Sarah Penner & Kristin Harmel| The Lost Apothecary

420 W. Kennedy Blvd.,Tampa FL 33606

27 February, 2022

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Authors SARAH PENNER & KRISTIN HARMEL will be in conversation discussing THE LOST APOTHECARY and FOREST OF VANISHING STARS. Sarah Penner is the debut author of The Lost Apothecary, to be translated in eleven languages worldwide. She works full-time in finance and is a member of the Historical Novel Society and the Women's Fiction Writers Association. She and her husband live in St. Petersburg, Florida with their miniature dachshund, Zoe. To learn more, visit SLPenner.com. Kristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling, USA Today bestselling, and #1 international bestselling author of The Forest of Vanishing Stars, The Book of Lost Names, The Winemaker’s Wife, and a dozen other novels that have been translated into 29 languages and are sold all over the world. She is also the co-founder and co-host of the weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fiction. To learn more, visit KRISTINHARMEL.COM THE LOST APOTHECARY In Sarah Penner's addictive and spectacularly imagined debut, a female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them—setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course. Rule #1: The poison must never be used to harm another woman. Rule #2: The names of the murderer and her victim must be recorded in the apothecary’s register. One cold February evening in 1791, at the back of a dark London alley in a hidden apothecary shop, Nella waits for her newest customer. Once a respected healer, Nella now uses her knowledge for a darker purpose—selling well-disguised poisons to desperate women who would kill to be free of the men in their lives. But when her new customer turns out to be a precocious twelve-year-old named Eliza Fanning, an unexpected friendship sets in motion a string of events that jeopardizes Nella’s world and threatens to expose the many women whose names are written in her register. In present day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, reeling from the discovery of her husband’s infidelity. When she discovers an old apothecary vial in the River Thames, she can’t resist investigating, only to realize she’s found a link to the unsolved “apothecary murders” that haunted London two centuries ago. As she deepens her search, Caroline’s life collides with Nella’s and Eliza’s in a stunning twist of fate—and not everyone will survive. With crackling suspense, unforgettable characters, and searing insight, The Lost Apothecary is a subversive and intoxicating exploration of women rebelling against a man’s world, the destructive force of revenge, and the remarkable ways that women can save each other despite the barrier of time. THE FOREST OF VANISHING STARS Kristin Harmel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names, Where the Crawdads Sing meets Defiance in the story of a young woman who uses her knowledge of life in the Slavic wilderness to help hundreds of Jewish refugees escape the Nazis and survive before ghost from her past threatens to expose her friends, she must make the most difficult choice of her life. BASED ON A TRUE STORY: This book, like all of Kristin Harmel's novels, is based on a true event in WWII history--in this case, the Naliboki Massacre in eastern Poland. Jewish refugees fled an attack by the Soviets and hid in the Naliboki forest, where they survived for two years, led by the Bielsky family. This story was also the basis of a Daniel Craig film, Defiance (2008). Oxford Exchange is an independent bookstore located in Tampa FL. We are a member of ABA and SIBA. Please feel free to support us and visit our bookstore or website to purchase any event related books.