A CLOSER LOOK AT JULY’S
WEDNESDAYS AT ONE
By Sandra A. Miller
The dangerous power of secrets
THE BOOK
Award-winning author Sandra A. Miller’s debut novel, Wednesdays at One (Zibby Books), is a sophisticated and suspenseful exploration of how one event can change your life forever.
Dr. Gregory has worked hard to put the past behind him. Now a thriving doctor, he lives in a suburban Boston home with his beautiful wife and children. His family doesn’t know about the fatal mistake he made at the age of seventeen—but someone certainly does. When Mira, a new patient, starts arriving at his office every Wednesday, Gregory is inexplicitly drawn to her. She’s clearly connected to his past, and as his professional boundaries begin to blur, Gregory becomes desperate to find out who she really is, before he loses everything he holds dear—including his mind.
THE AUTHOR
Sandra A. Miller is an award-winning author, a teacher, and a treasure hunter. Her articles and essays have appeared in more than one hundred international publications including The Washington Post, Modern Bride, and Yankee, and an essay she wrote as part of a project for Glamour magazine was turned into a short film called, “Wait,” starring Kerry Washington. Sandra A. Miller has written numerous scripts for 11 Central Ave., as well as a radio comic strip that ran for three years. She lives outside of Boston with her husband.
A TWISTED LOVE STORY
By Samantha Downing
Nothing is deadlier than true love
THE BOOK
From the USA Today bestselling author of My Lovely Wife (Penguin/Berkley) comes a delicious new thriller about a couple who are madly, passionately—dangerously—in love. Or are they? When things between Wes and Ivy are good, they’re good—flowers, sweeping grand gestures, deep conversations about the future. But when it’s bad, it’s very bad—damaged property, vengeful fights, arrest warrants. But it’s a vicious cycle that now needs to end, because a third party had entered their toxic relationship. A police detective who is looking into the night of Wes and Ivy’s worst break-up, a dark time when things went too far and someone ended up dead.
THE AUTHOR
Samantha Downing’s bestselling debut My Lovely Wife was nominated for the Edgar, International Thriller Writers, and Macavity awards in the U.S., the CWA award in the U.K., and was the winner of the Prix des Lectrices award in France. Her second and third books also became bestsellers.
MARIBELLE’S SHADOW
By Susannah Marren
A compelling story of deception and loyalty
THE BOOK
It’s Maribelle Walker’s job to know—and write about—what lurks in the shadows of Florida’s most glamorous coast. But when her husband, Samuel, dies under mysterious consequences, the secret she and her sisters have been trying to keep buried threaten to rise to the surface. As their carefully constructed image begins to unravel, each of the sisters understands that she must fend for herself—but only one of them will come out of this unscathed.
From a nationally renowned observer of women’s relationships comes Maribelle’s Shadow (Beaufort Books), a compelling story of deception and family loyalty.
THE AUTHOR
Susannah Marren is the author of Between the Tides, A Palm Beach Wife and A Palm Beach Scandal, and the pseudonym for Susan Shapiro Barash, who has written over a dozen nonfiction books, including Tripping the Prom Queen, Toxic Friends, and You’re Grounded Forever, But First Let’s Go Shopping. For more than twenty years she has taught gender studies at Marymount Manhattan College and has guest taught creative nonfiction at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in New York City.
UNDER THE NAGA TAIL
By Mae Bunseng Taing with James Taing
A captivating memoir of a man’s daring escape from Cambodia
THE BOOK
Mae Taing is a teenager living in modern Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge rises to power and forever alters his life—and the lives of millions. Wrenched from his home, Mae endures years of starvation, hard labor, and cruel torture before deciding he must either die slowly at camp, or brave the wilderness crawling with soldiers, if he has any chance of survival. Overcoming unthinkable odds, freedom is almost within Mae’s reach when he is caught and sent to the ancient temple mountain, Preah Vihear. There he is once again plunged into unspeakable terrors, and must face the dangers ahead and hold firm to his resolve to live.
Written by Mae, along with his son James, Under the Naga Tail is not only a courageous true story of survival, but a testament to the human spirit’s capacity to endure against all odds.
THE AUTHORS
Mae Bunseng Taing is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. He has been featured in the HAAPI Film Festival award-winning documentary Ghost Mountain, released in 2019. He lives in Connecticut and has run a full-time home painting business for more than thirty years. This is his first book and memoir.
James Taing is the founder of the Preah Vihear Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for preserving the history of refugee rescue in Camboida and the greater French Indochina region in the 1970s. He began writing Under the Naga Tail while a college student.
NOT MY FAULT
By S.B. Frasca
Award-winning songwriter gives young readers something to sing about
THE BOOK
“Not My Fault” is popping up everywhere. At home. In the park. Even at school. For tenth-grader Hy, this graffiti is a secret way to deal with getting bullied. But before long, Hy’s protest art morphs into a massive creative project in defense of other social injustices—and it’s getting noticed. Hy has never been the center of attention in a positive way, but a chance meeting with an older student named Belinda changes everything, including Hy’s confidence. The bullies aren’t thwarted though, and when Hy and this new friend are targeted, Hy is left to navigate fresh feelings of lust, loss, and friendship in the only way Hy knows how—armed with a spray can.
Not My Fault is the perfect read for anyone who’s ever felt lonely, other, unsure, or simply undiscovered.
THE AUTHOR
Sabelle (Breer) Frasca knows the teenage years are a front row seat to the rest of your life and no two experiences are the same. Though a multi-platinum, award-winning songwriter accredited for launching the careers of several notable 2000’s recording artists, the most rewarding part of her career has been commiserating with young hearts to shape raw, relatable emotions into things you can sing at the top of your lungs. Raised by an artist father and artist/musician mother, it was always understood that art as a form of expression equals a life worth living—S.B. Frasca’s debut novel Not My Fault is a Hy-five to that.
