Introducing The Sweet Life of Stella Madison and PARTY

Party info first: Reading/QA/Signing by YA author and fellow Delawarian Lara Zeises

Saturday, August 8th 2:00-3:30

Borders Books and Music by (not "in") Christiana Mall

This book is by an amazing local author (and friend, and writing coach Lara Zeises). You can't miss it. It's a MUST read this summer. Lara leads and amazing and mysterious life doubling as Lola Douglas, the genius behind Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet and More Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet, the former was a Lifetime TV movie last year starring JoJo and Valerie Bertinelli.

Here's a fab review of STELLA from Kirkus:
Seventeen-year-old Stella has multiple problems in this breezy adolescent dilemma story. She’s almost at the “I love you” stage with her boyfriend, Max, a sweetie, but she’s shamefully attracted to her mom’s new intern, Jeremy, a hottie. Zeises doesn’t just depend on teenage romance for the plot’s fizz, though; she introduces additional difficulties for her struggling heroine. Stella has the misfortune of being the only daughter of a famous French chef, and her mom’s also a “foodie,” running an upscale restaurant that features cooking demonstrations from a different chef each week. Stella rebels against gourmet food but lands a good summer job as a restaurant critic and has to depend on Jeremy, with awkward consequences, for advice. The author keeps the narrative moving along at a good clip with some well-developed, recognizable characters. The story never descends too deeply into actual angst but floats along merrily on the surface. That’s fine for this genre and makes this effort one that will appeal widely among teen girls. Good, chatty fun. (Fiction. YA)