"Bridget Asher's pitch perfect ear for language, sly wit, and compassionate understanding of what it is to be human and fallible made this novel an undiluted joy to read. MY HUSBAND'S SWEETHEARTS is a whip-smart, tender, and eccentric tale that chronicles all the ways forgiveness can come to us; don't miss this ride."
-- Joshilyn Jackson, Bestselling Author of Gods of Alabama; Between, Georgia, and The Girl Who Stopped Swimming

"Each character in this wry and beguiling book has a fresh take on love: how it tricks and blindsides us, makes us crazy, elated, sad; how we can't stop giving it; how it ennobles our lives. As Lucy and her husband's sweethearts reluctantly form a family as unlikely as it is beautiful, I found myself falling -- falling hard -- for every single one of them."
-- Marisa de los Santos, New York Times Bestselling Author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me



A boy named Oyster R. Motel, who is being raised in a nunnery, falls prey to the Awful MTDs (Mysterious Temporary Disappearances) and takes a ride in a silver bucket through the Gulf of Wind and Darkness to an Imagined Other World - filled with Perths, Doggers, Vicious Goggles, dragons, spider-wolves, breathing rivers - where he must defeat the evil Dark Mouth.

Looking for a good book to buy a book for an imaginative kid? (And what kind of a heartless punk isn't?) Check out Julianna's new book in the voice of N.E. Bode, The Slippery Map! And... keep your ears perked at XMKids on XMRadio for regular dispatches from N.E. Bode. For audio snippets and freebies galore, visit theanybodies.blogspot.com. "Potter-style magic mixed with Snickety irreverence ..." People Magazine









The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and Justin Bateman. But the Bode book is all about Mr. Magorium's wonderful life. Read how the brilliant, 243-year-old toy maker influenced the lives of Napoleon, Einstein, Jackie Robinson, Billy Jean King, and many more! Get your copy of The Amazing Compendium of Edward Magorium today!






Julianna's third book of poems COMPULSIONS OF SILKWORMS AND BEES - winner of the 2005-06 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series - (Pleiades Press), is distributed by LSU Press. To request a TEACHER'S GUIDE, Click HERE!

"...[a] bouyant tour-de-force ..." - Susan Ludvigson

"Part primer, part credo, part arm-swinging gambol, this wonderful book is resonant with wit and insight." - Linda Bierds






"The constant mix of sweet and sour, of heart-swelling romance and smart-ass banter is the official language of Modern Urban Singledom. The best-selling author duo (he of Candyfreak, she of Girl Talk) make fine use of the epistolary form -- with a few funny postal mishaps lending a hip meta touch. Their couple's distinct voices and push-pull dynamic are terrifically engaging." -- Entertainment Weekly

Which Brings Me to You was co-written with Steve Almond. Here are some of the nicer things people have said about the book. For the snarkier variety, you'll have to do your own digging.

A Best Book of 2006 - KIRKUS REVIEWS

"... terrifically engaging."
- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

"... there's cumulative power in this probing of heartaches."
- PEOPLE MAGAZINE

"Sexy, funny, and touching...A winner."
- KIRKUS, starred review

"...piercing, funny, and emotional."
- LIBRARY JOURNAL, starred review

"Sharp humor and insights into the modern psyche ... "
- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Coauthored by pop culture darlings...a poignant and meaningful read."
- BOOKLIST

"...sure to be the most insightful and intelligently written novel you've read in quite some time."
- BOOKPAGE

"...page-turning reading."
- NPR, Here and Now, Robin Young

"...enormously satisfying."
- MSNBC





Julianna's book of poems LIZZIE BORDEN IN LOVE: POEMS IN WOMEN'S VOICES was Crab Orchard's Editors Selection for 2006, published by Southern Illinois University Press. The collection gives voice to the "muted and misrepresented" voices of women, from Camille Claudel and Helen Keller to Katharine Hepburn and Monica Lewinsky.
"...Baggott amazes with the scope of her imagination...a dangerous and elegant collection from one of America's finest young poets." - Beth Ann Fennelly


"...a brilliant book and an essential read for both lovers of poetry and scholars wishing to understand the inheritance of silence that is the complicated birthright of contemporary women artists everywhere." - Erin Belieu







Narrow escapes, evil villains, and captured souls from books will keep kids turning pages through an imaginative kaleidoscope of transformations definitely reminiscent of our friends at Hogwarts. Ferns best friend, Howard, is a robotlike wimp who serves as an effective foil to the brave and take-charge Fern, and the Blue Queen is truly terrifying as she gobbles souls from books with the ultimate goal of stealing human ones. Puzzles, anagrams, and references to other childrens books will please young sleuths. Old-fashioned-looking black-and-white sketches contribute to the feel of a classic childrens book. -- School Library Journal





Though Fern is excited about learning Anybody skills, Howard loathes the idea, and Camp Happy Sunshine Good Times is even worse than he imagined: a blind bus driver-handyman; moldy, spider-infested cabins; mean, creepy counselors; a vicious mole who wants something Fern has; and terrified campers who shun Fern. There are also strange soda-pop bottles containing messages demanding that Fern save someone. It's a dangerous, miserable puzzle, but Bode neatly and cleverly ties up loose ends and, on the last page, produces a nifty surprise that will have readers clamoring for another sequel. Suggest this to teachers looking for an off-the-wall read-aloud or as an excellent example of voice in writing. -- Booklist



The Anybodies, written under Julianna's pen name N.E. Bode.

The Anybodies was one of PEOPLE MAGAZINE's top five book picks for 'what's cool this summer.'

"Potter-style magic meets Snicket-y irreverence in a saga of a girl swapped at birth and raised by 'tragically dull' parents."




"Profoundly different from anything she has done before, The Madam is an extraordinary novel which will open a whole new phase of what already looks like a brilliant career."
-- Madison Smartt Bell

"A poet has transformed a piece of history into a luminous and epic piece of literature..."
-- Antonya Nelson

                              "... a tour de force ..." -- Christine Wiltz

The Miss America Family, Boston Globe Bestseller:

"... a writer after my own heart."
-- Richard Russo, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"With her first two novels, Julianna Baggott has achieved a premier place among American writers."
-- Fred Chappell





Girl Talk,
National Bestseller, recently spotted on The Real World (Austin):

"A smart, quirky chronicle of mother-daughter bonding and binding."
-- Glamour

"Filled with the kind of eccentric characters found in Vonnegut or Pynchon." -- Shout Magazine



This Country of Mothers, book of poems:
"In these large, passionate, compelling poems, the speaker's family and the holy family merge in love and suffering-wholly family, wholly loved, wholly suffered for."
-- Andrew Hudgins









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