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What Time is it There? by Christine Potter
Publication Date: November 29, 2017 Publisher: Evernight Teen
About The Book:
Just over a year ago, Bean and Zak headed for colleges two thousand miles apart, promising to write, but to see other people … until Bean fell for the wrong guy and Zak fell off the planet. Now, Bean’s got two weeks’ worth of Zak’s year-old letters that she still can’t bear to open—and a broken heart. Her new best friend, a guy named Amp, wants her to read the letters and be done with it, but he may have his own reasons for that. When Sam shows up at Bean’s school unexpectedly and Bean tumbles into the 19th century from the cellar of a ruined church, things start making a bizarre kind of sense. That is, if she can just fit all the pieces together again…let's see--there's a cult...and the Flying Singing Angel With No Feet...and of course, The Grateful Dead...
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Excerpt:
And then something in the morning light dimmed—a cloud in front of the sun? No. A shadow. Someone else was in the church with her. “Bean?” he said. “Hey, Bean. Behind you. Up here!” That voice was familiar, too—so much that it turned her heart inside-out. Bean spun around and looked up into the heavily carved cherry pulpit where Lucia’s father gave his sermons each Sunday. Grasping its edges was someone with long, silver-blonde hair…wearing a purple and blue tie-dye t-shirt. Zak. Bean gasped. This is wrong, she thought. This has to be wrong. But she ran to him anyway. “Check it out!” he said, leaning over the pulpit’s well-polished edge. He leaned forward, caught her hands, and squeezed them. “Pretty bizarre, huh?” Bean didn’t even know when she’d started to cry. Zak’s smile and his steel-blue eyes blurred in her tears. Rules! she thought. This is not okay. It isn’t. She remembered Crow…and danger…but, no. This was Zak! Zak, after all this time, right in front of her, touching her, close enough to…close enough to kiss, she thought, and felt the heat rising in her cheeks. She couldn’t burden him with her worries. She didn’t want to think about them, herself. Gnats buzzed outside and the sun came in golden through the stained glass windows. “Oh, Zak! Oh, wow!” Bean said. Her voice sounded choked and shaky in the reverberant church. “Yeah,” said Zak. “Just look at you, woman!” “You’re not really pissed-off at me because…you know?” He laughed. “It’s not nearly time for that yet. You have to take the manuscript first.” “What?” “Edwina’s manuscript. There on the organ. Go on. Take it, woman. Your job is to keep it safe,” he said. He bent further over the pulpit until his face was next to hers. His lips were warm and dry on Bean’s forehead when he kissed her. “Grab that music.” She raised her face to kiss him back properly… …and then she was standing in the cellar of a building that wasn’t there anymore, looking up at a bright, cold sky above her. Bean wondered for a minute if she’d fallen, but she hadn’t. No scrapes or bruises. Something that had been dead for a long time was breathing again inside of her. She’d seen Zak!
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About The Author:
Christine Potter is a writer and poet who lives in a very old (haunted) house on a creek in Rockland County. She has an organist/choirdirector husband (Ken) and two spoiled tom cats. One of the house's two ghosts lives in the room behind her office. Christine's newest book is a YA time travel novel, What Time Is It There? (The Bean Books, Book 3), newly released by Evernight Teen. The first book in the series is Time Runs Away With Her, and the second is In Her Own Time. Her two poetry collections are Zero Degrees at First Light (2006) and Sheltering in Place (2013). She has also had poems published in Rattle, Fugue, The Irish Examiner, HOOT, Eclectica, and The Pedestal, among other magazines. Her third book of poems, Unforgetting, is due out this spring from Kelsay Books.
Guest Post:
Dear Reader, How are you doing today? Most of us answer “Fine,” or “Good” whether we feel that way or not. And many of us are actually bored, or coming down with (please-don’t-let-it-be) the flu, or disappointed, or broken-hearted, or…just in need of another place to be that might make us feel better. What I love about a good book is that last thing, that coziness. The “other place to be” we readers know about can lift us out of lots of less-than-good times. My fondest hope for The Bean Books—and What Time Is It There? is number three in that trilogy—is that it sends you there. It surely sent me there while I was writing it. I got to recreate the world of the early 1970’s, with all its grooviness and love and sweet music. And I got to live in the late 1800’s, too—and the early 1960’s and 50’s! Bean Donohue, my main character, is nineteen in the year 1972—but sometimes she slips back in time to other decades or even centuries. She can’t change history; she can only observe…except…(no spoilers!) When she’s not teasing out the truth about an almost-forgotten woman composer of the late 19th century, Bean runs her campus FM station with her best guy friend, a sweet, God-obsessed ex-Mormon named Amp. She’ll need his belief, and the torch she still carries for her lost-to-the-world high school boyfriend, Zak, to get everyone through a harrowing climax to this book’s happy ending. If you’re Bean’s age or in your teens, I wrote this book for you. If you taught yourself how to play guitar like Bean did in Book One, I wrote it for you. But the first two Bean books had lots of Old Adult fans as well as Young Adult ones. If you are anyone who has ever dropped the needle of a turntable onto a Grateful Dead (or Fairport Convention or Simon and Garfunkel) record, I wrote all these books for you, too. See, Bean gets to time travel in this book—but she’ll take you along with her. And if that’s not a journey to some “other place to be,” I don’t know what is. I hope you love my book as much as I do. I really did write it straight from my heart. Enjoy the trip! Peace and Love, Christine Potter
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