Month: August 2018

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Giveaways

Win a Copy of UNDER MY SKIN by Lisa Unger!

 

We have 10 copies of Under My Skin by Lisa Unger to give away to 10 Riot readers!

Here’s what it’s all about:

Bestselling author Lisa Unger delivers an addictive psychological thriller about a woman on the hunt for her husband’s killer.

What if the nightmares are actually memories? It’s been a year since Poppy’s husband, Jack, was brutally murdered. In the immediate aftermath, Poppy spiraled into an oblivion of grief, disappearing for several days only to turn up ragged and confused.

The case was never solved, and those lost days continue to haunt her. As her vivid nightmares intensify into daily blackouts, she starts to lose track of what is real. But her terrible dreams might hold the key to what really happened to Jack…

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Today In Books

Want A Bedtime Story? There’s a Hotline!: Today In Books

This edition of Today in Books is sponsored by the #1 NYT bestselling author of Blood Bond Saga Part One, Helen Hardt.

Want A Bedtime Story? There’s a Hotline!

Necessary 2018 Reminder: The Toronto Public Library is always ready to tuck you into bed at night with just one phone call. Call the “Dial-A-Story” line to hear a story. And, of course this gets better, you can choose from sixteen languages. In case you’re wondering: It is read by a human voice, not a robot, so no AI nightmares will follow.

Three Libraries Make Time’s World’s Greatest Places List

If you’re looking for places to pack your bags and visit, Time has got you covered. And we’re delighted to spot some libraries on the list! Tianjin Binhai Library: Which has had “more than 1.8 million visitors since it opened in October 2017.” Austin Central Library: Which also has a butterfly garden (packing my bags!) and a “technology petting zoo,” which lets you try out upcoming technology–and is not what I first thought it meant. Al-Qarawiyyin Library: One of the world’s oldest libraries only recently restored and now accessible to the public.

For Behind-The-Scenes Bibliophile Fans

If you’re wondering how the adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novella The Bookshop got all the books for the bookshop’s set here you go!

And remember we are giving away a stack of 16 awesome books featured on the Recommended podcast.

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Today In Books

Another Win for Little Free Libraries: Today in Books

This edition of Today in Books is sponsored by Libby, the one-tap reading app from your library and OverDrive.

Another Win For Little Free Libraries

The Guardian took a look at how Little Free Libraries have benefited the Leeds community. Artist and Little Free Librarian Carry Franklin described the libraries as “big, solid gestures of love, sharing and hopefulness … the antithesis to the kind of politics that’s going on now.” Leeds boasts 19 LFLs now, including boxes in less well-off areas.

“An Appalling Piece Of Work”

Ever wonder what it’s like behind the scenes of book publishing? Well, here’s a look at an author-copy-editor dynamic gone wrong. As you can tell from V.S. Naipaul’s scathing letter, the author was not well pleased with the extensive revisions to the manuscript of A Turn in the South. “It is such an appalling piece of work that I feel I have to write about it,” wrote Naipaul. Ouch.

Omarosa’s White House Tell-All Moves 33,483 Print Copies In First Week

Some follow-up: as expected, sales of Omarosa Manigault Newman’s Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House are healthy despite warnings of legal action from Trump’s camp. The White House tell-all sold 33,484 copies in its first week on sale, and it was #2 on PW’s hardcover nonfiction list for the week.

 

And don’t forget, we’re giving away a stack of books from Season 2 of Recommended, in honor of the upcoming third season of the podcast! Click here to enter.

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What's Up in YA

4 YA Authors Who Also Write Adult Books

Hey YA Readers! Let’s talk about YA authors who moonlight in the adult category of books.

“What’s Up in YA?” is sponsored by Girl At The Grave by Teri Bailey Black from Tor Teen.

Valentine has spent years trying to outrun her mother’s legacy. But small towns have long memories, and when a new string of murders occurs, all signs point to the daughter of a murderer.

Only one person believes Valentine is innocent—Rowan Blackshaw, the son of the man her mother killed all those years ago. Valentine vows to find the real killer, but when she finally uncovers the horrifying truth, she must choose to face her own dark secrets, even if it means losing Rowan in the end.

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I love thinking about how an author takes their writing talent from one target market to another. There are a number of YA authors over the last half decade or so who’ve published middle grade work, and there’ve been a number of YA authors who’ve published adult. Let’s take a look this week at some YA authors who’ve taken on adult work in their careers recently.

Book descriptions come from Goodreads.

Erika L. Sánchez

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter was Sánchez’s debut YA novel last year and it was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

But just a couple of months before that book published, her actual debut in publishing happened. Lessons on Expulsion is an adult poetry collection published by Graywolf Press.

