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March's FEATURED AUTHOR: Sarah Pekkanen's books!!

March 2, 2011
This one's all on me. It's been absolutely crazy lately--I was on vacation in Mexico, came back, and started a new job a week later. It's actually my first week this week! Anyway, I missed sending Sarah the Q&A for today's post (with enough time for communicating), so today I'll be posting her bibliography. Next Wednesday we'll have our Q&A. Hope you guys are ok with this! And Sarah, I'm sorry!!! :(

Anyway, without further ado, here are Sarah's books!

skipping a beat
What would you do if your husband wanted to rewrite the rules of your relationship?

Julia Dunhill, a thirty-something party planner, seems to have it all: Married to her high school sweetheart and living in a gorgeous home in Washington D.C., she imagines her future unfolding very much as it has for the past few years, since she and her husband Michael successfully launched their companies. There will be dinner parties to attend, operas to dress up for, and weddings and benefits to organize for her growing list of clients. There will be shopping sprees with her best friend, Isabelle, and inevitably those last five pounds to shed. In her darker moments, she worries that her marriage has dissolved from a true partnership into a façade, but she convinces herself it’s due to the intensity of their careers and fast-paced lifestyle.

So as she arranges the molten chocolate cupcakes for the annual Opera benefit, how can she know that her carefully-constructed world is about to fall apart? That her husband will stand up from the head of the table in his company’s boardroom, open his mouth to speak, and crash to the carpeted floor… all in the amount of time it will take her to walk across a ballroom floor just a few miles away. Four minutes and eight seconds after his cardiac arrest, a portable defibrillator jump-starts Michael’s heart. But in those lost minutes he becomes a different man, with an altered perspective on the rarified life they’ve been living and a determination to regain the true intimacy they once shared. Now it is up to Julia to decide — is it worth upending her comfortable world to try to find her way back to the husband she once adored, or should she walk away from this new Michael, who truthfully became a stranger to her long before his change of heart?

Read an excerpt of Skipping a Beat! Read my review! Purchase at IndieBound, Amazon, The Book Depository


the opposite of me
Reminiscent of Jennifer Weiner’s In Her Shoes and Emily Giffin’s Something Borrowed, this funny, poignant debut novel explores the desire to have it all, the relationships that define us, and the complicated, irreplaceable bonds of sisterhood. People magazine gave it 3.5 out of 4 stars and Redbook magazine calls it “smart, soulful” and chose it as a March must read!

Twenty-nine year old Lindsey Rose has, for as long as she can remember, lived in the shadow of her devastatingly beautiful fraternal twin sister, Alex. Determined to get noticed, Lindsey is finally on the cusp of being named Creative Vice President of an elite New York advertising agency, after years of 80 plus-hour weeks, migraines, and profound loneliness. But during the course of one devastating night, Lindsey’s carefully-constructed life implodes.

Humiliated and desperate, she flees the glitter of Manhattan and retreats to the time warp of her parents’ Maryland home. As her sister plans her lavish wedding to her prince charming, Lindsey struggles to maintain her identity as the smart, responsible twin, while she furtively tries to put her career back together. But things get more complicated when a long-held family secret is unleashed that forces both sisters to reconsider who they are and who they are meant to be.

Purchase at IndieBound, Amazon, The Book Depository

And last but not least, a short story published in ebook format:

all is bright
Thirty-year-old Elise Andrews couldn’t bring herself to marry Griffin, her childhood friend-turned-sweetheart, so she let him walk away. Eight months after their break-up, she arrives in her hometown of Chicago on Christmas Eve and hears a voice from the past calling her name in the grocery store. It’s Griffin’s mother Janice, who invites Elise over for a neighborhood gathering of eggnog and carols.

Walking into Janice’s house sends Elise tumbling headlong into memories of her relationship with Griffin — and with Janice, who exudes the kind of warmth Elise ached for after her own mom passed away when she was six. But Griffin has moved on, and suddenly Elise doubts her decision to give him up, and lose her chance at being folded into his wonderful family. Confused and reeling, she goes in search of an answer to a universal question: How do we say good-bye to people we’ve loved without losing everything they’ve meant to us?

Heartwarming and witty, All is Bright is a charming story about coming home for the holidays — and finding gifts in the most unexpected of places

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Have you read any of Sarah's books? What did you think?

4 comments:

bermudaonion said...

I've read The Opposite of Me and Skipping a Beat and I loved them both! I need to get All is Bright! I'm a big fan of Sarah's work!!

justpeachy36 said...

I haven't read anything by this author yet, but her books certainly look like they are right up my alley... Thanks for showcasing her work and helping me find a new author...

holdenj said...

Looking forward to the Q&A. I've been seeing great reviews for Skipping a Beat--can't wait to read it.

drey said...

It sounds like I really need to pick up The Opposite of Me! :)

Julia ~ There will be another giveaway for Skipping a Beat, should post next Wednesday. :D

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