false 53353 3 4 True Confections, Katharine's fifth novel, will be published in January by Shaye Areheart Books.


Katharine's maternal grandmother was the songwriter Kay Swift. Since Swift's death in 1993, Katharine has been a Trustee and the Administrator of the Kay Swift Memorial Trust, which is dedicated to preserving and promoting the music of Kay Swift. This work includes the first Broadway musical with a score by a woman, "Fine and Dandy," and several popular show tunes of the era, among them "Fine and Dandy" and "Can't We Be Friends?"]]> female New York City 1955/01/01 2899850 108307 0374281424 9780374281427 86 <![CDATA[Triangle: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171581192m/108307.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171581192s/108307.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108307.Triangle_A_Novel 3.41 306 Triangle forces us to consider how we tell our stories, how we hear them, and how history is forged from unverifiable truths.</DIV></DIV>]]> 53353 3.39 656 148 2006 93015 0312423098 9780312423094 15 <![CDATA[The Little Women: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171252169m/93015.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171252169s/93015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93015.The_Little_Women_A_Novel 3.56 124 53353 3.39 656 148 2003 129468 0753809435 9780753809433 20 <![CDATA[The Music Lesson]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171987516m/129468.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171987516s/129468.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129468.The_Music_Lesson 3.28 96 and political, and she is soon involved in a plot to kidnap and ransom the Vermeer, property of the Queen. The painting, she tells herself fervently, "is an instrument of magic. Perhaps now it is also an instrument of change, a talisman, the charm that will force powerful people to pay attention and take decisive action at last."

The Music Lesson is far from your everyday, action-packed IRA saga. Instead, Katharine Weber's second novel is very much like the intimate portrait her heroine so lovingly describes--an exquisite miniature in which images, ideas, and deep emotions keep coming out of the woodwork. --Kerry Fried

]]> 53353 3.39 656 148 1998 459155 0312143834 9780312143831 8 <![CDATA[Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174941989m/459155.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174941989s/459155.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/459155.Objects_in_Mirror_Are_Closer_Than_They_Appear_A_Novel 3.30 50 53353 3.39 656 148 1995 6375744 0307395863 9780307395863 6 <![CDATA[True Confections: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255683100m/6375744.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255683100s/6375744.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6375744-true-confections 3.60 10 True Confections, the irresistible new novel by Katharine Weber, a writer whose work has won accolades from Iris Murdoch, Madeleine L’Engle, Wally Lamb, and Kate Atkinson, to name a few.
 
Alice Tatnall Ziplinsky’s marriage into the Ziplinsky family has not been unanimously celebrated. Her greatest ambition is to belong, to feel truly entitled to the heritage she has tried so hard to earn. Which is why Zip’s Candies is much more to her than just a candy factory, where she has worked for most of her life. In True Confections, Alice has her reasons for telling the multigenerational saga of the family-owned-and-operated candy company, now in crisis.
 
Nobody is more devoted than Alice to delving into the truth of Zip’s history, starting with the rags-to-riches story of how Hungarian immigrant Eli Czaplinsky developed his famous candy lines, and how each of his candies, from Little Sammies to Mumbo Jumbos, was inspired by an element in a stolen library copy of Little Black Sambo, from which he taught himself English. Within Alice’s vivid and persuasive account (is her unreliability a tactic or a condition?) are the stories of a runaway slave from the cacao plantations of Côte d’Ivoire and the Third Reich’s failed plan to establish a colony on Madagascar for European Jews.
 
Richly informed, deeply moving, and spiked with Weber’s trademark wit, True Confections is, at its heart, a timeless and universal story of love, betrayal, and chocolate.]]> 53353 3.39 656 148 2009 7193874 0307462552 9780307462558 0 <![CDATA[True Confections]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7193874-true-confections 0.0 0 53353 3.39 656 148 2009 7180033 0786289775 9780786289776 0 <![CDATA[Triangle]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7180033-triangle 0.0 0 53353 3.39 656 148 2006