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Joanne Lessner

Joanne Lessner

About

Joanne isthe author of Pandora’s Bottle, a novel inspired by the true story of the world’s most expensivebottle of wine (Flint Mine Press, 2010), which was selected as one of PaperbackDolls’ top five books of 2010. The Temporary Detective (Dulcet Press, April 2012) introduces IsobelSpice, aspiring actress and resourceful office temp turned amateur sleuth. Nostranger to the theatrical world, Joanne enjoys an active performing career inboth musical theater and opera. With her husband, composer/conductor JoshuaRosenblum, she has co-authored several musicals including the cult hit Fermats Last Tango and Einstein s Dreams, based on the celebrated novel by Alan Lightman.Her play, Critical Mass,received its Off Broadway premiere in October 2010 as the winner of the 2009Heiress Productions Playwriting Competition. She is a regular contributingwriter to Opera News andholds a B.A. in music, summa cum laude, from Yale University. 

A Dime Is a Sign: Poems of Love and Loss (Feelings Into Words)

A Dime Is a Sign: Poems of Love and Loss (Feelings Into Words)

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<p>A psychic medium once said that if you find a random dime, it is a sign that someone that you have loved and lost is thinking of you.</p><p><strong>A Dime is a Sign Through Time</strong></p><p><em>If you find a dime, </em></p><p><em>You will know that I'm</em></p><p><em>Sending thoughts of love</em></p><p><em>Through the veil of time.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Ten cents with a silver shine, </em></p><p><em>A sense sent you to help remind</em></p><p><em>That someone who left you behind</em></p><p><em>Is always living in your mind.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Sending love and vibes, </em></p><p><em>Felt as psychic sighs ...</em></p><p><em>The ones that you miss, </em></p><p><em>Send you a kiss ...</em></p><p> </p><p>Sherrill S. Cannon's second book of poetry contains messages written through the years in poetic form that put feelings into words. As a teacher, many of her poems helped counsel troubled teens and friends.</p><p>There are three sections in the book: Heads, Spinning, and Tails ... (Love &amp; Loss: Coin Toss?). The variety of lyrical poetry forms include free verse, blank verse, haiku, and sonnets, while some are just playing with words!</p><p>Hopefully, this is also a book of healing.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Sherrill S. Cannon, a former teacher and grandmother of ten, is the author of nine acclaimed rhymed children's books, plus a recent award-winning book of poetry <em>(A Penny for Your Thoughts), </em>which together have received 63 national and international book awards since 2011. She also wrote seven published plays for elementary school children that have been performed in over 25 countries. Most of her children's books emphasize consideration for others. Married for 58 years, she and her spouse are now retired, live in Pennsylvania, and travel in their RV from coast to coast, spending time with their children and grandchildren, and sharing her books along the way!</p><p> </p>

Story Behind The Book

What happens when you pin your hopes on a single event … and it all goes terribly wrong? Lonely, middle-aged financier Sy Hampton is obsessed with a legendary bottle of Bordeaux once owned by Thomas Jefferson, which, through a quirk of preservation, may yet be drinkable. After spending half a million dollars on it at auction, he disappoints the wine community by choosing to uncork it privately with a female companion, rather than share it at a public event. But this decision has drastic consequences—not only for Sy, but also for a determined waiter on the verge of his long-awaited Broadway debut, and an ambitious restaurateur who can't resist an opportunity for much-needed publicity. Their competing agendas are not the only things to collide on that fateful night.

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Reuters

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Paperback Dolls

🔗 http://paperbackdolls.blogspot.com/2010/11/interview-with-extraordinary-joanne.html

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Daily Freeman

🔗 http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2010/06/24/life/doc4c22bd77ac8fe653775663.txt

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Hudson Valley Echo

🔗 http://www.hvecho.com/2010/05/21/new-novel-pandoras-bottle-features-hudson-valley-wineries/

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Live on WBWZ Radio

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Reviews

One of Paperback Dolls' Top Five Books of 2010!<div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><strong>“<em>Pandora's Bottle</em> is as delicious as a vintage Château Lafite and almost as rare—a novel that is as entertaining as it is smart. Joanne Sydney Lessner serves it with just the right dish of human folly.”</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"><strong></strong></span>—Marc Acito, author of <em>How I Paid for College</em> and <em>Attack of the Theater People</em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><em></em></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><strong>“Lessner has served up a bubbly, big-haired and big-hearted opus magnum, redolent of the vanities of New York, with a whiff of Wodehouse and a dash of Dickens, full of raucous overtones but with a gentle finish. Drinkable immediately!”</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"><strong></strong></span>—Jonathan Levi, author of <em>A Guide for the Perplexed</em> and co-founder of <em>Granta</em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><em></em></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><strong>“Joanne Sydney Lessner has carefully crafted a well-wrought, fun, and fast-paced book detailing the highs and lows of the wine world. A great read.”</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"><strong></strong></span>—Carlo De Vito, author of <em>East Coast Wineries</em> and <em>10 Secrets My Dog Taught Me</em></span></div>