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August 20, 2025

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Reading Contest by Thursday, August 21st at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE HEIR: A Young Queen Victoria Mystery by Darcie Wilde, which releases on August 26th. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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Author Talk: Eric Silberstein, author of In Berlin

Aug 20, 2025

IN BERLIN is an entangled story about two women whose lives are upended, one by an achingly rare spinal stroke and the other by political violence. In this interview conducted by Susie Felber, Eric Silberstein explains what inspired him to write his second novel, following THE INSECURE MIND OF SERGEI KRAEV, and why he chose Berlin as the setting. He also talks about making some of the mouth-watering Syrian dishes that are described in the novel and recalls a memorable discussion he had with a book club.

—Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, 19th and 21st Surgeon General of the United States

—Heather Krill, author of the novel TRUE NORTH and writer for the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation

—Stanley Sagov, MD, former Chair, Department of Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital

—Midwest Book Review

—Karen Roy, LCSW, Ms. Wheelchair America 2019

—Nina Ephremidze, former host of "Trip to Europe"

—BookLife Reviews (Editor’s Pick)

—Ali Aljasem, PhD, scholar in Conflict Studies at Utrecht University