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Nicholas Sparks, author of The Wish

1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at 16 to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind…until she met Bryce Trickett, a teenager who introduced her to photography. By 2019, Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. But this year she is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis. Increasingly dependent on a young assistant, she finds herself becoming close to him and tells him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier --- and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.

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Anthony Doerr, author of Cloud Cuckoo Land

Set in Constantinople in the 15th century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr’s third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope --- and a book. In CLOUD CUCKOO LAND, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness --- with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we’re gone.

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Chinese proverb

Every smile makes you a day younger.

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Chinese proverb

Tea Obreht

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

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Tea Obreht

Isabel Colegate

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

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Isabel Colegate

October 2021

October's Books on Screen roundup includes the series premieres of "Maid" on Netflix, "Dopesick" on Hulu and "I Know What You Did Last Summer" on Amazon Prime Video; the season three release of "You" on Netflix; the films Dune, Fever Dream and There’s Someone Inside Your House; the continuation of "Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol," "The Morning Show" and "American Rust"; and the DVD releases of The Suicide Squad, Naked Singularity and Old.
 

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September 28, 2021

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of September 27th and October 4th 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 reviews of two recent New York Times bestsellers, both of which will be Bookreporter.com Bets On selections. In APPLES NEVER FALL, her new work of psychological suspense, Liane Moriarty looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest. And ROCK PAPER SCISSORS is the latest exciting domestic thriller from the queen of the killer twist, Alice Feeney, which has this intriguing tagline: Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget.

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Marcia Muller

We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.

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Marcia Muller

Ludwig van Beethoven

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Og Mandino

Treasure the love you have received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

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Og Mandino