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Carol is reading and enjoying WHEN WE WERE VIKINGS by Andrew David MacDonald,
which releases on January 28th.
Earlier this year, we featured Carol's video interview with Sally Hepworth,
author of THE MOTHER-IN-LAW. We now have added a podcast of their discussion,
which you can listen to by clicking on the photo above.
Carol's husband, Tom, did 99% of the Thanksgiving dinner shopping on Monday.
At Costco, he also found two digital thermometers, a multi-timer perfect for a day of
multiple-timed cooking, and two extra pie servers. Carol captions this effort
"Engineer Does Hunt & Gather for Thanksgiving and Wisely Strays from the List."
Carol and Tom made raviolis last weekend. Although they need to work on rolling the dough thinner,
they had fun in their attempt, and the raviolis were tasty.
Thank you from all of us at Bookreporter. Every time you read a newsletter, click on a link, share something that we have written, vote in a poll, enter a contest, or drop us a line, you make what we do all the more special. We are so grateful that you are one of our readers and allow us to do what we do each day. It means a lot to us.
We are bringing you a shorter than usual lineup this week, but I think you still will leave this email with lots to explore.
Last Saturday, I spent a couple of hours outside cleaning up the dead flowers --- and weeds --- from the garden. This is not one of my most fun tasks, but I used the time to play some podcasts that I wanted to catch up on, and it made the job a lot more pleasant. I did run into an issue when I walked far from my phone to toss things into the woods and lost contact via my Bluetooth headphone. I found myself dashing back as fast I could not to miss anything. Of course, if I kept my phone with me instead of on the rock wall, it would have made my life a lot easier. Instead, it was wind sprints like in high school.
We have a new podcast for you this week. Back in the early summer, I interviewed Sally Hepworth, author of THE MOTHER-IN-LAW, for a “Bookreporter Talks To” video. This week, Austin did an edit to bring this to you as a podcast, which you can listen to here. As I relistened to it, I remembered what fun we had chatting. Oh, and we thought that as this weekend is a “family-filled” one, this thriller --- and the very funny story of how Sally came to write it --- would amuse you.
Later in this newsletter, we are sharing all of the "Bookreporter Talks To" podcasts and videos that we have done to date, so you can have them in one handy place. If you have been enjoying these, may I suggest that you share them with your family and friends? We would so appreciate your helping us to build our audience for these. It’s something still very new for us, but both the videos and the podcasts are gaining great traction! Speaking of videos, here’s one of me talking about this week’s update. And one more thing. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram, where we are sharing promotions and contests that you don’t want to miss.
I have been reading way ahead into 2020 with lots of great books coming up. Right now I am reading WHEN WE WERE VIKINGS by Andrew David MacDonald (in stores January 28th), which has at its heart a young woman who is impaired from fetal alcohol syndrome. She lives with her older brother who is engaged in a lot of dangerous (aka illegal) activities to keep them fed and housed. Zelda is smart on many levels, but also incredibly naïve and blunt. She lives her life according to the Viking code. Yes, we have seen books before from what I am calling an “impaired savant,” and once again I am cheering for the underdog as she navigates through the world.
We have 11 reviews to share with you this week. Among them are CRISS CROSS, the 25th installment in James Patterson’s long-running series, in which a killer with all the skills of a master detective has made Alex Cross the subject of his deranged "investigation"; SWORD OF KINGS, the 12th entry in Bernard Cornwell’s series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England; THE FALL OF RICHARD NIXON, Tom Brokaw’s up-close and personal account of the fall of an American president; and two novels by bestselling authors that are sure to get you into the holiday spirit if you aren’t already --- NOEL STREET, a new offering from Richard Paul Evans’ Noel Collection, and A CHRISTMAS GATHERING, Anne Perry’s latest holiday-themed historical mystery.
