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Marisa de los Santos. (2023). Watch Us Shine. HarperCollins.

Marisa de los Santos. 2023. Watch Us Shine. HarperCollins.

Marisa de los Santos, Watch Us Shine. HarperCollins, 2023.

Marisa de los Santos. Watch Us Shine. HarperCollins, 2023.

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     Marisa de los Santos is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning poet with a PhD in literature and creative writing. She lives in Wilmington, Delaware, with her family.

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Marisa de los Santos returns to the world of her beloved, bestselling novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me in an enthralling tale of sisterhood, sacrifice, and the enduring power of love.

"Bring me the Northern Lights."

Cornelia Brown is reeling from a terrifying act of violence when she gets word that her mother has been badly injured in an accident. Cornelia returns to Virginia, to the house she grew up in, and in the weeks that follow, she watches her mother Ellie struggle to recover, fluctuating between her usual crisp, can-do clarity and periods of delirium during which she seems haunted by a devastating loss from her past. In grief-stricken tones, Ellie begs Cornelia to bring her the Northern Lights, and despite her confusion at this mysterious plea, Cornelia vows to do so: "She was my mother and she wanted the Northern Lights; I was her daughter and would have given her anything, anything."

With the help of her prickly sister, Ollie, Cornelia embarks on a mission to piece together the lost years of their mother's life: people, places, and events spanning Ellie's late teens through her mid-twenties. Cornelia and Ollie's quest takes them to unexpected places and into the worlds of strangers whose lives Ellie touched and irrevocably changed. As the sisters uncover truths about their mother's life—some beautiful, some ugly, some tragic—Cornelia herself begins to heal, to forgive herself, and to find her way back home.

Alternating between two timelines—Cornelia's story in the present, and that of the young Eleanor Campbell in the 1960s—Watch Us Shine explores the complicated bonds between sisters, the impossible demands of motherhood, and the power of human love to save us again and again.

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     January 1, 2023
     

     In this follow-up to Audrain's New York Times best-selling debut, The Push, a child loudly berated by his mother at a suburban barbeque later slips from his window and ends up in a coma, prompting Whispers in the neighborhood about what really happened. After debuting with the all-star A Proposal They Can't Refuse, Ca�a cooks up A Dish Best Served Hot, featuring a single dad who falls for his daughter's teacher but jeopardizes their relationship with actions (undertaken for familial duty) of which she disapproves (50,000-copy first printing). In mega-popular Carr's The Friendship Table, four women working together on a highly rated cooking show join forces when they discover that their youngest member has an abusive boyfriend (200,000-copy first printing). When her mother, badly injured in an accident, asks Cornelia Brown to bring her the Northern Lights, a puzzled but obliging Cornelia sorts through her mother's secret past to figure out what she means in Watch Us Shine; from New York Times best-selling de los Santos (75,000-copy first printing). In Trinity author Hall's Reproduction, a novelist abandons a book about Mary Shelley that touches on her challenging pregnancies when she confronts her own painful pregnancy and childbirth and instead turns to writing a modern Frankenstein (75,000-copy first printing). The young man who walks into the Cape Cod bookstore where unassuming Harlow Smith works isn't exactly A Little Ray of Sunshine--he's the child she secretly birthed and gave up for adoption 17 years previously; from the New York Times best-selling Higgins. With the death of her husband, popular food blogger Hollis Shaw decides to heal by engaging in something called The Five-Star Weekend, which entails inviting a best friend from each stage of her life to a special gathering--in this case, on mega-best-selling author Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket (750,000-copy first printing). Moderately contented Heather is surprised to find herself gobsmacked when a former flame finds new love, and friends Daphne and Tori have their own troubles, but in Mallery's latest, will The Happiness Plan of each woman work? In Monaghan's Same Time Next Summer, following the LibraryReads pick Nora Goes Off Script, Sam is hunting for a wedding venue near her family's Long Island beach house when she encounters Wyatt, the love of her life until he broke her heart at age 17. Following the LJ-starred The Messy Lives of Book People, also a LibraryReads pick, Patrick's The Little Italian Hotel features relationship expert Ginny Splinter, who's sideswiped when husband Adrian asks for a divorce and recovers by taking four strangers to Italy on the vacation she had originally planned with Aidan in the (75,000-copy paperback and 10,000-copy hardcover first printing). In Pride and Piazza's You Were Always Mine, a Black woman named Cinnamon is grateful to be leading a secure, quiet life when she causes an uproar by keeping a white baby she finds abandoned in the park by teenage Daisy, whose grandparents threaten to take custody. In this latest from the beloved Shipman, daring Mary Jackson is Famous in a Small Town in Michigan for her 65-year-old record in the annual cherry pit-spitting contest until modest schoolteacher Becky, determined to shatter her shell, lands in town and breaks the record (100,000-copy paperback and 10,000-copy hardcover first printing). When her parents die in an accident when she is 23, Cosima Saverio inherits their fabulous Palazzo and haute couture Italian leather brand, but she's all work until...

