest. And then, come November --- her country shocked by the president's death and her town bracing for a labor strike --- Mum announces an unprecedented family road trip.

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