Next meeting September 26th
MEET THE AUTHOR! @ The Bayou Diva's abode

(We are bending the "no men" rule ONLY to meet the author!)

http://www.lewisaleman.com/

Elegant Gathering of White Snows
by Kris Radish

From the Publisher
Eight Women on a Journey That Will Change Their Lives as Lovers, Wives, Mothers, Daughters, Friends

Just after midnight in a small town in Wisconsin, eight women begin walking together down a rural highway. Career women, housewives, mothers, divorcées, and one ex–prom queen, they are close friends who have been meeting every Thursday night for years, sharing food, wine, and their deepest secrets. But on this particular Thursday, Susan, Alice, Chris, Sandy, Gail, Mary, Joanne, and Janice decide to disappear from their own lives.

Their spontaneous pilgrimage attracts national attention and inspires other women from all across the country. As the miles fall away and the women forge ahead on their backroads odyssey—leaving small miracles in their wake—each of their histories unfolds, tales of shattered dreams and unexpected renewal, of thwarted love affairs and precious second chances.In luminous, heartwarming prose, Kris Radish deftly interweaves the women’s intimate confessions into the story of their brave, history-making walk.

A breathtaking achievement, The Elegant Gathering of White Snows tells an incomparable tale of friendship and love, loss and liberation.

The Boleyn Inheritance
by Philippa Gregory

MEETING: June 14th, 7pm

The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about a court ruled by the gallows and three women whose positions brought them wealth, admiration, and power as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror. Once again, Philippa Gregory has brought a vanished world to life -- the whisper of a silk skirt on a stone stair, the yellow glow of candlelight illuminating a hastily written note, the murmurs of the crowd gathering on Tower Green below the newly built scaffold. In The Boleyn Inheritance Gregory is at her intelligent and page-turning best.

Next Title & Meeting: Chances by Jackie Collins - March 16th
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Jackie Collins tour de force!!!

Enter the world of Gino Santangelo, a handsome small time hood who rises to the top of the crime lords with respect, fame and fortune. The story will take you through Gino's childhood and adulthood. You will be amazed by the characters in this novel. Maria Santangelo (Gino's wife), Lucky Santangelo, (Gino's daughter), who makes every woman proud to be a woman. From Gino's family to the Bonatti's family you will be intrigued from the onset, with love betrayal and deception at an all time high. If you are ready to enter the world of wiseguys be prepared to be up a few late nights. It will be quite difficult for the reader to tear himself/herself away from this riveting piece of work.

Meeting November 18th 2006

Undead and Unwed
by MaryJanice Davidson

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From the Publisher
First Betsy Taylor loses her job, then she's killed in a car
accident. But what really bites is that she can't seem to stay dead.
And now her new friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the
prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing the
most obnoxious power-hungry vampire in five centuries.

Reader Reviews
Bust a Gut Laughing
This gal is making the rounds with my friends. Who can read about
this 'lisping', cussing vampire without cracking up? She may be
Valley Girl, but she kicks major butt. And Eric Sinclair is YUMMY! Be
Warned: Once you laugh out loud, people try to steal your book to
read it.

Darling Vampire book.
This was a refreshing, light, fun read. If you are in the mood to
laugh at the Vampire genre, this is the book to get. I liked the
ending especially. We modern day women/vampirellas know how to put
men/vampires in their place.

So funny!!
It is one of those books that when you read it, even for the 3rd or
4th time, it's just as funny or even funnier..Definitely a must
buy!!! I love a series romance writer, so it only gets better in her
future books. Find out more about shoe guru Betsy Taylor!
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Next Book: Bride of the Fat White Vampire
Next Meeting: Friday August 18th - Field Trip

The Barnes & Noble Review
In Bride of the Fat White Vampire, Andrew Fox's sequel to his debut novel, Fat White Vampire Blues -- a laugh-out-loud, satirical look at the horror genre -- Jules Duchon, a 500-pound, bloodsucking taxi driver, will do anything to bring his dead stripper girlfriend back to life.

Jules's old sidekick Rory "Doodlebug" Richelieu, a transvestite vampire educated by Tibetan monks, has a problem: He has been strong-armed into finding out who is systematically mutilating members of an aristocratic vampire clan in New Orleans; and if he can't solve the mystery posthaste, the patriarch of the family will destroy a meditative institute Doodlebug has worked hard to make successful. Doodlebug turns to his friend Jules for help.

He finds Jules in the form of a swarm of fat white rats feasting on New Orleans cuisine in a back-alley dumpster. After using his mystical powers to transform Jules back into his morbidly obese human form, Doodlebug makes a deal: Jules will investigate the bizarre mutilations if Doodlebug can somehow bring his girlfriend (who is now a pile of ashes) back to life. Add to the mix a looming vampire race war, a satanic rock star, a greedy catfish magnate, and one very important wayward rat, and sidesplitting chaos ensues!

Fans of authors like Anne Rice, Laurell K. Hamilton, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and P. N. Elrod will absolutely love this corpulent comedy and its supersized antihero. After reading Bride of the Fat White Vampire, fans of vampiric fiction will never look at gothic romanticism the same way again. In a word: hilarious.

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