{"id":45011,"date":"2022-08-18T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=45011"},"modified":"2022-08-11T16:18:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T21:18:02","slug":"best-sellers-club-august-authors-karen-kingsbury-and-janet-dailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/best-sellers-club-august-authors-karen-kingsbury-and-janet-dailey\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Sellers Club August Authors: Karen Kingsbury and Janet Dailey"},"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\u00a0Best Sellers Club<\/a>! August’s authors are Karen Kingsbury for fiction and Janet Dailey for romance.<\/p>\n

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Our August fiction author is Karen Kingsbury. She is a\u00a0New York Times<\/em> bestselling novelist with more than 25 million copies of her books in print. Many of her novels are in development as major motion pictures.\u00a0 The Baxter family book series has been developed into a television series. In addition to being an author, she is an adjunct professor of writing at Liberty University.\u00a0 She currently lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they are close to their children and grandchildren. Kingsbury writes inspirational fiction.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Kingsbury’s newest book is\u00a0The Baxters: A Prequel<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>published in April 2022. This is the prequel to the Baxter Family series.<\/p>\n

Curious what this book is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher:<\/p>\n

This warmhearted and moving prequel to the \u201cheart-tugging and emotional\u201d (RT Book Reviews) #1 New York Times bestselling Baxter Family Series follows the family members as they face rising tensions during a wedding and a colossal storm.<\/em><\/p>\n

A terrible storm builds in the early morning sky over Bloomington, Indiana, as Elizabeth Baxter prepares to celebrate her daughter Kari\u2019s wedding to Tim Jacobs. It\u2019s supposed to be the happiest of days, but Elizabeth can\u2019t shake a growing sense of dread. Is the storm a sign? Something bad is about to happen. Elizabeth knows it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Indeed, there are dark currents of conflict and doubt coursing through the Baxter family. In the midst of them, Kari Baxter is starting to panic. Is marrying Tim a mistake? And what about her family? Her brother Luke is angry and resentful of their sister Ashley, who has recently returned from Paris, a single mom with a son she too often leaves with their parents. At the same time, Ashley and their sister Brooke have lost the faith that is the family\u2019s glue. Against all this, Kari sees Ashley rejecting her longtime love, Landon Blake, who clearly cares for her, no matter what happened in Paris.<\/em><\/p>\n

When the storm reaches a terrifying crescendo, a shocking moment of danger brings important truths to light. At the end of the long day, can the Baxters remain a family, tested but stronger?<\/em><\/p>\n

From an author who \u201cwrites with seemingly effortless poetic elegance\u201d (Booklist), The Baxters is an unforgettable testament to the power of love, family, and faith.<\/em><\/p>\n

This book is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n