The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Blackberry Winter" imagines the inspiration for "Goodnight Moon"
"Goodnight Moon "by Margaret Wise Brown ("Goodnight Songs") is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In "Goodnight June, " Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful [...]
"Jio has become one of the most-read women in America." -"Woman's World"
Born during a Christmas blizzard, Jane Williams receives a rare gift: the ability to "see" true love. Jane has emerged from an ailing childhood a lonely, hopeless romantic when, on her twenty-ninth birthday, a mysterious g[...]
"Terrific ... compelling ... an intoxicating blend of mystery, history and romance, this book is hard to put down." --"Real Simple "
On the eve of the Second World War, the last surviving specimen of a camellia plant known as the Middlebury Pink lies secreted away on an English country estate. [...]
"New York Times" bestselling author Sarah Jio imagines life on Boat Street, a floating community on Seattle's Lake Union, home to people of artistic spirit who for decades protect the dark secret of one startling night in 1959
Fleeing an East Coast life marred by tragedy, Ada Santorini takes up[...]
A heartbroken woman stumbled upon a diary and steps into the life of its anonymous author.
In her twenties, Emily Wilson was on top of the world: she had a bestselling novel, a husband plucked from the pages of "GQ," and a one-way ticket to happily ever after.
Ten years later, the tide has[...]
A sweeping World War II saga of thwarted love, murder, and a long-lost painting. In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by[...]
In 2011, Sarah Jio burst onto the fiction scene with two sensational novels--"The Violets of March" and "The Bungalow." With "Blackberry Winter"--taking its title from a late-season, cold-weather phenomenon--Jio continues her rich exploration of the ways personal connections can transcend the bounda[...]
"Terrific ... compelling ... an intoxicating blend of mystery, history and romance, this book is hard to put down." --"Real Simple "
On the eve of the Second World War, the last surviving specimen of a camellia plant known as the Middlebury Pink lies secreted away on an English country estate. [...]
Seattle, 1933. Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, good night and reluctantly leaves for work. She hates the night shift, but it's the only way she can earn enough to keep destitution at bay. In the morning ? even though it's the second of May ? a heavy snow is falling. Vera rushes to wa[...]
?Terrific . . . compelling . . . an intoxicating blend of mystery, history, and romance, this book is hard to put down.? ? Real Simple On the eve of the Second World War, the last surviving specimen of a camellia plant known as the Middlebury Pink lies secreted away on an English country estate. Flo[...]
In a Seattle houseboat community, the artistic spirit that has flourished since the 1950s may have ended one life yet saved another. On Seattle's Lake Union floats Boat Street. The farthest slip on the dock holds a houseboat sided with weathered cedar shingles and trailing morning glory, the white f[...]
From acclaimed novelist Sarah Jio, a new "mystery-slash-love story that] will have you racing to the end"
Seattle, 1933. Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, goodnight and reluctantly leaves for work. She hates the nightshift, but it's the only way she can earn enough to keep destit[...]
Seattle 1933. Vera Ray sier god natt til sønnen Daniel på tre år og går på nattskift på hotellet. I løpet av natten blir det snøstorm og når Vera endelig kommer seg hjem, er Daniel forsvunnet. Alle spor er dekket av snøen, men hun finner bamsen hans på gaten utenfor huset.Seattle 2010. Jo[...]
"En sterk og annerledes kjærlighetshistorie mellom en ung kvinne og en mystisk soldat."Marie Claire"[...] den perfekte blanding av eventyr, mystikk, kjærlighet og sorg."First for WomenSommeren i 1942 reiser Anne Calloway til stillehavsøya Bora-Bora som militær sykepleierske. Hun nøler ikke med [...]