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Is This Tomorrow by Caroline Leavitt is the story of Ava Lark and her 12-year-old son, Lewis. Lewis befriends other fatherless children in the neighborhood, and one day his best friend turns up missing. Filled with guilt, blame, secrets and a heaping spoonful of Cold War paranoia, Is This Tomorrow is a haunting study of human behavior and values.
We interview Santa Montefiore, author of the recently published Woman from Paris.
Susan Nussbaum’s debut novel, Good Kings, Bad Kings, takes readers inside a state-run facility for adolescent youth with disabilities – which, as one of the characters says, is “just like a regular nursing home, but instead of locking up old people they lock up young people.”
Tom Glenn, the author of Friendly Casualties, a book about Vietnam, asked two other writers who have published books about that war - Karl Marlantes and Grady Smith - to explain why they wrote.
Alan Bradley is a Canadian mystery writer best known for his Flavia de Luce series, including his latest, Speaking From Among the Bones.
William Gass’ latest book is Middle C, the story of Joseph Skizzen, part-time musician, librarian, professor, Inhumanity Museum founder and keeper.
Abigail Tarttelin, author of Golden Boy, will be appearing at the Gaithersburg Book Festival this weekend.
Edward P. Jones is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Known World; winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Lost in the City, a collection of short stories; and a finalist for the National Book Award.
