Pearly Everlasting
Tammy Armstrong
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Mark June 25 on your calendar. That’s the day this enchanting novel lands on bookstore shelves, and avid readers are going to want to devour it from the first word to the last.

The first introduces legendary heroine Pearly Everlasting, born in the winter of 1920 in a rustic New Brunswick logging camp. When her father, the camp cook, rescues a tiny orphaned bear cub, Pearly’s mother names him Bruno and nurses him alongside her newborn daughter. (Incredibly, this interspecies adoption is inspired by a true story, cited in the acknowledgments.)