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ONE SUMMER NIGHT
Author: Caridad Piñeiro
Publisher: Sourcebook, LLC/Caridad Piñeiro
ISBN-13: 979-8876796370
SUMMARY:
Maggie Sinclair has been crushing on Owen for years but he’s the one man she can’t have.
There’s been bad blood between the Pierces and Sinclairs for years but Maggie can’t stop wishing things could be different. Whenever she visits her Jersey Shore home, she strolls the sand and remembers the innocent kiss they shared that one special summer night.
Owen has been watching Maggie from afar and when things heat up on the Jersey Shore, it’s hard to resist her temptation. Even if it risks angering his father who refuses to give up the feud with the Sinclairs.
When Owen learns Maggie’s business is in trouble, he jumps in to help. The marriage bargain they strike seems to be the perfect way to solve their problems until their love deepens and it all unravels before their eyes.
Is it possible for Maggie and Owen to break free of their families’ past and find happiness or will that bargain prove to be more than they can handle?
About the Author:
Caridad Piñeiro is a transplanted Long Island girl who has fallen in love with the Jersey Shore. When Caridad isn’t taking long strolls along the boardwalk, she’s also a NY Times and USA Today bestselling author with over a million romance novels sold worldwide. Caridad is passionate about writing and helping others explore and develop their skills as writers. She is a founding member of the Liberty States Fiction Writers and has presented workshops at the RT Book Club Convention, Romance Writers of America National Conference as well as various writing organizations throughout the country. You can connect with Caridad at www.caridad.com.
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ART ABOVE EVERTHING
One Woman’s Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life
Author: Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN-10: 0807020419 / ISBN-13: 978-0807020418
SUMMARY:
All artists struggle. But women are especially pushed to give up their creative ambitions, from societal disapproval against “selfishness” to the pressure (or desire) for children and economic stability. Throughout her 20s and 30s, Stephanie Elizondo Griest wondered if constantly prioritizing her writing over everything else was leading her to fulfillment or regret. After a brutal break-up and narrowly surviving a health crisis in her early 40s, she turned to other women for their perspectives on that haunting question: is art enough?
Art Above Everything documents her travels to 10 nations—from Cuba to Iceland; Rwanda to Qatar—where she meets with legendary painters, poets, actors, dancers, and musicians who talk intimately about their art, both what it gifts them and what it costs them. Collectively, these artists speak dozens of languages and worship a spectrum of faiths, but their compulsions to create despite financial hardship, misogyny, sexual violence, and family ostracization are wholly akin. Bold and inspiring, Art Above Everything illuminates the ways we can wield creativity as a vitalizing force.
About the Author:
Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a globetrotting writer from the Texas-Mexico borderlands. Her six books include: Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana; Mexican Enough; All the Agents and Saints; Art Above Everything. She has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Believer, BBC, VQR, and Oxford American. Her work has won a Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting, an International Latino Book Award, a PEN Southwest Book Award, and two Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism prizes. Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, she has performed as both a Moth storyteller and as a literary ambassador for the U.S. State Department. Visit her @SElizondoGriest and www.StephanieElizondoGriest.com.
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