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Diane Chamberlain
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I’m sorry for missing a couple of Story Weekends, but my web designer and I have been busy re-creating an all new site. It was time, especially with the upcoming September publication of Necessary Lies. Please take some time to wander around the site and do let me know if something isn’t working the way it should. So many little bits and pieces to a site this big!
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The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
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The Midwife's Confession
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Before the Storm (Before the Storm, #1)
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The Good Father
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The Lies We Told
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Secrets She Left Behind (Before the Storm #2)
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Breaking the Silence
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The Bay At Midnight
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Summer's Child
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Keeper of the Light
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THE BAY AT MIDNIGHT (Literature & Fiction)
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Her family's cottage on the New Jersey shore was a place of freedom and innocence for Julie Bauer—until her seventeen-year-old sister, Isabel, was murdered.
It's been more than forty years since that August night, but Julie's memories of her sister's death still shape her world. Now someone from her past is raising questions about what really happened that night. About Julie's own complicity. About a devastating secret her mother kept from them all. About the person who went to prison for Izzy's murder—and the person who didn't.
Faced with questions and armed with few answers, Julie must gather the courage to revisit her past and untangle the complex emotions that led to one unspeakable act of violence on the bay at midnight.
BEFORE THE STORM (Literature & Fiction)
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It’s often difficult for me to characterize my books, and Before the Storm is no exception. It’s part suspense, part mystery, and one hundred percent family drama. It’s about how far family members will go to protect one another. It’s about the choices people make that come back to haunt them. And it’s about the gradual unfolding of truths that keep the characters on edge and those pages turning.
THE SECRET LIFE OF CEECEE WILKES (Literature & Fiction)
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Twenty-eight years ago, a North Carolina governor's young, pregnant wife was kidnapped. Now, her remains have been found and a man charged with her murder. Only one person-CeeCee Wilkes-can refute the charges against him. But CeeCee disappeared years ago. . .
The Lies We Told (Literature & Fiction)
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Maya and Rebecca Ward are both accomplished physicians, but that's where the sisters' similarities end. As teenagers, they witnessed their parents' murder, but it was Rebecca who saved Maya from becoming another of the gunman's victims. The tragedy left Maya cautious and timid, settling for a sedate medical practice with her husband, Adam, while Rebecca became the risk taker.
After a devastating hurricane hits the coast of North Carolina, Rebecca and Adam urge Maya to join them in the relief effort. To please her husband, Maya finally agrees. She loses herself in the care and transport of victims, but when her helicopter crashes into raging floodwaters, there appears to be no survivors.
Forced to accept that Maya is gone, Rebecca and Adam turn to one another first for comfort, then in passion, unaware that, miles from civilization, Maya is injured and trapped with strangers she's not certain she can trust. Away from the sister who has always been there to save her, now Maya must find the courage to save herself-unaware that the life she knew has changed forever.
SUMMER'S CHILD (Literature & Fiction)
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Early one morning, on the beach beside her North Carolina home, eleven-year-old Daria Cato receives an unbelievable gift from the sea--an abandoned newborn baby. When the infant's identity cannot be uncovered, she is adopted by Daria's loving family. But her silent secrets continue to haunt Daria and her family.
Now, twenty years later, Shelly has grown into an unusual, ethereal woman whom Daria continues to protect. But when Rory Taylor, a friend from Daria's past and now a television producer, returns to do a story on the mystery of Shelly's birth, something precarious shifts in the small village of Kill Devil Hills.
The more questions Rory asks, the more unsettled the tiny community becomes, as dark sins and closely guarded secrets begin to surface. Piece by piece, the mystery of summer's child is being exposed, and it's a mystery that no one involved is prepared to solve.
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Every family has a story, told and retold so many times it seems firm and irrefutable. Etched in granite. Here are the bare bones of my family's story: My parents were murdered by a masked stranger, who shot them in our driveway. My sister, Rebe..." Read more of this chapter » |
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“Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Midwife's Confession
― Diane Chamberlain, The Midwife's Confession
“She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Lost Daughter
― Diane Chamberlain, The Lost Daughter
“My life sucked, and it would catch up to me, and I'd just crack.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Secrets She Left Behind
― Diane Chamberlain, Secrets She Left Behind
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Jul 07, 2012 07:15am
Thanks for connecting, Diane. I lived in North Carolina for 5 years, before moving to the Midwest. My memoir - Out of Sync - is also about relationships. I'd love to be an accomplished author like you one day - 21 novels! - that's well done!!