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     April 24, 2023
     De Los Santos revisits Cornelia Brown, heroine of Love Walked In, for a saccharine story of a mother’s mysterious past. Cornelia, 44, is reeling after a man held a gun to her younger child’s head in a grocery store. After she learns her mother, Eleanor, has been hit by a car, she packs up her two kids and drives south with her husband to Virginia to care for her. While Eleanor recovers in a rehab center, her memory begins to falter and she requests of Cornelia, “Bring me the northern lights.” Baffled, Cornelia realizes how little she knows about her mother and enlists her sister and a friend to help understand the request. Flashbacks to the 1960s reveal details about Eleanor’s sister, a kindhearted painter named Martha who writes to Eleanor about her boyfriend, who invites her to move with him to a utopian community of artists and writers. As Cornelia discovers a dark side to the utopia, she wrestles with the feeling that she can’t protect her children from the dangers of the world. Unfortunately, the author’s flatly drawn characters are depicted as either good or evil, and the cutesy conceits tend to grate. This one’s for diehards only. Agent: Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency.

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     Starred review from April 15, 2023
     Cornelia Brown, a recurring character in de los Santos' novels, returns in this moving story about the bond between sisters. After an accident, Cornelia's mother, Eleanor, develops cognitive issues. One evening, Eleanor asks Cornelia to bring her the northern lights, inspiring Cornelia to look into Eleanor's past to understand why her mother would make such a request. Chapters alternate between Cornelia's recovery from a traumatic incident and the story of Eleanor's young adult years, when she and her older sister, Martha, sheltered each another from their abusive mother. When Martha moves to northern Minnesota, it's an opportunity to start over, until she meets a mysterious man who changes her life in ways that Eleanor cannot fathom, leaving a secret Eleanor has hidden from her daughters. Fans will enjoy revisiting these well-crafted characters, and readers new to Cornelia and her family will feel right at home. De los Santos draws readers in, slowly revealing both Eleanor's secret and the act of violence that has shattered Cornelia's sense of security. This heartfelt, character-driven novel will appeal to fans of Jojo Moyes and Katherine Center.

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     February 1, 2023
     

     The fifth in de los Santos's "Love Walked In" series (following I'd Give Anything) returns to the tender family and friends who surround Eleanor Brown and her daughter, Cornelia. It begins with life-altering moment for both women. When Eleanor has an accident, Cornelia leaves her beloved husband Teo and their children to help care for her. Cornelia recently had a frightening altercation with a gunman, so leaving home is something she needs to do to gain some clarity after the horrifying event. Nursing her mother gives Cornelia time to dig back into the history of Eleanor's life, and she uncovers some big secrets as her research leads her to the North Carolina beach town where a young Eleanor ("Ellie") grew up. The chapters' perspectives switch back and forth between Ellie and Cornelia, flipping from the 1960s to the present with ease. VERDICT Acclaimed best-seller de los Santos's writing is effusive and lush, painting poignant scenes like the stroke of an artist's brush. Her books and characters have a wide following, and her fans will be eagerly awaiting this lovely series installment that can also be read as a stand-alone.--Beth Liebman Gibbs

     Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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"Bring me the Northern Lights."

Cornelia Brown is reeling from a terrifying act of violence when she gets word that her mother has been badly injured in an accident. Cornelia returns to Virginia, to the house she grew up in, and in the weeks that follow, she watches her mother Ellie struggle to recover, fluctuating between her usual crisp, can-do clarity and periods of delirium during which she seems haunted by a devastating loss from her past. In grief-stricken tones, Ellie begs Cornelia to bring her the Northern Lights, and despite her confusion at this mysterious plea, Cornelia vows to do so: "She was my mother and she wanted the Northern Lights; I was her daughter and would have given her anything, anything."

With the help of her prickly sister, Ollie,...

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