Library Love Fest

From the Door to Door archives: Recommended anti-racism reads with very special guests

Watch our past Door to Door episode from June 11, 2020 where we featured recommended anti-racism reads. We were joined by Wendy Bartlett, the Collection Development Manager/Book Buyer for the Cuyahoga County Library in Ohio, K.C. Boyd, Library Media Specialist at Jefferson Academy in the District of Columbia Public Schools System, and Tracy Sherrod, Editorial Director of Amistad at HarperCollins.

Find a list of the titles discussed (both published by HarperCollins Publishers as well as other publishers) here.

Watch the replay on Facebook to see comments from librarians who tuned in here.

 

-LLF

 

Come See Us at Library Journal's Day of Dialog on Thursday, 5/6!

Hello librarian friends!

Who's going to Library Journal's Day of Dialog on Thursday, May 6th? If you haven't yet registered for this free event, there's still time!

Register for Library Journal's Day of Dialog

Whether it's the incredible author panels, egalley giveaways, or in-booth author chats, you'll be in book-lover's heaven! You can check out all the HarperCollins happenings below! Be sure to come say hello! For full details on Library Journal's Day of Dialog, visit the official event page. 

 

In-Booth Author Chats

11:00 - 11:20am ET

Karin Slaughter, author of False Witness
About False Witness: From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her and The Silent Wife, an electrifying standalone thriller about a successful defense attorney whose latest case has chilling ties to a decades-old secret.

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1:00 - 1:20pm ET

James Han Mattson, author of Reprieve
About Reprieve: A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror centered around a brutal killing that takes place in a full-contact haunted escape room—a provocative exploration of capitalism, hate politics, racial fetishism, and our obsession with fear as entertainment.

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3:00 - 3:20pm ET

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers,
author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
About The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: The award-winning poet and essayist makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with the freshness and forcefulness of Homegoing, The Turner House, and The Water Dancer—that chronicles the journey of one American family from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous time.

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Author Panelists

Literary Fiction, Here and Abroad
9:30 - 10:10am ET

Bernhard Schlink, author of Olga
About Olga: A sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a woman out of step with her time, whose life is witness to some of the most tumultuous events of modern age.

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History and Culture
10:15 - 10:55am ET

Matthew Pearl, author of The Taking of Jemima Boone
About The Taking of Jemima Boone:In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone’s daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation.

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Literary Fiction, Crossing Boundaries
12:15 - 12:55pm ET

Wiley Cash, author of When Ghosts Come Home 
About When Ghosts Come Home: The eagerly awaited novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Land More Kind Than Home, This Dark Road to Mercy, and The Last Ballad—a tender and haunting story of a father and daughter, crime and forgiveness, race and memory.

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Gregory Maguire, author of The Brides of Maracoor
About The Brides of Maracoor: Multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire unveils the first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years, featuring Elphaba’s granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain.

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Memoir Matters
12:15 - 12:55pm ET

Tabitha Lasley, author of Sea State
About Sea State:A stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desire butts up against a culture of masculinity in crisis.

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Mystery
3:30 - 4:10pm ET

Wanda M. Morris, author of All Her Little Secrets
About All Her Little Secrets: The HarperCollins Lead Read Pick for Fall 2021! In this fast-paced thriller, Wanda M. Morris crafts a twisty mystery about a Black lawyer who gets in over her head after the sudden death of her boss—a debut perfect for fans of Attica Locke, Alyssa Cole, Harlan Coben, and Celeste Ng, with shades of How to Get Away with Murder and John Grisham’s The Firm.

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World War II Fiction
4:15 - 5:00pm ET

Kaia Alderson, author of Sisters in Arms
About Sisters in Arms:Kaia Alderson’s debut historical fiction novel reveals the untold, true story of the Six Triple Eight, the only all-Black battalion of the Women’s Army Corps, who made the dangerous voyage to Europe to ensure American servicemen received word from their loved ones during World War II.

