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Chantal Martineau
How the Gringos Stole Tequila
Narrative Nonfiction ✴
May 2015
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Chicago Review Press
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In the world of spirits, tequila is the hottest drink on the
market. It’s been the fastest growing spirits category in
America for the past decade; the margarita is now the
country’s no.1 cocktail. Once little more than party fuel,
tequila has graduated to the status of fine sipping spirit.
For years, the U.S. market was dominated by a crude
hybrid, aptly called “mixto.” Now sales of real tequila,
made from 100 percent agave, are outpacing those of the
cheap stuff by some threefold. But there’s more to the
story of tequila than its popularity.
There is whiskey from Scotland, Ireland and America;
brandy from France, Greece and Spain; and vodka from
just about everywhere. But there is only tequila from
Mexico. Like Cognac and Champagne, tequila is legally
recognized and protected as a distinct product associated
with a specific geographical region. But some experts feel
that the spirit may have become a victim of its own
success. The rapid growth of the tequila industry has had a
range of socio-economic and environmental effects on the people and land that produce it. In this era of
questioning consumerism and demystifying the food chain, this book will offer readers a glimpse into the
social history and ongoing impact of the fastest-growing spirits category in America.
Chantal Martineau is a food, wine, spirits and travel writer who has contributed to The
Atlantic, Saveur, Wine Enthusiast, Decanter, Redbook, AFAR, The Walrus, The
Village Voice, Food Republic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Globe and
Mail, The Daily, Allure, Women’s Health and Imbibe, as both a writer and
photographer. In 2009, she appeared in the Travel Channel’s Confessions of a Travel
Writer and, in 2010, was one-quarter of the Village Voice editorial team that won an
Association of Food Journalists Award. She offers a cocktail history tour of
Manhattanthrough Context Travel, a tour operator.
Gretchen Archer
Double Mint
A Davis Way Crime Caper (Book 4)
Mystery/Crime Caper ✴ July 2015 ✴ Henery Press
“Seriously funny, wickedly entertaining.
Davis gets me every time.”
– Janet Evanovich
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Fourth in the Davis Way Crime Caper series...
It’s convention season at the Bellissimo Resort and Casino
and Davis Way Cole barely notices. It’s hard to pay
attention when you live in a Jambalaya Junkyard. But when
Special Events Coordinator Holder Darby walks off the job
just as five hundred Alabama bankers pour in the front
door, Davis steps up. Or would that be in? Definitely in.
Davis steps in. It.
Not only has the convention director vanished, but a certain Bellissimo guest is missing. One who forgot
to pack the million dollars he left in the bathtub. It looks like our redhead newlywed Super Secret Spy’s
lazy summer is over when the Bellissimo vault is robbed. Can Davis connect the dots before it’s too late?
Can she get her Taser gun back from Bianca Sanders? Will she be stuck with Eddie Crawford’s 1962
Cadillac forever? What Davis needs is a little faith. And a lot of luck.
DOUBLE MINT. New money. Old sins. Back to jail. And a cat. (A cat?) Break the Bank.
Gretchen Archer is a Tennessee housewife who began writing when her daughters,
seeking higher educations, ran off and left her. She lives on Lookout Mountain with
her husband, son, and a Yorkie named Bently. Double Whammy is her first Davis
Way mystery.
Andrea Lochen
Imaginary Things
Commercial Women’s Fiction
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Spring 2015
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Astor + Blue
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Burned-out and broke, single mother Anna Jennings
moves to her grandparents’ rural home with her four-yearold son, David. The sudden appearance of shadowy
dinosaurs forces Anna to admit that either she’s gone
crazy or she can see her son’s active imagination.
The discovery leads her to reconsider her fraught
relationship with her mother, and with the help of her
grandparents and her childhood friend, Jamie—who has
grown much more handsome and hardened than the boy
she once knew—she starts to uncover secrets about her
past and her own imaginary friend. Yet as David’s visions
become more wild and persistent, Anna must ask herself:
what dark secret is her son’s imagination trying to show
her . . . and can she save him?
Andrea Lochen’s debut novel, THE REPEAT YEAR (Berkley 2013) won the
Hopwood Award for the Novel and has been optioned for film. Andrea has taught
writing at the University of Michigan and currently teaches at the University of
Wisconsin-Waukesha. She lives with her husband in Madison, Wisconsin.
Collette Yvonne
The Perils of Pauline
Women’s Fiction
✴ March 2015
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Astor + Blue
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Life seems "picture perfect" for Army veteran, Pauline
Parril: a solid career, a loving (though slightly absent)
husband, and two adorable young children. Sure it could be
a bit mundane, but all in all, Pauline is loving life. That is,
until the usual Friday meeting at Pauline's office ends with a
termination letter.
