New Releases by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

Landing in New York’s high society and underground art scene after her mother abandons her, street-smart 16-year-old Geraldine struggles to survive the efforts of three glamorous women to save her. Growing up on the road, it has always been the two of them, locked in dysfunction. Homeschooled, Gerry hasn’t learned much math. Instead, her mother has taught her how to spend the day at a motel’s swimming pool without being a guest or how to dodge paying extra for the chicken on a Caesar salad. When her mother ditches her, Gerry finds herself in the care of three very different women, who each try to remake her. First, there is her mother’s old college friend Bonnie, who lives in a world of country clubs, The Bachelor binges, and whipped mochas. Then there is Nell, her mother’s estranged sister and a successful artist who pushes Gerry to be ambitious. And finally Finley, an old-money socialite who ushers Gerry into a rarefied world of Manhattan privilege. A coming of age novel that explores unconventional forms of motherhood and caretaking, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright's new novel is both a charming comedy of manners and a deeply probing look at the complexities of love, mental illness, and one young woman’s eccentric path to selfhood.

Pragmatic, serious Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have been best friends since high school -- really one another's only friend -- but now that they are through with college (which they attended together) and living on opposite ends of California, Alice would at least expect her friend's support. Sadie, determined not to cancel her plans with her boyfriend, ends up enlisting the help of her mother, Celine. A professor of women's and gender studies at UC Berkeley, Celine's landmark treatise on sex and identity made her notorious, but she's struggling to write her new book in a post-second-wave feminist world. So, when Sadie begs her to attend Alice's play, she relents, if only to escape writer's block. But in a turn of perplexing events, Celine becomes entranced by Alice's performance and realizes that her daughter's once lanky, slightly annoying best friend is now an irresistible young woman. Set over the course of decades -- from Alice and Sadie's early friendship days and Celine's decision to leave her husband to the radical movements of the 1990s Berkeley and navigating contemporary Hollywood -- Alice and Celine's love affair will test the limits of their love for Sadie and their own beliefs of power, agency, and feminism.

A la mort de sa soeur, Valérie est inconsolable. Henry, le séduisant fils du forgeron, tente de gagner ses faveurs, mais le coeur indompté de la belle bat pour un autre garçon, Peter, le bûcheron exclu du groupe, qui lui offre des escapades palpitantes. Un jour, un chasseur fait une terrible révélation aux villageois : la créature qui les terrorise vit parmi eux. Chacun devient suspect. On découvre bientôt que seule Valérie peut entendre la voix du Loup. Et celui-ci exige qu'elle le rejoigne avant que le sang coule...

Valerie, una coraggiosa ragazza a cui la nonna ha donato un manto di seta rosso, vive nel piccolo villaggio di Daggorhorn, assediato da anni da un lupo mannaro. Di giorno la belva prende sembianze umane e di notte, quando la luna ha il colore del sangue, si aggira per i boschi e uccide senza pietà...

La campana de la aldea dobla una, dos, tres veces: alguien ha sido asesinado. Repica una cuarta vez... El asesino es el Lobo. En una época en que las aldeas son tan pequeñas que todo el mundo se conoce, una muchacha intenta abrirse camino en la vida. Y Valerie no es una «buena chica». Cuando el hombre lobo la elige, ella debe tomar una decisión imposible. Con un matrimonio concertado en su nombre y un amor sincero que la invita a la huida, Valerie no tiene a quién recurrir. Su padre está borracho en el pueblo, su madre desea controlarla, y las demás chicas... se apresuran a acusarla de brujería. ¿Quién la salvará? ¿O puede salvarse ella sola? En esta nueva, peligrosa y absorbente versión del cuento clásico, quizá resulte complicado dar con un final feliz.

Valerie's sister was beautiful, kind, and sweet. Now she is dead. Henri, the handsome son of the blacksmith, tries to console Valerie, but her wild heart beats fast for another: the outcast woodcutter, Peter, who offers Valerie another life far from home. After her sister's violent death, Valerie's world begins to spiral out of control. For generations, the werewolf has been kept at bay with a monthly sacrifice. But no one is safe. When an expert wolf hunter arrives, the villagers learn that the creature lives among them - it could be anyone in town. It soon becomes clear that Valerie is the only one who can hear the voice of creature. The Wolf says she must surrender herself before the Blood Moon wanes . . . or everyone she loves will die. This is a dangerous new vision of a classic fairy tale, and for readers who want even more of Valerie's riveting story, a bonus chapter that extends the drama is available at http://www.redridinghoodbook.com/.