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THE SITTING SWING: FINDING WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BY IRENE WATSON
The Sitting Swing: Finding Wisdom to Know the Difference shows us how guilt, fear and ignorance are borne by our children. Two distinct parts of the book look at an abusive child rearing and the process of recovery that takes place years later. On many levels this is a classic story showing us that change, growth, forgiveness and recovery are possible.
It is also a heartwarming healing story and a testament to the strength and courage of the human spirit. In the end it gives hope and freedom to those that accept the past and move forward by rewriting life scripts that have been passed down for generations.
A Chilling Goodbye by Jean Sheldon is the third title in the Chicago Police Detective Kerry Grant Series. The gutsy crime fighter is a cop and a computer guru, ready to chase criminals on land or online.
Grant finds a body in the dumpster behind her apartment, apparently frozen by the sub-zero temperatures in Chicago. She soon discovers that the body, frozen over ten years earlier, is one of several moved from a cryonic chamber to trash bins around the city.
Along with her partner, Mike Sullivan, Kerry tries to discover why someone removed the bodies, and if any laws had been broken. When they find the owner of the lab stuffed in an empty cylinder, they have the answer to one question.
The bizarre case baffles the detectives until a clue points to a local ice cream factory, where they interview employees who are in anything but good humor.
You can find more information about A Chilling Goodbye and other Detective Grant books at Bastpress.com or Jean Sheldon.com
Nicholas Charles Sparks was born in Omaha, Nebraska on December 31, 1965. As a child, he lived in Minnesota, Los Angeles, and Grand Island, Nebraska, finally settling in Fair Oaks, California at the age of eight. He lived in Fair Oaks through high school, graduated valedictorian in 1984, and received a full track scholarship to the University of Notre Dame.
After breaking the Notre Dame school record as part of a relay team in 1985 as a freshman (a record which still stands), he was injured and spent the summer recovering. During that summer, he wrote his first novel, though it was never published. He majored in Business Finance and graduated with high honors in 1988.
He and his wife Catherine, who met on spring break in 1988, were married in July, 1989. While living in Sacramento, he wrote his second novel that same year, though again, it wasn't published. In 1990, he collaborated on a book with Billy Mills, the Olympic Gold Medalist and it was published by Feather Publishing before later being picked up by Random House. (It was recently re-issued by Hay House Books.) Though it received scant publicity, sales topped 50,000 copies in the first year of release.
He began selling pharmaceuticals and moved from Sacramento, California to North Carolina in 1992. In 1994, at the age of 28, he wrote The Notebook over a period of six months. In October, 1995, rights to The Notebook were sold to Warner Books. It was published in October, 1996, and he followed that with Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), and Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), Three Weeks with my Brother (2004), True Believer (2005), At First Sight (2005), Dear John (2006), and The Choice (2007). All were domestic and international best sellers and were translated into more than 40 languages. His newest book, THE LUCKY ONE -- about a man whose brushes with death lead him to the love of his life -- will be released in September 2008.
The movie version of Message in a Bottle was released in 1999, A Walk to Remember was released in 2002, and The Notebook was released in 2004. The average domestic box office gross per film was $56 million -- with another $100 million in DVD sales—making the novels by Nicholas Sparks one of the most successful franchises in Hollywood. The film version of Nights in Rodanthe will be released in the fall of 2008 and will star Diane Lane and Richard Gere.
Nichols Sparks is an avid athlete who runs daily, lifts weights regularly, and competes in Tae Kwon Do. He attends church regularly and reads approximately 125 books a year. He contributes to a variety of local and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually.
He lives in North Carolina with his wife and children.
Reprinted by permission of Hachette Book Group USA, New York, NY. All rights reserved.
CHOPIN: WHAT THE AUTHORS THINK
Read a set of interviews and roundtables featuring many of The Chopin Manuscript authors, including Jeffery Deaver, Jim Fusilli, David Corbett, John Gilstrap, James Grady, John Ramsey Miller, Ralph Pezzullo, S.J. Rozan, Peter Spiegelman and Erica Spindler.
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READING GUIDES FOR BOOK CLUBS
Reading group guides are brief documents designed to help book clubs by providing discussion topics and questions for books.
As a new feature of our website, we plan to add reading group guides. If you have a book club, please feel free to use them. Click on the link below.
Right now we have reading guides for "Abiding Darkness by John Aubrey Anderson", "The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold", "Barefoot" by Elin Hilderbrand, "Finding Father Christmas" by Robin Jones Gunn, "Odd Mom Out" by Jane Porter,"Paint It Black" by Janet Fitch and Carpool Diem by Nancy Star. Many more will be added. Keep checking back.
