Love to read but hate the pressure of homework-style book clubs? Join me, Kara Hart, for the NEPA Book Club – every month we will meet at cozy local spots like cafes, restaurants and small bookstores for relaxed, fun conversations about our book of the month. Listen the first full week of each month for your chance to win the book of the month.

BOOK OF THE MONTH: “Rain Breaks No Bones” by Barbara Taylor.

You can also snag your copy at The Little Book Place, 74 Bridge St., Tunkhannock.

Then, join us for conversation and community while we meet the author at The Little Book Place on Thurs. June 4th at 6pm (it’s FREE to attend!)

TEXT: RAIN TO 1-800-MAGIC OR 1-844-971-4971 FOR A CHANCE TO WIN YOUR COPY!

Rain Breaks No Bones is about a secret birth, a complicated relationship, a shocking death, and no one is talking, not even the dead. The story is set in Scranton, PA, in 1955, a time when the coal industry is in decline, the Civil Rights Movement is heating up, and a hurricane named Diane is preparing to strike

Born and raised in Scranton, PA, Barbara J. Taylor sets her books in the hometown she loves and populates them with miners, evangelists, vaudevillians, gangsters, and a prostitute or two. Publishers Weekly named her first novel, Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night, a “Best Book of Summer, 2014.” The American Library Association called her second novel, All Waiting is Long, “Powerful … a book club discussion cornucopia.” The Historical Novel Society described her latest work, Rain Breaks No Bones, as, “… everything a reader could want in a family saga.”

Taylor attended the University of Scranton where she received a BA in English and an MS in education. She taught English in the Pocono Mountain School District for thirty-one years. In the latter part of her career, she returned to graduate school, this time at Wilkes University, and earned an MFA in creative writing. Taylor has since retired from teaching to write full-time. She’s currently at work on her fourth novel, tentatively titled, The Prodigal Husband.