Based on true events around the Sarajevo Haggadah, Brooks has woven a tale traced across Europe through six centuries that is fresh, rich, smart, and exciting to read. One story line of the story is told from the first person perspective of the book conservator - Hanna. A woman with mother-issues who is given the opportunity of a lifetime to work on the Sarajevo Haggadah. She is curious about it's history and the people that it has touched in all it's past wanderings. The other story line works backward chronologically through the places where the Haggadah met a crucial turning point and the people and story that followed. You will be stunned, amazed and charmed. I promise. I stayed up all night and couldn't put it down.

Shar, Abby, and Daisy [written respectively by Crusie, Stuart and Rich in a collaborative novel] find out that they are the descendants of the Mesopotamian Goddess Kammani. They work together, along with other goddess descendants, and the new men in their lives, to figure out their new-found powers, come to terms with their own family histories, and thwart Kammani's plans to take over present day Ohio and then the world. Oh, and did I mention the dogs talk. 

For more information on how the collaboration worked and to see it in action visit their website. I highly recommend the blog. I guarantee you will laugh.

Fleur spends her young life longing for the love and attention of her father only to abhor it when she actually get its it for the wrong reasons. A pawn between her parents, she has been a model and an actress and it's not until she ventures out on her own after learning of her mother's duplicity does she really begin to learn who she really is. An Epic story beginning in the days of Old Hollywood with Fleur's talentless mother trying to break into the business and being dazzled and by the stars instead. Phillips weaves a poignant tale of discovery and the tragedy that families can bring to themselves until Fleur finds out who she truly is and learns to love herself and her dream.