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Susane Colasanti is our guest blogger during the week of May 11th. If you have any questions for Susane Colasanti, add a comment to any of her posts.  

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At the beginning of her sophomore year, Marisa is ready for a fresh start and, more importantly, a boyfriend. So when the handsome and popular Derek asks her out, Marisa thinks her long wait for happiness is over. But several bumps in the road-including her parents' unexpected separation, a fight with her best friend, and a shocking disappointment in her relationship with Derek-test Marisa's ability to maintain her new outlook. Only the anonymous DJ, whose underground podcasts have the school's ear, seems to understand what Marisa is going through. But she has no idea who he is-or does she?

In this third romantic novel from Susane Colasanti, Marisa learns how to "be in the Now" and realizes that the love she's been waiting for has been right in front of her all along.

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Tanya Egan Gibson is our guest blogger during the week of May 11th. If you have any questions for Tanya Egan Gibson, add a comment to any of her posts. 

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Fall in love with reading all over again.

To Carley Wells, words are the enemy. Her tutor's innumerable SAT flashcards. Her personal trainer's "fifty-seven pounds overweight" assessment. And the endless reading assignments from her English teacher, Mr. Nagel. When Nagel reports to her parents that she has answered "What is your favorite book" with "Never met one I liked," they decide to fix what he calls her "intellectual impoverishment." They will commission a book to be written just for her-one she'll have to love-that will impress her teacher and the whole town of Fox Glen with their family's devotion to the arts. They will be patrons- the Medicis of Long Island. They will buy their daughter The Love Of Reading.

Impossible though it is for Carley to imagine loving books, she is in love with a young bibliophile who cares about them more than anything. Anything, that is, but a good bottle of scotch. Hunter Cay, Carley's best friend and Fox Glen's resident golden boy, is becoming a stranger to her lately as he drowns himself in F. Scott Fitzgerald, booze, and Vicodin.

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Wicked Prey by John Sandford (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 5/12)

New York Times #1 bestselling author John Sandford’s new novel starring Lucas Davenport is Wicked Prey, on sale from Putnam on May 12th. Booklist raved that “Sandford’s track record as a best-selling author is amazing, but it’s not an accident. His plotting is sharp, his villains are extraordinarily layered, and his good guys are always evolving.”

Set in Minneapolis-St. Paul against the backdrop of the Republican National Convention, where the convention brings more than just delegates to St. Paul and Davenport must outsmart a whole new set of cunning criminals.

Next week, Sandford will embark on a 6-city tour which will include events at Poisoned Pen, Warwick’s, Barnes & Noble in Minneapolis and Los Angeles and Borders in Chicago.
 

Street Fighters by Kate Kelly (Portfolio, 5/12)

In Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, The Toughest Firm on Wall Street, Kate Kelly takes us inside Bear’s walls during its final, frenzied 72 hours as an independent firm. Expanding with fresh detail from her acclaimed front-page series in The Wall Street Journal, she captures every sight, sound, and smell of those three unbelievable days. With a style as riveting as it is enlightening, Street Fighters is the definitive account of a once-great firm’s demise and of the human folly that led to the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. The book is launching with major media including “Fresh Air” and “Marketplace” on NPR, “Squawk Box “on CNBC, “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, and a big excerpt in The Wall Street Journal.

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The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen (The Penguin Press, on sale now)

Twelve-year-old genius cartographer T. S. Spivet lives with his family on their ranch just north of Divide, Montana. When late one August afternoon he receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing that he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal—if you consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal—is interrupted. Slipping out before dawn the next morning, T.S. hops a freight train headed east with his sights set on Washington D.C., and the museum’s hallowed halls.

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet defies easy categorization or comparison. With touches of the classic road story and coming-of-age tale, it quickly transcends these to become something all its own. And defying the e-book trend, this is a novel - with T.S.’s notes, diagrams, and illustrations pulling the plot into every corner of the page - that can only unfold on paper. Touching, hilarious, and wholly original, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet is a delightful and thrilling debut. A major national publicity push kicked off with features in Vanity Fair, New York magazine, and Book Page. The author will be on NPR’s “Book Worm with Michael Silverblatt” and reviews and/or features are assigned in the New York Times Book Review, New York Times, Washington Post Book World, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, New York magazine, Boston Globe, and Denver Post, among others.