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I, like many of you, have been watching the Olympics. I always think about the years of training that goes into one race, one performance. “It all comes down to this.” I was blown away by the performances that Alysa Liu turned out, especially the one for her long program. I felt like she was skating for herself, not for the judges. She had walked away from the sport and came back to it with fresh eyes. She wanted to be there after a few years of living life as a teen, not just as a skater. Every move on that ice had flow. It did not feel like a required element; it was filled with a passion of “I want to do this!”
It reminds me of authors who changed what they “always wrote,” taking a risk. Would readers follow? They wrote what they did because they wanted to explore an idea; it came from something within. I look at my shelves, and so often those books stand out to me.
Maybe it all comes down to the fact that starting The Book Report Network/Bookreporter almost 30 years ago had that same kind of a risk. For the first time, I was not working for a company. Jesse Kornbluth and I were figuring it out as we went. But the one thing we had was passion and an idea to operate outside the box. And I have decided that those two things can take you a long way. Alysa did that with her career. I mean, who walks away from years of training that is setting you up for the next competition? But sometimes you need to leave in order to innovate and stretch your wings...and, in her case, twirl a little differently!
I have more about skating later in this newsletter when I share my Bookreporter.com Bets On commentary for BLADE by Wendy Walker. It’s been fun following Wendy on social media as she talks about the events. She trained to be a competitive skater from the ages of 13 to 16, as we discussed in my recent interview with her, so she knows this world.
This week was what I call “The Holiday Week Merry-Go-Round.” It was a quieter week than usual as many schools were closed for midwinter break, which meant vacations and countless out-of-office emails.
I am amused by these messages. Often someone still has the Christmas out-of-office reply on in February. Or the merry-go-round happens when person A sends you to person B, who also is out, and person C has no idea what you are talking about. By this point, you wish you had booked a ski trip or a flight to the Caribbean as nothing is moving as quickly as you want.
But the books keep coming out, and we keep on covering them.
My latest “Bookreporter Talks To” interview is with Sadeqa Johnson, who discusses her new novel, KEEPER OF LOST CHILDREN. Like her earlier two works of historical fiction, it will be a Bets On selection. Sadeqa shares that she found a piece about the Brown Babies when she was doing research for THE HOUSE OF EVE. The story was calling to her, but she put it aside to finish that book.
She learned more about the Brown Babies and Mabel Grammer, the inspiration for her character Ethel Gathers, in both Ebony and Jet magazines. Bringing these children from Germany to the United States brought lots of press; there is even a documentary called Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story.
Sadeqa talks about crafting the three different characters the way that she did and the challenge of tying their stories together. She also expresses her love of the audiobook, which features three voice actors --- Ariel Blake, Karen Chilton and Adam Lazarre-White --- the latter of whom she came to admire when he narrated S. A. Cosby’s work.
Click here to watch the interview or here to listen to the podcast. I will share my Bets On commentary in next week’s newsletter.
Join Us on Thursday Evening for Our
Book Group Event with Lily King!
This is your last Weekly Update newsletter reminder to sign up for this month’s “Bookaccino Live” Book Group event, which will take place next Thursday, February 26th at 8pm ET.
Our guest will be Lily King, and she will discuss her most recent novel, HEART THE LOVER, an instant New York Times bestseller and a Bets On pick.
After I talk to Lily, we will give readers the chance to share a question for her on screen. We have special sign-in directions for these attendees, and they will get to chat with Lily in our “backstage green room” before the program starts. Then we will turn to questions that have been dropped into Zoom’s Q&A feature.
If you would like to ask Lily a question, please fill out this form by Thursday at noon ET. Be sure to include your name, city, state, email address and phone number, as well as your question. And indicate if you would like to be on camera or off.
We are looking forward to what I know will be a fabulous event. When I interviewed Lily back in the fall, I told her that HEART THE LOVER would be perfect for one of our “Bookaccino Live” Book Group discussions. Please join us if you can, and tell your friends and family about it!
Steve Berry celebrates 20 years of Cotton Malone with the 20th installment of his bestselling series, THE DEVIL’S BIBLE, a tale of mystery and intrigue stretching back over four centuries. When the younger sister of Sweden’s King Wilhelm I is kidnapped, the former Justice Department operative is called in to quietly investigate before the public finds out.
According to Ray Palen in his review, the book “has enough surprises to hook any reader. There aren’t many writers better than Steve Berry when it comes to combining unique historical events with present-day action and adventure. His Writer’s Note at the end of each novel always separates fact from fiction and makes for useful information to consume after enjoying another wild ride with Cotton Malone and company.”
