the Midwest Booksellers Association
February 2010 Picks
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 Weeping Underwater Looks a Lot Like Laughter
by Michael J. White
$24.95
Seventeen-year-old George Flynn, an all-around decent guy, has just moved with his family to Des Moines, a place where he knows no one and is pretty much nobody. Despite this inauspicious start to his junior year, he soon finds his niche, falling in with the unique, enchanting Schell sisters. Emily, an aspiring actress and free spirit, becomes the object of George's mostly unrequited yearnings. But it's Katie, with her quirks, her scathing deadpan humor, and her brave battle with multiple sclerosis, who really gets George hooked on the Schells. When an out-of-the-blue tragedy strikes, upsetting the delicate balance of all their lives, George must figure out a way to help Emily in order to save himself.
 Cougar Club
by Susan McBride
$13.99
Meet three women who aren't about to run and hide just because the world says they should be on the shelf and out of circulation: Kat— Her life seems perfect until she loses her high-powered advertising job and catches her live-in lover in a compromising position—with his computer!
Carla— This sexy TV news anchor is in danger of being replaced by a twentysomething blond bimbo. Wasn't it just yesterday that she was the up-and-coming star? Elise— A married dermatologist, Elise thinks her plastic surgeon husband is playing doctor with someone else. Kat firmly believes that aging gracefully isn't about giving up; it's about living life with your engine on overdrive. So this unofficial "Cougar Club" quickly learns three things about survival of the fittest in today's youth-obsessed society: True friendship never dies, the only way to live is real, and you're never too old to follow your heart.
 Featured Title
A Reliable Wife
by Robert Goolrick
$14.95
This was a Midwest Connections Pick in March of 2009, it’s been a bestseller in the Midwest and book groups are eating it up! This is also a title we spoke about at Night-In. In case you missed it, here’s a description of the book:
He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for "a reliable wife." She responded, saying that she was "a simple, honest woman." She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only simple thing about her was her single-minded determination to marry this man and then kill him, slowly and carefully, leaving her a wealthy widow, able to take care of the one she truly loved.
What Catherine Land did not realize was that the enigmatic and lonely Ralph Truitt had a plan of
his own. And what neither anticipated was that
they would fall so completely in love.
Filled with unforgettable characters, and shimmering with color and atmosphere, A Reliable Wife is an enthralling tale of love and madness, of longing and murder.
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