VALENTINE PARTY and STORY HOUR with Miss Julie in the Children's Store

Friday, February 10th at 10:30 a.m.

Stories, Crafts and Valentine Refreshments.

LISA GARDNER presents Catch Me

Saturday, February 11th at 4 p.m.

In four days, someone is going to kill me . . .

Detective D. D. Warren is hard to surprise. But a lone woman outside D.D.'s latest crime scene shocks her with a remarkable proposition: Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant believes she will be murdered in four days. And she wants Boston's top detective to handle the death investigation.

It will be up close and personal. No evidence of forced entry, no sign of struggle.
Charlie tells a chilling story: Each year at 8:00 p.m. on January 21st, a woman has died. The victims have been childhood best friends from a small town in New Hampshire; the motive remains unknown. Now only one friend, Charlie, remains to count down her final hours.

Vero Beach Bookies Book Group discuss Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Monday, February 13th at 10:30 a.m.

Published by Random House Publishing

In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people.

Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author’s most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s.

KRISTIN HANNAH presents Home Front

Thursday, February 16th at 4 p.m.

From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore.  But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce.  Then the Iraq war starts.  An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm’s way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news.   When the worst happens, each must face their darkest fear and fight for the future of their family.  An intimate look at the inner landscape of a disintegrating marriage and a dramatic exploration of the price of war on a single American family, HOME FRONT is a provocative and timely portrait of hope, honor, loss, forgiveness, and the elusive nature of love.

STEVE CORTES presents Against the Herd: 6 Contrarian Investment Strategies You Should Follow

Thursday, February 23rd at 5:30 p.m.

"Against the Herd is to investment what Freakonomics was to economics—smart, savvy, counterintuitive insights that are fun to read. Steve Cortes shows why in today's global ugly contestant beauty pageant—where the least ugly wins—America could come out on top."—David M. Smick, author of the international bestseller The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy

"I've had the honor of knowing Steve Cortes for years, having met him during his days as a trader in Chicago. He impressed me then with his broad, 'macro' view of the global economy, a view I have always shared. His inputs have made me a better analyst and, most importantly, a better trader and investor. I cannot recommend his new book, Against the Herd, strongly enough. If he's helped me, a thirty-five-year veteran of the markets, certainly, his thoughts will help you, the reader."—Dennis Gartman, The Gartman Letter and a 37 year veteran of the market

JULIE KRAMER presents Killing Kate: A Novel

Monday, March 5th at 6 p.m.

Riley Spartz discovers a serial killer drawing angel-shaped chalk outlines around the bodies of his victims, she unearths an eerie legend dating back nearly a century. Tracking the story to an Iowa cemetery, Riley finds an infamous Black Angel monument that may be connected to the string of homicides throughout the Midwest.

JEN LANCASTER presents If You Were Here: A Novel

Wednesday, March 7th at 6 p.m.

Told in the uproariously entertaining voice readers have come to expect from Jen Lancaster, If You Were Here follows Amish-zombie-teen-romance author Mia and her husband Mac (and their pets) through the alternately frustrating, exciting, terrifying, but always funny, process of buying and renovating their first home in the Chicago suburbs that John Hughes's movies made famous. Along their harrowing renovation journey, Mia and Mac get caught up in various wars with the homeowners' association, meet some less than friendly neighbors, and are joined by a hilarious cast of supporting characters, including a celebutard ex- landlady. As they struggle to adapt to their new surroundings, with Mac taking on the renovations himself, Mia and Mac will discover if their marriage is strong enough to survive months of DIY renovations.

RANDY WAYNE WHITE presents Chasing Midnight: A Doc Ford Novel

Sunday, March 11th at 4 p.m.

It began peacefully enough, on one of Florida's private islands.
At a reception hosted by a notorious Russian black marketeer, Doc Ford uses darkness, and his friend Tomlinson, as cover to get an underwater look at the billionaire's yacht. By the time Ford surfaces, everything has changed.

Environmental extremists have taken control of the island. Or are they thugs hired by the Russian's competitors? Whatever the motive, they have herded everyone together and threatened to kill one hostage every hour until midnight unless their demands are met-at which point they will just blow everybody up.

Vero Beach Bookies Book Group discuss The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht

Monday, March 12th at 10:30 a.m.

Published by Random House Publishing

In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy ofThe Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with “the deathless man.” But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her—the legend of the tiger’s wife.

STEPHANIE MCAFEE presents Diary of a Mad Fat Girl: A Novel

Monday, March 12th at 6 p.m.

Graciela "Ace" Jones is mad-mad at her best friend Lilly who cancels their annual trip to Panama City for mysterious reasons; at her boss Catherine for "riding her ass like a fat lady on a Rascal scooter;" at her friend Chloe's abusive husband; and especially at Mason McKenzie, the love of her life, who has shown up with a marriage proposal three years too late. Ace is never mad, though, at her near-constant companion, an adorable chiweenie dog named Buster Loo.

BILLY W. HARP presents Scrabblin' and Lydia

Wednesday, March 14th at 6 p.m.

Journeys of the Mathis family continue as Lydia and Melvin's life is fraught with tragedies and deaths in the family. Through the years, their enduring love and the love of their friends and family help to pull them through the tough times.

JODI PICOULT presents LONE WOLF

Monday, March 19th at 6pm

Published by Atria Books

**This will be a ticketed event held at the Vero Beach High School Performing Arts Center.  Ticket information will be available soon**

Edward Warren, twenty-four, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: His dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara.

With her father’s chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father’s organs. Is he motivated by altruism, or revenge? And to what lengths will his sister go to stop him from making an irrevocable decision?

SUZANNE BROCKMANN presents Born to Darkness: Fighting Destiny Series Book 31

Wednesday, March 21st at 6 p.m.

In the not-too-distant future, the Obermeyer Institute (OI) has made a revolutionary discovery: With special training, humans can tap into the brain's hidden powers (think telepathy, telekinetic powers, super strength, and more). The training is strenuous, though, and it works only for those with natural potential. Tough girl Mac has that potential, and she's a devoted member of the OI. But there's one rule she can't help but bend. Her boss thinks celibacy is key to their work. Mac's learned differently—an active sexual life enhances her powers. And when she meets Shane, a sexy former Navy SEAL, the sparks are instant. But after the two spend an amazing night together, Mac finds out that Shane's a new recruit at the institute. How can she mix business and pleasure?

HARLAN COBEN presents Stay Close: A Novel

Friday, March 23rd at 5 p.m.

**Autograph line vouchers issued with book purchases from Vero Beach Book Center**

Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Now she's got two kids, a perfect husband, a picket fence, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but at age forty he finds himself in a dead- end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrity-obsessed rich kids. Jack is a detective who can't let go of a cold case-a local husband and father disappeared seventeen years ago, and Jack spends the anniversary every year visiting a house frozen in time, the missing man's family still waiting, his slippers left by the recliner as if he might show up any moment to step into them.