Book Spotlights: The She Reads ‘Books of Spring’ Selections

On
Monday, the gals at She Reads announced the three ‘Books of Spring’
selections. Be sure to visit the She Reads website
– they have a great giveaway going on – but visit soon as the giveaway is only open until April 12th.

So without further ado…here are the Books of Spring:

Title: The Precious One   

Author: Marisa de los Santos        

Published: March 24, 2015, William Morrow & Company  

  

From the bestselling author of Belong to Me, Love Walked In, and Falling Together comes a captivating novel about friendship, family, second chances, and the redemptive power of love

In
all her life, Eustacia “Taisy” Cleary has given her heart to only three
men: her first love, Ben Ransom; her twin brother, Marcus; and Wilson
Cleary — professor, inventor, philanderer, self-made millionaire,
brilliant man, breathtaking jerk: her father.

Seventeen years
ago, Wilson ditched his first family for Caroline, a beautiful young
sculptor. In all that time, Taisy’s family has seen Wilson, Caroline,
and their daughter Willow only once.

Why then, is Wilson calling
Taisy now, inviting her for an extended visit, encouraging her to meet
her pretty sister — a teenager who views her with jealousy, mistrust,
and grudging admiration? Why, now, does Wilson want Taisy to help him
write his memoir?

Told in alternating voices — Taisy’s strong, unsparing observations and Willow’s naive, heartbreakingly earnest yearnings — The Precious One
is an unforgettable novel of family secrets, lost love, and dangerous
obsession, a captivating tale with the deep characterization, piercing
emotional resonance, and heartfelt insight that are the hallmarks of
Marisa de los Santos’s beloved works.

Title: The Bookseller   

Author: Cynthia Swanson      

Published: March 3, 2015, Harper  

A provocative and hauntingly powerful debut novel reminiscent of Sliding Doors, The Bookseller follows a woman in the 1960s who must reconcile her reality with the tantalizing alternate world of her dreams

Nothing is as permanent as it appears . . .

Denver,
1962: Kitty Miller has come to terms with her unconventional single
life. She loves the bookshop she runs with her best friend, Frieda, and
enjoys complete control over her day-to-day existence. She can come and
go as she pleases, answering to no one. There was a man once, a doctor
named Kevin, but it didn’t quite work out the way Kitty had hoped.

Then the dreams begin.

Denver,
1963: Katharyn Andersson is married to Lars, the love of her life. They
have beautiful children, an elegant home, and good friends. It’s
everything Kitty Miller once believed she wanted—but it only exists when
she sleeps.

Convinced that these dreams are simply due to her
overactive imagination, Kitty enjoys her nighttime forays into this
alternate world. But with each visit, the more irresistibly real
Katharyn’s life becomes. Can she choose which life she wants? If so,
what is the cost of staying Kitty, or becoming Katharyn?

As the
lines between her worlds begin to blur, Kitty must figure out what is
real and what is imagined. And how do we know where that boundary lies
in our own lives?

Title: The Daughter    

Author: Jane Shemilt       

Published: March 3, 2015, William & Morrow Paperbacks  

In the tradition of Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Ruth Rendell,
this compelling and clever psychological thriller spins the harrowing
tale of a mother’s obsessive search for her missing daughter.

Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon.

But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn’t come
home after her school play, Jenny’s seemingly ideal life begins to
crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success.
Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken.

As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios—kidnapping, murder—seem
less plausible. The trail has gone cold. Yet for a desperate Jenny, the
search has barely begun. More than a year after her daughter’s
disappearance, she’s still digging for answers—and what she finds
disturbs her. Everyone she’s trusted, everyone she thought she knew, has
been keeping secrets, especially Naomi. Piecing together the traces her
daughter left behind, Jenny discovers a very different Naomi from the
girl she thought she’d raised.

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Don’t forget, if you want a chance to win all three of these books, be sure to enter the giveaways – it’s open for a few more days! (Ends 4/12/15)