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December 14, 2015

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that is perfect for holiday giving and that you may want to include on your “to me/from me” list. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Contest by Tuesday, December 15th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of MARRY ME AT CHRISTMAS: A Fool's Gold Romance by Susan Mallery, which is now in stores. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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Alfred Glossbrenner

With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.

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Alfred Glossbrenner
December 14, 2015

Nadia Hashimi on the Joys of a Unique Christmas

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As a first-generation American born to Afghan immigrants, Nadia Hashimi had a unique experience of Christmas. She grew up in a Muslim home, but her parents were careful to ensure that their children felt included in all traditions, whether inherited, adopted or even invented. Here, Nadia talks about how she celebrated the holidays in her own quiet way, reading books that gave her less traditional gifts: independence, imagination and pride. Her second novel, WHEN THE MOON IS LOW, released this summer.

David Letterman

When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

December 11, 2015

December is the month where 4.5 weeks of work get crammed into 3 or 3.5 weeks! Everyone is scurrying around managing work life with moments of holiday cheer packed in between. It’s rather hectic as we all are juggling intense deadlines with random moments of planned and often frenetic fun.

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Joseph Fink, author of Welcome to Night Vale - Audiobook

From the creators of the wildly popular "Welcome to Night Vale" podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves...no matter where we live. Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge.

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Christopher Buckley, author of The Relic Master

In a departure from his usual satires of Washington politics, Christopher Buckley turns to politics of a more medieval nature. In 1517, a former Swiss mercenary named Dismas sells holy relics to powerful clients who then use their purchases to sell indulgences to people hoping to shorten their stay in Purgatory. The sudden loss of his life savings forces Dismas to sell a forgery of Christ’s burial shroud --- a scheme that goes harrowingly wrong.

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Mark Greaney, author of Tom Clancy Commander in Chief: A Jack Ryan Novel

When Russian President Valeri Volodin’s ambitions are foiled in Dagestan, he faces a difficult choice. The oligarchs who support him expect a constant flow of graft, but with energy prices cratering, the Russian economy sputters to a virtual halt. Unable to grow the Russian market at home, his hold on power relies on expansion abroad --- a plan that has been thwarted by the United States in the past. But this time, Volodin has determined that an indirect approach is the best.

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Dean Koontz, author of Ashley Bell

Bibi Blair is a fierce, funny, dauntless young woman --- whose doctor says she has one year to live. Her sudden recovery astonishes medical science. An enigmatic woman convinces Bibi that she escaped death so that she can save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. But save her from what? And who is Ashley Bell? Where is she? Bibi’s obsession with finding Ashley sends her on the run from threats both mystical and worldly, including a rich and charismatic cult leader with terrifying ambitions.

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