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Join the Starbucks Book Break group on Gather.com to read excerpts, learn about upcoming events, and participate in an ongoing tour chat with bestselling Tuesdays with Morrie author, Mitch Albom. Mitch will be joining us to discuss his new #1 New York Times® Best Seller, for one more day, which is available for sale at participating Starbucks locations.

Come Meet Mitch
Starting Tuesday, October 3, Mitch will embark on a Starbucks Book Tour entitled "Conversations with Mitch Albom." Albom will make personal appearances at Starbucks across the country where you'll have a chance to meet the author himself. At each appearance, Albom will sign books and participate in audience Q&A.

We also invite you to participate in Starbucks nationwide reading group to talk about for one more day. On Thursday, October 26, 2006, Starbucks will host "Book Break" where twenty-five Starbucks across the U.S. will host a book discussion of Mitch's latest novel. It's your chance to talk about the thought-provoking ideas and themes posed in the book. Starbucks will provide the place, the complimentary coffee and the pastries. You provide the conversation.

About Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom is the author of nine books, including the newest, for one more day, published 9/26/06. His first novel, the five people you meet in heaven, (9/03) is the most successful U.S. hardback first novel ever and has to date sold over 8 million copies worldwide Tuesdays With Morrie, (1997) his chronicle of time spent with a beloved but dying college professor, spent four years on the NY Times bestsellers list and is now the most successful memoir ever published. Both books were eventually turned into celebrated TV films. The critically acclaimed the five people you meet in heaven aired on ABC in winter, 2004. Oprah Winfrey produced the film version of Tuesdays with Morrie in December 1999; starring Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria. The film garnered four Emmy awards, including best TV film, director, actor and supporting actor.

for one more day
Albom's tribute to family and particularly motherhood is his second novel and the first to feature a female protagonist. It explores questions of regret, divorce, and how we would spend one special day with the ghost of someone we loved.

Pauline "Posey" Benetto raises her son bravely as a divorced woman in the 1960's. The boy, Charley, never really appreciates her sacrifices, spending much of his life chasing the elusive love of his father, who left when Charley was 11. The book begins on the night when Charley, now a middle-aged alcoholic whose family and work life have disintegrated, decides to take his own life. He makes a midnight ride to his small hometown, staggers into his old house, which he believes to be abandoned, only to make a startling discovery: his mother, who died eight years earlier, is still living there, as if she never left.

The two of them then embark on the "one more day" that so many wish they had with a lost loved one – a day to ask questions, seek forgiveness, and reexamine the life you thought you had.

Read an excerpt of the instant #1 bestseller for one more day.

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