Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Kathleen McCleary to discuss her new novel, A Simple Thing. When Susannah Delaney discovers her young son is being bullied and her adolescent daughter is spinning out of control, she moves them to remote, rustic Sounder Island to live for a year. A simple island existence—with no computers or electricity and only a one-room schoolhouse—is just what her over scheduled East Coast kids need to learn what's really important in life. But the move threatens her...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes New York Times bestselling author of books for adults and children, Meg Cabot! Meg will discuss the newest book in her Heather Wells series, Size 12 and Ready to Rock, as well as answer questions on any of her books from listeners! After dallying with sexy vampires and ingeniously reinterpreting the Dracula legend (Insatiable, Overbite), #1 New York Times bestseller Meg Cabot is ready to rock ’n’ roll once more with Heather Wells. The un-petite assistant...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Kristina Riggle, author of Real Life and Liars, The Life You've Imagined and Things We Didn't Say to discuss her new novel, Keepsake. From the critically acclaimed author of Real Life & Liars and Things We Didn't Say comes a timely and provocative novel that asks: What happens when the things we own become more important than the people we love? Trish isn't perfect. She's divorced and raising two kids—so of course her house isn't pristine. But she's...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Jyotsna Sreenivasan to discuss her debut novel And Laughter Fell from the Sky. And Laughter Fell from the Sky, the enthralling first novel from Jyotsna Sreenivasan, is a stirring contemporary love story about two young Indian-Americans trying to find love and their place in the world, while dealing with the confines and pressures of their culture and their families. A remarkable literary journey that carries the reader from the American heartland to the...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Lois Leveen to discuss her debut novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser. Based on a remarkable true story, The Secrets of Mary Bowser is an inspiring tale of one daring woman's willingness to sacrifice her own freedom to change the course of history All her life, Mary has been a slave to the wealthy Van Lew family of Richmond, Virginia. But when Bet, the willful Van Lew daughter, decides to send Mary to Philadelphia to be educated, she must leave her family to...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes the writing team of Charles Todd to discuss their acclaimed Bess Crawford mystery series set in WWI. The creation of the mother and son writing team of Charles Todd – the team that brought us the acclaimed and bestselling Ian Rutledge series – Bess Crawford is a singular woman living in a time of great change in England. Independent-minded Bess Crawford’s upbringing was far different from that of the usual upper-middle-class British gentlewoman. Growing up...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Zoe Fishman, author of Balancing Acts, to discuss her second novel, Saving Ruth, a wonderful coming-of-age novel that tells the story of a fish-out-of-water young Jewish woman, returning to her Alabama hometown after a semester at a “Yankee college,” only to discover that life—and she, herself—haven’t really changed in the ways she’d hoped. Southern fiction with a pungent twist, Saving Ruth is a wonderfully evocative, delightfully engaging tale that,...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Meg Donohue to discuss her debut novel How to Eat a Cupcake: A Novel. Free-spirited Annie Quintana and sophisticated Julia St. Clair come from two different worlds. Yet, as the daughter of the St. Clairs' housekeeper, Annie grew up in Julia's San Francisco mansion and they forged a bond that only two little girls oblivious to class differences could—until a life-altering betrayal destroyed their friendship. A decade later, Annie bakes to fill the void...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Ashley Ream to discuss her new novel, Losing Clementine. In thirty days Clementine Pritchard will be finished with her last painting and her life. World-renowned artist and sharp-tongued wit Clementine Pritchard has decided that she's done. After flushing away a medicine cabinet full of prescriptions, she gives herself thirty days to tie up loose ends—finish one last painting, make nice with her ex-husband, and find a home for her cat. Clementine plans to...

Kristina Riggle, author of The Life You've Imagined, Things We Didn't Say and Keepsake (Summer 2012), discusses her first novel, Real Life and Liars. For Mirabelle Zielinski's children, happiness always seems to be just out of reach. Her polished oldest daughter, Katya, clings to a stale marriage with a workaholic husband and three spoiled children. Her son, Ivan, so creative, is a down-in-the-dumps songwriter with the worst taste in women. And the "baby," impulsive Irina, who lives life...

Join Book Club Girl as she welomes Mary Kay McComas, to discuss her new novel What Happened to Hannah. As a teenager, Hannah Benson ran away from home in order to save herself. Now, twenty years later, the past comes calling and delivers life-changing news: her mother and sister have passed away, leaving Hannah the guardian of her fifteen-year-old niece. Returning home to bitter memories and devastating secrets, Hannah must overcome her painful past to pave a future with her niece, the last...

Join Book Club Girl, of the Book Club Girl blog as she welcomes Robert Barclay, author of If Wishes Were Horses, to discuss his new novel, More than Words Can Say. Chelsea Enright never expected to inherit her grandmother's lakeside cottage deep in the Adirondacks—a serene getaway that had been mysteriously closed up decades ago. This is no simple bequest, however, because when Chelsea finds her grandmother's WWII diaries, she's stunned to discover that they hold secrets she never suspected...

