Reminder -- One Day Left

To win Jame Richard's fantastic Three Rivers Rising, enter here for a signed ARC!  Kirkus gave it a starred review.

I suspect this book will be big once awards roll around.  In fact, it has already won a Pen New England and the Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award.

Some details:

Sixteen-year-old Celestia spends every summer with her family at the elite resort at Lake Conemaugh, a shimmering Allegheny Mountain reservoir held in place by an earthen dam. Tired of the society crowd, Celestia prefers to swim and fish with Peter, the hotel’s hired boy. It’s a friendship she must keep secret, and when companionship turns to romance, it’s a love that could get Celestia disowned. These affairs of the heart become all the more wrenching on a single, tragic day in May, 1889. After days of heavy rain, the dam fails, unleashing 20 million tons of water onto Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the valley below. The town where Peter lives with his father. The town where Celestia has just arrived to join him. This searing novel in poems explores a cross-class romance—and a tragic event in U.S. history.

And:

"I loved this powerful story that is wrought with such skill and told in soaring language. Readers will long remember these memorable characters as they struggle against disaster. A splendid work!"

 -- Patricial Reilly Giff

 I'l be sad to part with it, but you'll be happy to receive it.