March Book Club News

IN THIS ISSUE

*New Titles, Menus, and Giveaways

*GalleyMatch Book Clubs Preview

*Book Blends & Recipes
Whet your reading appetite with pan haggerty, Olivier salad, pavlova, choripan, and perch sandwiches. Authors share the cuisine of Argentina, Australia, Northumbria, ancient Israel, Lake Erie, coastal Alabama, North Carolina, Southern California —and more —in March’s suggested book-inspired food pairings.
   
Transport your reading with their fiction, historical fiction, mysteries, and more!

Enjoy reading and cooking!


Judy Gelman
Book-inspired menus and giveaways featured on social media
Book Club Buzz Feature Titles
Authors' book-inspired recipe, menus and giveaways
begin on the dates below for one month
THE SUITE SPOT
Trish Doller
(St. Martins' Press)
Fiction / Romance
The much-anticipated companion novel to Float Plan, The Suite Spot,
is a novel about taking a chance on a new life and a new love.
Book Club Daily Feature Titles
Authors' book-inspired menus and giveaways
begin on the dates below for one week
A TRAIN TO MOSCOW
Elena Gorokhova
(Lake Union)
Historical Fiction
In post-World War II Russia, a girl must reconcile a tragic past with her hope for the future in a novel about family secrets, passion, loss, perseverance, and ambition.
THE TOBACCO WIVES
Adele Myers
(William Morrow)
Historical Fiction
A novel set in 1946 North Carolina tells the story of a young female seamstress who uncovers dangerous truths about the Big Tobacco empire ruling the American South.
ON A NIGHT OF A THOUSAND STARS
Andrea Yaryura Clark
(Grand Central)
Historical Fiction
In this moving, emotional narrative of love and resilience, a young couple confronts the start of Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s, and a daughter searches for truth twenty years later.
WOMAN ON FIRE
Lisa Barr
(Harper Paperbacks)
Historical Fiction
The tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece—forcing the ultimate showdown between passion and possession, lovers and liars, history and truth.
REBEL DAUGHTER
Lori Banov Kaufmann
(Penguin Random House)
Historical Fiction
The winner of the National Jewish Book Award, this novel about a young woman who survives the unthinkable is a stunning tale of family, love, and resilience, set against the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE.
THE CICADA TREE
Robert Gwaltney
(Moonshine Cove)
Historical Fiction/ / Mystery
When an eleven-year-old, whisky-drinking, piano prodigy encounters a wealthy family of supernatural beauty, her obsession unleashes family secrets and a cataclysmic plague of cicadas.
UNDER THE GOLDEN SUN
Jenny Ashcroft
(St. Martin's Press)
Historical Fiction
The story of a soul-searching young woman who takes a leap of faith and discovers a place to call home and someone to share her heart.
THE LIGHTHOUSE ON MOONGLOW BAY
Lori Wilde
(William Morrow)
Fiction
A heartwarming novel about two estranged sisters who must come together after they receive an unusual inheritance from their grandmother.
THE PROMISE OF THE PELICAN
Roy Hoffman
(Arcade Crimewise)
Mystery
In this literary crime novel and family drama, a defense attorney in Alabama—a child Holocaust survivor—comes out of retirement to defend a young Honduran man accused of murder.
THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW
Jessica Strawser
(St. Martin's Press)
Fiction
A Star Is Born meets Me Before You in this novel about a musician facing the untimely end of his career and an end-of-life doula with everything— and nothing—to lose.
THE LONG WEEKEND
Gilly Macmillan
(William Morrow)
Thriller
A thriller starring a group of women who travel to the most remote place in England for a weekend escape, only to discover a startling note warning that one of their husbands will be killed before they return.
WAVE
Diana Farid, illustrated by Kris Goto
(Cameron Kids)
Middle-Grade Historical Fiction
A coming-of-age novel in verse set in 1980s Southern California about a Persian -American girl who rides the waves, falls and finds her way back to the shore.
GalleyMatch Book Clubs Suggest
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CATCH US WHEN WE FALL
by Juliette Fay

Junior League Book Club of Kalamazoo, Michigan

Neighbors of Cranberry, Plainville, Ohio

King's Chapel Evening Book Club of Arrington, Tennessee
THE PASSING PLAYBOOK
by Isaac Fitzsimons
John Champe Project LIT Book Club of Aldie, Virginia

Book Club 2.0 of Phoenix, Arizona
Gifts that will bring smiles: Book, TV, and Song Blends, our spices, herbs, and blends inspired by literary, television, and music favorites. Blends are also available at Titcomb’s Book ShopSkylark Book ShopMain Street ReadsThe Novel Neighbor, Reads by the River, and Wordsmith Book Shoppe.
You'll find bloggers' recipes featuring Book, TV, and Song Blends on the Blends Bash page Above: @ahatforeveryread's Pepperoni and Provolone Crescent Roll-Ups with "Thyme After Thyme" (Pizza Seasoning).