Jennie Shortridge & Carol Cassella celebrating "THE NOVEL: LIVE!"

Oct 12 2010 6:30 pm

Local authors Jennie Shortridge (When She Flew) and Carol Cassella (Healer) visit Queen Anne Books as part of the citywide celebration of THE NOVEL: LIVE!-- a marathon of on-stage authoring to benefit literacy causes.

Jennie and Carol will read from their latest novels and answer questions from the audience.  Do you have suggestions for The Novel Live?  We can pass them on! You can also buy TNL t-shirts and make donations during the event.

THE NOVEL: LIVE happens at Richard Hugo House Monday October 11- Saturday October 16. 

Healer (Hardcover)

$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781416556121
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Simon & Schuster, 7/2010
From national bestselling author Carol Cassella comes the story of one doctor’s struggle to hold her family together through a storm of broken trust and questioned ethics. Claire is at the start of her medical career when she falls in love with Addison Boehning, a biochemist with blazing genius and big dreams. A complicated pregnancy deflects Claire’s professional path, and she is forced to drop out of her residency. Soon thereafter Addison invents a simple blood test for ovarian cancer, and his biotech start-up lands a fortune. Overnight the Boehnings are catapulted into a financial and social tier they had never anticipated or sought: they move into a gracious Seattle home and buy an old ranch in the high desert mountains of eastern Washington, and Claire drifts away from medicine to become a full-time wife and mother. Then Addison gambles everything on a cutting-edge cancer drug, and when the studies go awry, their comfortable life is swept away. Claire and her daughter, Jory, move to a dilapidated ranch house in rural Hallum, where Claire has to find a job until Addison can salvage his discredited lab. Her only offer for employment comes from a struggling public health clinic, but Claire gets more than a second chance at medicine when she meets Miguela, a bright Nicaraguan immigrant and orphan of the contra war who has come to the United States on a secret quest to find the family she has lost. As their friendship develops, a new mystery unfolds that threatens to destroy Claire’s family and forces her to question what it truly means to heal. Healer exposes the vulnerabilities of the American family, provoking questions of choice versus fate, desire versus need, and the duplicitous power of money.

When She Flew (Paperback)

$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780451227980
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: NAL Trade, 11/2009

Police officer Jessica Villareal has always played by the book and tried to do the right thing. But now, she finds herself approaching midlife divorced, estranged from her daughter, alone, and unhappy. And she's wondering if she ever made a right choice in her life.

But then Jess discovers a girl and her father living off the radar in the Oregon woods, avoiding the comforts-and curses-of modern life. Her colleagues on the force are determined to uproot and separate them, but Jess knows the damage of losing those you love. She recognizes her chance to make a difference by doing something she's never dared. Because even though she's used to playing by the rules, there are times when they need to be broken...


Location: 
Street:
Queen Anne Avenue Books
Additional:
1811 Queen Anne Ave N
City:
Seattle
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Province:
Washington
Postal Code:
98109-2850
Country:
United States