Less PH23-1

Less PH23-1Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes it would be too awkward and you can't say no it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half baked literary events around the world. QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town? ANSWER: You accept them all.

Publisher: Sparkhouse Family (September 26

is Harriet's charismatic childhood friend Gretel Kercheval —a figure who seems to have had a hand in everything (good or bad) that has happened to Harriet since they met

including the S-IVB third stage with the lunar lander and lunar orbiter

There Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law Fareeda and strange new husband Adam

and masterful uses of the medium

his sister is becoming a teenager and no longer has interest in him

Fans can choose among the four journals—Gryffindor

it will resonate with readers long after they've put it down

animals work as Weavers

palm tree and sandcastle

In a nearly wordless picture book

Hardcover in slipcase: 552 pages