As Pauline navigates the difficulties of unemployment, she
finds the handles of her world turning upside down. Her
estranged daughter, Serenity, returns home with shocking
secrets. Her husband, Donald, is acting suspicious, and a
handsome stranger opens her eyes to the complex worlds of
poetry and temptation.
In this uproarious female comedy of just how one event can
change the course of...well everything. THE PERILS OF
PAULINE follows an intrepid every-woman as she marches through the pressures of building the "perfect
life," finding there's actually more to discover about yourself than you dreamed, and constantly answering
the scariest question of adulthood: "What now?"
A graduate of Toronto's York University with an Honors BA degree in Creative
Writing, Collette Yvonne writes both fiction and non-fiction. Her first novel, THE
QUEEN OF CUPS, was released in August 2006 by Panic House and received
distinction as a Finalist in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year 2006 contest in the
Humor category. Collette's publication credits include over 150 articles, reviews, and
interviews in national Canadian publications, including The Globe and Mail and The
Toronto Star. One of Collette's short stories was made into an award-winning film,
Snapshots for Henry, which received a 2007 Genie nomination for Best Live Action
Short Drama. Another of Collette’s short stories, BOM DIAS, won first place in the
2008 Scugog Council for the Arts literary contest.
Rebecca Coleman
Inside These Walls
Women’s Fiction
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January 2014
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Harlequin/MIRA/Digital First
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There is only one day, and I live it over and over…
For Clara Mattingly, routine is the key to enduring the
endless weeks, months and years of a life sentence in a
women’s prison. The convicted murderer never looks back
at who she once was—a shy young art student whose life
took a sudden tragic turn. And she allows herself no hope for
a better future. Survival is a day-to-day game. But when a
surprise visitor shows up one day, Clara finds that in an
instant everything has changed. Now she must account for
the life she has led—its beauty as well as its brutality—and
face the truth behind the terrible secret she has kept to
herself all these years.
Critically acclaimed author Rebecca Coleman brings you the haunting story of a woman’s deepest
passions, darkest regrets and her unforgettable and emotional journey toward redemption.
Rebecca Coleman is the author of THE KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD, an
ABNA 2010 semifinalist and HEAVEN SHOULD FALL. She received her B.A.
in English literature from the University of Maryland at College Park and speaks to
writers' groups on the subjects of creative writing and publishing. A native New
Yorker, she now lives and works near Washington, D.C. Visit her at
www.RebeccaColeman.net.
Jazzy de Jong
Drowning
Erotic Fiction
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Fall 2014
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Astor + Blue
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Erin Mitchell doesn’t remember drowning, or how a
mysterious, brilliant and handsome stranger saved
her life. Forgotten, too, is her bleak marriage to an
abusive husband. Now, stranded indefinitely at the
luxurious Leopard Rock Resort with her impossibly
irresistible savior, she’s faced with a dilemma:
remain faithful to a man she vowed to love forever or
give in to wild lustful desires in the steamy heat of
South Africa.
Jazzy de Jong was inspired to write her first novel, RANDOM VIOLENCE, after getting
hijacked at gunpoint in her own driveway. She has written several other thrillers including
STOLEN LIVES and THE PLACE FOR FALLEN HORSES. De Jong also edits a hair and
beauty magazine. She lives in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg with her partner Dion, two
horses, and two cats.
Suzanne Chazin
The Fourth Angel
Mystery/Thriller
✴
April 2001
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Putnam
“A red-hot debut…A searing, emotionally explosive novel of heroism, love and
desperate acts. Georgia Skeehan is an incredibly strong character...”
--USA Today
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A Manhattan building lies in ashes, dozens of prominent
New Yorkers have been incinerated and it's up to rookie
FDNY fire investigator Georgia Skeehan to solve one of
the city's most gruesome arsons ever. But everything
about the blaze is shrouded in mystery--the biblical
intensity of the fire, its connection to other arsons, the
strange reticence within her own department, and the
eerie, scripture-laden taunts of a madman. Before it's
over, Georgia will have to confront the ultimate test of
courage and come to terms with her own tormented and
secretive past.