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We are so excited to see all of these wonderful authors! The Library Love Fest Team will also be in the HarperCollins booth all day to chat, catch up, and help you with egalleys, book club suggestions, virtual author events, reading recommendations, and so much more. Be sure to click below to register for Library Journal's Day of Dialog event on Thursday, May 6th!

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-LLF

An Interview with Matt Bell, Author of APPLESEED

Hello, librarians. We're very excited to share our latest episode of The Library Love Fest Podcast, featuring a conversation between LLF's Chris Connolly and Matt Bell, author of Appleseed, on sale July 13th.

If you're a fan of Neal Stephenson, Blake Crouch, or Jeff VanderMeer, then you're going to love the ambitious, sweeping arc of Appleseed. It takes place over the course of more than a thousand years, with three distinct but interconnected storylines: two brothers seeking riches and glory in eighteenth-century Ohio as they plant apple seeds in the vast, untamed wilderness; a group of resistance fighters in a ravaged near-future Earth who are plotting to topple a mega-corporation before it enacts a vast geo-engineering project; and, finally, a mysterious sentient being roaming an ice-covered North America a thousand years in the future who goes on a daring quest to track a homing beacon after centuries of solitude. 

Make no mistake, this is very much an environmental novel, and approaches the issue in a fresh, unique way that feels particular to the best of speculative fiction. Matt Bell seamlessly combines myth, fairytale, science, and the very real issues facing our planet while keeping the reader totally engrossed with beautiful prose, a breakneck pace, and carefully rendered characters.

You can listen to the interview below. And keep reading to see some of the praise for Appleseed!

"The reason you’ve never read a book like Appleseed is that there’s never been a book like Appleseed. The scary thing, though, is this is a world you might recognize. This premise, this content, this form, this language—only Matt Bell could have given us this novel."
—Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians

"Woven together out of the strands of myth, science fiction, and ecological warning, Matt Bell’s Appleseed is as urgent as it is audacious."
—Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble

"This is a fiercely original book—at once intimate and epic, visceral and philosophical—that sent me scurrying for adjectives, for precedents, for cover. Matt Bell commands the page with bold, vigorous prose and may well have invented the pulse-pounding novel of ideas."
—Jess Walter, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions

 

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Appleseed publishes on July 13th, 2021. LibraryReads votes are due June 1st!

-LLF

LLF Guest Post from Lawrence Lessig, author of THEY DON'T REPRESENT US

Today we welcome a guest blog post from Lawrence Lessig, author of They Don't Represent Us, on the day of the paperback release. They Don't Represent Us argues with insight and urgency that our democracy no longer represents us and shows that reform is both necessary and possible. The paperback includes a new afterword about the 2020 election as well as a guide to HR1, the major voting rights bill currently in the Senate. 

 

 

 

 

There's so much praise for They Don't Represent Us, including:

“Lessig is a modern-day Paul Revere with a warning we must heed: Our representative democracy no longer represents us.... This urgent book offers not only a clear-eyed explanation of the forces that broke our politics, but a thoughtful and, yes, patriotic vision of how we create a government that’s truly by and for the people.”
—David Daley, bestselling author of Ratf**ked and Unrigged

“An impassioned call to all Americans to fight for equal representation.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“A thoughtful, illuminating, nonpartisan, and pragmatic analysis of the changes needed to restore power to the public… this a must-read and a much-needed wake up call.”
—Booklist

Now, a note from Lawrence:

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“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil,” wrote Henry David Thoreau, “to one who is striking at the root.” What is, for us, and for our democracy, that root? 

In this book, I show how a single idea explains the rest. That a core promise of any democracy — that it be “representative” — is broken by the institutions of our democracy. Whether through gerrymandering, the suppression of the vote, the Electoral College, the Senate, or, certainly most extremely, the way money dominates the attention of politicians, we have allowed this, “the greatest democracy in the world,” as our leaders style it, to be corrupted because we have allowed this democracy to become radically unrepresentative.

