Editorial Content for Libby Lost and Found
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LIBBY LOST AND FOUND is a book for people who don't know who they are without the books they love. It's about the stories we tell ourselves and the chapters of our lives we regret. Most importantly, it's about the endings we write for ourselves.
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LIBBY LOST AND FOUND is a book for people who don't know who they are without the books they love. It's about the stories we tell ourselves and the chapters of our lives we regret. Most importantly, it's about the endings we write for ourselves.
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LIBBY LOST AND FOUND is a book for people who don't know who they are without the books they love. It's about the stories we tell ourselves and the chapters of our lives we regret. Most importantly, it's about the endings we write for ourselves.
Meet Libby Weeks, author of the mega-bestselling fantasy series The Falling Children --- written as "F.T. Goldhero" to maintain her privacy. When the last manuscript is already months overdue to her publisher and rabid fans around the world are growing impatient, Libby is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. Already suffering from crippling anxiety, Libby's symptoms quickly accelerate. After she forgets her dog at the park one day --- then almost discloses her identity to the journalist who finds him --- Libby has to admit it: she needs help finishing the last book.
Desperately, she turns to 11-year-old superfan Peanut Bixton, who knows the books even better than she does but harbors her own dark secrets. Tensions mount as Libby's dementia deepens --- until both Peanut and Libby swirl into an inevitable but bone-shocking conclusion.
Editorial Content for Like Mother, Like Mother
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LIKE MOTHER, LIKE MOTHER is an enthralling novel about three generations of strong-willed women, unknowingly shaped by the secrets buried in their family’s past.
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LIKE MOTHER, LIKE MOTHER is an enthralling novel about three generations of strong-willed women, unknowingly shaped by the secrets buried in their family’s past.
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An enthralling novel about three generations of strong-willed women, unknowingly shaped by the secrets buried in their family’s past.
Detroit, 1960. Lila Pereira is two years old when her angry, abusive father has her mother committed to an asylum. Lila never sees her mother again. Three decades later, having mustered everything she has --- brains, charm, talent, blond hair --- Lila rises to the pinnacle of American media as the powerful, brilliant executive editor of The Washington Globe. Lila unapologetically prioritizes her career, leaving the rearing of her daughters to her generous husband, Joe. He doesn’t mind --- until he does.
But Grace, their youngest daughter, feels abandoned. She wishes her mother would attend PTA meetings, not White House correspondents’ dinners. As she grows up, she cannot shake her resentment. She wants out from under Lila’s shadow, yet the more she resists, the more Lila seems to shape her life. Grace becomes a successful reporter, even publishing a bestselling book about her mother. In the process of writing it, she realizes how little she knows about her own family. Did Lila’s mother, Grace’s grandmother, die in that asylum? Is refusal to look back the only way to create a future? How can you ever be yourself, Grace wonders, if you don’t know where you came from?
Spanning generations and populated by complex, unforgettable characters, LIKE MOTHER, LIKE MOTHER is an exhilarating, portrait of family, marriage, ambition, power, the stories we inherit, and the lies we tell to become the people we believe we’re meant to be.
Editorial Content for Of One Mind
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A brilliant debut novel that challenges all we know about consciousness and existence, OF ONE MIND explores the depths of love, loss, belief --- and the wonders of the universe.
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A brilliant debut novel that challenges all we know about consciousness and existence, OF ONE MIND explores the depths of love, loss, belief --- and the wonders of the universe.
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The life --- or death --- of a teen with a traumatic brain injury could be determined by a controversial experimental procedure that may unlock a previously undiscovered level of consciousness.
Kyle Nichols, a teenage baseball player with major-league potential, lies in a hospital bed after suffering a traumatic brain injury with a devastating twist. He is fully conscious and expected to survive but is completely paralyzed and unable to communicate. Kristen, Kyle’s mother, has no way to know his wishes, so she is forced into an unspeakable choice: transfer Kyle to a long-term care facility where he could linger for decades, mute and helpless, or provide him with a gentle death by ending his life support.
Although Kristen is wary of experimental procedures, Kyle’s beloved Uncle Owen pursues any treatment that might improve the boy’s quality of life. He connects with neuroscientist Dr. Rene Elder, whose new research is devoted to helping people with brain trauma regain their voices and agency. Her experiments uncover a radical new way to connect with patients, challenging Rene with revelations far beyond her imagination. As Rene and Owen rush to confirm the method’s potential for helping Kyle communicate his wishes, they face strong resistance from both Kristen and the medical establishment. Hanging in the balance is Kyle’s right to make this decision for himself: Life or death?
A brilliant debut novel that challenges all we know about consciousness and existence, OF ONE MIND explores the depths of love, loss, belief --- and the wonders of the universe.
RGG Speed Dating November 2024 Event
October 31, 2024
Before we started Bookreporter in 1996, our plan was to make videos of author interviews on VHS, which was the format norm in those days, and have them air in Barnes & Noble bookstores. We went to Barnes & Noble with a demo tape of interviews and a plan to supply them with new interviews monthly. We thought that hearing an author talk about their work would spur sales --- and it would be perfect since people already would be in their superstores. Think of this in the cafés. The concept did not fly as the entire conversation was about who would load the video, what if it broke and what color the televisions would be. In other words, it wasn't about the content. Yes, we were ahead of our time.