Suzanne Chazin is the author of three novels published by Putnam: THE
FOURTH ANGEL, FLASHOVER and FIREPLAY, all featuring New
York City (FDNY) fire investigator Georgia Skeehan. The series received
high praise from such publications as People Magazine, The Chicago
Tribune, The Washington Times and USA Today. Chazin is the wife of a
high-ranking chief in the FDNY and the author of the forthcoming mystery
novel, LAND OF CAREFUL SHADOWS (coming out Dec. 2014 from
Kensington). A former journalist, Chazin has written for such publications
as Family Circle, The Ladies Home Journal, The New York Times and
Reader’s Digest. Her short fiction appeared in the anthology, BRONX
NOIR, which won the 2008 Book of the Year Award for special fiction
from the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association.
Also by Suzanne Chazin
Flashover
Mystery/Thriller
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May 2002
✴
Putnam
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In this second installment in the series, Georgia Skeehan investigates the fiery
deaths of two FDNY doctors in a trail of secrets going back almost thirty
years.
Fire marshal Georgia Skeehan investigates two mysterious deaths, both
involving victims of fires that show signs of "flashover"--the vicious and
overwhelming combustion of a room and its contents by simultaneous
ignition. She suspects the connection between the two might be disputes over
line-of-duty compensation for disabled firefighters. But her life is soon
upended when a close female friend disappears and the only person found at
the scene is Georgia's boyfriend and fellow marshal, Mac Marenko. Betrayal--both personal and
professional--has never hit so close to home.
Fireplay
Mystery/Thriller
✴
May 2003
✴
Putnam
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In this third installment in the series, Georgia Skeehan goes undercover in a
joint FDNY/FBI investigation to flush out ecoterrorists.
Two firefighters are killed in a deliberately-set restaurant blaze and Georgia
quickly finds the culprit, a slick, vicious arsonist-for-hire known as "the
Freezer." There's just one catch: he's an FBI informant. The only way the
FDNY can ever hope for justice is for Georgia to go undercover in a joint
operation with the FBI. But while undercover, the Freezer makes sure
Georgia comes face-to-face with the one man she never dreamed of setting
up: the long-absent father of her 10-year-old son.
Tristine Rainer
Apprenticed to Venus
Anaïs Nin, Her Two Husbands, and Me
Memoir
✴
2016
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Tristine Rainer was an 18-year-old virgin when she met Anaïs Nin in 1962 at her Greenwich Village
apartment. Nin’s elegant husband Hugo offered her a martini and invited her to join their guests to go
dancing in Harlem. Anaïs was then just a self-published, underground novelist, best known for her erotica
Delta of Venus, and Little Birds, but her sophistication made her the subject of author Rainer’s adoration
and soon Nin became Rainer’s mentor.
Two years later, Rainer again met up with Nin, this time in Los Angeles with Rupert, her sexy, much
younger husband. Thus began her complicity in the madcap intrigue of Nin’s bi-coastal double life.
Despite her terror of screwing up, Rainer was a game accomplice because she saw the bigamy as justified
insurance never to be abandoned and left alone – like Anaïs at the same age of 11, Rainer had been
abandoned by her father. She learned to follow Nin’s example in becoming a seductress, believing that
role could protect her from re-injury by a man, mistakenly.
In 1966, when Nin published her edited Diaries and became a celebrated Free Love icon, Rainer took on a
new role in grad school as promoter of her work. And she was present at Nin’s hospital room when her
two worlds finally collided and Nin was forced to confess to her two husbands that she is also married to
the other.
Overlapping with Anaïs Nin’s final years, Rainer lived in a socialist Santa Monica commune, participated
in the consciousness-raising group that founded UCLA’s Women’s Studies Program, and became a leader
in feminism’s Second Wave that crested over Nin and left her behind. However the tide has turned, and
Anaïs Nin is such an important figure in collective feminist history that today, after a Third Wave, she
deserves a new look. This book is the inside story that nobody else could tell.
Tristine Rainer, Ph.D. is a pioneer and expert in journal writing and narrative
autobiography. Her book The New Diary: How to Use a Journal for Self-guidance and
Expanded Creativity is credited with beginning the personal writing movement worldwide.
Rainer’s book Your Life as Story: Discovering the New Autobiography and Writing
Memoir as Literature was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Rainer has also been a
screenwriter and producer of TV movies for CBS, NBC, and ABC. For eleven years, she
taught memoir and creative nonfiction writing at USC, and is the founder/director of the
Center for Autobiographic Studies.
Sean Hill
Very Short Stories
Humor/Gift
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December 2011
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Ulysses Press
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A collection of very short stories based on Sean Hill’s
hilarious and macabre @VeryShortStory Twitter feed,
which has 78,000 followers, including Rainn Wilson and
Dita Von Teese.