And not just our government: even worse, we have allowed us, the people, to become unrepresentative. “We, the People” speak in our democracy. But how we get rendered, by the institutions of modern media, is deeply unrepresentative as well. 

This point, I fear, most are missing. For much of human history, “the people” were invisible, because, for most of human history, there was no such thing as scientific polling. Polling was born less than a century ago, and when it grew up, we were living in a historically strange media environment. From roughly the middle of the 1950s through the middle of the 1980s, we lived within, as Princeton political scientist Marcus Prior names it, a “broadcast democracy,” where most were focused on a common story, grounded in a common set of facts. That point of view was not unbiased, or even necessarily true, but it made democracy possible in the age of a legible public. 

That common ground has fallen away. And not just through accident, or temporarily. Rather, as I argue in this book, the business model of modern media, from cable television to the dominant Internet platforms, is set against the nurturing of any common ground. Instead, our media profits the more they render us as crazy. The business model of hate is not just what politicians do. Rather in the details of the incentives that make modern media profitable, they profit more the more they tribalize us. 

That argument seemed clear enough to me when this book was first published in November 2019. Everything that has happened since only confirms its worst fears. Not surprisingly, the first Impeachment of President Trump got rendered in a tribal way. But astonishingly, even to me, so too did a global pandemic, and then the reporting and understanding of whether a clear and certain presidential election had in fact been “stolen.”

History will look back at us and wonder how this was possible. I am proud to look back at this book and to see in it the first answers to that question. We have an extraordinary challenge before us, not just to render them—the government—representative if not again, then for the first time, but also, and more difficultly, us. 

How they get fixed is easier to see. The “For the People Act,” aka HR1, now being considered in the Senate, and summarized in an appendix to this edition, would be a critical first step. How we get fixed, or more precisely, how we fix how we get represented, is a much greater challenge. First steps are sketched here, but there are many more that we need to invent. 

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Thank you so much for taking the time to write for the blog, Lawrence!
Get a copy of They Don't Represent Us here.

-Lainey

Editors Unedited: Katy Hamilton interviews Propaganda, author of TERRAFORM

We're back with another wonderful podcast episode! This week, we welcome Katy Hamilton, Senior Editor at HarperOne, to the podcast to speak with Propaganda—author, musician, speaker, and activist. He also has a podcast of his own! He co-hosts The Red Couch Podcast with his wife, Dr. Alma Zaragoza-Petty.

On this podcast episode, Katy and Propaganda spoke about his upcoming publication Terraform, a debut collection of essays and poetry that inspires us to create a better, more equitable world. Listening to this discussion is the perfect way to celebrate Earth Day—the book looks at the ways in which our world is broken and Propaganda uses the metaphor of terraforming—creating a livable world out of an inhospitable one—to show how we can begin to reshape our homes, friendships, communities, and politics.

Listen to the episode below: 

Terraform goes on sale June 8, 2021. LibraryReads votes are due May 1st. Download an egalley on Edelweiss+ or NetGalley. Be sure to check out some of the interior spreads on Edelweiss+ here. 

-Lainey

LLF Guest Post: "...the best place to live inside lost time was the library." by Maryanne O'Hara, author of LITTLE MATCHES

Today, we welcome Maryanne O'Hara, author of Little Matches, to the blog. Little Matches published today, April 20th. It is an emotionally raw and inspiring memoir that illuminates a mother’s grief over the loss of her adult child and considers the hope of soulful connections that transcend the boundary of life and death. We were so fortunate to have Maryanne on our Door to Door episode to speak about this special book and learn more about Caitlin and their relationship. Read a note from Maryanne below.

 

 

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today i went to the british library with my mom
and there were all kinds of exhibits
and i saw the original lyrics written for
In my life by john lennon
   Caitlin O’Hara, texting a friend in 2012

One of the delights of being a mother was realizing that I was going to have a second childhood. All of the things I had loved, outgrown, and forgotten—the toy trains and fingerpaints, the chubby books and blue popsicles—I could enjoy anew, made even better this time around because I would experience everything with an exquisite little child.