In AMERICAN STRUGGLE, Jon Meacham --- the #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE SOUL OF AMERICA --- unites centuries of essential American voices to understand our national debates and divisions from 1619 to the present, with his signature commentary on the consequential speeches, letters and essays that led us to this moment.
Here’s what Lorraine W. Shanley says about the book in her review: “While not traditional history, the cumulative effect of presenting this array of opinions over a 400-year span is to give readers an understanding of, and appreciation for, the difficult journey that the country and its people have been on. Timed perfectly for the 250th anniversary of our founding, AMERICAN STRUGGLE is an ideal companion for anyone who wants to know how we got here.”
Speaking of authors who branch out into different genres, Kate Quinn, who is best known for her outstanding historical fiction, has written her first novel of magical realism. THE ASTRAL LIBRARY poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are not just objects, but doors to new worlds, new lives and new futures.
Pamela Kramer raves about the book in her review: “There's no way to explain in words how delightful it was to experience THE ASTRAL LIBRARY. I cried at the end --- not from sadness or even happiness, but just from the joy of having been so immersed in stories that I know and don't know, from reading about characters who love books as much as I do, and from thinking about the splendid fantasy of living in books.”
Other books we’re reviewing this week include:
Wrapping Up Winter Reading --- and Looking Ahead to Spring Reading
Our Winter Reading contests came to a close this week with our final giveaway, BEST BOY by Deborah Goodrich Royce. Congratulations to the winners of our six contests, and many thanks to all who entered!
Our next series of 24-hour giveaways will be our Spring Reading contests. The feature will go live next Friday, February 27th, and our first giveaway will kick off on Tuesday, March 3rd. If you would like to receive a newsletter announcing each day’s Spring Reading title, click here to sign up for these contest alerts.
Enter Our New Word of Mouth Contest
Let us know by Friday, March 6th at noon ET what books you’ve read, and you’ll have a chance to win KIN by Tayari Jones and MORE THAN ENOUGH by Anna Quindlen in our latest Word of Mouth contest.
KIN is about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy. In MORE THAN ENOUGH, a woman confronts the surprising results of an ancestry test and begins to question the meaning of family and friendship. Both books release on Tuesday, and we plan to review them in next week’s newsletter.
I am going to Anna's event next Saturday in Spring Lake, NJ that Thunder Road Books is hosting. If you are there, be sure to say hello.
Vote in Our New Poll --- and Check Out Results from the Last Poll
For our latest poll, we’re curious about the format of the book you’re currently reading. Is it a hardcover, paperback, audiobook or e-book? Let us know by clicking here. We realize you may be reading more than one book right now, so we made it a “Check all that apply” type of question.
In our previous poll, we listed 35 fiction titles that are being published this month and asked which of them, if any, you are looking forward to reading. Below are your top five picks, and you can see all the results here.
Southern indie booksellers and the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance have announced the winners of this year’s Southern Book Prize. They are HAPPY LAND by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Fiction), ALL THESE GHOSTS by Silas House (Nonfiction), and MILLIE FLEUR SAVES THE NIGHT by Christy Mandin (Young Readers). Winning authors receive a donation in their name to the charity or nonprofit of their choice.
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Reader Mail: Marcia wrote, “THANK YOU and Bookreporter’s staff for BLADE! I sincerely am appreciative (I NEVER 'win' anything, so how very lucky is one who actually wins a book!!?) and will be reading it soon. I have five books from our community library sitting and waiting to be devoured before their respective due dates (why do they ALL come in at the same time?), so I will be reading BLADE as soon as they are done. It is one that I do look forward to reading. Thank you all so very much! I continue to recommend your newsletter to all my friends! It was a real gold mine for me to find it and subscribe. I have learned of so many good books and shared these titles and the site with them. Hopefully, they have subscribed too!”
“60 Minutes” Interview with Alysa Liu: Enjoy this! It tells her story well.
“The Last Thing He Told Me” on Apple TV+: The second season of this series based on Laura Dave's book of the same name premieres today.
“Shrinking” on Apple TV+: This series, which is now in its third season, is fun.
“The Lincoln Lawyer” on Netflix: Season four was terrific, and the series has been renewed for a fifth season.
