Book Lover, The
Authors: Maryann McFadden
Tags: #book lover, #nature, #women’s fiction, #paraplegics, #So Happy Together, #The Richest Season, #independent bookstores, #bird refuges, #women authors, #Maryann McFadden, #book clubs, #divorce, #libraries & prisons, #writers, #parole, #self-publishing
Booksellers are raving about
The Book Lover
“The Book Lover
is the name of a charming book shop which acts as one of the main characters in this story of broken marriages, secrets, friendships and little white lies. The well developed characters and subject will make this a sure selection for book clubs.”
ELIZABETH MERRITT, Titcomb’s Books
“The Book Lover
takes you into the heart and soul of the book world, with characters you will come to love. The most honest story about the world of books I’ve read yet.”
ROB DOUGHERTY, Clinton Book Shop
“A compelling story of love, loss and survival.”
TOM WARNER, Litchfield Books
“Book lovers everywhere will love this story!”
BETH CARPENTER, The Country Bookshop
“I’ve always found some character or situation in Maryann McFadden’s books that reminds me of me and mine—this time she even nails my life as a bookseller!”
BETSY RIDER, Otto’s Books
More praise for
The Book Lover
“Oh, what a feast for book lovers! McFadden mines bookstores, writers’ lives, publishing, and the rocky terrain of the human heart with equal grace and aplomb.
The Book Lover
is wise, knowing, and totally wonderful.”
CAROLINE LEAVITT, NY Times Bestselling Author of
Pictures of You
“Maryann McFadden takes you into the hearts and souls of two ordinary women, a writer and a bookseller, who find the courage to pursue their dreams, and the men they love.
The Book Lover
is unforgettable.”
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK, New York Times Bestselling Author
“Heartfelt and richly woven, Maryann McFadden’s latest tells the story of love lost - and found again in an unexpected place. It’s a valentine to book lovers.”
SARAH PEKKANEN, Author of
These Girls
Praise for
The Richest Season
“Set in the fabled landscape of South Carolina’s Low Country, The Richest Season takes us on a heartrending journey of discovery. Maryann McFadden is an exciting new author who writes with compassion, wisdom, and astonishing skill.”
CASSANDRA KING, Bestselling author of
Queen of Broken Hearts
“In Maryann McFadden’s brave and carefully made novel, The Richest Season, two women set out on open ended odysseys, one to find her life, one to find meaning in her death. McFadden is out of the gate and on her way.”
JACQUELYN MITCHARD, Bestselling author of
The Deep End of the Ocean
and
Still Summer
“Beautifully written…Let’s readers into the characters’ thoughts and feelings as they struggle to understand how the past has led them to their present situations. In the process, a new person emerges, or perhaps it’s the self each forgot was there all along.”
ROMANTIC TIMES
“Skillful plotting keeps pages turning, and McFadden quickly has readers rooting for intriguing Joanna, on the cusp of change.”
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY
“A compelling debut novel that tells the story of one woman’s courage to leave it all behind…”
FRESH FICTION
Praise for
So Happy Together
“I can think of no writer I’d rather have sing me songs of the sea, even sad ones, than Maryann McFadden. The characters in So Happy Together will speak to you, and the best ones…have the ocean in their voices.”
ANNE RIVERS SIDDONS, New York Times bestselling author of
Off Season
and
Colony
“McFadden deftly weaves a story of three generations of women and the men who orbit around them. With a sure touch, she writes about the mother-daughter bond, the simple pleasures to be found in cooking, the pervasive nature of guilt, and the power of forgiveness…”
CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE, author of
The Way Life Should Be
and
Bird in Hand
“So Happy Together is an honest book … that will resonate with many women who struggle to care for family members and themselves.”
THE RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER
ALSO BY MARYANN MCFADDEN
THE RICHEST SEASON
SO HAPPY TOGETHER
To Michael and Joni Cassidy
Who helped me to believe again
“Books let us into their souls
and lay open to us
the secrets of our own.”
—William Hazlitt
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2012 Maryann McFadden
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of the Publisher.
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Publishers’s Cataloguing-in-publication data
McFadden, Maryann.
The book lover/Maryann McFadden. – 1st ed. – Vienna, NJ: Three Women Press, c2012.
p.; cm.
ISBN: 978-0-9848671-0-3 (print); 978-0-9848671-2-7 (ebk)
Summary:
When small town bookseller Ruth Hardaway discovers Lucinda Barrett’s novel, she takes the younger woman under her wing, showing her the book world, and sharing her secrets. But when Lucy strikes up an unlikely friendship with Ruth’s son, an injured soldier, Ruth begins to question her judgment. And Lucy has no idea that her life is about to fall apart--because of a little white lie.
1. Independent bookstores—Fiction. 2. Women authors, American—Fiction. 3. Self—publishing Fiction. 4. Paraplegics—Rehabilitation—Fiction. 5. Paraplegics—Sexual behavior—Fiction. 6. Parole—Fiction. 7. Libraries and prisons—Fiction. 8. Bird refuges—New Jersey—Fiction. 9. Divorce—Fiction. I. Title. II. Title: Booklover.
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Interior Layout/Design by Dan Berger
1st edition
Printed in the United States of America.
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Digital book(s) (epub and mobi) produced by: Kimberly A. Hitchens,
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