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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS
Madeleine Wickham
This English writer also moonlights as Sophie Kinsella, creator of the Shopaholic series. In her saucy comedy of manners, 40 Love, the nouveau riche play tennis and run scams.
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Aravind Adiga
The chronicler of modern India discusses his new work, Last Man in Tower, about a retired schoolteacher who refuses to vacate an old building scheduled for demolition.
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GOODREADS LIVE
Jackie Collins
Sex, intrigue, Vegas! Join our live chat on September 19 to get all the scandalous details in Collins's novel, Goddess of Vengeance, starring the high-rolling Lucky Santangelo.
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Neal Stephenson
The master of labyrinthine plots weighs in on his new 1,000-page techno-thriller, Reamde, in a live chat on September 21 about Russian mobsters and MMPORG culture.
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Blake Mycoskie
Social entrepreneurship and the business of giving back--on September 8 join a live chat with the founder of TOMS about his new book, Start Something That Matters.
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IN BED WITH...
Chad Harbach's Favorite Books About Baseball
Cover your bases with these five works about America's pastime, a lineup by the author of the sporting novel
The Art of Fielding.
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Laurie R. King's Favorite Female Detectives
Shrewd women who can crack any case populate this list of recs from the writer behind the historical mystery
Pirate King.
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DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT
Amy Waldman
The Submission imagines what would have happened if a Muslim architect had won the design contest for the 9/11 Memorial, which opens in Manhattan this month.
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MOVERS & SHAKERS
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
Two rival illusionists duke it out under the big top of an enigmatic circus that travels invisibly and appears only at night. Their elaborate battle gathers a following of reveurs (dreamers) in this tale of magical realism and romance.
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Death in the City of Light
by David King
In the 1940s, a serial killer began dropping body parts in the Seine. Against the chaotic backdrop of war, this nonfiction account tracks the manhunt and sensationalized trial of Dr. Marcel Petiot in Nazi-occupied Paris.
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Only Time Will Tell
by Jeffrey Archer
First in a series slated to span a century of two intertwined families, this historical novel follows young Harry Clifton as he seeks the truth about his father's death and rises from the shipyards of Bristol to the tony halls of Oxford.
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The Orchard: A Memoir
by Theresa Weir
(Goodreads Author)
Suspense writer Weir captures the challenges of marrying young in this emotional memoir. After an impoverished urban childhood and with no knowledge of farm life, she falls for an apple farmer in the rural Midwest.
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We the Animals
by Justin Torres
This visceral portrait of an abusive family explores the rough-and-tumble childhood of three "half-breed" boys in Brooklyn with their exhausted Ma and violent Paps. The youngest brother must break free from his dangerous tribe.
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Anna Dressed in Blood
by Kendare Blake
(Goodreads Author)
Extraordinary ghost hunter Cas Lowood hopes to one day avenge his father's murder in this new work of young adult horror. But first he must deal with an angry ghost who kills anyone who visits her haunted Victorian house.
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DO GOOD WITH GOODREADS
Vittana
As little as $25 can mean the difference between a diploma or a dropout. This nonprofit uses the microfinance model to connect lenders with high-achieving students in developing nations.
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LITERATURE AT EVERY LATITUDE
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Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique
by Gonçalo M. Tavares
A callous surgeon lusts for political power but is betrayed by his own failing body in this dark commentary on ambition and evil.
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GOODREADS POETRY CONTEST
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for consideration. Here is our September winner!
The Death of the Poet Li Po
by Jane Ellen Glasser
(Goodreads Author)
Some say it was the wine. Some say it was love,
the moon smiling up at him from the river.
He was drunk. The boat was tipsy. He stood,
aching to embrace such loveliness forever.
The stars looked on. The lapping waves
were dancing. Leaning out over the gunwale,
he toasted his image which lay now beside
the moon's face and drank again. The sails
billowed and the little craft rocked him forward.
He could not deny himself. He reached and reached
until the river opened its mouth and drank him.
The boat was lost in the blackness. The beach
was miles away. This was Li Po's last line.
Some say it was love. Some say it was the wine.
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