I am hoping to finally work on replanting some older amaryllis bulbs this weekend. These are bulbs that had bloomed last year; I want to try to bring them back to bloom, which I should have done in November. I finally remembered to buy potting soil for this, which is a first step. The new bulbs all have bloomed, some multiple times. The colors this time of year brighten these gray days. I gift a number of these plants, and I love seeing photos that friends share when the blossoms open.
For the rest of the weekend, I plan to kick it back a big notch to read. Two books I will be starting are the aforementioned BEST BOY by Deborah Goodrich Royce and KIN by Tayari Jones. I would like to nail a gold medal for reading. I wonder how many pages I would need to read for that!
The weather report is calling for possible snow on Sunday. They are doing the forecasts that include the US and European models like they do with hurricanes. This means we will have rain, or a foot of snow, or nothing. If only all life predictions could be that vague. Now I just need to hope that all the people who were away on vacation get back, so some ideas and projects can move ahead.
Read on, and have a great week.
Carol Fitzgerald (Carol@bookreporter.com)
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Featured Review: THE DEVIL’S BIBLE by Steve Berry
THE DEVIL'S BIBLE: A Cotton Malone Novel by Steve Berry (Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by Scott Brick
Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone is called to Sweden when the younger sister of King Wilhelm I is kidnapped. The ransom demand? Hand over an 800-year-old book, the Codex Gigas --- the largest illuminated medieval manuscript in the world. Claimed as war loot from Bohemia in 1648, it’s been kept in Stockholm for nearly 400 years. Along the way, it also acquired another more mysterious moniker: The Devil’s Bible. Now the Czech Republic wants the codex back, and Sweden has agreed to return it, but forces are at work to stop that deal from happening. The likely instigator? Russia. Which is also at the top of the list for possible kidnappers. It’s up to Cotton and Cassiopeia Vitt to locate the king’s sister, secure the codex and thwart the Russians. Yet nothing is as it seems. 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:
AMERICAN STRUGGLE by Jon Meacham
AMERICAN STRUGGLE: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology by Jon Meacham (History)
Audiobook available, read by a full cast
In AMERICAN STRUGGLE, Jon Meacham illuminates the nation’s complicated past. This rich and diverse collection covers a wide spectrum of history, from 1619 to the 21st century, with primary-source documents that take us back to critical moments in which Americans fought over the meaning and the direction of the national experiment. From the founders to Lincoln to Obama, from Andrew Jackson to Theodore Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan, from Seneca Falls to the March on Washington, this chorus tells the story of the country and of its people. As clashes over liberty and slavery, inclusion and exclusion, play out, these voices remind us that contentious citizenship and fair-minded observations are essential to bringing about the more perfect union envisioned in the Preamble to the Constitution. Reviewed by Lorraine W. Shanley.
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Featured Review: THE ASTRAL LIBRARY by Kate Quinn
THE ASTRAL LIBRARY by Kate Quinn (Fiction/Magical Realism)
Audiobook available, read by Saskia Maarleveld
Alexandria “Alix” Watson has learned one lesson from her barren childhood in the foster-care system: Unlike people, books will never let you down. Working three dead-end jobs to make ends meet and knowing that college is a pipe dream, Alix takes nightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading room at the Boston Public Library, escaping into her favorite fantasy novels and dreaming of far-off lands. Until the day she stumbles through a hidden door and meets the Librarian: the ageless, acerbic guardian of a hidden library where the desperate and the lost escape to new lives...inside their favorite books. The Librarian takes a dazzled Alix under her wing, but before she can escape into the pages of her new life, a shadowy enemy emerges to threaten everyone the Astral Library has ever helped protect. Reviewed by Pamela Kramer.
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Bookreporter.com Bets On: BLADE by Wendy Walker
BLADE by Wendy Walker (Psychological Thriller)
I was able to immerse myself in the world of competitive ice skating thanks to Wendy Walker’s latest thriller, BLADE. Inspired by Wendy’s personal experiences as a competitive figure skater (she trained in Colorado from ages 13 to 16), the book captures what it is like to be a teen living on her own as she aims to shine in a sport that so many attempt and fail at.
Wendy draws on the joy, stress and loneliness of these young ladies, who are labeled “orphans” as they do not have parents with them. She also portrays the moms who have traveled with them and are obsessed with their skating.
- Click here to read more about the book.
- Click here to read our review.
- Click here to watch our "Bookreporter Talks To" interview with Wendy Walker.
- Click here to listen to a podcast of the interview.
- Click here to visit Wendy Walker's website.
Click here to read more of Carol's Bets On commentary.
