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Berkeley-based novelist Ayelet Waldman is The Bee Book Club's choice for February. Her book, "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits" (Doubleday, $23.95, 352 pages), goes on sale Jan. 24.
Waldman is best known for her six-book "Mommy Track" mystery series, about the adventures of a stay-at-home mom who runs an investigations business.
"This is my second straight-up novel that is not a murder mystery," she said. (The first was "Daughter's Keeper" in 2003.) "I will be writing more novels like this, but I do have another ''Mommy Track' mystery coming out later (this year)."
OAS_AD('Button20'); Waldman described her new book as being "about a young woman who has a young stepson with whom she doesn't really get along. It's about her learning to love him, and that's what it's going to take for her to redeem herself and her marriage."
The former trial lawyer will give a presentation, host a question-and-answer session and sign her book on Thursday, Feb. 9. The event begins at 6 p.m. at the Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, 828 I St., in conjunction with the Sacramento Library Foundation. It's free and open to the public. Doors open at 5:15 p.m.; seating is on a first-come basis. For more information: (916) 321-1792.
Borders Books, the exclusive bookseller at The Sacramento Bee Book Club events, will be on-site to sell autogrphed copies of "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits" for 30 percent off the list price.
From Jan. 24 through Feb. 9, these bookstores will offer a 30 percent discount on the title: Borders, Barnes & Noble, Tower Books, Waldenbooks, East-West Bookstore, Underground Books, the Avid Reader in Sacramento, the Avid Reader in Davis, the Hornet Bookstore at CSUS, the UC Davis bookstore and the Next Chapter in Woodland.
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