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Book a Literary Escape for Your Mom

May 9th, 2012

This Mother’s Day, take your mom somewhere special: to the wilderness of the Pacific Crest Trail, to Darcy’s magnificent estate at Pemberley, to the villages of Bangladesh. Best of all, the ticket is one she can use again and again.

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Death Comes to PemberleyDeath Comes to Pemberley
Written by P. D. James

Join Elizabeth and Darcy at their magnificent estate at Pemberley. Their patrician idyll is shattered when Lydia, Elizabeth’s disgraced sister, hysterically announces that her husband, Wickham, has been murdered. USA Today raves that P. D. James’s new novel is “incomparably perfect . . . It’s as if James is channeling [Jane] Austen, perfectly emulating her in language, rhythm, and tone.”

Read the Prologue | Watch the trailer | Visit P. D. James’s Facebook page

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The Wolf GiftThe Wolf Gift
Written by Anne Rice

The time is the present. The place, the rugged coast of Northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest. An idyllic night shattered by violence, leaving a young man inexplicably attacked—bitten—by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness.

What takes place that night sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation, as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror, between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing what he will become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift.

Read the first chapter | Visit Anne Rice’s Facebook page

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WildWild
Written by Cheryl Strayed

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike from the Mojave Desert to Washington state that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.

Cheryl introduces Wild | Follow @CherylStrayed on Twitter | Read a chapter

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The Limpopo Academy of Private DetectionThe Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
Written by Alexander McCall Smith

In this latest episode in the beloved, best-selling series, the kindest and best detective in Botswana faces a tricky situation when her personal and professional lives become entangled.

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The NewlywedsThe Newlyweds
Written by Nell Freudenberger

A powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America’s most acclaimed young writers: a story of love and marriage, secrets and betrayals, that takes us from the backyards of America to the back alleys and villages of Bangladesh.

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Against Wind and TideAgainst Wind and Tide
Written by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Book a spiritual escape with the letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author of the inspirational Gift from the Sea and aviator Charles Lindbergh’s wife.

Read the introduction by her son, Reeve Lindbergh

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The Beginner's GoodbyeThe Beginner’s Goodbye
Written by Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler returns to her beloved Baltimore to explore how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances—in their house, on the roadway, in the market.

Read the first chapter | The reading group guide

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Wish You Were HereWish You Were Here
Written by Graham Swift

On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton—once a Devon farmer, now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park—receives the news that his brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in combat in Iraq. For Jack and his wife, Ellie, this will have unexpected, far-reaching effects.

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HomeHome
Written by Toni Morrison

Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he’s hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again.

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