Featured Review: LEAVING HOME by Mark Haddon
LEAVING HOME: A Memoir in Full Colour by Mark Haddon (Memoir)
LEAVING HOME is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult. His parents were not really cut out for the job of having children. They were cut out, respectively, for the jobs of designing abattoirs and keeping a pathologically clean and tidy house. At least he had the consolations of The Weetabix Solar System Wallchart, walnut whips and the occasional Babycham. Astringently honest and scalpel sharp, this is a book about being different and seeing the world differently. It’s about being a cartoonist and a care assistant. It’s about family. It’s about knickerbocker glories and heart surgery, about papier mâché and mental breakdown and great white sharks. It’s about how art, in all its varied forms, provides a way of understanding and coming to terms with the mess of human life. Reviewed by Harvey Freedenberg.
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Featured Review: WHEN I KILL YOU by B. A. Paris
WHEN I KILL YOU by B. A. Paris (Domestic Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by Georgia Maguire
Nell Masters is certain that someone is following her. The hairs on the back of her neck rise when she travels to and from work, there are silent calls to her office, and a huge bouquet of flowers arrives without a card. Nell has a secret that she’s hiding from everyone in her life, including her new partner, Alex. But Alex also has secrets of his own. Fourteen years earlier, when Nell went by the name Elle Nugent, she witnessed a student, Bryony Sanders, getting into a stranger’s car. When Bryony was found murdered, Elle became obsessed with finding the person responsible. She was convinced she knew who it was, and her fixation with Brett Parker, the man she accused, led her down a dangerous path. Has someone from Nell’s past discovered her new identity? Has the stalker become the stalked? Or is there something even more deadly at play? Reviewed by Ray Palen.
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Featured Review:
WHERE THE WILDFLOWERS GROW
by Terah Shelton Harris
WHERE THE WILDFLOWERS GROW by Terah Shelton Harris (Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by Tracie Thoms and Diontae Black
Leigh is the last of the Wildes. She knows this because she watched them all die. Grief never truly fades, and even as the tragedy haunts her, Leigh carries on. So when the transport bus taking her to prison careens off the road, killing everyone onboard except her, she does what's in her nature. She survives. While searching for a place to hide, Leigh stumbles upon an unexpected sanctuary: a flower farm in rural Alabama tucked away from the world. What Leigh doesn't expect is the found family there who have built something from the wreckage of their own lives. Slowly, Leigh finds peace with the hard pace and soft nature of the farm, taking comfort in the life blooming around her. But the past isn't so easily buried. No matter how far she runs, the truth of who she is and the ghosts of the Wildes follow. Reviewed by Rebecca Munro.
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Bookreporter.com's 11th Annual Winter Reading Feature
At Bookreporter.com, we kicked off 2026 with our 11th annual Winter Reading Contests and Feature. We hosted a series of 24-hour contests spotlighting a book releasing this winter and gave five lucky readers a chance to win it.
Even though our contests have wrapped up, we encourage you to take a look at this year's featured titles, as these are books you will want to read during the winter months --- and into the warmer ones!
This year's featured titles are:
- Click here to see the winners of this year's Winter Reading contests.
Click here to read more about this year's Winter Reading titles.
THE FINAL PROBLEM written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, translated by Frances Riddle (Historical Mystery)
Audiobook available, read by Derek Perkins
June 1960. Rough weather at sea leaves a group of strangers stranded on the idyllic Greek island of Utakos, all guests of the only local hotel. Edith Mander, a quiet British tourist, is found dead inside a beach cabana. What appears at first glance to be a clear suicide reveals possible signs of foul play to Ormond Basil, an out-of-work but still well-known actor who in his glory days portrayed the most celebrated detective of all time. Accustomed to seeing him display Sherlock Holmes’ amazing powers of deduction on the big screen, the other guests believe that the actor is the best equipped to uncover the truth. But when a second body is discovered, there is not a doubt in Basil’s mind: a murderer walks among them. What’s more, the killer is staging each crime as a performance, leaving complex clues that bear an eerie resemblance to those found in the pages of Arthur Conan Doyle stories. Reviewed by Ray Palen.
