Jacquelyn Mitchard's stunning debut, The Deep End of the Ocean, was a gigantic hit. In the 13 years since its publication, it was chosen by Oprah for her book club, was made into a major motion picture, and became a favorite of book groups all across the nation. Now Mitchard has written a sequel, No Time to Wave Goodbye, and it's been getting rave reviews. With the Cappadora children from the first book grown, fledgling filmmaker Vincent makes a documentary about abducted children who are still missing. When the film is nominated for an Academy Award, the entire family is thrust into the spotlight and forced to confront their feelings about what happened so many years before.
Another book that was a favorite of both book groups and Hollywood is The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Her Fearful Symmetry, while not a sequel, is the latest thing to come from Niffenegger's pen. The New Yorker describes the book by saying, "when Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her estate, including an apartment overlooking the graveyard, to the twin daughters of her twin sister, from whom she has been estranged for twenty years. When Valentina and Julia show up to claim their inheritance, they soon discover that Elspeth is still in residence, in ghostly form."
Nicholas Sparks' latest offering, The Last Song, is a family drama centering on 17-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller. As she tries to navigate her first romance while dealing with the fallout from her parents' divorce three years earlier, she learns that love can both hurt and heal. The movie version of this story, starring Miley Cyrus, is set to release in April, 2010.
Popular Michigan author Mitch Albom writes about belief, faith, and the struggle to find meaning in this world in his latest, Have a Little Faith. A request to write a eulogy leads to Albom becoming reaquainted with both his hometown rabbi and the faith he had left years before. At the same time, he becomes involved with the pastor of a struggling Detroit church, and questions of faith loom large.
Stephen King is a prolific writer, and his fans eagerly await the release of each of his books. Under the Dome, which tells the story of a town in Maine that is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field, should be no different. King's latest is such an event, the final cover isn't even available now, and will be "unveiled" when the book hits the shelves!
