….On a Bookshelf Near You!!

Litigation lawyer and harried single mother Kate Baron is stunned when her daughter’s exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn, calls with disturbing news: her intelligent, high-achieving fifteen-year-old daughter, Amelia, has been caught cheating.

Kate can’t believe that Amelia, an ambitious, levelheaded girl who’s never been in trouble would do something like that. But by the time she arrives at Grace Hall, Kate’s faced with far more devastating news. Amelia is dead. 

Seemingly unable to cope with what she’d done, a despondent Amelia has jumped from the school’s roof in an act of “spontaneous” suicide. At least that’s the story Grace Hall and the police tell Kate. And overwhelmed as she is by her own guilt and shattered by grief, it is the story that Kate believes until she gets the anonymous text: 

She didn’t jump.

Sifting through Amelia’s emails, text messages, social media postings, and cell phone logs, Kate is determined to learn the heartbreaking truth about why Amelia was on Grace Hall’s roof that day-and why she died.

Told in alternating voices, Reconstructing Amelia is a story of secrets and lies, of love and betrayal, of trusted friends and vicious bullies. It’s about how well a parent ever really knows a child and how far one mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she could not save.

What is coming soon … On a bookshelf near you?  Let me know – I am always looking for another good read!

I had the privilege of going to Sidwell Friends school to see Jodi Picoult.

Jodi Picoult did a reading from her new book – The Storyteller.

It was wonderful to listen to her read from her new book.  She also answered a few questions.  After she signed her book.

My daughter Kristin of Kritters Ramblings  and I were fortunate enough to be invited to Random House’s open house back in December.  During the open house, Anna Quindlen was there for one of the sessions.  She was a captivating speaker.  I had not read any of her books at that time.  I was given her latest book Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake.

This made me seek out what else she wrote.  I picked up One True Thing. 

 I am reading it now and will be reviewing it tomorrow.  Being introduced to new authors is always exciting.  

Witness Protection has taken nearly everything from her. But for now, they’ve given her a new name, Megan Rose Jones, and a horrible hair color. For the past eight months, Meg has begged her father to answer one question: What on earth did he do – or see – that landed them in this god-awful mess? Meg has just about had it with all the Suits’ rules — and her dad’s silence. If he won’t help, it’s time she got some answers for herself.

But Meg isn’t counting on Ethan Landry, an adorable Louisiana farm boy who’s too smart for his own good. He knows Meg is hiding something big. And it just might get both of them killed. As they embark on a perilous journey to free her family once and for all, Meg discovers that there’s only one rule that really matters — survival.

Three Good Things by Ellen McClarety

Next on the TBR pile:  While in NYC my daughter Kristin of Kritters Ramblings 

bought me Nate Berkus’ book, The Things That Matter.

What are you reading?  What is next?