OPERATION BOUNCE HOUSE by Matt Dinniman (Science Fiction/Adventure)
Audiobook available, read by Travis Baldree and Jeff Hays
All colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to do was run the family ranch with his sister and keep his family’s aging fleet of intelligent agriculture bots ticking as long as possible. He figures it will be a good thing when the transfer gate finally opens all the way and restores instant travel and full communication between Earth and his planet, New Sonora. Even though the settlers were promised they’d be left in peace, Earth’s government now has other plans. The colossal Apex Industries is hired to commence an “eviction action.” But maximizing profits will always be Apex’s number one priority. Why not charge bored Earthers for the opportunity to design their own war machines and remotely pilot them from the comfort of their homes? Oliver and his friends soon find themselves fighting for their lives against machines piloted by gamers who’ve paid a premium for the privilege. Reviewed by Curtis Edmonds.
THE FLOWER BEARERS: A Memoir by Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Memoir)
Audiobook available, read by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
On September 24, 2021, Rachel Eliza Griffiths married her husband, the novelist Salman Rushdie. On the same day, hundreds of miles away, Griffiths’ closest friend and chosen sister, the poet Kamilah Aisha Moon, who was expected to speak at the wedding, died suddenly. Eleven months later, as Griffiths attempted to piece together her life as a newlywed with heartbreak in one hand and immense love in the other, a brutal attack nearly killed her husband. As trauma compounded trauma, Griffiths realized that in order to survive her grief, she would need to mourn not only her friend, but the woman she had been on her wedding day, a woman who had also died that day. Reviewed by Pauline Finch.
IMPOSTOR: An Alexander Gregory Thriller by LJ Ross (Psychological Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by Hugh Dancy
Dr. Alexander Gregory, a psychologist recovering from the collapse of a high-profile criminal profiling unit, wants nothing more than a quiet life to finally sit and think things through. But his rare ability to understand the minds of violent offenders makes him hard to ignore --- especially when a small town is shaken by a brutal murder. Reluctantly pulled into the case, Gregory finds himself confronting not only a cunning predator, but the darker corners of his own mind. Reviewed by Kate Ayers.
DOUBLE TROUBLE by Joyce Carol Oates, writing as Rosamond Smith (Psychological Thriller)
Four decades ago, Joyce Carol Oates penned her first novel of psychological suspense under the name “Rosamond Smith.” In the Smith books, Oates explored themes of betrayal and deception, lust and murder, through stories involving twins, doubles and hidden second identities. Hard Case Crime is proud to bring these extraordinary works of crime fiction back into print in definitive double editions, each pairing two complete novels and two never-before-collected Oates short stories, all linked thematically, to weave a sinister web filled with dark reflections. In this volume, a female serial killer seeks refuge in her twin sister’s home in STARR BRIGHT WILL BE WITH YOU SOON, while a male serial killer murders for the woman he craves in SOUL/MATE --- and the echoes continue in the rare short stories “The Murderess” and “An Unsolved Crime.” Reviewed by Ray Palen.
BOOK OF FORBIDDEN WORDS by Louise Fein (Historical Fiction)
Audiobook available; read by Emma Fenney, Fiona Hardingham and Ell Potter
1552, Paris: The printing press is quickly spreading new ideas across Europe, threatening the power of church and state, and unleashing a wave of book burning and heretic hunting. When frightened ex-nun Lysbette Angiers arrives at Charlotte Guillard’s famous printing shop with her manuscript, neither woman knows just how far the powerful elite will go to prevent the spread of Lysbette’s audacious ideas. 1952, New York: Milly Bennett is a lonely housewife struggling to find her way in her new neighborhood amidst the paranoid clamors of McCarthy’s America. She finds her life taking an unexpected turn when a relic from her past presents her with a 400-year-old manuscript to decipher, pulling her into a vortex of danger that threatens to shatter her world. Milly, Lysbette and Charlotte each face a reality where the spread of ideas are feared and every effort is made to suppress them. Reviewed by L. Dean Murphy.
ASHLAND by Dan Simon (Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by Emmy Bean and Evan Sears
Dan Simon's debut novel takes place in Ashland, New Hampshire, a former mill town in the lakes region, and is told in six voices. Among them are Carolyn, a 20-year-old writer at a turning point in her life; Gordon, who arrives in Ashland in the twilight of his years; Andy, a local boy; Geoff, Carolyn's writing teacher at Plymouth State; and Edith, Gordon's wife, who is inadvertently Carolyn's spiritual guide and friend. Then there is Jennie, Carolyn's aunt, who seems to offer her a model for how to live. But things aren't always what they seem, and Carolyn must discover her own rules and make her own way. Reviewed by Norah Piehl.
Next Week’s Notables:
Noteworthy Books Releasing on February 24th
Below are some notable titles releasing on February 24th 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 February 23rd, see our “On Sale This Week” newsletter here.