Sean Hill was over exposed to a potent combination of Twilight Zone and Monty
Python as a child. This lead him down a dark path from which he has never fully
recovered and bound him with a passion to storytelling. Starting at age 19, he worked
designing and programming computer games until he discovered improvisation where
ideas could be expressed as fast as they could be thought. He is the founder of the
Hideout Theater in Austin, Texas where he taught and performed improv comedy for
over a decade as he sharpened his story telling skills. He lives in Austin, Texas with the
love of his life, four children, and a lot of dogs.
Pamela Binnings Ewen
The Moon in the Mango Tree
Women’s Fiction
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May 2008
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B&H Fiction
Winner of the Eudora Welty Memorial Award from the National League of Pen
Women - 2012 Biennial Letters Competition
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Based on a true story, THE MOON IN THE MANGO TREE
chronicles the life of Barbara Bond and her struggles between
what she wants and what she needs.
THE MOON IN THE MANGO TREE is set in the Roaring
Twenties when young women were lobbying to get the right to
vote and forge new ground. Barbara is faced with a decision to
follow her own dream of becoming an opera singer and her
responsibility to follow her husband to Siam, present day
Thailand. When she chooses her husband, Barbara finds
herself on a journey to the jungles of Siam to take on the role
of missionary doctor’s wife. There she encounters the local
people and Buddhist culture and the missionary workers trying
to bring Jesus to this remote location.
Though taking place 90 years ago, the book illustrates the struggles that women face even today. Should
they give up their careers to stay home and care for children? If the husband is transferred, does the
women automatically give up her dream job to follow? Is the women’s place to support her husband in his
endeavors?
Pamela Binnings Ewen practiced law for 25 years before following in the literary footsteps
of family members such as James Lee Burke (The Tin Roof Blowdown) and Andre Dubus
III (The House of Sand and Fog). This is her third novel. She lives with her husband near
New Orleans.
Kathrine Switzer
Marathon Woman
Memoir
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March 2007
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DaCapo Press
“Kathrine Switzer’s memoir is a testimony to her unwavering determination, her unflagging
energy, and her unfailing, and often unwarranted, optimism” –Running Times
“When I think of running, I think of Kathrine Switzer.” –Billie Jean King
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In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to officially
run what was then the all-male Boston Marathon, infuriating
one of the event’s directors who attempted to violently eject
her. In one of the most iconic of all sports images, Switzer
escaped and finished the race. It was a watershed moment
for the sport, and a significant event in women’s history.
Inspired by the incident, Switzer went on to run thirty-five
marathons—winning the New York City Marathon in
1974—and to help secure the women’s marathon as an event
in the Olympic Games.
MARATHON WOMAN is Kathrine Switzer’s personal
story about how she overcame the odds—as well as public
ridicule—to help redefine society’s views on women’s capability and achievement, and how she strived to
open doors of opportunity for others. From her formative childhood experiences to the challenges of
balancing work, marriage, and training, to her innovations in the field of sports and race marketing, to her
creation of the Avon Running program—composed of events in twenty-seven countries, with more than a
million women participants—this liberally illustrated book details the struggles and achievements of one
of the pioneering women in sports.
Kathrine Switzer is an Emmy-winning television commentator who has covered the
Olympics and countless marathons. She is the author of Running and Walking for
Women Over 40 and co-author of 26.2 Marathon Stories. She lives and Runs in
New York and New Zealand.
Ric Gentry
The Path To Light
Vittorio Storaro and the Transformation of Modern Film
Film/Biography ✴ 2015 ✴ Columbia University Press
THE PATH TO LIGHT will be the book on Vittorio Storaro, the “Caravaggio of film”, and the man
behind the camera for masterworks by Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Warren Beatty,
Carlos Saura, and numerous others.
From child prodigy in war-torn Italy, to world-renowned auteur, Storaro has left an indelible mark
on popular culture with such films as Last Tango in Paris, Apocalypse Now, Dick Tracy, The Last
Emperor, and Reds. Beloved and admired by his peers, the book will contain a wealth of personal
reminiscences of Storaro by top directors, cinematographers, and actors.
Ric Gentry has been interviewing Storaro for the past 20 years for articles in American Cinematographer,
among other publications.
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Ric Gentry’s writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, US, Musician,
Icon, McCall’s, Detour, Gear, Film Quarterly, USA Today, Broadcast Management and Engineering (BM/E),
Music and Sound, Cable Guide, The Los Angeles Reader, Post, Film & Video, Lighting Dimensions, Theater
Crafts and Video, among others. Gentry was a regular contributor to Millimeter for five years and to American
Cinematographer for 13 years. He’s been a contributor and member of the editorial board at Post Script: Essays on
Film and the Humanities, published by the Department of Literature and Languages at Texas A&M University, for
19 years. His extensive interviews with artists and filmmakers appear online as part of an ongoing series sponsored
by Goliath, Knowledge on Demand.