Join Book Club Girl on Air, of the blog Book Club Girl, as she welcomes Conor Grennan, author of Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal. An astonishing testament to true courage, the transformative power of love, and the ability of one man to make a real difference. In search of adventure, twenty-nine-year-old Conor Grennan embarked on a yearlong journey around the globe, beginning with a three-month stint volunteering at an orphanage in civil war–torn...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes author Chandra Hoffman to discuss her newest book, now in paperback, Chosen. It all begins with a fantasy: the caseworker in her "signing paperwork" charcoal suit standing alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn, set against a fluorescent-lit delivery-room backdrop. It's this blissful picture that keeps Chloe Pinter, director of the Chosen Child's domestic-adoption program, happy while juggling the high demands of her boss and the...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Anna David, author of Party Girl and Bought to discuss her new memoir, Falling for Me: How I Hung Curtains, Learned to Cook, Traveled to Seville, and Fell in Love. Like most women, whether they’ve chosen the Fortune 500 career path or have had five kids by 35, Anna David wondered if she’d made the right choices. Then she came upon the book Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmopolitan’s fearless leader from the mid-sixties to the late...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Sara Shepard, bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars and Lying Game series to discuss her new novel for adults that is sure to appeal to her legions of teen fans as well, Everything We Ever Wanted. A recently widowed mother of two, Sylvie Bates-McAllister finds her life upended by a late-night phone call from the headmaster of the prestigious private school founded by her grandfather where her adopted son Scott teaches. Allegations of Scott's...

Join Book Club Girl as she interviews author Greg Olear about his new novel, Fathermucker. In Fathermucker, novelist Greg Olear follows the day in the life of a dad on the brink: Josh Lansky—second-rate screenwriter, fledgling freelancer, and stay-at-home dad of two preschoolers—has held everything together while his wife is away on business . . . until this morning’s playdate, when he finds out through the mommy grapevine that she might be having an affair. What Josh needs is a break. He’s...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani to discuss her new memoir, now in paperback, Don't Sing at the Table. New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani shares a treasure trove of insight and guidance from her two grandmothers: time-tested, common sense advice on the most important aspects of a woman’s life, from childhood to the golden years. Seamlessly blending anecdote with life lesson, Don’t Sing at the Table tells the two vibrant...

Book Club Girl gets into the Holiday Spirit with an Amish Christmas Celebration! Join us for a discussion with three bestselling authors of Amish fiction, Shelley Shepard Gray, Vannetta Chapman, and Amy Clipston, who are heading out this November for a Holiday Book Tour to celebrate their latest novels, all set in Amish country. Shelley Shepard Gray is the bestselling author of the Seasons of Sugarcreek and Families of Honor series. She will join us to discuss her hardcover debut, Christmas...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes New York Times bestselling author Marisa de los Santos to discuss her new novel, Falling Together. What if saying hello to an old friend meant saying good-bye to life as you know it? It’s been six years since Pen Calloway watched her best friends walk out of her life. And through the birth of her daughter, the death of her father, and the vicissitudes of single motherhood, she has never stopped missing them. Pen, Cat, and Will met on their first day of...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes author Evan Mandery to discuss his new novel, Q. “Q, Quentina Elizabeth Deveril, is the love of my life.” Shortly before his wedding, the unnamed hero of this uncommon romance is visited by a man who claims to be his future self and ominously admonishes him that he must not marry the love of his life, Q. At first the protagonist doubts this stranger, but in time he becomes convinced of the authenticity of the warning and leaves his fiancée. The resulting...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Kristine Gasbarre to discuss her new memoir, How to Love an American Man. Kristine Gasbarre made a New York career of dating driven, inaccessible men. When she realizes her love life will never result in happiness if she continues on the same path, she makes a big decision—relocating to Italy to discover her roots and find out what defines her adoring grandpa. But upon receiving the news of his sudden passing, she is lured away. With nowhere left to go,...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes author Matthew Norman to discuss his debut novel, Domestic Violets. Tom Violet always thought that by the time he turned thirty-five, he’d have everything going for him. Fame. Fortune. A beautiful wife. A satisfying career as a successful novelist. A happy dog to greet him at the end of the day. The reality, though, is far different. He’s got a wife, but their problems are bigger than he can even imagine. And he’s written a novel, but the manuscript he’s...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Nayana Currimbhoy to discuss her new novel, Miss Timmins School for Girls. A murder at a British boarding school in the hills of western India launches a young teacher on the journey of a lifetime In 1974, three weeks before her twenty-first birthday, Charulata Apte arrives at Miss Timmins' School for Girls in Panchgani. Shy, sheltered, and running from a scandal that disgraced her Brahmin family, Charu finds herself teaching Shakespeare to rich Indian...

Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Talia Carner, to discuss her new novel, Jerusalem Maiden. In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a young Orthodox Jewish woman in the holy city of Jerusalem is expected to marry and produce many sons to help hasten the Messiah's arrival. While the feisty Esther Kaminsky understands her obligations, her artistic talent inspires her to secretly explore worlds outside her religion, to dream of studying in Paris—and to believe that God has a special destiny...