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November 2009

Win a Copy of SARAH’S KEY by Tatiana de Rosnay for Your Group

We are celebrating the one-year anniversary of the paperback release of Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay --- a haunting novel that offers a compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode --- with a special contest. Two-hundred readers will have the opportunity to each win one finished copy of Sarah’s Key, which is now available in stores, for their group.

More about Sarah's Key:
A haunting novel --- and New York Times bestselling phenomenon --- that book clubs nationwide can’t stop talking about... and can’t forget...

Paris, July 1942: Before 10-year-old Sarah is arrested in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, she locks her younger brother in a cupboard, thinking she will be back quickly.

Paris, May 2002: Journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article for the Vel’ d’Hiv’s 60th anniversary and stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.

Please also note that Sarah’s Key the movie is now being shot by Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Hugo Films) in Paris and its suburbs. The film, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, will be released in 2010.

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THE PIANO TEACHER by Janice Y. K. Lee

We announced our first Facebook contest! Twenty-five readers had a chance to win a copy of Janice Y. K. Lee's The Piano Teacher and have it delivered on Tuesday, November 17th --- the day the paperback edition goes on sale. Set in Hong Kong during the outbreak of World War II, and its aftermath 10 years later, The Piano Teacher alternates between the lives of two vastly different women whose destinies are linked by the events of the war. This contest has ended and the winners are now posted here.

More about The Piano Teacher:
In the sweeping tradition of The English Patient, Janice Y. K. Lee's debut novel is a tale of love and betrayal set in war-torn Hong Kong. In 1942, Englishman Will Truesdale falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese as World War II overwhelms their part of the world. Ten years later, Claire Pendleton comes to Hong Kong to work as a piano teacher and also begins a fateful affair. As the threads of this spellbinding novel intertwine, impossible choices emerge --- between love and safety, courage and survival, the present, and above all, the past.

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Win a Copy of THE POSTMISTRESS by Sarah Black for Your Group

We are celebrating the upcoming release of The Postmistress by Sarah Blake --- an unforgettable tale of the secrets we must bear, or bury --- with a special contest. One-hundred readers will have the opportunity to each win an advance copy of The Postmistress, which will be available in stores on February 9, 2010, for their group.

More about The Postmistress:
It is 1940. Iris James is the postmistress and spinster of Franklin, Massachusetts, a small town on Cape Cod. She firmly believes that her job is to deliver and keep people’s secrets, to pass along the news of love and sorrow that letters carry. Yet one day Iris does the unthinkable: she slips a letter into her pocket. And then she does something even worse --- she reads the letter, then doesn’t deliver it.

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