Another way to get into the holiday spirit is to enter our Holiday Cheer contests, which resume next week with FOUR giveaways: 25 DAYS 'TIL CHRISTMAS by Poppy Alexander, CHRISTMAS AT ROSIE HOPKINS' SWEETSHOP by Jenny Colgan, FINDING CHRISTMAS by Karen Schaler, and A MRS. MIRACLE CHRISTMAS by Debbie Macomber. The first contest of the week will go live on Monday, December 2nd at noon ET.
On ReadingGroupGuides.com, we have extended our very special audiobook contest for Therese Anne Fowler’s upcoming novel, A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD, for another month as the book's publication date moved to March 10th, and the audio will be available in January. Over the course of a single summer, the lives of two families living side by side in an idyllic neighborhood will be changed irrevocably. We’re giving 50(!) readers the opportunity to win up to 12 digital copies of the audiobook, read by Adenrele Ojo, for their book group. To enter, please fill out this form by Thursday, January 2nd at noon ET (please note the new deadline). In the meantime, you can listen to a clip from the audiobook here. It will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick.
Which of 25 titles releasing in November and December are you planning to read? Click here to let us know in our latest poll.
Submit your comments about the books you’ve read in our Word of Mouth contest by Friday, December 6th at noon ET, and you’ll have a chance to win THE CONFESSION CLUB by Elizabeth Berg and A MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT: An Atlee Pine Thriller by David Baldacci.
This is also your last newsletter reminder to enter this month’s Sounding Off on Audio contest. Let us know by Monday, December 2nd at noon ET what audiobooks you’ve listened to, and you’ll be in the running to win the audio versions of Mary Higgins Clark’s KISS THE GIRLS AND MAKE THEM CRY, read by January LaVoy, and Martin Cruz Smith’s THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA: An Arkady Renko Novel, read by Jeremy Bobb.
News & Pop Culture
Reader Mail:
Marcia from Nebraska wrote this after reading IF ONLY I COULD TELL YOU, a recent Fall Preview selection: “Thank you so much for allowing me to read this gripping story of family issues and how we hold things for a long time. I shared with my book club that I received this copy, and now I can hardly wait to pass it around and hear their thoughts. I just emailed my 20-year-old granddaughter who is a great reader and is in her third year of college. She was born in Taiwan, her parents are divorced and she has two younger sisters. I told her since she is such a good reader and has awareness of what is going on, I will share the book with her. I also told her communication is so important in families.” All good insights. Thanks for sharing that this book resonated with you.
“The Crown”: What a terrific third season! The cast changes worked really well; I completely enjoyed it and again marveled at the production values.
Holiday in the Wild: This is Netflix’s version of a Hallmark Christmas movie. It stars Rob Lowe and Kristin Davis, and is set in Africa. A fun contribution to the holiday collection of movie watching.
Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator: I watched this documentary on the guru of Bikram yoga, and the sexual scandal that he was convicted on. The yoga segments reminded me that I am not very pretzel-like. I have never done any of those moves and likely never will.
Indies First: This weekend, independent bookstores across the country will be taking part in Indies First, a promotion to encourage people to shop in their indie store on Saturday. It's timed for Small Business Saturday. So on Saturday, we encourage you to shop local and buy!
Upcoming Bets On contest: I am thrilled to announce (as I am every year) that our End-of-the-Year Contest will be kicking off soon. One very lucky Grand Prize winner will be awarded all 52(!) of my Bets On picks from this year, while 13 other winners will receive a selection of four of these titles. Be sure to check the Bookreporter homepage beginning at noon ET on Friday, December 6th so you can enter our BIGGEST contest of the year.
I am making a few new recipes for tomorrow. The first is Purple Sweet Potato Pie, which I am preparing without the pecans as Greg is allergic. Then Gruyere, Cranberry and Sage Buttermilk Biscuits. And dates stuffed with goat cheese and dark chocolate and rolled in bacon. I got all of these ideas last Sunday from Light Brew, a special bonus edition of Morning Brew, a newsletter that I have been enjoying these past few months that “covers the latest from Wall Street to Silicon Valley.” I love that they, like us, weave a lot into their newsletter. My hat is off to Alex, who edits Light Brew. You can learn more about Morning Brew here.
Our ravioli-making last weekend was half a success. We need to work on rolling the dough thinner; it definitely was too thick. That said, it was a fun project. We should invite to our house some friends who have made ravioli in the past, so we can study their technique.
Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s to being grateful; again, we are so grateful for you. And to a loooong and much-needed relaxing weekend. Oh, but wait. Christmas and Hanukkah are both less than a month away. Cue the elves!
Read on, and have a great week and a half.
Carol Fitzgerald (Carol@bookreporter.com)
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Featured Review: CRISS CROSS by James Patterson
CRISS CROSS by James Patterson (Psychological Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by Andre Blake
In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed "M" rests on the corpse. "You messed up big time, Dr. Cross." Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as "M" lures the detective out of the capital to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with distressingly familiar details --- details that conjure up decades-old cases. Details that conjure up Cross family secrets. Details that make clear that M is after a prize so dear that --- were the killer to attain it --- Alex's heart would no longer have reason to beat. Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub.
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Featured Review: SWORD OF KINGS by Bernard Cornwell
SWORD OF KINGS by Bernard Cornwell (Historical Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by Matt Bates
It is a time of political turmoil once more as the fading King Edward begins to lose control over his successors and their supporters. Uhtred of Bebbanburg cares solely about his beloved Northumbria and its continuing independence from southern control. But an oath is a strong, almost sacred commitment, and such a promise had been exchanged between Uhtred and Aethelstan, his one-time companion in arms and now a potential king. Uhtred was tempted to ignore the demands of the oath and stay in his northern fastness, leaving the quarrelling Anglo-Saxons to sort out their own issues. But an attack on him by a leading supporter of one of the candidates and an unexpected appeal for help from another drives Uhtred south into the battle for kingship --- and England’s fate. Reviewed by Curtis Edmonds.
- Click here to read more about the book.
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Featured Review: NOEL STREET by Richard Paul Evans
NOEL STREET by Richard Paul Evans (Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by Helene Maksoud
The year is 1975. Elle Sheen --- a single mother who is supporting herself and her six-year-old African-American son, Dylan, as a waitress at the Noel Street Diner --- isn’t sure what to make of William Smith when his appearance creates a stir in the small town of Mistletoe, Utah. As their lives unexpectedly entwine, Elle learns that William, a recently returned Vietnam POW, not only is fighting demons from his past, but may also have the answer to her own secret pain --- a revelation that culminates in a remarkable act of love and forgiveness. Reviewed by Vivian Payton.
- Click here to read more about the book.
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Featured Review: A CHRISTMAS GATHERING
by Anne Perry
A CHRISTMAS GATHERING by Anne Perry (Historical Mystery)
Audiobook available, read by Jenny Sterlin
As beautiful as it may be, their friends’ country house is not where Lady Vespasia wishes to spend Christmas with her new husband, Victor Narraway, former head of the London Special Branch. As tensions grow, the young and beautiful Iris Watson-Watt becomes the center of several men’s focus. Unbeknownst to Vespasia, Iris carries a sensitive package that she must pass to Victor in the hope of unmasking a British traitor. While Victor plots his moves, he is reminded of a similar case from 20 years before, when a young Frenchwoman also carried a clandestine message --- one that resulted in her still-unsolved murder. Victor has always been tormented by his failure to protect her, and now he must act fast before history repeats itself. Reviewed by Ray Palen.
- Click here to read more about the book.
- Click here to read an excerpt.
Click here to read our review.
Featured Review: THE FALL OF RICHARD NIXON
by Tom Brokaw
THE FALL OF RICHARD NIXON: A Reporter Remembers Watergate by Tom Brokaw (Memoir/History)
Audiobook available, read by Tom Brokaw
In August 1974, after his involvement in the Watergate scandal could no longer be denied, Richard Nixon became the first and only president to resign from office in anticipation of certain impeachment. The year preceding that moment was filled with shocking revelations and bizarre events, full of power politics, legal jujitsu and high-stakes showdowns, and with head-shaking surprises every day. As the country’s top reporters worked to discover the truth, the public was overwhelmed by the confusing and almost unbelievable stories about activities in the Oval Office. Tom Brokaw, the young NBC News White House correspondent at the time, gives us a nuanced and thoughtful chronicle, recalling the players, the strategies, and the highs and lows of the scandal that brought down a president. Reviewed by Barbara Bamberger Scott.
- Click here to read more about the book.
- Click here to read an excerpt.
Click here to read our review.
Special Contest on ReadingGroupGuides.com:
Enter to Win Up to 12 Advance Digital Copies of the Audiobook Edition of Therese Anne Fowler’s
A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD for Your Group
ReadingGroupGuides.com is proud to host a very special audiobook contest for A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD by Therese Anne Fowler, an upcoming Bookreporter.com Bets On pick that examines the American dream through the lens of two families living side by side in an idyllic neighborhood, and the one summer that changes their lives irrevocably. Fifty book groups will win up to 12 advance digital copies of the audiobook, which is read by Adenrele Ojo and releases on March 10th. To enter, please fill out this form by Thursday, January 2nd at noon ET.
Please note: The publication date for A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD changed to March 10th, and the audio will be available in January, so our contest is now open until Thursday, January 2nd at noon ET.
We strongly encourage all winners to share their listening experiences on social media, including reviews on Amazon, Goodreads and Bookreporter.com’s “Sounding Off on Audio” feature.
A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD Audiobook written by Therese Anne Fowler, read by Adenrele Ojo (Fiction)
In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son. Xavier is headed to college in the fall, and after years of single parenting, Valerie is facing the prospect of an empty nest. All is well until the Whitmans move in next door --- an apparently traditional family with new money, ambition and a secretly troubled teenaged daughter.
Thanks to his thriving local business, Brad Whitman is something of a celebrity around town, and he's made a small fortune on his customer service and charm, while his wife, Julia, escaped her trailer park upbringing for the security of marriage and homemaking. Their new house is more than she ever imagined for herself, and who wouldn't want to live in Oak Knoll?
But with little in common except a property line, these two very different families quickly find themselves at odds: first, over an historic oak tree in Valerie's yard, and soon after, the blossoming romance between their two teenagers.
Told in multiple points of view, A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD asks big questions about life in America today --- What does it mean to be a good neighbor? How do we live alongside each other when we don't see eye to eye? --- as it explores the effects of class, race and heartrending star-crossed love in a story that’s as provocative as it is powerful.
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- Click here to listen to a clip from the audiobook.
Click here to enter the contest.
Bookreporter.com's Holiday Cheer Contests and Feature
At Bookreporter.com, we kick off the holiday season in style with our Holiday Cheer Contests and Feature. As our gift to you, on select days in November and December, we are spotlighting a book and giving five lucky readers the chance to win it. You have to visit the site each day to see the featured prize book and enter the 24-hour contest. As always, we are sending our special Holiday Cheer newsletter on the days when there are contests. Click here to sign up for these email alerts.
Our next prize book will be announced on Monday, December 2nd at noon ET.
This year's featured titles are:
Click here to read all the contest details
and learn more about our featured titles.
"Bookreporter Talks To" Videos & Podcasts
In late August, we launched “Bookreporter Talks To,” a video and podcast series where we deliver a long-form, in-depth author interview every week. For years, I have moderated book festivals and author events around the country. But we know that readers often do not live where they can attend an author event. Our goal --- to bring these author interviews to readers, wherever they may be. Watch on video, or listen as a podcast. (The podcasts include audio excerpts.)
By the way, this follows a long history of The Book Report Network delivering compelling programming to readers. Back in 1997, the company hosted the first online interview with John Grisham, which started a tradition of ongoing interviews with authors.
Authors interviewed to date include:
Upcoming interviews include:
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William Kent Krueger (THIS TENDER LAND)
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Whitney Scharer (THE AGE OF LIGHT)
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Cara Wall (THE DEARLY BELOVED)
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Beatriz Williams (THE GOLDEN HOUR; THE WICKED REDHEAD; ALL THE WAYS WE SAID GOODBYE)
Watch our "Bookreporter Talks To" interviews and listen to our podcasts.
UNDER OCCUPATION by Alan Furst (Historical Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by Peter Noble
Occupied Paris, 1942. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting novelist Paul Ricard. It looks like a blueprint of a part for a military weapon, one that might have important information for the Allied forces. As Ricard finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into anti-Nazi efforts, and into increasingly dangerous espionage assignments, he travels to Germany and along the escape routes of underground resistance safe houses to spy on Nazi maneuvers. When he meets Leila, a professional spy, they begin to work together to get crucial information out of France and into the hands of the Allied forces in London. Reviewed by Lorraine W. Shanley.
GREAT SOCIETY: A New History by Amity Shlaes (History/Politics)
Audiobook available, read by Terence Aselford
Many Americans are attracted to socialism and economic redistribution, while opponents of those ideas argue for purer capitalism. In the 1960s, Americans sought the same goals many seek now: an end to poverty, higher standards of living for the middle class, a better environment, and more access to health care and education. Then, too, we debated socialism and capitalism, public sector reform versus private sector advancement. Ironically, Shlaes argues, the costs of entitlement commitments made a half century ago preclude the very reforms that Americans will need in coming decades. In GREAT SOCIETY, Shlaes shows that in fact there was scant difference between two presidents we consider opposites: Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Reviewed by Harvey Freedenberg.
GET A LIFE, CHLOE BROWN by Talia Hibbert (Romantic Comedy)
Audiobook available, read by Adjoa Andoh
After almost --- but not quite --- dying, Chloe Brown has come up with seven directives to help her “Get a Life” and already has completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family’s mansion. The next items? Enjoy a drunken night out. Ride a motorcycle. Go camping. Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex. Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage. And...do something bad. But it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. What Chloe needs is a teacher. Redford “Red” Morgan is a handyman and an artist who Chloe spies on occasionally. But when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. Reviewed by Rebecca Munro.
BLIND SEARCH: A Mercy Carr Mystery by Paula Munier (Mystery)
Audiobook available, read by Kathleen McInerney
Nine-year-old Henry is lost in the woods. Again. Only this time he sees something terrible. When a young woman is found shot through the heart with a fatal arrow, former Army MP Mercy Carr thinks that something is murder. But Henry, a math genius whose autism often silences him when he should speak up most, is not talking. Now there’s a murderer hiding among the hunters in the forest --- and Mercy and her retired bomb-sniffing dog, Elvis, must team up with their crime-solving friends, game warden Troy Warner and search-and-rescue dog Susie Bear, to find the killer. When an early-season blizzard hits the mountains, cutting them off from the rest of the world, the race is on to solve the crime, apprehend the murderer and keep the boy safe until the snowplows get through. Reviewed by Pamela Kramer.
FATE OF THE FALLEN by Kel Kade (Dark Fantasy/Adventure)
Audiobook available, read by Nick Podehl
Everyone loves Mathias. Naturally, when he discovers it’s his destiny to save the world, he dives in head first, pulling his best friend Aaslo along for the ride. However, saving the world isn’t as easy, or exciting, as it sounds in the stories. The going gets rough, and folks start to believe their best chance for survival is to surrender to the forces of evil, which isn’t how the prophecy goes. At all. As the list of allies grows thin, and the friends find themselves staring death in the face, they must decide how to become the heroes they were destined to be --- or, failing that, how to survive. Reviewed by Alex Bowditch.
NVK by Temple Drake (Supernatural/Gothic Thriller)
One night in 2012, executive Zhang Guo Xing takes a group of European clients to a fashionable nightclub in Shanghai. While there, he meets a strikingly beautiful young Western woman called Naemi Vieno Kuusela. The physical attraction between them proves irresistible, and they embark on an intoxicating affair. But Naemi is not what she appears to be. To Zhang’s surprise, she veers between passion and wariness, conducting the relationship entirely on her own terms. He feels driven to find out more about her, and is swiftly drawn into a web of intrigue, mystery and horror. Is she a ghost? A demon? Do the living dead walk the streets of 21st-century Shanghai? Reviewed by Amy Gwiazdowski.
Next Week’s Notables:
Noteworthy Books Releasing on December 1st and 3rd
Below are some notable titles releasing on December 1st and 3rd that we would like to make you aware of. We will have more on many of these books in the weeks to come. For a list of additional hardcovers and paperbacks available the week of December 2nd, see our “On Sale This Week” newsletter here.
December 1st
IF YOU TELL: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen (True Crime)
IF YOU TELL is #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother’s house of horrors.
December 3rd
ALICE ADAMS: Portrait of a Writer by Carol Sklenicka (Biography)
“Nobody writes better about falling in love than Alice Adams,” a New York Times critic said of the prolific short-story writer and bestselling novelist whose dozens of published stories and 11 novels illuminate the American century.
ANYONE by Charles Soule (Science Fiction/Thriller)
Bestselling author of THE ORACLE YEAR, Charles Soule brings his signature knowledge --- and wariness --- of technology to his new novel set in a realistic future about a brilliant female scientist who creates a technology that allows for the transfer of human consciousness between bodies, and the transformations this process wreaks upon the world.
BEATING ABOUT THE BUSH: An Agatha Raisin Mystery by M. C. Beaton (Mystery)
When private detective Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, it looks like she is about to become involved in a particularly gruesome murder. Looks, however, can be deceiving, as Agatha discovers when she is employed to investigate a case of industrial espionage at a factory where nothing is quite what it seems.
THE BROKEN ROAD: George Wallace and a Daughter's Journey to Reconciliation by Peggy Wallace Kennedy with Justice H. Mark Kennedy (Memoir)
From the daughter of one of America's most virulent segregationists comes a memoir that reckons with her father George Wallace's legacy of hate --- and illuminates her journey towards redemption.
BRYANT & MAY: THE LONELY HOUR: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery by Christopher Fowler (Mystery)
The brilliant Arthur Bryant and John May take the late, late shift in a cat-and-mouse hunt with a killer who preys on his victims at the same time every night --- the lonely hour of 4am.
DISNEY'S LAND: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World by Richard Snow (Entertainment/History)
DISNEY’S LAND is a propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow.
GENESIS by Robin Cook (Medical Thriller)
New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the ripped-from-the-headlines topic of harnessing DNA from ancestry websites to catch a killer in this timely and explosive new medical thriller.
HOW THE DEAD SPEAK: A Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Novel by Val McDermid (Mystery/Thriller)
Val McDermid is an award-winning, crime-writing powerhouse, and now she returns to her explosive, thrilling series featuring psychological profiler Tony Hill and ex-DCI Carol Jordan in her latest, HOW THE DEAD SPEAK.
JUST WATCH ME by Jeff Lindsay (Thriller)
A masterful thief plots an impossible crime --- stealing the Iranian Crown Jewels. From the author of the wildly successful Dexter series comes a new, mesmerizing bad guy we can root for: Riley Wolfe.
THE MEASURE OF OUR LIVES: A Gathering of Wisdom by Toni Morrison (Literary Collection/Reference)
THE MEASURE OF OUR LIVES is at once the ideal introduction to Toni Morrison and a lovely and moving keepsake for her devoted readers: a treasury of quotations from her work.
THE PEPPERMINT TEA CHRONICLES: A 44 Scotland Street Novel by Alexander McCall Smith (Fiction)
Once again, Scotland Street teems with the daily triumphs and challenges of those who call it home, and provides a warm, wise and witty chronicle of the affairs in this corner of the world.
REPUTATION by Sara Shepard (Mystery/Thriller)
In this perfectly paced new novel from Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS, the women of a tight-knit college town learn through gossip, scandal, betrayal and even murder who their neighbors and husbands really are.
WINTER GRAVE: An Embla Nyström Investigation written by Helene Tursten, translated by Marlaine Delargy (Mystery)
In this thrilling mystery set in rural Sweden, Detective Inspector Embla Nyström must solve a murder case and find two missing children before the small town takes matters into their own hands.
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Our Latest Poll:
November and December Releases to Anticipate
Which of the following titles releasing in November and December are you planning to read? Please check all that apply.
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THE ANDROMEDA EVOLUTION by Michael Crichton and Daniel H. Wilson
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BEATING ABOUT THE BUSH: An Agatha Raisin Mystery, by M. C. Beaton
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CARRIE FISHER: A Life on the Edge, by Sheila Weller
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A CHRISTMAS GATHERING by Anne Perry
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THE CONFESSION CLUB by Elizabeth Berg
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CRISS CROSS by James Patterson
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THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS by Lisa Jewell
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FINAL OPTION: A Novel of the Oregon Files, by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison
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FINDING CHIKA: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family, by Mitch Albom
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GOOD GIRLS LIE by J.T. Ellison
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IN THE DREAM HOUSE: A Memoir, by Carmen Maria Machado
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JUST WATCH ME by Jeff Lindsay
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KISS THE GIRLS AND MAKE THEM CRY by Mary Higgins Clark
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LITTLE WEIRDS by Jenny Slate
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A MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT: An Atlee Pine Thriller, by David Baldacci
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NOEL STREET by Richard Paul Evans
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THE OLD SUCCESS: A Richard Jury Mystery, by Martha Grimes
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THE PEPPERMINT TEA CHRONICLES: A 44 Scotland Street Novel, by Alexander McCall Smith
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ROBERT B. PARKER'S ANGEL EYES: A Spenser Novel, by Ace Atkins
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THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA by Martin Cruz Smith
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SPY by Danielle Steel
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THE STARLESS SEA by Erin Morgenstern
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SWORD OF KINGS by Bernard Cornwell
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TWISTED TWENTY-SIX: A Stephanie Plum Novel, by Janet Evanovich
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THE WICKED REDHEAD: A Wicked City Novel, by Beatriz Williams
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None of these
Click here to vote in the poll by Friday, December 6th at noon ET.
Word of Mouth Contest: Tell Us What
You're Reading --- and You Can Win Two Books!
Tell us about the books you’ve finished reading with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars. During the contest period from November 15th to December 6th at noon ET, three lucky readers each will be randomly chosen to win a copy of THE CONFESSION CLUB by Elizabeth Berg and A MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT: An Atlee Pine Thriller by David Baldacci.
To make sure other readers will be able to find the books you write about, please include the full title and correct author names (your entry must include these to be eligible to win). For rules and guidelines, click here.
- To see reader comments from previous contest periods, click here.
Sounding Off on Audio Contest: Tell Us What
You're Listening to --- and You Can Win Two Audiobooks!
Tell us about the audiobooks you’ve finished listening to with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars for both the performance and the content. During the contest period from November 1st to December 2nd at noon ET, two lucky readers each will be randomly chosen to win the audio versions of Mary Higgins Clark's KISS THE GIRLS AND MAKE THEM CRY, read by January LaVoy, and Martin Cruz Smith's THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA: An Arkady Renko Novel, read by Jeremy Bobb.
To make sure other readers will be able to find the audiobook, please include the full title and correct author names (your entry must include these to be eligible to win). For complete rules and guidelines, click here.
- To see reader comments from previous contest periods, click here.
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