Her books include 2003’s Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason, 2005’s More Book Lust: 1,000 New Reading Recommendations for Every Mood, Moment and Reason Book Crush: For Kids and Teens: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest, published in 2007, and 2010’s Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers. She regularly comments on books on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. Nancy Pearl is a librarian and lifelong reader. Jon lives with his wife outside of Philadelphia and is currently working on a new novel.

He has since written numerous screenplays for Fox, Warner Bros., and Sony, and he is the cowriter of Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg. Setting his sights on Hollywood, he purchased a “how-to” book on screenwriting. His two novels, both critically acclaimed, are The Man in the Window and Max Lakeman and the Beautiful Stranger. After receiving a creative writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, he turned to writing full time. Jon Cohen, a former critical care nurse, wrote his first novel between hospital shifts and raising two children. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Each book is personally selected by NPR commentator and Book Lust author Nancy Pearl and includes an introduction by her, as well as discussion questions for book groups and a list of recommended further reading. One that will make you laugh and that will break-and remake-your heart.īook Lust Rediscoveries is a series devoted to reprinting some of the best (and now out of print) novels originally published from 1960 to 2000. What unfolds is a most unlikely love story. When Louis accidently falls out of his second story window these two kindred souls are brought together. But Iris is about to learn how wrong she is.

Since he was disfigured in a fire sixteen years ago, recluse Louis Malone has remained hidden from the prying eyes of his neighbors in the small town of Waverly.Īcross town, Iris Shula, a lonely and unlovely nurse knows, at thirty-seven, it is unlikely that her Prince Charming will ever appear. “Jon Cohen conjures magic, weaving a gentle romantic fantasy of piercing and eccentric beauty.” - Boston Globe

“An off-beat love story.alternately deeply moving and laugh-aloud funny.” - Good Housekeeping

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