"Combining the best of romance, women's fiction and mainstream fiction, [No Place Like Home] transcends boundaries. It's a triumph."
- Library Journal

NO PLACE LIKE HOME
trade paperback release Feb. 4, 2003

by: Barbara Samuel
Category: Fiction - Romance; Fiction - Romance - Contemp
Imprint: Ballantine Books
Format: Trade Paperback
Pub Date: February 2003
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 0-345-46037-5

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"A powerful novel of family, love, and tradition." - Big Sky Publishing

"The unique, musical voice of Barbara Samuel finally gets the soundstage it deserves in her hardcover debut novel No Place Like Home...Samuel has written a tour de force, a concerto of life and love and family grandly delivered." - BookPage

"If you're tired of Oprah books and yearn for a happy ending, No Place Like Home is a novel for you...a warm-hearted picture of a close-knit Italian family who love each other, warts and all." - Denver Post

"The well-crafted, sensitively written story moves through ghosts of the past, problems of the present, reunions, tears, laughter, grief, over the father who disowned her, worry about aging and being alone - and a hot, steamy romance."
- West Coast Magazine

"No Place Like Home is witty and bright, sparkling with friends and family who love each other. . . . The novel is heartbreaking as only the best love stories can be, yet it fills the reader with hope and promise. I will have these characters with me for a long time." - Luanne Rice

"The sense of place is vivid, the secondary characters charming, and many of Jewel's thoughts about her various and often conflicting roles and loyalties are all too recognizable and full of self-deprecating humor." - Publishers Weekly

RITA Award Winner 2003

One of Library Journal's Top Five Romances of 2002

One of RWA's Favorite Books of the Year, 2002

Sometimes a wrong turn is the only way home. . .

No Place Like Home tells the unforgettable story of a family bound together by tradition-and the emotional journey of an estranged daughter risking everything for a second chance at life and love.

Twenty-one years ago Jewel Sabatino left her childhood behind and never looked back. After a magical taste of fame, she found herself alone with a son to raise and not much else. She survived with the help of Michael, her one true friend. But now Michael is too sick to care for himself, and Jewel has run out of options. She leaves New York for the hills of Colorado, unsure if the family she ran from will welcome her back.

For Jewel, coming home is falling back into a world that smells of Italian restaurants and home-baked pies. It is the laughter of sisters preparing for a summer wedding, and the peaceful haven for a treasured soul mate's last days. It also means facing the unforgiving eyes of a father betrayed by his favorite child-and letting go of a son who is ready to become a man. But most of all, it is the love she discovers in her own wary heart when Michael's brother Malachi unexpectedly arrives on her doorstep.

Told with breathtaking insight and deep emotion, No Place Like Home is a joyful feast for all the senses, a vibrant bounty of love, and a tender life lesson to be savored long after the last page is turned.

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