BEST BOY by Deborah Goodrich Royce (Psychological Thriller)
A gripping psychological thriller, BEST BOY teeters on the knife-edge of memory and identity when the arrival of a shocking letter threatens the carefully constructed life of a woman desperate to outrun her past.
BRAWLER: Stories by Lauren Groff (Fiction/Short Stories)
Precise, surprising and provocative, anchored by profound insight into human nature, this stunning and fierce collection reveals the repeated, sometimes heartbreaking turning points between love and fear, compassion and violence, reason and instinct, altruism and what it takes to survive.
THE CROSSROADS: A Joe Pickett Novel by C. J. Box (Mystery/Thriller)
Game warden Joe Pickett fights for his life as his daughters try to uncover who shot him and left him for dead in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box.
CROWN CITY: A Japantown Mystery by Naomi Hirahara (Historical Mystery)
Two Japanese American men hired to investigate an art theft discover something much more sinister in turn-of-the-century California in this fish-out-of-water mystery from the Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author of CLARK AND DIVISION.
IT'S NEVER TOO LATE: A Memoir by Marla Gibbs, with contributions by Malaika Adero (Memoir)
The star of classic television series, including "The Jeffersons" and "227," reveals her difficult journey from a tempestuous childhood to becoming a confident Hollywood powerbroker and groundbreaker who paved the way for today’s superstar talents.
KIN by Tayari Jones (Fiction)
The bestselling, award-winning author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE has written an unforgettable novel about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.
MORE THAN ENOUGH by Anna Quindlen (Fiction)
A woman confronts the surprising results of an ancestry test and begins to question the meaning of family and friendship in this wise, tender novel teeming with life from the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of AFTER ANNIE.
TRUST NO ONE by James Rollins (Thriller/Adventure)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of international intrigue comes a shocking new stand-alone thriller that thrusts a group of university students, falsely accused of murder, into a treacherous hunt across Europe, all to unlock the secrets buried within a centuries-old book that could change humankind forever.
WE THE WOMEN: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America by Norah O'Donnell and Kate Andersen Brower (History)
Over a decades-long, distinguished career, award-winning journalist Norah O’Donnell has made it her mission to shed light on untold women’s stories. Now, in honor of America’s 250th birthday, O’Donnell focuses that passion on the American heroines who helped change the course of history.
WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT by Nicci French (Psychological Thriller)
From internationally bestselling master of suspense Nicci French comes a hair-raising locked-room thriller about a group of old university friends with a killer in their midst.
Click here to see the latest “On Sale This Week” newsletter.
From left to right: Lily King, Michael Pollan, Terah Shelton Harris
Upcoming Virtual Book and Author Events
Here are three upcoming virtual book and author events that you may be interested in attending. Click on the links for more info and to register.
Wednesday, February 25th at 6pm ET: Barnes & Noble: Join Barnes & Noble - Union Square in New York City as they welcome New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan to discuss his new book, A WORLD APPEARS, a panoptic exploration of consciousness --- what it is, who has it, and why --- and a meditation on the essence of our humanity.
Wednesday, February 25th at 7pm ET: “Friends & Fiction”: Join “Friends & Fiction” for a conversation with Terah Shelton Harris about her latest novel, WHERE THE WILDFLOWERS GROW, a poignant story of survival and redemption that questions what it means to stop existing and start living.
Thursday, February 26th at 8pm ET: "Bookaccino Live" Book Group: Carol Fitzgerald will talk to Lily King about her instant New York Times bestseller, HEART THE LOVER, which is a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick. Lily also will answer questions from guests who will be “on stage,” as well as from other members of the audience.
"Bookreporter Talks To" Videos & Podcasts
“Bookreporter Talks To” is a video and podcast series that delivers long-form, in-depth author interviews. For years, Carol has 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 is to bring these author interviews to readers, wherever they may be. Watch on video, or listen as a podcast. (The podcasts include audio excerpts.)
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"Bookreporter Talks To" videos and podcasts.
Our Latest Poll: Book Formats
What is the format of the book you are currently reading? Please check all that apply, as we know you may be reading more than one book.
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Click here to vote in the poll by Friday, March 6th at noon ET.
Word of Mouth Contest: Tell Us What
You've Read --- and You Can Win Two Books!
Tell us about the books you’ve read with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars. During the contest period from February 20th to March 6th at noon ET, three lucky readers each will be randomly chosen to win a copy of KIN by Tayari Jones and MORE THAN ENOUGH by Anna Quindlen.
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.
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