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Sarah Bird is the author of five previous novels: The Yokota Officers Club, Virgin of the Rodeo, The Mommy Club, The Boyfriend School, and Alamo House. She is a columnist for the Texas Monthly and has written for The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, O Magazine, Glamour, and Mademoiselle, among other publications. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, George, and son, Gabriel.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 29, 2002
Price: $14.95
“A GEM, POLISHED AND FACETED IN A WAY THAT PULLED ME INTO THE HEART OF IT WITH THE FIRST PARAGRAPH. . . . Important, touching, meaningful, and uplifting.”
–JEANNE RAY
Chicago Tribune
After a year away at college, military brat Bernadette Root has come “home” to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, to... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $13.95
“Bird captures the staccato passion of flamenco in a rapturous love triangle.”
–People
“The Flamenco Academy opens so boldly . . . that you have to wonder how [Sarah] Bird can sustain such high drama. But it quickly becomes apparent that she’s mapped her novel’s treacherous terrain and planned accordingly, building characters sturdy... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2003
Price: $13.95
Gretchen Griner is an underpaid, underappreciated photographer for the Austin (that’s Texas) Grackle, part-time lover of Peter Overton Treadwell III (known as “Trout”), and major consumer of Cup O’ Soup. That is, until she meets Lizzie Potts—otherwise known as Viveca Lamoureaux, romance writer extraordinaire. Lizzie has a plan for Gretchen’s life—and... Read more >
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Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $23.95
Blythe Young—a wannabe Texas princess, a heroine as plucky, driven, and desperate as Vanity Fair’s Becky Sharp—is plummeting precipitously from up- to downstairs, banging her head on every step of the Austin social ladder as she falls. Not unlike the country as a whole, Blythe has surrendered to a multitude of... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2003
Price: $13.95
At thirty-eight, Trudy Herring is a dreamer, a sculptor of whimsical clay figures, and a permanent temporary worker at the San Antonio Museum of Folk Art. But all that changes when she agrees to incubate a child for Hillary Goettler (her boss) and Hillary’s husband. Trudy moves into their mansion and... Read more >
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Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
“Bird captures the staccato passion of flamenco in a rapturous love triangle.”
–People
“The Flamenco Academy opens so boldly . . . that you have to wonder how [Sarah] Bird can sustain such high drama. But it quickly becomes apparent that she’s mapped her novel’s treacherous terrain and planned accordingly, building characters sturdy... Read more >
