Ruta Sepetys

“With a rich and realistic setting, a compelling and entertaining first-person narration, a colorful cast of memorable characters and an intriguing storyline, this is a surefire winner. Immensely satisfying.” Kirkus, starred review

“Sepetys follows her debut, Between Shades of Gray, with another taut and charged historical novel...The sensual yet rigidly class-based setting is a real standout, and Sepetys has also built a stellar cast, which includes Willie, a strident but generous madam; Charlie Marlowe, the bookshop’s owner; and a pair of potential love interests for Josie. Readers will find Josie irresistible from the get-go...and will devour the sultry mix of mystery, historical detail, and romance.” Publisher’s Weekly, starred review

Ruta Sepetys is the multi-award-winning author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller Between Shades of Gray. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Join Porter Square Books and the Cambridge Public Library Main Branch for a reading and signing with Ruta Sepetys

“With a rich and realistic setting, a compelling and entertaining first-person narration, a colorful cast of memorable characters and an intriguing storyline, this is a surefire winner. Immensely satisfying.” Kirkus, starred review

“Sepetys follows her debut, Between Shades of Gray, with another taut and charged historical novel...The sensual yet rigidly class-based setting is a real standout, and Sepetys has also built a stellar cast, which includes Willie, a strident but generous madam; Charlie Marlowe, the bookshop’s owner; and a pair of potential love interests for Josie. Readers will find Josie irresistible from the get-go...and will devour the sultry mix of mystery, historical detail, and romance.” Publisher’s Weekly, starred review

Ruta Sepetys is the multi-award-winning author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller Between Shades of Gray. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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FOR TEENS: It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled in an investigation that will challenge her allegiance to her mother, her conscience, and Willie Woodley, the brusque madam on Conti Street. Josie is caught between the dream of an elite college and a clandestine underworld. New Orleans lures her in her quest for truth, dangling temptation at every turn, and escalating to the ultimate test. In Out of The Easy (Philomel, $17.99), Ruta Sepetys skillfully creates a rich story of secrets, lies, and the haunting reminder that decisions can shape our destiny.

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Between Shades of Gray.

Ruth Sepetys presents a powerful and haunting novel based on a little-known real-life event in history. OIn terrifying detail, Ruta Sepetys re-creates a World War II coming-of-age all too timely today. "Between Shades of Gray" is a document long overdue.O--Newbery Medalist Richard Peck.

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Teen Book Club Sunday, January 13 @ 6:15 p.m.

Teen book club for ages 13 to 18 meets monthly to discuss two books. Teens Get 15% Off Selections! Sign up with a bookseller at the store or by calling (970)926-7323

Book selections for January 13th meeting: Across the Universe by Beth Revis Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

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Thursday, April 12, 7 p.m.

Debut author Ruta Sepetys will read from and sign her New York Times bestselling novel for young adults, Between Shades of Gray.

Ruta Sepetys discusses her upcoming novel, Between Shades of Gray from Penguin Young Readers Group on Vimeo.

In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina is going about her life as any other Lithuanian teenager might, preparing for art school, thinking about summer... But then, the Soviet secret police barge into her home, deporting her, along with her mother and younger brother, to Siberia. Har father is sent to a prison camp. What follows is an unflinching account of the nature of the condition in which she and the other prisoners are forced to live.

Born and raised in Michigan, Sepetys is the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee. The nations of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia disappeared from maps in 1941 and did not reappear until 1990. As this is a story seldom told, Sepetys wanted to give a voice to the hundreds of thousands of people who lost their lives during Stalin’s cleansing of the Baltic region.

The novel, published in 29 countries and 26 languages, is a Carnegie Medal nominee, a William C. Morris finalist, a New York Times Notable Book, a Wall Street Journal Best Children’s Book, and the first American novel to be awarded the French literary prize, Prix RTL-Lire, for the best novel for young people.

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Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin's orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions.

Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously-and at great risk-documenting events by drawing, hoping these messages will make their way to her father's prison camp to let him know they are still alive. It is a long and harrowing journey, spanning years and covering 6,500 miles, but it is through incredible strength, love, and hope that Lina ultimately survives. Between Shades of Gray is a novel that will steal your breath and capture your heart.

Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Ruta Sepetys grew up hearing stories of her father's childhood as a Lithuanian refugee. Realizing this was a story never told in a novel for young adults, Ruta decided to tell it herself. When not writing, Ruta works in the music industry. Between Shades of Gray is her first novel. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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