If you have trouble viewing this newsletter, set up your email options to "always allow images from this address."

Featured Book of Month
The Woods
by Harlan Coben

CONGRATULATIONS to our Giveaway Contest Winners! Comfort Food Tote Bags Debi, Courtney, Lillian, Rebecca, Shannon. Ripples on the Lake Autographed Book Katherine

In this issue...

• Fact or Fiction?

• Choose Your Character!

• Did You Know...?

• Debatable Questions

• Featured Recipe

• A Little Something Extra For Your Meeting!

• Book Club Queen News and Updates INCLUDING information about our next fantastic contest!

Fact or Fiction?

Answer at bottom.

Choose Your Character!

1. Cope: The DA whose life seems to be ripping apart at the seams as his past begins to collide with his present.
   
   
2. Loren Muse: Cope's cheeky investigator who lets nothing by her but seems to have no personal life to speak of.
   
   
3. Lucy: The long-lost and very troubled love of Cope whose father owned the camp where the tragedy occurred many years ago.
   
   
4. Ira: Lucy's eccentric father who can't ever seem to reconcile with his fault in the murders.
   
   
5. Chamique Johnson: The rape victim Cope is defending, a down-on-her-luck girl who was looking for love and got terribly abused instead.

Did You Know...?

Debatable Questions

1. Did you trust Lucy?
   
   
2. How guilty is Chamique in her own rape case? The defense would like to say very.
   
   
3. Why do people with money always try to abuse their power? Case in point? E.J. Jenrette?
   
   
4. What did you think when Cope recognized Gil Perez's scar on the corpse?
   
   
5. What was the point of uncovering all the information about Cope's father?

To discuss these questions real time with other online book clubbers, go to our book of the month club page!

Featured Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 c flour
  
• 1 c sour cream
  
• 1 tb butter
  
• 1 ea egg for brushing
  
• salt
  

FILLING Ingredients:

• 4 tb butter
  
• 2 ea chopped onions
  
• 300 g grind beef
  
• 3 ea chopped hard boiled eggs
  
• salt

Directions:
Combine the flour, salt, butter and sour cream in a deep bowl. With your fingers, rub the flour and butter together. Wrap the ball of dough in wax paper, and chill for about 1 hour.

On a lightly floured surface, shape the pastry into a rough rectangle 1 inch thick and roll it into a strip . Turn the pastry around and again roll it out lengthwise. Fold into thirds and roll out the packet as before. Repeat this entire process twice more, ending with the folded packet. Wrap it is wax paper and refrigerate for an additional hour.

Filling
Over high heat, melt the butter. Add onions and, stirring occasionally, cook over moderate heat for 8 to 10 minutes, or until they are soft and transparent but not brown.

Stir in the beef and, mashing the meat with a fork to break up any lumps, cook briskly until no traces of pink remain. Grind the meat-and-onion mixture. Combine the meat in a large bowl with eggs, dill, salt and pepper, mix thoroughly and taste for seasoning. Preheat the oven to 400°.

On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough into a circle about 1/8 inch thick. With saucer cut out as many circles as you can. Gather the scraps into a ball and roll out again, cutting additional circles. Drop 2 tablespoons of filling in the center of each round and flatten the filling slightly. Fold one long side of the dough up over the filling, almost covering it. Fold in the two ends of the dough about 1/2 inch, and lastly, fold over the remaining long side of the dough.

Place the Pirozhky side by side, with the seam sides down on a buttered baking sheet. Bake for 30 minutes.

Take them out to grease the surface with beaten egg and put back for couple of minutes until they are golden brown.

Serve with clear chicken or beef soup, on the zakuska table or presented alone as a first course.

Recipe by Olga from www.russianfoods.com

A Little Something Extra For Your Meeting!

Be sure to check out our Author Exclusives page to keep up to date with our summer interview schedule!

Answer to Fact or Fiction - FACT. Camp Scott was shut down and never reopened after this tragedy.

We would be honored for you to share our news with any book lover you know!

Are you reading this on a recommendation?