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Featuring giveaways and book-inspired menu ideas from authors
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Dear Reader,
We're pleased to introduce some of the most anticipated fall books, including literary and historical fiction, and mystery in October.
For today's featured title, Jodi Picoult's
A Spark of Light, Jodi shared a
Mississippi Mud Cake recipe to highlight the setting of her provocative new novel. Later this month, we'll feature novel inspired recipes from authors
Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde (
What We Owe) and Sarah McCoy (
Marilla of Green Gables).
Don't miss book-inspired menu ideas from authors on our
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Our new
Book Blends
, organic spices inspired by literary titles, are here! Thanks to the many readers who submitted titles, and those who voted! Visit our
Book Blends page
for details on the blends and ordering. The winners:
A
Wrinkle in Thyme
Are You There God? It's Me, Marjoram.
Slaughterhouse-Chive
The Taming of the 'Shroom
Of Spice and Men
Congratulations Janice, Kimberly and Kay, who created the winning Book Blends title names, and to Faith Rittenberg for our sensational new label design!
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October's
Costco Connection
features our article on Ransom Riggs's
A Map of Days
, the third book in the Peculiar Children series along with our recipe for Riggs's refreshing and healthy Green Goddess mocktail!
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Over 40 book clubs are enjoying sets of advance reading copies this month through
GalleyMatch, our new program that gives book clubs the chance to preview exciting new fiction, non fiction, kids' and YA books, and cookbooks. Join, if you haven't registered you club!
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We'd love to hear from you! Please
contact us with questions, comments, and titles or thematic menus your book club has enjoyed.
Happy reading!
Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp
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A SPARK OF LIGHT
Jodi Picoult
Random House
Fiction
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#1
New York Times
bestselling author Jodi Picoult returns with a provocative novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.
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CLASSIC AMERICAN CRIME FICTION
OF THE 1920s
Leslie S. Klinger, ed.
Pegasus Books
Fiction / Mystery
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A gorgeous collection of five of the most famous and riveting crime novels of the 1920s, with insightful annotations by the Edgar-winning anthologist Leslie S. Klinger.
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THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS
Pat Barker
Doubleday
Historical Fiction
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Booker Prize-winning author Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of
The Iliad
, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War.
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WEATHER WOMAN
Cai Emmons
Red Hen Press
Fiction
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A meteorologist discovers she has the power to change the weather, and
must negotiate a new relationship to the world.
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GONE SO LONG
Andre Dubus III
W.W. Norton & Company
Fiction
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A father
, estranged from his daughter for the worst of reasons, is driven to seek her out after decades apart in this new novel from the author of
House of Sand and Fog.
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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
Delia Owens
G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin
Random House
Fiction/Mystery
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Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Karen Russell,
Where the Crawdads Sing is
at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder.
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WHAT WE OWE
Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Fiction
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With startling honesty, dark wit, and irresistible momentum,
What We Owe
introduces a fierce and necessary new voice in international fiction with this novel
about exile, dislocation, and the emotional minefields between mothers and daughters.
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IN YOUR HANDS
Inês Pedrosa
AmazonCrossing
Fiction
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An internationally acclaimed, award winning novel spanning three generations of women in Portugal, united in their struggle to define themselves amid authoritarian government, sexual prejudice, and social turbulence.
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MARILLA OF GREEN GABLES
Sarah McCoy
William Morrow/HarperCollins
Historical Fiction
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A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak—and unimaginable greatness.
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SUGAR LAND
Tammy Lynne Stoner
Red Hen Press
Fiction
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The triumphant, southern fried story of a wise and feisty lesbian, Nana Dara, who breaks out of her own physical and emotional prison to become the fabulous matriarch to a family of Texas misfits.
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THE COLLECTOR'S APPRENTICE
B.A. Shapiro
Algonquin Books
Historical Fiction
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This historical art thriller is an unforgettable tale about the lengths to which people will go for their obsession, whether it be art, money, love, or vengeance.
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THE WILDLANDS
Abby Geni
Counterpoint Press
Fiction
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From the award-winning author of
The Lightkeepers,
a page-turning new novel that explores the bond between siblings and the animal instincts that threaten to destroy them.
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