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This week at Anderson's Bookshop
Thursday, June 12 at 7:00 p.m., 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville
Welcome Sandra Gulland, author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine B. Trilogy about Josephine Bonaparte. Ms. Gulland now returns with her long-awaited next book, Mistress of the Sun,
an irresistibly engaging novel that historical fiction fans will
love. You'll lose yourself in this revealing
tale based on the life of Louise de la Vallière, who, against all
odds, became one of the most mysterious consorts of France's Louis XIV,
the charismatic Sun King. You may remember Ms. Gulland as the author of
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B., one of Anderson's all-time favorite Book Club picks.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Set against the magnificent decadence of the seventeenth-century French court, Mistress of the Sun
begins when an eccentric young Louise falls in love with a wild white
stallion and uses ancient magic to tame him. This one desperate action
of her youth shadows her throughout her life, changing it in ways she
could never imagine. Unmarriageable, and too poor to join a
convent, Louise enters the court of the Sun King, where the king is
captivated by her. As their love unfolds, Louise bears Louis four
children, is made a duchess, and reigns unrivaled as his official
mistress until dangerous intrigue threatens her position at court and
in Louis's heart. A riveting love story with a captivating
mystery at its heart, Mistress of the Sun illuminates both the power of true and perfect love and the rash actions we take to capture and tame it. |
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And Next Month, Please Don't Miss:
Laura Moriarty
at Anderson's Bookshop
DATE: Tuesday, July 8
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville, IL
Anderson's is pleased to present Laura Moriarty, the author of book-group favorite The Center of Everything, who visits with her follow-up book, The Rest of Her Life
(now in paperback). It's a book that ponders important questions about
actions taken, and how life is altered forever. Center to the story is
a tense, mother-daughter relationship that may or may not survive.
ABOUT THE BOOK: In The Rest of Her Life,
Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look
at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to
the harm they do to one another. Leigh is the mother of
high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is
already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a
moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy --
the effects of which not only divide Leigh's family, but polarize the
entire community. We see the story from Leigh's perspective, as she
grapples with the hard reality of what her daughter has done and the
devastating consequences her actions have on the family of another
teenage girl in town, all while struggling to protect Kara in the face
of rising public outcry. Like the best works of Jane Hamilton,
Jodi Picoult, and Alice Sebold, Laura Moriarty's The Rest of Her Life
is a novel of complex moral dilemma, filled with nuanced characters and
a page-turning plot that makes readers ask themselves, "What would I
do?"
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