Nerd Alert!

BookExpo America is a Week away!

I'm gearing up for my favorite time of the year, BookExpo America in New York City!  BookExpo America takes place over a four day period usually at the end of May or beginning of June.  I spend the month before (if not more) scouting special events and author signing on the BEA website, bookweb.com and in any nerdy book publishing outlet.  at this time I have reservations made, my schedules are being finalized and my list of sought after titles and authors is being finalized.  Now all I need is to go!

BEA is such an exciting time for books lovers and author groupies like myself.  Check back for updates and author pics from the event!

Here's a sneak peak as to who I'll be seeing...

Wally Lamb

Laura Lippman

Sarah Jio

Amy Tan

Neil Gamain

Hot Books for Cool Moms

Happy Mother's Day!!!
We will be celebrating Mothers all month long with a list of worthwhile motherly reads.

Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman
Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
Unless by Carol Shields
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
The Sins of the Mother by Danielle Steel
The Mothers by Jennifer Gilmore
Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner
Waiting to Surface by Emily Listfield

What Do You Do All Day by Amy Scheibe
As Husbands Go by Susan Isaacs
Marmee & Louisa by Louisa May Alcott
Memory Palace by Mira Bartok
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
Sippy Cups are not for Chardonnay: And other things I had to Learn as a New Mom by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir by Jacki Lyden
What to Keep by Rachel Cline


Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwartz
Five Quarters of an Orange by Joanne Harris
Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Night Road by Kristin Hannah
Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
Room by Emma Donoghue
Four of a Kind by Valerie Frankel
What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-One Women On the Gifts that Matter Most by Elizabeth Benedict


The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Mothers and Sons: Stories by Colm Toibin
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain
A Woman of Independant Means by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Winter Garden by Keistin Hannah
Heartwood by Belva Plain
Love You More by Lisa Gardner
The Surrogate by Judith Henry Wall
Save Me by Lisa Scottoline

Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
The Bad Mother's Handbook by Kate Long
Accidental Happiness by Jean Reynolds Page
The Turk and My Mother by Mary Helen Stefaiak
Swallow the Ocean: a Memoir by Laura M. Flynn
The Good Mother by Sue Miller
Raising Hope by Kate Willard
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Up From the Blue by Susan Henderson

If its Not One Thing, Its Your Mother by Julia Sweeney
Danny's Mom by Elaine Wolf
Some Assembly Required by Ann Lamott
Sweet Ruin by Cathi Hanauer
Outside the Ordinary by Dori Ostermiller
Ten Days by Janet Gilsdorf
No More Words: A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Reeve Lindberg
Rosie by Ann Lamott
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda