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While I truly love where we live, there is a part of me that would like to live in Colorado, Wyoming or Montana, or somewhere else where there are mountains and lots of sky. So I enjoyed seeing Lee Child and his brother, Andrew Child, being interviewed on “CBS Saturday Morning” last weekend. They were in Wyoming where they have ranches near each other; Lee’s is on 35 acres, and Andrew’s is a mile away. They also have bought a town out there. I believe the segment was shot at Andrew’s house, as his wife posted a photo of the shoot on social media a few weeks ago. As I was watching, there was a pillow with a buffalo on it over the interviewer’s shoulder. We have the same one --- one of my many little odes to the west here at the house. Yes, this humored me, so I had to share it!
My latest “Bookreporter Talks To” interview is with Thrity Umrigar, whose 10th book, HONOR, is a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick that is now available in paperback. I first read Thrity’s novel, THE SPACE BETWEEN US, back in 2006, which made a big impression on me. The same can be said of HONOR.
Thrity talks about the reporting that Ellen Berry did for the New York Times that drew her to want to tell the story of Smita, an Indian-born reporter who has been asked to cover the trial of two brothers in India. They have been charged with killing the husband of their sister, Meena, who in the wake of this tragedy has been horrifically burned. The reason for the crime? Meena’s family is Hindu, and her husband was Muslim. In this village, such merging of cultures is unacceptable. Thrity talks about the difference between life in the city and the smaller villages. She also shares that she always sees a story right from the start and parses it out as she writes.
And before you feel that this interview was all intellectual, do note that I confess to watching both “Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives” and “Indian Matchmaking” on Netflix. Thrity chides me about it! Click here to watch the video and here to listen to the podcast.
This Month’s “Bookaccino Live” Book Group Event
Last night, we hosted a “Bookaccino Live” Book Group event featuring Joyce Maynard. Not only did she talk about her latest novel, COUNT THE WAYS (now out in paperback), she also shared her excitement over the sequel to the book, which she is currently writing. Joyce even encouraged our attendees to write in the chat what they would like to see happen in the sequel. She loves receiving feedback like this from her readers, and we happily will be sending all of their comments to her!
It just so happens that yesterday marked the release of an e-book original from Joyce, THE INFLUENCER, an Amazon short story that she talked about during the event. Insta-fame has deadly repercussions in this dark tale of psychological suspense. It’s available as a download on Amazon Singles for $1.99 (and it’s free if you’re an Amazon Prime or Kindle Unlimited subscriber). Click here for more plot details and to download it now!
A couple of our readers appeared on camera to ask Joyce questions about the book, and then we opened up the Q&A to the rest of our viewing audience. It was a lovely evening, and we look forward to sharing the event with you next week. The video will be up on our YouTube channel, and the podcast will appear on our Videos & Podcasts page.
I am happy to announce that Charmaine Wilkerson will be our next “Bookaccino Live” Book Group guest. The event will be held on Wednesday, November 30th at 8pm ET, and you can sign up for it here. We will be talking about Charmaine’s debut novel, BLACK CAKE --- a New York Times bestseller, a “Read with Jenna” Today Show Book Club pick, and a Bets On selection when it came out in hardcover earlier this year. The timing here is perfect as the paperback releases the day before the event.
Just as we did last night, there will be a two-part Q&A session after I talk to Charmaine. For the first part, those who are asking a question “on camera” will be featured. This includes spending time with Charmaine backstage in our virtual green room before the show starts. If you would like to ask your question "live on screen" this way, please email it to me using the subject line “Black Cake.” For those who are camera shy, there will be a traditional Q&A segment as well.
For many, Cormac McCarthy’s long-awaited two-volume Passenger series is the literary event of the year. The first installment, THE PASSENGER, released this week and is McCarthy’s first novel since 2006’s THE ROAD. It’s the story of a salvage diver --- haunted by loss and afraid of the deep waters --- who is pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God. The follow-up, STELLA MARIS, releases on December 6th. It’s an intimate portrait of grief and longing as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence.
Joe Hartlaub, our Senior Writer Emeritus, is such a huge fan of McCarthy and his work that he felt compelled to briefly come out of retirement and review these two titles for us, which we are just thrilled about! Both books lived up to his lofty expectations, as you can tell from these review blurbs:
THE PASSENGER: “THE PASSENGER is worthy of becoming your favorite new literary drug, a multifaceted jewel of a book that will keep you up all night reading and thinking…. “[T]he first volume of this major work is required and unforgettable reading that will make you even more impatient to encounter its companion.”
STELLA MARIS: “I certainly don’t recall ever encountering anything quite as deep, dark and complex as this book and THE PASSENGER. You may need to give up your favorite author for a while simply to avoid comparing your next reading experience too harshly against this sprawling and disturbing work, which at the end of the day is nothing short of incomparable and not to be missed.”
The aforementioned Lee Child and Andrew Child have teamed up once again for the 27th installment of the Jack Reacher series. In NO PLAN B, a woman dies under the wheels of a moving bus. The death is ruled a suicide, but Jack Reacher saw what really happened. When another homicide is deemed an accident, he knows this is no coincidence. But Reacher is unaware that these crimes are part of something much larger and more far-reaching.
According to our reviewer Ray Palen, the book “has everything readers of a Jack Reacher novel could ever want --- chases, thrills, and a line of bodies in the wake of Reacher and his nearly unstoppable ability to tattoo his own brand of justice upon anyone who stands in the way of his focused goal.”
Word of Mouth Reminder
NO PLAN B is one of the prizes in our current Word of Mouth contest; the other is MY TRAVELS WITH MRS. KENNEDY by Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin Hill. Submit your comments about the books you’ve read by Friday, November 4th at noon ET, and you’ll have a chance to win both these titles.
As we noted in last week’s newsletter, Oprah’s latest Book Club pick is Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel, DEMON COPPERHEAD. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote DAVID COPPERFIELD from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration.
Our reviewer Jana Siciliano says, “The reader will connect to Demon in countless ways, but especially in his lack of agency. The book starts from the moment of his birth, and he offers his account without influencer-type victimization --- he just is, and this is his story. It is that truthful, matter-of-fact tone that reaches into the reader’s heart and mind and pulls out even more compassion than any Appalachian drug documentary could.”
Other books we’re reviewing this week include:
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LIVID: In this 26th installment of Patricia Cornwell’s series featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the chief medical examiner finds herself a reluctant star witness in a sensational televised murder trial causing chaos in Old Town Alexandria with the threat of violent protests.
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THE REVOLUTIONARY: Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Stacy Schiff has penned a revelatory biography of arguably the most essential Founding Father, the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution: Samuel Adams.
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THE SINGULARITIES: From revered Booker Prize-winning author John Banville comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison.
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ANYWHERE YOU RUN: After the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country. But can they escape the secrets they left behind? Find out in this new thriller from Wanda M. Morris, the award-winning author of ALL HER LITTLE SECRETS.
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Last night, Kirkus Reviews announced the winners of the ninth annual Kirkus Prize in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction and Young Readers’ Literature. They are TRUST by Hernan Diaz (Fiction), IN SENSORIUM: Notes for My People, by Tanaïs (Nonfiction), and HIMAWARI HOUSE by Harmony Becker (Young Readers’ Literature).
News & Pop Culture
Ina Garten on “60 Minutes”: I watched this terrific segment on Sunday night with Ina Garten. I am so looking forward to getting her new cookbook, GO-TO DINNERS.
The Good Nurse on Netflix: I watched this film last night about a male nurse who left a trail of dead patients at every hospital that he worked at. It is a tragedy that he got away with as much as he did. It stars Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain, and it is worth watching.
Icon Member at Athleta: Ah, there was a day when I would be happy to have gold status on United. Now I am thrilled to have Icon status at Athleta. And yes, it has something to do with how much shopping one does with the brand.
“House of the Dragon” on HBO: Tom and I are continuing to watch this. I still have no idea what is going on, and I ask him a ton of questions. I want to watch with subtitles; with their accents, I have zero idea what they are saying. I also get a lot of work done as he watches, and it is a show we watch together. He ignores 99% of my television viewing!
“The Watcher” on Netflix: From a friend in the know about this house in Westfield, NJ, the story as presented in the series goes way off the rails. It was fun to watch at the start and then, poof, what a mess it became. It got more and more crazy, and the actual story bears very little resemblance to this. And yes, traffic HAS been nuts outside that house as people drive by thinking they will see I am not sure what!
“High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule” on Netflix. This three-part docuseries “focuses on how Michaella McCollum became part of the 'Peru Two,' two college-age girls from the UK that were arrested in Lima on drug trafficking charges in 2013. The series is told from McCollum’s perspective, with her as the narrator and main interview subject. How did a twenty-year-old from Northern Ireland become a drug smuggler in Peru?” For the record, when she says that she thought Lima was a city in Spain, I am thinking, Was she serious? When she got on the plane and saw that it was a 15-hour flight, I actually laughed.
On Sunday, we are going to my dad’s house to watch football and make dinner. On Wednesday, Tom and I are headed to Charleston. Our good friend, Cathy, moved, and we are planning to catch a couple of the events at the Charleston Literary Festival. On one of the panels, Betsy Prioleau and Tina Brown will talk about their most recent books, DIAMONDS AND DEADLINES and THE PALACE PAPERS, with moderator Amanda Foreman, the notable nonfiction writer. That evening we are going to the opening event, which is a dance party. Picture me trying to decide what to pack! And we are driving since flying these days feels like you are in Vegas, playing odds on whether or not you get there!
Happy Halloween! I am at the point where I am seeing rain in the forecast for Monday night. So when candy shopping, I probably need to think about what leftovers I want to have on hand. Hmmmm...peanut M&Ms and...hmmmm.
Read on, and have a great week.
Carol Fitzgerald (Carol@bookreporter.com)
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Featured Reviews:
THE PASSENGER and STELLA MARIS
by Cormac McCarthy
THE PASSENGER by Cormac McCarthy (Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by MacLeod Andrews and Julia Whelan
1980, Pass Christian, Mississippi: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flight bag, the plane’s black box and the 10th passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit --- by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul. Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub.
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STELLA MARIS by Cormac McCarthy (Fiction)
On Sale December 6th
1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, 20 years old and with $40,000 in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she recalls a childhood where, by the age of seven, her own grandmother feared for her; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy. And she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, who is not quite dead, not quite hers. Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub.
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Featured Review: NO PLAN B
by Lee Child and Andrew Child
NO PLAN B: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child and Andrew Child (Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by Scott Brick
In Gerrardsville, Colorado, a woman dies under the wheels of a moving bus. The death is ruled a suicide. But Jack Reacher saw what really happened: A man in a gray hoodie and jeans, moving stealthily, pushed the victim to her demise --- before swiftly grabbing the dead woman’s purse and strolling away. When another homicide is ruled an accident, Reacher knows this is no coincidence. With a killer on the loose, Reacher has no time to waste to track down those responsible. But Reacher is unaware that these crimes are part of something much larger and more far-reaching: an arsonist out for revenge, a foster kid on the run, a cabal of powerful people involved in a secret conspiracy with many moving parts. Reviewed by Ray Palen.
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Featured Review:
DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver
Oprah’s Latest Book Club Pick
DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver (Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by Charlie Thurston
DEMON COPPERHEAD is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It’s the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. Reviewed by Jana Siciliano.
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Featured Review: LIVID by Patricia Cornwell
LIVID: A Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Cornwell (Mystery/Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by January LaVoy
Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is the reluctant star witness in a sensational murder trial when she receives shocking news. The judge’s sister has been found dead. At first glance, it appears to be a home invasion. But then why was nothing stolen, and why is the garden strewn with dead plants and insects? Although there is no apparent cause of death, Scarpetta recognizes telltale signs of the unthinkable, and she knows the worst is yet to come. The forensic pathologist finds herself pitted against a powerful force that returns her to the past, and her time to catch the killer is running out. Reviewed by Ray Palen.
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Featured Review: THE REVOLUTIONARY by Stacy Schiff
THE REVOLUTIONARY: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff (Biography)
Audiobook available, read by Jason Culp
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man.” John Adams thought his cousin was “the most sagacious politician” of all. With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history. Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd, eloquent and intensely disciplined man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. Reviewed by Lorraine W. Shanley.
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Featured Review: THE SINGULARITIES by John Banville
THE SINGULARITIES by John Banville (Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by Nicholas Guy-Smith
A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car --- also borrowed --- onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty old house: the Godleys, descendants of the late, world-famous scientist Adam Godley, whose theory of existence threw the universe into chaos. And this mystery man, who has just completed a prison sentence, feels as if time has stopped, or was torn, or was opened in new and strange ways. He must now vie with the idiosyncratic Godley family, their harried housekeeper who becomes his landlady, his recently commissioned biographer of Godley Sr., and a wealthy and beautiful woman from his past who comes bearing an unusual request. Reviewed by Harvey Freedenberg.
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Featured Review:
ANYWHERE YOU RUN by Wanda M. Morris
ANYWHERE YOU RUN by Wanda M. Morris (Historical Thriller)
Audiobook available; read by Janina Edwards, Shayna Small and Adam Lazarre-White
In the summer of 1964, three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this backdrop, 21-year-old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she’s ever been in her life. Suffering a brutal attack of her own, she kills the man responsible. But with the color of Violet’s skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi. With the help of her white beau, she escapes. Back in Jackson, Violet’s older sister, Marigold, has dreams of attending law school, but she’s pregnant and unmarried. After news of the murder brings the police to her door, Marigold heads North seeking the promise of a better life and no more segregation. But has she made a terrible choice that threatens her life and that of her unborn child? Reviewed by Megan Elliott.
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What’s New This Month on ReadingGroupGuides.com
THE LAST FOLK HERO: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman (Sports/Biography)
Audiobook available, read by JD Jackson
From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. His strength was legendary, and his power was unmatched. He climbed (and walked across) walls, splintered baseball bats over his knee, and turned oncoming tacklers into ground meat. He became the first person to simultaneously star in two major professional sports and overtook Michael Jordan as America’s most recognizable pitchman. Then, almost overnight, he was gone. He was Bo Jackson. Drawing on an astonishing 720 original interviews, Jeff Pearlman captures as never before the elusive truth about Jackson, Auburn University’s transcendent Heisman Trophy winner, superstar of both the NFL and Major League Baseball, and ubiquitous “Bo Knows” Nike pitchman. Reviewed by Stuart Shiffman.
THE FAMILY GAME by Catherine Steadman (Psychological Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by Catherine Steadman
Harriet Reed, a novelist on the brink of literary stardom, is newly engaged to Edward Holbeck, the heir of an extremely powerful family. And even though Edward has long tried to sever ties with them, news of the couple’s marital bliss has the Holbecks inching back into their lives. As Harriet is drawn into their lavish world, the family seems perfectly welcoming. So when Edward’s father, Robert, hands Harriet a tape of a book he’s been working on, she is desperate to listen. But as she presses play, it’s clear that this isn’t just a novel. It’s a confession. A confession to a grisly crime. A murder. And, suddenly, the game is in motion. Feeling isolated and confused, Harriet must work out if this is part of a plan to test her loyalty. Or something far darker. Reviewed by Kate Ayers.
INCITING JOY: Essays by Ross Gay (Essays)
Audiobook available, read by Ross Gay
In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout INCITING JOY, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection and how we expand it. In “We Kin,” he thinks about the garden (especially around August, when the zucchini and tomatoes come on) as a laboratory of mutual aid; in “Share Your Bucket” he explores skateboarding’s reclamation of public space; he considers the costs of masculinity in “Grief Suite”; and in “Through My Tears I Saw,” he recognizes what was healed in caring for his father as he was dying. Reviewed by Norah Piehl.
THE FAVOR by Nicci French (Psychological Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by Imogen Church
Jude hasn’t seen Liam in years, but when he shows up at her work asking for a favor, she finds she can’t refuse. All Jude has to do is pick Liam up at a country train station --- without telling anyone. So what if she has to lie to her fiancé? Jude is still committed to him and their imminent wedding, even if she and Liam were in love once. She owes him. After the car crash that changed everything years ago, bright, ambitious Jude went to medical school, back on the path she had planned before meeting moody, artistic Liam. Meanwhile, he never fully recovered from the dark stain the accident left on his record. Now he’s gone. When the police show up at the station instead of Liam, Jude realizes that she knows nothing about the man he’s become. Reviewed by Barbara Lipkien Gershenbaum.
THE STORYTELLER’S DEATH by Ann Dávila Cardinal (Historical Mystery/Magical Realism)
Audiobook available, read by Marisol Ramirez
Isla Larsen Sanchez's life begins to unravel when her father passes away. Instead of being comforted at home in New Jersey, her mother starts leaving her in Puerto Rico with her grandmother and great-aunt each summer like a piece of forgotten luggage. When Isla turns 18, her grandmother, a great storyteller, dies. It is then that Isla discovers she has a gift passed down through her family's cuentistas. The tales of dead family storytellers are brought back to life, replaying themselves over and over in front of her. At first, Isla is enchanted by this connection to the Sanchez cuentistas. But when Isla has a vision of an old murder mystery, she realizes that if she can't solve it to make the loop end, these seemingly harmless stories could cost Isla her life. Reviewed by Rebecca Munro.
BEASTS OF THE EARTH by James Wade (Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by Roger Clark
Harlen LeBlanc is a dependable, if quiet, employee of the Carter Hills High School's grounds department, whose carefully maintained routine is overthrown by an act of violence. As the town searches for answers, LeBlanc strikes out on his own to exonerate a friend, while drawing the eyes of the law to himself and fending off unwelcome voices that call for a sterner form of justice. Twenty years earlier, young Michael Fischer dreads the return of his father from prison. He spends his days stealing from trap lines in the Louisiana bayou to feed his fanatically religious mother and his cherished younger sister, Doreen. When his father eventually returns, an evil arrives in Michael's life that sends him running from everything he has ever known. Reviewed by Ray Palen.
Next Week’s Notables:
Noteworthy Books Releasing on
October 31st and November 1st
Below are some notable titles releasing on October 31st and November 1st 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 October 31st, see our “On Sale This Week” newsletter here.
October 31st
TRIPLE CROSS: An Alex Cross Thriller by James Patterson (Thriller)
Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who targets entire families --- and will next be coming for the Crosses.
November 1st
BARKLEY: A Biography by Timothy Bella (Biography)
Timothy Bella has written the definitive biography of Charles Barkley, exploring his early childhood, his storied NBA career and his enduring legacy as a provocative voice in American pop culture.
THE CLOISTERS by Katy Hays (Literary Thriller)
In Katy Hays’ debut novel, a circle of researchers uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York’s famed Met Cloisters.
THE COUPLE AT THE TABLE by Sophie Hannah (Psychological Thriller)
Honeymooners at a posh resort receive an ominous warning with deadly consequences in this latest gripping, twisty psychological thriller from New York Times bestselling author Sophie Hannah.
FRIENDS, LOVERS, AND THE BIG TERRIBLE THING: A Memoir by Matthew Perry (Memoir)
The beloved star of "Friends" takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence.
GILDED MOUNTAIN by Kate Manning (Historical Fiction)
Set in early 1900s Colorado, GILDED MOUNTAIN is the unforgettable tale of a young woman who bravely faces the consequences of speaking out against injustice.
GOING ROGUE: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich (Mystery)
Full of surprises, thrills and humor, GOING ROGUE reveals a new side of Stephanie Plum and shows Janet Evanovich at her scorching, riotous best.
THE LAST CAMPAIGN: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America by H. W. Brands (History)
Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent.
LAWS OF DEPRAVITY: A Martyr Maker Novel by Eriq La Salle (Thriller)
From actor, director, producer and author Eriq La Salle comes the first in a heart-pounding crime thriller series. LAWS OF DEPRAVITY follows two NYPD detectives and an FBI agent as they race to catch a serial killer before he completes his last cycle of kills and disappears forever.
THE PRISONER by B. A. Paris (Psychological Thriller)
With BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, B. A. Paris took the psychological thriller to shocking new heights. Now she’ll hold you captive with THE PRISONER, a stunning new thriller about one woman wed into a family with deadly intentions.
RACING THE LIGHT: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel by Robert Crais (Thriller)
Private investigator Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner, Joe Pike, are back on the case in this brilliant new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais.
SOMEDAY, MAYBE by Onyi Nwabineli (Fiction)
SOMEDAY, MAYBE is a stunning, witty debut novel about a young woman’s emotional journey through unimaginable loss, pulled along by her tight-knit Nigerian family, a posse of friends, and the love and laughter she shared with her husband.
TOAD by Katherine Dunn (Fiction/Dark Humor)
From cult icon Katherine Dunn, the author of GEEK LOVE, comes a previously unpublished novel of the reflections of a deeply scarred and reclusive woman.
WE ARE THE LIGHT by Matthew Quick (Fiction)
From Matthew Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, comes a poignant and hopeful novel about a widower who takes in a grieving teenager and inspires a magical revival in their small town.
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From left to right: Barbara Kingsolver, Patricia Cornwell, Jon Meacham
Upcoming Virtual Book and Author Events
As many book and author events are still happening online these days, we are highlighting a number of them that you may be interested in attending. Click on the links below for more info and to register.
Tuesday, November 1st at 1pm ET: National Archives: In his new book, THE LAST CAMPAIGN, bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent. Brands will discuss how Sherman and Geronimo were keen strategists and bold soldiers, ruthless with their enemies.
Tuesday, November 1st at 2pm ET: Book Passage: Book Passage, in partnership with Warwick's and Books & Books, will host Lee Child and Andrew Child as they discuss the latest book in their Jack Reacher series, NO PLAN B, with fellow bestselling author Louise Penny.
Tuesday, November 1st at 7pm ET: Hudson Library & Historical Society: Hudson Library & Historical Society will host a live virtual streaming event with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham, who will talk about his latest book, AND THERE WAS LIGHT: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle.
Tuesday, November 1st at 7pm ET: Murder By The Book: Patricia Cornwell will be in conversation with David Baldacci about LIVID, the 26th installment in her #1 bestselling series featuring chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, who finds herself a reluctant star witness in a sensational televised murder trial.
Wednesday, November 2nd at 4pm ET: Warwick's: Warwick's, in partnership with Book Passage, will host Barbara Kingsolver as she discusses her new book, DEMON COPPERHEAD, which is Oprah's latest Book Club pick. She will be in conversation with DOPESICK author Beth Macy.
Wednesday, November 2nd at 7pm ET: "Friends and Fiction": The "Friends and Fiction" authors --- Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey and Patti Callahan Henry --- will talk to Wanda M. Morris about her latest novel, the gripping and suspenseful ANYWHERE YOU RUN.
Thursday, November 3rd at 6pm ET: Murder By The Book: Rhys Bowen will be in conversation with Deborah Crombie about the latest installment in her Royal Spyness mystery series, PERIL IN PARIS, in which an unexpected trip to Paris thrusts Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her dashing husband, Darcy, straight into a tangled web of international intrigue.
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Think about titles to share with your book group
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Other (Please specify)
Click here to vote in the poll by Friday, November 4th 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 October 21st to November 4th at noon ET, three lucky readers each will be randomly chosen to win a copy of NO PLAN B: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child and Andrew Child and MY TRAVELS WITH MRS. KENNEDY by Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin Hill.
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.
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