Life became Proust’s madeleine. It was like living inside lost time. And the best place to live inside lost time was the library.

I don’t remember exactly when I first discovered the children’s room at my own library, growing up, but I remember my wonder. A room in this big, important-looking building just for kids? Full of kids’ books? Could there be anything better?

I read to Caitlin from her earliest days. I wanted language and stories to be second-nature so that she would easily become a reader herself. When she was two and diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, a disease that would mean she would spend much of her life in the hospital, books meant she was never really trapped in a room. Suitcases packed for two-week inpatient stays always included a pile of new books. Inside of them, she could be anywhere she wanted to be. Reading whet her appetite for real adventure. She loved traveling, and her father and I brought her on every trip we ever planned.

Caitlin’s health declined as she grew older, but she was able to attend college and work and live mostly independently through much of her twenties. We were close and when apart, kept in constant touch via text. Those texts are long scrolling records of the random and wonderful moments of the everyday:

there is a brush fire in the fens

so im going to the dr at 220

are you making dinner Sunday?

i was driving home thinking how much i love 'in my life' love john lennon

did you book the st john tickets yet?

For every three trips we planned, we usually canceled at least one. The year she was a junior in college, we booked a springtime visit to Cambridge, England. A week before our flight, her cough worsened, her pulmonary function numbers went down, and instead of boarding that British Airways jet, she checked into the hospital for two weeks.

But 2012 was a magical summer. A novel I’d been writing for ten years was about to be published by Viking. Caitlin had begun to take a new gene-modifying drug that helped her feel well enough to rent an apartment in Paris, something she’d long fantasized about, for a few weeks. And before she left for Paris, she and I were able to spend a week in London.

One day we visited the British Library. Its exhibits were as enchanted as objects in any fairytale. There was Charlotte Bronte’s hand-written fair copy manuscript of Jane Eyre. Right there in front of our eyes, the sentences as neat and orderly as Jane herself. And over there, look—Kazuo Ishiguro’s handwriting, ideas for a book that would become one of my ever-favorites, The Remains of the Day. I read the accompanying notes, which pointed out that he liked to lock himself away, for days, to write undisturbed. “Just like you,” Caitlin said.

Her attention drifted over to another case and she called me over, delighted, her eyes shining. Behind the glass, perched on a plinth, sat a heavily scratched-out version of the original lyrics to In My Life, in John Lennon’s handwriting from 1965.

In one of Lennon’s final interviews, he described the song as a remembrance of people of the past. In the original draft, he connected that love of people to concrete places. He wrote about Penny Lane, and tramsheds with no trams, and the “circle of the Abbey” where he had seen happy hours, all glimpsed from the number 5 bus into town.

Place grounds us, connects us. And libraries do that better than anywhere. With their books and their inherent reverence for words, and for records of what was, they connect us viscerally to the past and the future while immersing us utterly inside the present. That immersion stops time. It’s magic.

Recently I found a photo from that day, of Caitlin’s smiling self posing in front of the library. Until the end, her disease was invisible. Looking at that photo you would never know that her lung function was thirty percent of normal. You would never know that she only had a few years left to live. You see only her joy in the moment.

The next time I am in London, I plan to make a trip to the British Library. It will be painful and poignant and it will also be comforting. I am grateful for our human ability to remember, and grateful that humans maintain libraries. I will immerse myself inside lost time, look upon that John Lennon manuscript, and imagine my daughter beside me. I will conjure the memory of her utter delight.

Caitlin O'Hara

***

Thank you, Maryanne, for this beautiful piece and for all of your insight on our Door to Door episode. Watch the replay below:

Thanks for writing and sharing this wonderful book.

-Lainey

Looking ahead to Summer!

