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When the first thing a narrator tells you is that she lies you know you're in for some odd twists and turns and THE LACE READER by Brunonia Barry doesn't disappoint. 

If ever there was a book custom made for book club discussions, it is THE POSTMISTRESS by Sarah Blake.  I read the book while traveling over the last couple of weeks and as I read it, I kept wavering back and forth about whether or not I liked it.  But then...

On to Part 4 of our series on Hot Fall Book Club Picks from the BEA panel a couple of weeks ago.  Hard to believe all this great information came out of just one talk.  Imagine how much total book knowledge was in that place!!  I'm still kind of overwhelmed trying to get my head around all the new authors, titles and technologies I heard about!  But back to this series. Next up at the panel was Talia Sherer (rhymes with terror), the Director of Library Marketing, Adult Trade for MacMillan.  She presented some great titles:

In today's post, regular contributor Heather Johnson (Storie delle Sorelle Book Club Blog) shares her book club's experience with a great book.  I read this one a couple years back and really enjoyed it though never thought of it for a book club pick.  Nice to see that Heather was thinking outside the box!

I hope you've been enjoying reading about all the upcoming titles for fall in this fab insider's look at the hot book club picks for fall.  Next up is Patrick Nolan, VP of Trade Paperback Sales for Penguin Group USA.  He was the third to speak at the BEA panel on hot book club picks and had this to share:

Welcome to Part 2 of the Hot Fall Book Club Titles series.  The second editor to speak at the BEA panel on Hot Book Club Titles for fall was Jennifer Hart, VP/Associate Publisher for Harper Perennial, Harper Paperbacks and Avon.  She presented the following titles:

I promised more content from my experience a couple of weeks ago at BookExpo America.  Well here it comes.  One of the sessions I attended (moderated by our very own Carol Fitzgerald) was called Hot Book Club Titles: Fall 2010.  Sounds right up our alley, no?  It was 6 industry big wigs talking about their companies upcoming great reads for book groups.  So, welcome to Part 1 of a 6 part series!  The first speaker at the session was Michael Croy, Field Sales Director at Simon & Schuster, and these are the books he presented:

In today's post Cindy Hudson, guest blogger and author of BOOK BY BOOK: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO CREATING MOTHER-DAUGHTER BOOK CLUBS, talks about reading NORTH OF BEAUTIFUL and the all of the rich discussion the book brought out.  What a great way to get young girls (and not so young ones) to talk openly about important issues.

Last week I shared a little bit of what I saw at the Editor's Buzz talk at BookExpo America.  Well, guess what, there's more!  These are the titles the editors from some of the major houses really believe in.  The one's they believe will be the big books of the coming year.  So since I know what to look for, I figure you should be in the loop too!

In today's post, guest blogger and author Mary Sharratt talks about the real life Bess Southerns, a woman accused of witchcraft in 1612, and how her new novel was inspired by Bess and the Lancashire Witches. Bewitching History