Jennifer Vanderbes and Lauren Belfer
Jennifer Vanderbes is the author of Easter Island which has been translated into 16 different languages and named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor, a Book-of-the-Month Club featured selection and a Border's New Voices Selection. Andrea Barrett called it, "a splendid debut, which captures in the intertwined stories of two women a passion for life and for science that transcends time."
Lauren Belfer is the author of City Of Light which was a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, a Library Journal Book of the Year, and a New York Times Notable Book. It's been translated into seven languages. The novel follows the headmistress of a Buffalo school as she becomes embroiled in murder, mystery and the power struggles of a city at the turn of the 20th Century. Amazon described the novel as, "quite simply electrifying" and Booklist said Belfer has, "a gift for social nuance and for authoritatively controlled narration."