The March Bookclub<br>& Author Interview Roundup

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Featured Book Club

Meet the Muse & Views book club of Ottawa, Canada - a group of ten women who meet monthly for good conversation about a wide range of books. Read the Q&A

This month's "Book Club & Author Interview Roundup" highlights eight books recommended for book clubs (each backed by a discussion guide, excerpt and review) and ten author interviews. From among the interviews I particularly recommend the video Q&A with Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish about his memoir, I Shall Not Hate (if you're not familiar with the book you might wish to browse the excerpt and review first).

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Featured Author Interviews

Izzeldin Abuelaish
	A 30 minute video interview with Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish (who lost three daughters and a niece when an Israeli shell hit his home in the Gaza Strip) on the topic of peace in the face of tragedy, which is also the focus of his book, I Shall Not Hate.
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Mira Bartok
	A conversation with Mira Bartók about The Memory Palace, her breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and the capacity for forgiveness among family.
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Sarah Blake
	Sarah Blake talks about her inspiration for The Postmistress, set in Europe and Cape Cod in 1940.
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Rebecca Hunt
	Rebecca Hunt talks about her first novel, Mr Chartwell, which re-envisions Winston Churchill's famous bouts of depression as actual visits from a huge black dog.
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Bradford Morrow
	A discussion with Bradford Morrow about his novel The Diviner's Tale and how he discovered the mysterious art of water divining.
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Dexter Palmer
	Dexter Palmer talks about writing The Dream of Perpetual Motion, a stunningly imagined, and wickedly funny meditation on the place of love in a world dominated by technology.
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Nancy Pickard
	In two separate interviews, one video, one text, Nancy Pickard talks about her novel, The Scent of Rain and Lightning, set in Gove County, Kansas.
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Rebecca Stead
	Rebecca Stead discusses her Newbery Award winning novel for younger readers, When You Reach Me.
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Andrew Taylor
	"In Search of Lost Plots", an essay by Andrew Taylor, author of many critically acclaimed crime novels including the Lydmouth series, the Roth Trilogy and The Anatomy of Ghosts.
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Summer Wood
	An interview with Summer Wood, about her second novel, Wrecker, a story of unconventional families and the true meaning of love.
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Recommended for Book Clubs

Hardcovers

	*The Memory Palace*: A Memoir by Mira Bartok Hardcover (Jan 2011). 320 pages. ISBN-13:9781439183311. The Memory Palace is a breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and the capacity for forgiveness among family.
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	*Raising Wrecker*: A Novel by Summer Wood Hardcover (Feb 2011). 304 pages. ISBN-13:9781608192809. Elegant, warm-hearted and utterly unsentimental, Wrecker is a stunning and deeply moving novel about motherhood and mistakes, survival and hope. (Published as Wrecker in hardcover)
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Paperbacks

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Paperback (Dec 2010). 208 pages. ISBN-13:9780375850868.

Winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal. Miranda is an ordinary sixth grader, until she starts receiving mysterious messages from somebody who knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. Each message brings her closer to believing that only she can prevent a tragic death. Until the final note makes her think she’s too late. For ages approx 9-14.

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	*Heresy* by S.J. Parris Paperback (Feb 2011). 448 pages. ISBN-13:9780767932523. Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus.
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	*The Postmistress* by Sarah Blake Paperback (Feb 2011). 384 pages. ISBN-13:9780425238691. The Postmistress is an unforgettable tale of the secrets we must bear, or bury. It is about what happens to love during wartime, when those we cherish leave. And how every story - of love or war - is about looking left when we should have been looking right.
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The Scent of Rain and Lightning: A Novel by Nancy Pickard
Paperback (Feb 2011). 352 pages. ISBN-13:9780345471024.

Engrossing, lyrical, and suspenseful, The Scent of Rain and Lightning captures the essence of small-town America—its heartfelt intimacy and its darkest secrets—where through struggle and hardship people still dare to hope for a better future. For Jody Linder, maybe even love.

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	*Amaryllis in Blueberry* by Christina Meldrum Paperback (Feb 2011). 384 pages. ISBN-13:9781439156896. Amaryllis in Blueberry explores the complexity of human relationships through the haunting voices of Dick and Seena Slepy and their four daughters in a soulful novel which weaves together the past and the present of a family harmed—and healed—by buried secrets.
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	*The House of Tomorrow*: A Novel by Peter Bognanni Paperback (Mar 2011). 368 pages. ISBN-13:9780425238882. Wholly original, The House of Tomorrow is the story of a young man's self-discovery, a dying woman's last wish, and a band of misfits trying desperately to be heard.
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