Check out these upcoming Summer reads that were featured in the April issue of Booklist:

• Palm Beach by Mary Adkins
• Capture the Crown by Jennifer Estep
• Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard
• The Fiancée by Kate White
• Maps for the Getaway by Annie England Noblin
• Sunrise by the Sea by Jenny Colgan
• Imagine Summer by Shelley Noble
• Painting the Light by Sally Cabot Gunning
• Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson
• Her Heart for a Compass by Sarah Ferguson
• So We Meet Again by Suzanne Park
• Island Queen by Vanessa Riley
• Vortex by Catherine Coulter
• Lights Out in Lincolnwood by Geoff Rodkey
• Love on the Line by Laura Castoro
• Battle Royal by Lucy Parker
• It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
• Love for Beginners by Jill Shalvis
• The Cellist by Daniel Silva
• False Witness by Karin Slaughter
• Her Turn by Katherine Ashenburg
• I Couldn't Love You More by Esther Freud
• Summer on the Bluffs by Sunny Hostin
• Home Stretch by Graham Norton
• Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron by Julia Quinn, illustrated by Violet Charles
  
  

More Summer titles not included in the ad:

• The Mothers by Genevieve Gannon
• Kingdom of Bones by James Rollins
• Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane
• Lost and Found Family by Jennifer Ryan
• Three Words for Goodbye by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
• All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton
• The Last Goodbye by Fiona Lucas
• The Last Debutantes by Georgie Blalock
• The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
• Should We Stay or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver
• A Lowcountry Bride by Preslaysa Williams
• Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
• The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
• Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
• Dream Girl by Laura Lippman
• The Godmothers by Camille Aubray

-LLF

The May LibraryReads List Has Arrived!

Hello, librarians!

You voted, they counted, and the winners have finally been announced!

This month, we are thrilled to share that Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau has been selected for the May LibraryReads List! We're also excited to announce that Alyssa Cole officially joins the LibraryReads Hall of Fame with the selection of How to Find a Princess!

Want to hear how our authors reacted to the big news? Listen to our latest episode of The Library Love Fest Podcast below to hear their responses!

Click here to see the full May LibraryReads List!

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Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau:
Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones and the Six in this funny, wise, and tender novel about a fourteen-year-old girl’s coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for—who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer.

"Blau’s intelligent, witty novel captures the essence of the '70s with humor and immensely appealing characters. Highly recommended."
—Library Journal ⭐ review

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How to Find a Princess
by Alyssa Cole: New York Times and USA Today bestseller Alyssa Cole’s second Runaway Royals novel is a queer Anastasia retelling, featuring a long-lost princess who finds love with the female investigator tasked with tracking her down.

"An impressive ending to a series featuring an international cast of complex, multicultural characters balancing their royal responsibilities with their modern lives and loves."
—Booklist ⭐ review

Previous LibraryReads Selections:
How to Catch a Queen (Dec. 2020)
When No One Is Watching (Sept. 2020)

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Thanks to all who participated and submitted votes for the May LibraryReads List! Be sure to submit your votes for the June LibraryReads List by May 1st. Click here to find out what we're recommending!  

Click here to learn more about LibraryReads.

-Chris

Bookreporter's Carol Fitzgerald interviews Nadia Hashimi, author of SPARKS LIKE STARS

We have a new interview from Carol Fitzgerald, President of the Book Report Network! She recently interviewed Nadia Hashimi, author of Sparks Like Stars—on sale now. Nadia is the bestselling author of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, The House Without Windows, and When the Moon Is Low. In her latest book, Sparks Like Stars, an Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives. NPR said: “Suspenseful…emotionally compelling. I found myself eagerly following in a way I hadn’t remembered for a long time, impatient for the next twist and turn of the story."

You can watch Carol's video interview or listen to the audio on Carol’s podcast!

Be sure to visit The Book Report Network and Bookreporter.com for more great content! 

