Recommended ReadingBehind the Book: Facing cancer with humor and heartWeb exclusiveI never planned to write a breast cancer memoir. Never planned to get the cancer that would inspire it. But in January 2006, my first novel was on submission and hadn’t sold yet. In the meantime I’d written a second novel about a woman who finds a lump in her breast and thinks she might have breast cancer and wonders if she’s lived a meaningful life. I sent it off to my then-agent and went in for my annual mammogram and was told it was “suspicious.” A week later I was having surgery and while I was waiting for my own results, I received an e-mail from my agent (who didn’t… Read More… |
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Best books for your clubBending the rules to play the game of loveIn Kissing Games of the World, single mother Jamie McClintock has neither the desire nor the time for romance. After all, motherhood under the best of circumstances can be overwhelming, and for novelist Sandi Kahn Shelton's latest heroine, an already precarious life caring for her asthmatic son and struggling to pay the bills is thrown off - kilter by the sudden… Read More… |
A book club favoriteNew version of an old favoriteThis glittering biographical novel tells the story of Rudolf Nureyev, one of the 20th century's greatest ballet dancers and an international star done in by his own decadent lifestyle. Offering a kaleidoscopic vision of Nureyev, the book is narrated by the people who knew him, from Anna Vasileva, his first ballet instructor, to Victor, a gay gigolo. Dancer… Read More… |
