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  1. David Baldacci

    March 25, 2011 by lizhumes

    Wish You Well

    Original air date: March 25, 2011

    “Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes—and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother’s farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a new landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forces of greed and justice are about to clash over her new home . . . and as their struggle is played out in a crowded Virginia courtroom, it will determine the future of two children, an entire town, and the mountains they love.”

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  2. Sheri Holman

    March 18, 2011 by lizhumes

    Witches on the Road Tonight

    Original air date: March 18, 2011

    “Deftly moving from the rural, Depression-era South to modern New York City, Holman teases out the dark compulsions and desperate longings that can blur the line between love and betrayal. Witches on the Road Tonight is an unflinching story that digs at the roots of myth – both familial and societal – and beautifully renders our perpetual yearning to make sense of the past in our present.” – dresslodger.com

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  3. Justin Kramon

    March 11, 2011 by lizhumes

    Finny

    Original air date: March 11, 2011

    We meet Finny Short as an observant, defiant fourteen-year-old who can’t make sense of her family’s unusual habits. Her mother offers guidance appropriate for a forty-year-old socialite; her father quotes Nietzsche over pancakes. Finny figures she’s stuck with this lonely lot until she meets Earl Henckel, a boy who comes from an even stranger place than she does.” - justinkramon.com

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  4. Mary Burton

    March 4, 2011 by lizhumes

    Senseless

    Original air date: March 4, 2011

    “…best selling author Mary Burton kept the murder rate soaring in her hometown of Richmond, Virginia for three years as each of her recent highly-praised suspense novels was published.  Now, it’s Alexandria’s turn.” – maryburton.com

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  5. Emma Rathbone

    August 27, 2010 by lizhumes

    Patterns of Paper Monsters

    Original airdate: August 27, 2010

    “Jacob Higgins’s teenage rage rarely simmers below the surface for long. He despises his negligent mother and her alcoholic boyfriend, Refrigerator Man, and he’s indifferent to school and his friends–though a little less casual about girls and marijuana. His antics have landed him in a North Virginia detention center, where nihilism, freedom, and redemption all take on unexpected guises. In a voice filled with confusion, yearning, and sardonic humor, Jacob narrates his improbably sweet romance with Andrea, an inmate with whom he shares rare glances, melodramatic conversation, and waxy cookies at rigidly chaperoned ‘socials.’”
    – from hachettebookgroup.com

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