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The past influences the present this month on Penguin Audio Book Break. Celebrate Women's History Month by discovering new women's literature…

The past influences the present this month on Penguin Audio Book Break. Celebrate Women's History Month by discovering new women's literature! Women's literature has always served as a mirror of the changing times and women's accomplishments. Check back each week to hear extended excerpts from these four contemporary tales written by and about women, each a reflection of what it means to be a women's literature author today, and all available on CD or audio download.

A Discovery of Witches

A richly inventive novel about an ages-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together.

Separate Beds

A story of economic breakdown and romantic recovery from the author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.

The Weird Sisters

A winsome novel that explores sibling rivalry, the power of books, and the places we decide to call home.

The Lake of Dreams

The story of a woman's homecoming, a family secret, and the old house that holds the key to the true legacy of a family.

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Audio book featured this week:

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The Lake of Dreams

At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love, lead her into the unexpected. Late one night, as she paces the hallways of her family's rambling lakeside house, she discovers, locked in a window seat, a collection of objects that first appear to be useless curiosities, but soon reveal a deeper and more complex family past. As Lucy discovers and explores the traces of her lineage—from an heirloom tapestry and dusty political tracts to a web of allusions depicted in stained-glass windows throughout upstate New York—the family story she has always known is shattered. Lucy's quest for the truth reconfigures her family's history, links her to a unique slice of the suffragette movement, and yields dramatic insights that embolden her to live freely.

Kim Edwards has won numerous awards, including a Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award and most recently the Kentucky Literary Award for fiction. She is the author of a collection of short stories, The Secrets Of a Fire King, which was an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Anteaus, Story, and The Paris Review and have received a National Magazine Awards for excellence in Fiction and a Pushcart Prize. A graduate of the Iowa's Writers' Workshop, she currently teaches writing at the University of Kentucky. This is her first novel, which has been chosen as a Barnes and Noble Discover title. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky with her husband and daughters.

Ann Marie Lee is a Los Angeles based actress with television credits that include E.R., Law and Order C.I., and Nip/Tuck. Her stage performances for Broadway National Tours and regional theater include Peter Pan, As You Like It, Heartbreak House and The Cherry Orchard.