Barnes and Noble has begun distribution of their new First Look. I skipped the last one, and Holly signed up for the first of their Teen First Looks last time (Hush Hush) and had rave reviews for it!
This time, they offered up The Postmistress. How great is that cover?
Here's the description on B&N:
Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, The Postmistress is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women-and of two countries torn apart by war.
On the eve of the United States's entrance into World War II in 1940, Iris James, the postmistress of Franklin, a small town on Cape Cod, does the unthinkable: She doesn't deliver a letter. In London, American radio gal Frankie Bard is working with Edward R. Murrow, reporting on the Blitz. One night in a bomb shelter, she meets a doctor from Cape Cod with a letter in his pocket, a letter Frankie vows to deliver when she returns from Germany and France, where she is to record the stories of war refugees desperately trying to escape.
The residents of Franklin think the war can't touch them- but as Frankie's radio broadcasts air, some know that the war is indeed coming. And when Frankie arrives at their doorstep, the two stories collide in a way no one could have foreseen. The Postmistress is an unforgettable tale of the secrets we must bear, or bury. It is about what happens to love during wartime, when those we cherish leave. And how every story-of love or war-is about looking left when we should have been looking right.

Sounds great, doesn't it? I can't wait to read it! The author lives in DC, and I'm always traipsing around on the metro with my book of the moment in hand. I wonder if the authors get a little thrill when they see someone into their book?

Anyway, did anyone else sign up for this book? Sign up for Hush Hush? Are you going to start watching for their YA selections also?