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New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestselling author Susanna Kearsley is a former museum curator who loves restoring the lost voices of real people to the page, interweaving romance and historical intrigue with modern adventure.

Her books, published in translation in more than 20 countries, have won the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards, a RITA Award, and National Readers’ Choice Awards, and have finaled for the UK’s Romantic Novel of the Year and the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel.

She lives near Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

(Aka Emma Cole, a pseudonym she used for one novel, Every Secret Thing, a thriller which at the time was intended to be the first of a trilogy featuring he ...more

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Bellewether Tour Dates for USA

Hi everybody!

Just a reminder of where I'll be stopping next week on my tour to celebrate the American publication of BELLEWETHER...

Sunday, August 5 @ 2pm:
Central Rappahannock Regional Library
1201 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, VA 22401

Monday, August 6 @ 6:30pm:
High Point Museum
1859 East Lexington Ave., High Point, NC 27262

Tuesday, August 7 @ 6pm:
Malaprop's Books/Cafe
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	The Winter Sea (Slains, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 59,954 ratings — published 2008 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rose Garden 4.01 avg rating — 29,960 ratings — published 2011 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Firebird (Slains, #2) 4.08 avg rating — 25,779 ratings — published 2013 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mariana 4.07 avg rating — 22,911 ratings — published 1994 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadowy Horses 3.95 avg rating — 19,063 ratings — published 1997 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Desperate Fortune 4.01 avg rating — 15,852 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bellewether 3.94 avg rating — 10,464 ratings — published 2018 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Splendour Falls 3.73 avg rating — 9,928 ratings — published 1995 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.”
― Susanna Kearsley, Mariana

tags: change, life, past

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“But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea

tags: life-lessons

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“Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.”
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Polls

October BoTM Side Reads!! 1st Poll.

Top 5 books will move onto the second poll!!!

Before I Go To Sleep

by S.J. Watson

11 votes, 14.7%

Two Sisters

by Mary Hogan

11 votes, 14.7%

This is Where I Leave You

by Jonathan Tropper

9 votes, 12.0%

Outlander

by Diana Gabaldon

8 votes, 10.7%

The Winter Sea

by Susanna Kearsley

7 votes, 9.3%

The Enchanted

by Rene Denfeld

6 votes, 8.0%

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

5 votes, 6.7%

A Fine Balance

by Rohinton Mistry

5 votes, 6.7%

The Night Watch

by Sarah Waters

4 votes, 5.3%

The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan

3 votes, 4.0%

The Orphan Master's Son

by Adam Johnson

3 votes, 4.0%

Replay

by Ken Grimwood

2 votes, 2.7%

The Old Mermaid's Tale

by Kathleen Valentine

1 vote, 1.3%

75 total votes

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