Beloved YA author Jodi Lynn Anderson’s Peaches is an irresistible summer read.
Three girls from very different backgrounds all converge during summer break on a Georgia peach orchard. Birdie’s dad owns the farm, her cousin Leeda is visiting for the summer, and Murphy is working on the farm as part of a public service punishment for some teenage mistakes. As the lazy southern summer passes, these three Georgia ‘peaches’ form an unlikely friendship, find themselves wading into the waters of teenage summer love, and learn life lessons along the way. Following their adventures will make you pine for those simple summers of days gone by.
This special edition of Peaches includes a sneak peek at Jodi Lynn Anderson’s upcoming novel Tiger Lily—a dark and romantic reimagining of the Peter Pan fairy tale, available now for pre-order.
Today we’re also offering a bonus Free Fridays short story, "The Rose of Fire," by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.Set at the time of the Spanish Inquisition in the fifteenth century, "Rose of Fire" tells the story of the origins of the mysterious labyrinthine library, the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, which lies at the heart of Carlos Ruiz Zafon's novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, and now The Prisoner of Heaven—available for pre-order. This special edition of “Rose of Fire” includes an excerpt of The Prisoner of Heaven.
Free Fridays Recommends
Each week, we ask our featured author to recommend a book or author that you may want to check out. Since authors are such passionate readers themselves, we thought you might like to find out what they love to read, too! Here’s what Jodi Lynn Anderson recommends:
I recommend Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block. This collection of “fairy tales”—following the lives of complex and wounded young people living in L.A.—is probably what inspired me, more than anything else, to write YA fiction. These are such unique stories told in such beautiful language; even Block’s sentences are works of art.
NOOK owners: go to shop and search for “Jodi Lynn Anderson” to download her delightful books.
