Book News: September Releases

To the Moon and Back - Jill Mansell
When Ellie Kendall loses her husband Jamie in an accident, she feels her world has come to an end. But life has to go on and eventually, she’s ready for a new start – at work, that is. She definitely doesn’t need a new man, not while she has a certain secret visitor to keep her company... Entrepreneur Zack McLaren seems to have it all, but the girl he can’t stop thinking about won’t give him a second glance. Why can’t she pay him the kind of attention she lavishes on Elmo, his time-share dog? Having moved to an exclusive flat in North London, Ellie becomes friendly with neighbor Roo who’s harboring a secret of her own. Between them, can both girls sort out their lives? Guilt is a powerful emotion. But a lot can happen in a year in Primrose Hill... 

Composing Amelia - Alison Strobel
Can a brand new marriage withstand the weight of generations-old baggage? Newlyweds Amelia and Marcus Sheffield are recent college grads trying to stay afloat in LA while searching for their dream jobs. Marcus hopes to become a mega-church pastor. Amelia has an esteemed music degree and longs to play piano professionally. The Sheffields are clearly city people. But when a small town church offers Marcus a job, the couple’s dedication to their dreams and each other is tested. After a risky compromise is made, Amelia falls into a dark emotional place, where she finds skeletons she’d fought hard to deny. In desperation, she calls out to God. But why can’t she find Him? While Amelia struggles, Marcus learns news that nearly crushes him. He must lean on his faith to withstand the pressure… or risk losing his wife forever.

Yankee Doodle Dixie - Lisa Patton
Lisa Patton won the hearts of readers last year when her book Whistlin’ Dixie in a Nor’easter became a sleeper-success. Building on a smashing debut, Lisa’s poised to go to the next level—because whether in Vermont snow or in Memphis heat, Dixie heroine Leelee Satterfield is never too far from misadventure, calamity and ultimately, love. Having watched her life turn into a nor’easter, 34-year-old Leelee Satterfield is back home in the South, ready to pick back up where she left off. But that’s a task easier said then done…Leelee’s a single mom and still dreaming of the Vermonter who stole her heart. Accompanied by her three best friends who pepper her with advice, nudging and peach daiquiris, Leelee opens another restaurant and learns she has to prove herself yet again.

Wife-In-Law - Haywood Smith
Neighbors Betsy Callison and Kat Ellis were oil and water when they met thirty-five years ago.  Betsy was a prim, neat freak, Republican wife, and Kat was a wild, irreverent, hippie Democrat. But they soon discover common ground that creates a bond that lasts for decades until Betsy's husband leaves her for his secretary, then comes sniffing back around two years later and convinces newly widowed Kat to marry him! Not that Betsy wants him back, but it’s hard to move on when the newlyweds are flaunting their love right across the street. But there’s trouble brewing in paradise and no one knows philandering Greg better than his ex-wife Betsy. Can Betsy get involved in her best friend's marriage, even if it means helping her wife-in-law figure out the same man she shared a bed with for thirty years? Told with Haywood Smith's inimitable southern voice, Wife-In-Law provides loads of laughter, insight, and plenty of heart. 
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