Watch Nadia's Door to Door episode:

-Lainey

Great July Titles Available Now on NetGalley

The Minister Primarily by John Oliver Killens: A major literary event—the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of the Black Arts Movement and mentor to celebrated writers, including Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Arthur Flowers, and Terry McMillan.

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

 

Appleseed by Matt Bell: A "work of incandescent imagination" (Karen Russell) from Young Lions Fiction Award–finalist Matt Bell,
a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple. 

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

 

Nobody, Somebody, Anybody by Kelly McClorey: A moving and darkly comic debut novel about an anxious young woman who administers a self-made "placebo" treatment in a last-ditch attempt to rebuild her life.

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

 

The Stranger in the MIrror by Liv Constantine: A diabolically twisty, psychologically unsettling novel about a woman with no recollection of her past from the authors of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish and The Wife Stalker.

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers: The 2020 National Book Award–nominated poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing; Sing, Unburied, Sing; and The Water Dancer—that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era. 

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

 

The Comfort of Monsters by Willa C. Richards: Set in Milwaukee during the "Dahmer summer" of 1991, a remarkable debut novel for fans of Mary Gaitskill and Gillian Flynn about two sisters—one who disappears, and one who is left to pick up the pieces in the aftermath.

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

 

Vessel by Cai Chongda: An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love, and loss that crosses cultures and time.

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

 

 

False Witness by Karin Slaughter: From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her and The Silent Wife, an electrifying standalone thriller about a successful defense attorney whose latest case has chilling ties to a decades-old secret.

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

 

The Women's March by Jennifer Chiaverini: New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with The Women’s March, an enthralling historical novel of the woman’s suffrage movement inspired by three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

Island Queen by Vanessa Riley: A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies. 

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

 

An Irish Hostage by Charles Todd: In the uneasy peace following World War I, nurse Bess Crawford runs into trouble and treachery in Ireland—in this twelfth book in the New York Times bestselling mystery series.

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

 

 

London's Number-One Dog Walking Agency by Kate MacDougall: The irresistibly charming memoir of a young woman who started her own business as a dog walker for London’s busy, well-heeled dog lovers. A true love letter to London, dogs, and growing up. 

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey: Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood “It Girl” who’s cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong. 

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

 

I Couldn't Love You More by Esther Freud: A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past. 

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton: From the internationally bestselling and beloved author of the critically acclaimed Boy Swallows Universe, a mesmerizing, uplifting novel of adventure and unlikely friendships in World War II Australia—calling to mind The Wizard of Oz as directed by Baz Luhrmann.

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

 

Lights Out in Lincolnwood by Geoff Rodkey: A mordantly funny, all-too-real novel in the vein of Tom Perotta and Emma Straub about a suburban American family who have to figure out how to survive themselves and their neighbors in the wake of a global calamity that upends all of modern life.

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

 

Incense and Sensibility by Sonali Dev: The author of Recipe for Persuasion—"not only one of the best but one of the bravest romance novelists working today" (Shelf Awareness)—adds an Indian American twist to Jane Austen's classic Sense and Sensibility in this delightful retelling that is a feast for the senses.

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

 

Three Words for Goodbye by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb: From Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, the bestselling authors of Meet Me in Monaco, comes a coming-of-age novel set in pre-WWII Europe, perfect for fans of Jennifer Robson, Beatriz Williams, and Kate Quinn.  

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

 

Lost and Found Family by Jennifer Ryan: If you love Jill Shalvis, Lori Wilde, and Susan Mallery, then you won't want to miss New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Ryan’s riveting new novel about family, secrets, and a woman ready to embrace who she really is by facing down her past.

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021

 

The Stranger Behind You by Carol Goodman: In the tradition of Daphne du Maurier and Shari Lapena, comes the newest mystery thriller from New York Times bestselling author Carol Goodman—a twisty, chilling story set in a former Magdalen Laundry in Manhattan that explores today’s #MeToo complexities.

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LibraryReads Votes Due: 6/1/2021