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Thanks for approving us as friends, Diane! I’m Gusto Dave Jackson Publicist for RMFW. On the Chiseled in Rock Blog: http://chiseledinrock.blogspot.com • Scroll down to last Monday for the interview with the hilarious J.A. KAZIMER. Find out about her new book that helped start the fairy tale trend.
• And another crazy cartoon from E.C. STACY.
• Today we chat with literary agent GINA PANETTIERI.
• And tomorrow, check out Meet the Reader – authors interviewing voracious book buyers like you!
Hello! Thank you for accepting my friend request! You are one of my favorite authors--I really enjoy reading your books. It's always nice to visit other people's pages on Goodreads and see what everyone is reading! Kind regards, Cheryl
Mary Anita And The Second Liberation In Kenya Consider reading this dramatic book full of African passion and flavour, culture, social life and politics
Hi- Just to let you know...Peter: a Darkened Fairytale
AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW!!! DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER
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Best wishes, William
Thanks for accepting my friend request, Diane. You seem like an interesting person, as well as quite the prolific author, so feel free to tell me more about yourself. I, myself, am a singer/songwriter/actor who has recently turned author. My 2 top ten recordings were CONCRETE & CLAY (as a singer) and NAVY BLUE (as a writer)...both in the early 1960's. My first novel is an unusual murder mystery entitled: FORBIDDEN STEPS.Regards, and have a great day, Ed
http://www.edrambeau.com
Hello, Diane! Glad to see you really liked "Room", I did too! http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Hi Diane - Thank you for your friendship.Please visit my website http://www.peteradarkenedfairytale.co.uk
to view a sample page and many other snippets about the book.
Expected release date mid-late Jan.
Best wishes, William
I love Point Pleasant, New Jersey, but I grew up in Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey. I still love sand between my toes.Thanks for adding me as a friend!
I just finished "Before the Storm" and can't wait for the sequel! Your books are definitely page turners!!!!
Hi Diane,Always great to hear from another crime thriller person. I've just finished my latest about a black cop in Birmingham who's drawn into a conspiracy to set up a crime after his informant is murdered by a Yardie boss. It's called REDEMPTION SONGS. ENEMY WITHIN, a retrospective set during the miners strike is published in April and the details are already up on www.picnic-publishing.co.uk You cxan look up my self published retrospective thriller, HOLLYWOOD BOWL, on http://www.lulu.com/2557400 The ISBN is ISBN 978-1-4092-0457-2
Take care and hope to hear from you shortly,
ROGER
The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes finally arrived today. I peeked inside and before I knew it the first two chapters were read... yay! I love a book that pulls me so fast that I'm gone before I realize that I've left:)
Hi. Nice to meet you on Goodreads as well as Redroom today. You've been busy! If you're not done surfing, come visit my Goodreads page, my Redroom page or my website:
www.marshallbooks.net
Thanks so much for adding me Diane. Your work sound so exciting and adventurous! I know you must be very busy, but if you can I'd love for you to visit my web site, jeanniebarber.com. I'm a novice writer so feel free to make any kind of suggestions, ideas or thoughts to correct it. I’m co-authoring a novel with Patty Wiseman, another friend on Goodreads. We’ve known each other for over 30 years. While you're there, please sign the guestbook, too! There’s also a link to our book you can click on…clairkelley@synthasite.com. This site is brand new and in the editing stage as is our story. Please visit it as well. We’re both very green, but we’ve met so many people on this site willing to reach out and offer advice or a guiding hand, we feel very blessed.Thanks,
Jeannie
Diane,I'm so pleased that you extended the invitation to be your friend on Goodreads. What a striking picture you have posted--must be the work of your significant other. Wow.
And what a busy lady you have been. I love the titles of your books! I've sworn off fiction (reading of) for so long because I have no willpower and let it consume my life so there's no time for my day job + writing of, but I'm starting slowly to add it back into my life. I'll keep your wonderful titles in mind.
Liz Adair
Author of
The Spider Latham Mystery Series
Mist of Quarry Harbor
Lucy Shook's Letters from Afghanistan (editor)
Counting the Cost (Out in November 08)
