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Annie Lennox

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

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Annie Lennox

Special Preview: Bookreporter.com's Spring Preview 2022

This Bookreporter.com SPECIAL PREVIEW Newsletter brings you a sneak peek at some of the titles that are included in our Spring Preview feature. We will be adding more books in the days and weeks to come.

Each title below will be featured in a contest where you will have a 24-hour window of opportunity to enter for your chance to win a copy of the book being featured that day. You will need to act quickly! Learn more about the feature here.

We encourage you to scroll down and click on each image to read more about that book on our site.

If you have friends who you think may be interested in these 24-hour contests, please forward this newsletter to them so they can sign up for it. 

Our first feature and contest kicks off tomorrow, Tuesday, March 1st at noon ET. Best of luck to you, and Happy Spring Reading!

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Martha Beck

The power to bring me out of solitude --- or to push me back into it --- had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

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Martha Beck

Leslie Nielsen

Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.

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Leslie Nielsen

Lisa Scottoline Book Group Event

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Marlon James, author of Moon Witch, Spider King

In BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In MOON WITCH, SPIDER KING, Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own account of what happened to the boy, and how she plotted and fought, triumphed and failed as she looked for him. It’s also the story of a century-long feud --- seen through the eyes of a 177-year-old witch --- that Sogolon had with the Aesi, chancellor to the king. It is said that Aesi works so closely with the king that together they are like the eight limbs of one spider. It takes brains and courage to challenge him, which Sogolon does for reasons of her own.

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Cynthia Ozick

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

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Cynthia Ozick

Roddy Doyle, author of Life Without Children: Stories

Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these 10 beautifully moving short stories written mostly over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother’s funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret.

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Tarryn Fisher, author of The Wives

Imagine that your husband has two other wives. You’ve never met the other wives, and none of you know each other. One day, you find a scrap of paper in his pocket --- an appointment reminder for a woman named Hannah, and you just know it’s another of the wives. You thought you were fine with your arrangement, but you can’t help yourself: you track her down, and, under false pretenses, you strike up a friendship. Hannah has no idea who you really are. Then Hannah starts showing up to your coffee dates with telltale bruises, and you realize she’s being abused by her husband. Who, of course, is also your husband. But you’ve never known him to be violent. Who exactly is your husband, and how far would you be willing to go to find out? And who is his mysterious third wife?

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Sarah Weinman, author of Scoundrel: The True Story of the Murderer Who Charmed His Way to Fame and Freedom

In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith’s life to be spared but also for his sentence to be overturned. So begins a bizarre and tragic tale of mid-century America. Sarah Weinman’s SCOUNDREL leads us through the twists of fate and fortune that brought Smith to freedom, book deals, fame...and eventually to attempting murder again.

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