Arcadia Falls
Arcadia Falls
Author: Carol Goodman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publication Date: March 2010
Donated By: Kathy from Mommy's Reading
Meg Rosenthal is driving toward the next chapter in her life. Winding along a wooded roadway, her car moves through a dense forest setting not unlike one in the bedtime stories Meg used to read to her daughter, Sally. But the girl riding beside Meg is a teenager now, and has exchanged the land of make-believe for an iPod and some personal space. Too much space, it seems, as the chasm between them has grown since the sudden, unexpected death of Meg’s husband.
Dire financial straits and a desire for a fresh start take Meg and Sally from a comfortable life on Long Island to a tucked-away hamlet in upstate New York: Arcadia Falls, where Meg has accepted a teaching position at a boarding school. The creaky, neglected cottage Meg and Sally are to call home feels like an ill portent of things to come, but Meg is determined to make the best of it—and to make a good impression on the school’s dean, the diminutive, elegant Ivy St. Clare.
St. Claire, however, is distracted by a shocking crisis: During Arcadia’s First Night bonfire, one of Meg’s folklore students, Isabel Cheney, plunges to her death in a campus gorge. Sheriff Callum Reade finds Isabel’s death suspicious, but then, he is a man with secrets and a dark past himself.
Meg is unnerved by Reade’s interest in the girl’s death, and as long-buried secrets emerge, she must face down her own demons and the danger threatening to envelop Sally. As the past clings tight to the present, the shadows, as if in a terrifying fairy tale, grow longer and deadlier.
In Arcadia Falls, award-winning author Carol Goodman deftly weaves a mesmerizing narrative of passion: for revenge, for art, for love.
Dire financial straits and a desire for a fresh start take Meg and Sally from a comfortable life on Long Island to a tucked-away hamlet in upstate New York: Arcadia Falls, where Meg has accepted a teaching position at a boarding school. The creaky, neglected cottage Meg and Sally are to call home feels like an ill portent of things to come, but Meg is determined to make the best of it—and to make a good impression on the school’s dean, the diminutive, elegant Ivy St. Clare.
St. Claire, however, is distracted by a shocking crisis: During Arcadia’s First Night bonfire, one of Meg’s folklore students, Isabel Cheney, plunges to her death in a campus gorge. Sheriff Callum Reade finds Isabel’s death suspicious, but then, he is a man with secrets and a dark past himself.
Meg is unnerved by Reade’s interest in the girl’s death, and as long-buried secrets emerge, she must face down her own demons and the danger threatening to envelop Sally. As the past clings tight to the present, the shadows, as if in a terrifying fairy tale, grow longer and deadlier.
In Arcadia Falls, award-winning author Carol Goodman deftly weaves a mesmerizing narrative of passion: for revenge, for art, for love.
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Kathy mailed 7/1 ~ DC # 03082690000178350587
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Tour Participants:
Kathy mailed 7/1 ~ DC # 03082690000178350587
1. Melissa -done
2. Val - done
3. Katy - done
4. Kelli - done
5. Michelle - done
6. Heather - mailed 10/1 DC # 03082040000032020312
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1. Melissa - Coffee, Books and Laundry
2. Val - Passed on Review
3. Katy - A Few More Pages
4. Kelli - I'd So Rather Be Reading
5. Michelle - The True Book Addict
6. Heather - Proud Book Nerd
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I would love to read this
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I sent it this morning.
DC number:
03082690000178350594
oops wrong DC. Arcadia Falls DC is
03082690000178350587
Received Arcadia Falls this morning. Quick quesstion, how many days do I have for Arcadia Falls?
Sent out Arcadia Fall to next up today DC# 420926209102785091401606853508
Received Arcadia Falls Today.
Mailed Arcadia Falls
DC: 0310 0480 0000 2618 4629
Reviewed Arcadia Falls.
http://melissa-coffeebooksandlaundry.blogspot.com/2010/08/arcadia-falls-by-carol-goodman.html
I received Arcadia Falls today. :) Thanks Val! :)
Review posted here: http://fewmorepages.blogspot.com/2010/08/review-arcadia-falls-by-carol-goodman.html
Mailed this afternoon, here's the DC#: 9102 1288 8230 0268 2143 60
I received Arcadia Falls yesterday and need the next address please. Already done!
Here's my review:
http://idsoratherbereading.blogspot.com/2010/08/book-review-arcadia-falls-by-carol.html
I sent Arcadia Falls out 8/18/10. Here is the DC:
0310 1230 0000 7658 5418
Thanks!
I forgot to let you know...sorry! I rec'd Arcadia Falls on Saturday, 8/21.
mailed out on Thursday, 9/9
DC # 0310 0480 0003 3107 3953
Arrived yesterday (9/14)
DC: 03082040000032020312
Review is coming.
Here's my review:
http://proudbooknerd.com/2010/10/06/review-arcadia-falls/
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