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October 12, 2021

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of October 11th and October 18th 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 “In Case You Missed Them…and a Look Ahead” Feature & Contest. Here we are spotlighting three psychological thrillers by Kimberly Belle (“In Case You Missed Them”) and giving you a chance to win one of them. All you have to do is read the plot summary of each title --- THE MARRIAGE LIE, DEAR WIFE and STRANGER IN THE LAKE --- and let us know which one you would like to read the most. Three copies of each book will be given away. Enter here by Friday, October 22nd at noon ET. We also “look ahead” to Belle’s upcoming domestic thriller, MY DARLING HUSBAND, which releases on December 28th.

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October 12, 2021

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 Preview Contest by Wednesday, October 13th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of FAYE, FARAWAY by Helen Fisher, which is now available in paperback. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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Paul Fix

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

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Paul Fix

Bruce Lipton

Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.

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Bruce Lipton

Lucille Ball

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

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Lucille Ball

Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness

One year after the death of his beloved musician father, 13-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices that belong to the things in his house. When his mother, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous. Benny tries to ignore them, but the voices follow him outside the house, driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library. There, Benny discovers a strange new world. He falls in love with a mesmerizing street artist with a smug pet ferret. He meets a homeless philosopher-poet, who encourages him to ask important questions and find his own voice amongst the many. And he meets his very own Book --- a talking thing --- who narrates Benny’s life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter.

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Anderson Cooper, author of Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

When 11-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the 19th century, no one could have imagined that one day he would build two empires --- one in shipping and another in railroads --- that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though his son Billy doubled the money left by “the Commodore,” subsequent generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways of spending it. Now, the Commodore’s great-great-great-grandson, Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence.

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Kimberly Belle, author of Stranger in the Lake

When Charlotte married the wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her humble past and his first marriage. But everything starts to unravel when she discovers a young woman’s body floating in the exact same spot where Paul’s first wife tragically drowned. At first, it seems like a horrific coincidence, but the stranger in the lake is no stranger. Charlotte saw Paul talking to her the day before, even though Paul tells the police he’s never met the woman. His lie exposes cracks in their fragile new marriage, cracks Charlotte is determined to keep from breaking them in two.

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Robert H. Goddard

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

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Robert H. Goddard

Lisa Unger, author of Last Girl Ghosted

She met him through a dating app. An intriguing picture on a screen, a date at a downtown bar. What she thought might be just a quick hookup quickly became much more. She fell for him --- hard. It happens sometimes, a powerful connection with a perfect stranger takes you by surprise. Could it be love? But then, just as things were getting real, he stood her up. Then he disappeared --- profiles deleted, phone disconnected. She was ghosted. Maybe it was her fault. She shared too much, too fast. Soon she learns there were others. Girls who thought they were in love. Girls who later went missing. Chasing a digital trail into his dark past --- and hers --- she finds herself on a dangerous hunt. And she's not sure whether she's the predator --- or the prey.

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