{"id":38834,"date":"2021-01-16T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=38834"},"modified":"2021-01-08T15:17:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T21:17:51","slug":"best-seller-club-january-authors-nicholas-sparks-and-john-sandford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/best-seller-club-january-authors-nicholas-sparks-and-john-sandford\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Seller Club January Authors – Nicholas Sparks and John Sandford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Want the hottest new release from your favorite author? Want to stay current with a celebrity book club? Love nonfiction? You should join the\u00a0Best Sellers Club<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Choose any author, celebrity pick, and\/or nonfiction pick and the Davenport Public Library will put the latest title on hold for you automatically. Select as many as you want! If you still have questions, please check out our list of\u00a0FAQs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New month means new highlighted authors from the Best Sellers Club<\/a>! January’s authors are Nicholas Sparks for fiction and John Sandford for mystery. Have you read either of these authors?<\/p>\n

\"\"Our fiction pick for January is Nicholas Sparks<\/a>. So far, Sparks has published 21 novels and one non-fiction memoir that he co-wrote with his brother. His books have been published in more than 50 languages and have sold more than 105 million copies worldwide. His first novel,\u00a0The Notebook<\/em>, was written in six months when Sparks was 28 and he followed that up with more. You may already be familiar with the film adaptations of many of Nicholas Sparks novels, all of which he has served as a producer on.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Sparks’ newest book is The Return<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>This title was released on September 29, 2020. Curious \"\"<\/a>what\u00a0The Return<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, NC. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked as an orthopedic surgeon sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a place to regroup as any.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tending to his grandfather’s beloved bee hives while gearing up for a second stint in medical school, Trevor isn’t prepared to fall in love with a local . . . and yet, from their very first encounter, his connection with Natalie Masterson can’t be ignored. But even as she seems to reciprocate his feelings, she remains frustratingly distant, making Trevor wonder what she’s hiding.<\/em><\/p>\n

Further complicating his stay in New Bern is the presence of a sullen teenage girl, Callie, who lives in the trailer park down the road from his grandfather’s cabin. Claiming to be 19, she works at the local sundries store and keeps to herself. When he discovers she was once befriended by his grandfather, Trevor hopes Callie can shed light on the mysterious circumstances of his grandfather’s death, but she offers few clues — until a crisis triggers a race that will uncover the true nature of Callie’s past, one more intertwined with the elderly man’s passing than Trevor could ever have anticipated.<\/em><\/p>\n

In his quest to unravel Natalie and Callie’s secrets, Trevor will learn the true meaning of love and forgiveness . . . and that in life, to move forward, we must often return to the place where it all began.<\/em><\/p>\n

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