She was also the assistant secretary for the state Office of Legal Affairs and administrative law judge for the Louisiana Department of Civil Service. Career Īfter graduating from college, Babineaux-Fontenot spent 13 years in executive roles at Walmart, including executive vice president of finance and treasurer, and held leadership positions at Adams and Reese, LLP, and PwC. Her parents were eventually inducted into the National Adoption Hall of Fame in 2008. Growing up, her parents Warren and Mary Alice Babineaux cared for over 100 children through a combination of birth, adoption and fostering. In 2020, Time named her among the 100 most influential people in the world.īorn in Opelousas, Louisiana, Babineaux-Fontenot attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Southern University Law Center, and Southern Methodist University's Dedman School of Law. Babineaux-Fontenot (born in 1964) is the CEO of Feeding America, a national foodbank across the United States.
I was lucky enough to win this book from the Early Reviewers program through LibraryThing in return for an honest review.Claire L. I feel the length of the book would be wonderful to have to read in airports or waiting rooms – places where you need something that doesn’t take up a lot of room. It is part of the Rapid Read Series – a series of short books designed to grab and hold a reader’s interest from the beginning until the end. It had a credible story line, good characters, and was suspenseful – what more could you ask for? I have not read any other books in this series – but would like to. Clair risks her reputation, job – and even her life – to prove that her dream is really going to come true unless she can stop it.Īs a former teacher who has spent many hours standing on playing fields waiting for the police and bomb-sniffing dogs to clear a building, I found this book very interesting. However, later that day the high school receives a bomb threat. When she dreams of the local high school being blown up, she wants to believe it was just a dream. She is also a psychic who has helped the police and fire departments several times. Gail Anderson-Dargatz lives in the Shuswap region of British Columbia.Ĭlaire Abbott is a newspaper reporter in a small town. She taught for nearly a decade in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of British Columbia and now mentors writers online.
Egoff Children’s Literature Prize, as well as the Red Cedar Fiction Award and the Chocolate Lily Book Award. The Ride Home was short-listed for the Sheila A. Her book Iggy’s World was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and shortlisted for the Chocolate Lily Book Awards. Gail also writes young adult and hi-lo books for the educational market. Her thriller, The Almost Wife was a national bestseller in 2021, and her most recent novel, The Almost Widow, is out in May 2023. The Spawning Grounds was nominated for the Sunburst Award and the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award and short-listed for the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for Fiction.
Her second novel, A Recipe for Bees, was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ’s first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the UK’s Betty Trask Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Vancity Book Prize.
Watch for Gail's new novel, The Almost Widow, a thriller, released May 2023.