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Lily, a librarian with a bookmobile, arrives in the small California town of Nolan to help start a book club. Across the ocean in an Alsatian chateau, an ancient Book of Cures is stolen and surreptitiously travels to a California coast library, then on to Nolan. Suspicion swirls around the three lonely club members. Unaware of the theft, they secretly pursue their curiosity about classical erotica, while sipping a strange tea infused with herbs grown in a gypsy garden. Mysterious events collide. A crime wave and a murder shake up the town, as the women are entangled deeper and deeper into a baffling puzzle of danger and death.
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THE EROTICA BOOK CLUB FOR NICE LADIES, my mystery/women's fiction won a Eudora Welty Fiction award, with recognition from the Chanticleer Mystery and Mayhem competition & Wishing Shelf Book Clubs in Great Britain and Sweden. My story involves 3 women in a book club entangled in the theft of an ancient book of herbal cures. Featured at the San Francisco American Library Conference, I next appeared on a Story Circle Network panel with Susan Wittig Albert and Deborah Winegarten, signed at Book Woman, one of the few remaining feminist bookstores and The Tattered Cover in Denver. Another quirky novel POWERBALL 33, the story of a young poet/handyman who wins the lottery, and LINCOLN & THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS, a creative non-fiction are still available. You'll find my work in over 25 anthologies, like "The Art of Living", where my essay shares pages with The Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Deepak Chopra. "Inside and Out, Women's Truths, Women's Stories," the most current anthology, and "What Wildness Is This", U of Texas Press, with Barbara Kingsolver, Terry Tempest Williams, and Susan Tweit also included. My "Wise Women Videos" are archived in Harvard University's Library on the History of Women in America. Check out: fb Connie Spittler-author
