The following is a guest post by Azzedine Kechroud, author of Paradise Lost. This novel tells the life of a young child during the Algerian war of national liberation under occupation of French colonialism. The eyes of an innocent child describe how he and his family lived the horrors of that war. This child did not understand why adults were conducting an absurd war that touched all families without exception, from…
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Phaedra Patrick
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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
Arthur Pepper has lost his wife Miriam a year earlier, and his grief is still very raw. He rarely goes out and spends his days vigorously cleaning every corner of his house, talking to his plant and avoiding his well-meaning neighbor Bernadette. When he finds a mysterious charm bracelet in his wife’s wardrobe, his curiosity is picked, and he sets out to discover the stories behind each charm. His quest will…
Emma Cline
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The Girls by Emma Cline
It’s the summer of 1969. Evie Boyd is 14 and lives in Northern California. Her parents have recently divorced, and she feels lonely and abandoned. When she meets a group of young women in a park, she envies their apparent happiness and freedom. She is instantly drawn to Suzanne Parker, a glamorous and mesmerizing girl. Evie spends more and more time at the group’s commune, a dilapidated ranch run by their charismatic leader, Russell Hadrick. These young…
Donna Urbikas
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My Sister’s Mother by Donna Urbikas
The following is a guest post by Donna Urbikas, author of My Sister’s Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin’s Siberia. A couple of years ago I took myself on a cross-country tour of writers’ conferences where I could pitch my newly finished manuscript, My Sister’s Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin’s Siberia. Reception was great except that I am not famous, so who would care? Fortunately, the…
Lisa Beazley
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Keep Me Posted by Lisa Beazley
Cass lives in New York City with her husband, Leo, and their twin sons. She used to work for a magazine that folded, and now she’s a full-time mom. Her sister, Sid, lives in Singapore with her husband and children, and tries to adjust to life as an expat. When Cass and Sid reunite for Christmas, they decide to start an experiment: write letters to each other for one year. No…
Gry Finsnes
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Goodbye Bombay by Gry Finsnes
The following is a guest post by Gry Finsnes, author of Goodbye Bombay. I lived in India myself for four years from 1979 until 1983, in Bombay which is now called Mumbai. I had two children when I came and three when I went back to Europe with my husband, feeling both relieved and sad to leave the country. It had made such an impression on me that it was impossible…
Jacquelyn Mitchard
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Two If by Sea by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Frank Mercy is an American expat in Brisbane, Australia, when his wife and unborn child perish in a tsunami. A former police officer, he is a volunteer first responder and helps rescue the survivors of the flood. Among them is a mysterious young boy whom Frank feels compelled to protect and care for. He decides to bring the 3-year-old back to the States with him, but he soon realizes that the…
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The Best Book I (Almost) Never Wrote
The following is a guest post by Jackie Minniti, author of Jacqueline. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. I’m a firm believer that nothing important happens by chance. This belief has been validated many times as I’ve traveled through the sixty-seven years of my life, but never more than a recent experience that shed a new light on…
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The Sophomore Slump
The following is a guest post by Rebecca Jaycox, author of The Other Inheritance. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. You all know the term. You read the debut book in a planned series, and you’re so in love with it that you can’t wait for that second book to come out, but when you buy the sequel…
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Giveaway! The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
Win a hardcover copy of The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier! Please leave a comment below, and we’ll draw a name at random (Open to legal residents of Canada and the US, 18 years or older. Contest ends 15 February 2016 at 11:59 pm EST). From the book jacket: Ohio 1850. For a modest English Quaker stranded far from home, life is a trial. Untethered from the moment she leaves England,…