November - New Sparks on the Block

Fall is definitely in the air here at BookSparks as we celebrate with some incredible fall book birthdays and these amazing new additions to the Spark family.

Karin Slaughter, international #1 bestseller of more than a dozen novels, joins BookSparks to share her latest book, Pretty Girls. More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. See what happens as the sisters begin to unearth the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago and uncover the possibility of redemption and revenge.

Please join us in welcoming Garine Issasi to BookSparks! Garine is former singer/songwriter who grew up with one foot in Texas and the other in New Jersey. Her novel Start With the Backbeat (from publisher She Writes Press) takes us inside the late 1980s New York City music industry as old school rap gave way to “gangsta” rap.

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Award-winning author Katrina Anne Willis joins us to share her latest work, Parting Gifts (published by She Writes Press), about Midwestern sisters overcoming an untraditional childhood. When the sisters are faced with an incomprehensible loss, they are forced to reevaluate themselves, their damaged bonds, and their fragile future.

Brady Stefani joins BookSparks to share his debut novel, The Alienation of Courtney Hoffman (from publisher She Writes Press). Fans of TV series Blindspot will love this twisty take on 15-year-old Courtney Hoffman’s life. Determined not to go insane like her crazy grandfather, Courtney must unravel the clues to her past.

Hollis Giammatteo joins the studio to share her literary memoir, The Shelf Life of Ashes, which is from the She Writes Press. The book chronicles her experiences with her elderly wards, as well as the trip she embarks upon when her mother, who is convinced she is dying, entreats her to come “home.”

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A big BookSparks welcome to Dorit Sasson, author of Accidental Soldier, published by She Writes Press. At age nineteen, Dorit left New York City for the Israel Defense Forces to put some distance between herself and her neurotic, worry wart of a mother and avoid becoming just like her. The memoir tells the story of how she stepped out of her comfort zone and into a war zone, discovering courage and faith she didn’t know she was capable of.

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