Matthew Cronin
Epic
John McEnroe, Björn Borg,
and the Greatest Tennis Season Ever
Sports
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April 2011
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Wiley
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From the moment that normally staid British tennis fans
began booing like soccer hooligans as the brash and abrasive
John McEnroe entered Wimbledon's Centre Court to face
off against the revered, number-one ranked Björn Borg, it
was clear that something was changing. In fact, almost
everything was changing.
In EPIC, tennis writer Matthew Cronin takes you on an
unforgettable journey back to the pivotal year of 1980 and
the two landmark matches that transformed tennis from a
quiet sport to a loud one, from a mostly European pastime to
an American obsession, from the exclusive preserve of the
country club elite to an everyman and everywoman's game.
They also marked McEnroe's emergence as a superstar
and the beginning of Borg's precipitous decline.
Matthew Cronin has been covering pro tennis for the past fourteen years. He is the
managing editor of the California-based Inside Tennis magazine and has been the main
English-language writer for official Grand Slam websites, including Rolandgarros.org and
USOpen.org. Cronin is also a regular contributor to Reuters and last did the play-by-play
on the first web radio broadcasts of the US Open finals. A former co-president of the
International Tennis Writers Association, Cronin resides in Moraga, Calif., USA, with his
wife, Patti, and their children, Cassandra, Connor and Chiara.
Juvenile
David Powers King & Michael Jensen
Woven
Young Adult Fantasy ✴
Spring 2015
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Scholastic
"This brisk adventure from first-time authors Jensen and King
is a charming quest tale in classic fantasy tradition."
--Publisher's Weekly
"WOVEN reads like a lost classic that was somehow just
rediscovered…it is pure pleasure to read."
--James A. Owen, bestselling author/illustrator
of Here, There Be Dragons
"The world building is dynamic, original and intriguing... and
the characters, appealing. A sure bet for fantasy fans."
--Kirkus Review
Clever, well-paced, and full of intrigue, it’s a superb read.”
—James Dashner, NY Times bestselling author of The Maze
Runner
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When Nels, the Kingdom of Avërand’s most eager aspiring knight, is murdered, his ghost haunts the only
person in the kingdom who can see and hear him: the beautiful—but headstrong—Princess Tyra.
Together, the ghost and the princess learn that an ancient magic, called Fabrication, has prevented Nels
from crossing over to the other side. Because Nels isn’t really dead—he is just unwoven.
To weave him back to life, Nels and the princess must journey to find the magic Needle of Gailner. They
struggle to get along, but when secrets unravel, Nels and Tyra realize they’re the only ones who can save
each other, the kingdom . . . and reality itself.
David Powers King was born in Burbank, California, where the film industry influenced him to
become a writer. An avid fan of all things science fiction and fantasy, David also has a soft spot for
zombies and the paranormal. He lives in the Mountain West with his wife and two children.
Michael Jensen spent ten years developing the concept behind WOVEN before he
met David Powers King—who expanded on Michael’s vision and made it a reality. In addition to
being an imaginative storyteller, Michael is an accomplished composer and vocalist. He lives in
Salt Lake City with his partner and their four dogs.
Elisabeth Dahl
Genie Wishes
Middle Grade
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April 2013
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Amulet/Abrams
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This sweet, funny novel follows fifth-grader
Genie Kunkle through a tumultuous year. From the
first day of school, Genie knows there will be good,
bad, and in-between. The good? She’s in homeroom
with her best friend, Sarah. The bad? Sarah’s friend
from camp, Blair, is a new student at their school,
and is itching to take Genie’s place as Sarah’s BFF.
The in-between? Genie is excited to be elected to
write her class’s blog, where she’s tasked with
tracking the wishes and dreams of her class. But
expressing her opinion in public can be scary—
especially when her opinion might make the rest of
her class upset.
Elisabeth Dahl authentically captures the ups and
downs of a tween girl’s life, and the dramas—both
little and big—that fill the scary transition between
childhood and adolescence.
Born in Baltimore, Elisabeth Dahl studied literature and writing at Brown, then
Hopkins (B.A. English, Phi Beta Kappa), then Georgetown (M.A. English). She spent
years as a freelance copyeditor and proofreader in Washington, DC, and the San
Francisco Bay Area. Now she lives back in Baltimore with her family, including her
13-year-old son, Jackson. They have two dogs--one the very Lulu who appears in
GENIE.