New Releases by Kimberly Labor

THE VOICES OF SAINT BEDE'S: One singer is found unconscious-and another dead! Nothing so devastating has ever transpired before on the beautiful grounds of old Saint Bede's Episcopal Church, New York. Phoebe Overbridge, sister of one of the victims, arrives on the scene from California to begin unraveling not only the origins of these tragic misdeeds but also the deceptively staid fabric of the Saint Bede's community. Peppered with acute observations on a range of social and psychological issues, and delivering a distinct poke in the ribs to the established church, this mystery novel is clearly the author's most scintillating creation to date. KIMBERLY LABOR holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California at Los Angeles, a master's degree in English from Teachers College, Columbia University in the City of New York, and has over the years completed various additional terms of study in France and England. She is the author of two memoirs, I DREAM OF YOU STILL: EARLY YEARS IN BATH and PARIS BROKE ME (IN), and two previous novels, BEATRICE AFLAME and PHILIPPA FEAST. She lives in New York City.

Paris Broke Me (In) People the world over flock to visit beautiful Paris, the "City of Light" and a global center of art and culture. But in this lively travel memoir, Kimberly Labor describes a different Parisian world, one experienced by a student of modest means back in Paris of the late 1970s, before the days of the personal computer, the internet, and the mobile phone. It is a rather lonely world, with lodgings in a mansard room at the very top of an old apartment building in the Latin Quarter, and yet filled with rich and highly entertaining encounters with the widest variety of fellow Parisian residents, from noblemen to street beggars. Those who are fascinated by Paris and who have sharp memories of the struggles of their own student years will be delighted by this newest book by Kimberly Labor. Kimberly Labor, educated in France, England, and the USA, is the author of three previous works focusing upon the pulse-quickening challenges of ever-beloved youth: I Dream of You Still: Early Years in Bath, Beatrice Aflame, and Philippa Feast. She lives in New York City.

Philippa Feast is the undeniably neurotic yet endearing protagonist in this offbeat story of flirtation, friendship, and love in the university student setting. While driven to obsessive analysis of her relationship with the attractive Ralph Thorn, it is Philippa's dogged work ethic, wry sense of humor, and joie de vivre that see her through not only her year of graduate studies but also the dilemmas that love and work mercilessly cast in her path. Kimberly Labor, educated in France, England, and the USA, is the author also of I DREAM OF YOU STILL: EARLY YEARS IN BATH, a memoir; and BEATRICE AFLAME, a novel.

Established boundaries are dangerously threatened in this engrossing story of the tender love that unexpectedly springs up between a young New York woman and a Catholic priest. Beatrice's career aspirations and the pair's wrenching emotional struggles highlight deeper institutional problems within the Roman Catholic Church in the 1980s, which, curiously, continue right up to the present day and cry out for a hearing. BEATRICE AFLAME is a highly entertaining, suspenseful, and thought-provoking novel. KIMBERLY LABOR is the author of I DREAM OF YOU STILL: EARLY YEARS IN BATH, a memoir. She holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a master's degree in English from Teachers College, Columbia University in the City of New York. BEATRICE AFLAME is her first published novel.

Journal entries of an American woman during her stay in Bath, England in the late 1970s.