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Randall Jarrell

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

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Randall Jarrell

November 9, 2021

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of November 8th and November 15th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar.

This week, we are calling attention to our special contest for OLGA DIES DREAMING by debut novelist Xochitl Gonzalez, which releases on January 4th. A status-driven wedding planner grapples with her social ambitions, absent mother and Puerto Rican roots --- all in the wake of Hurricane Maria. We are giving 25 readers the opportunity to win an advance copy of the book. The deadline for your entries is Friday, November 19th at noon ET. Carol is reading this now and really enjoying it!

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Anzia Yezierska

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

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Anzia Yezierska

Malcolm Gladwell

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

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Malcolm Gladwell, BLINK: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Mary S. Calderone

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

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Mary S. Calderone

Richard Osman, author of The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim --- the Thursday Murder Club --- are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet at Cooper’s Chase, their posh retirement village. But they are out of luck. An unexpected visitor --- an old pal of Elizabeth’s (or perhaps more than just a pal?) --- arrives, desperate for her help. He has been accused of stealing diamonds worth millions from the wrong men, and he’s seriously on the lam. Then, as night follows day, the first body is found. But not the last. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim are up against a ruthless murderer who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can our four friends catch the killer before the killer catches them?

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Nicole Baart, author of Everything We Didn't Say

Juniper Baker had just graduated from high school and was deep in the throes of a summer romance when Cal and Beth Murphy, a childless couple who lived on a neighboring farm, were brutally murdered. When her younger brother became the prime suspect, June’s world collapsed, and everything she loved that summer fell away. She left, promising never to return to tiny Jericho, Iowa. Until now. Officially, she’s back in town to help an ill friend manage the local library. But really, she’s returned to repair her relationship with her teenage daughter --- and to solve the infamous Murphy murders once and for all. She knows the key to both lies in the darkest secret of that long-ago summer night, one that’s haunted her for nearly 15 years.

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Philip K. Dick

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

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Philip K. Dick, WHAT THE DEAD MEN SAY

Gary Shteyngart, author of Our Country Friends

It’s March 2020, and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family.

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