“What is life but a cross / over rotten water?” Poet, novelist, and essayist Erika L. Sánchez’s powerful debut poetry collection explores what it means to live on both sides of the border—the border between countries, languages, despair and possibility, and the living and the dead. Sánchez tells her own story as the daughter of undocumented Mexican immigrants and as part of a family steeped in faith, work, grief, and expectations. The poems confront sex, shame, race, and an America roiling with xenophobia, violence, and laws of suspicion and suppression. With candor and urgency, and with the unblinking eyes of a journalist, Sánchez roves from the individual life into the lives of sex workers, narco-traffickers, factory laborers, artists, and lovers. What emerges is a powerful, multifaceted portrait of survival. Lessons on Expulsion is the first book by a vibrant, essential new writer now breaking into the national literary landscape.

 

Jacqueline Woodson

Woodson is such an excellent example of a writer who is talented enough to share her voice across all age categories. She’s dabbled in young adult books — you may know If You Come Softly or After Tupac and D Foster — as well as middle grade (brown girl dreaming), picture books, and adult.

Her latest adult novel, Another Brooklyn, hit shelves last year.

Running into a long-ago friend sets memories from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant—a part of a future that belonged to them.

But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion.

 

Katie Williams

It was discovering one of my favorite YA mystery writers, Katie Williams, had a brand new adult novel out that sparked this idea for a newsletter. Williams has two YA novels out, The Space Between Trees and Absent.

Her debut adult novel, Tell The Machine Goodnight, hit shelves this summer and is a science fiction read with crossover appeal to teen readers who like their fiction more literary.

Pearl’s job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She’s good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion?

Meanwhile, there’s Pearl’s teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind of “pursuit of happiness.” As his mother, Pearl wants nothing more than to help Rhett—but is it for his sake or for hers? Certainly it would make Pearl happier. Regardless, her son is one person whose emotional life does not fall under the parameters of her job—not as happiness technician, and not as mother, either.

Told from an alternating cast of endearing characters from within Pearl and Rhett’s world, Tell the Machine Goodnightdelivers a smartly moving and entertaining story about relationships and the ways that they can most surprise and define us. Along the way, Katie Williams playfully illuminates our national obsession with positive psychology, our reliance on quick fixes and technology. What happens when these obsessions begin to overlap? With warmth, humor, and a clever touch, Williams taps into our collective unease about the modern world and allows us see it a little more clearly.

 

Veronica Roth

You know her from her mega-selling series Divergent and her more recent YA science fiction duology Carve the Mark. But Roth recently announced she’ll be publishing an adult novel next.

The book is titled The Chosen One and while it won’t be published until 2020, there’s a little information available about it. According to the press release announcing the deal it, “tells the story of five friends who saved the world when they were teenagers, but now, as celebrity adults, must face even greater demons — and reconsider what it means to be a hero by destiny or by choice.”

There’s a bit more about the book and her process over on Entertainment Weekly.

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Thanks for hanging out and we’ll play catch up with our YA news later this week!

— Kelly Jensen, @veronikellymars on Instagram and Twitter

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True Story

More Casting News for JUST MERCY Adaptation

This week’s nonfiction news feels like déjà vu… a former Trump administration staff member has written an “explosive” memoir, full of juicy-but-questionable details about life at the White House, and Trump has reacted by threatening anyone and everyone he can think to yell at.

Sponsored by Tragedy Plus Time by Adam Cayton-Holland

Unsentimental, unexpectedly funny, and incredibly honest, Tragedy Plus Time is a love letter to every family that has ever felt messy, complicated, or (even momentarily) magnificent. The Cayton-Holland siblings were a trio of brilliant, acerbic teenagers from Denver who were taught the injustice of the world from an early age. Adam chose to meet life’s cruel realities with comedy, his older sister chose law, while their youngest sister struggled with depression and ultimately took her own life. An unforgettable tribute to a lost sibling, this extraordinary memoir will have you reaching for the phone to call your brother or sister.

Unhinged, a memoir by former White House aide and reality tv villain Omarosa Manigault Newman hit shelves last Tuesday to generally bad reviews. Her airing of Trump laundry gets pretty out there, to the point of nearly being unbelievable. The day before the book was released, the president’s legal team sent a cease-and-desist letter to the book’s publisher, Simon & Schuster. Sound familiar?

Omarosa claims to have tapes of many of her conversations in the White House, so I guess we’ve got that to look forward to as well. Oh, 2018. Let’s move on to better news.

My Obama nostalgia continues. Over the weekend, The Guardian published an excerpt of Jeanne Marie Laskas’s upcoming book (To Obama) about the ten letters from American citizens that President Obama read every night. It’s a lovely piece that’s absolutely amping up my nostalgia for the world as it was three year ago. If you need a book about Obama’s practice of reading letters to read right now, I highly recommend Eli Saslow’s Ten Letters: the Stories Americans Tell Their President – it’s one of my favorites.

Nannette in a Memoir! Hannah Gadsby, the comic who has been blowing up Netflix with her amazing special, “Nanette,” is writing a memoir! Ten Steps to Nanette will be released in Australia and the United States next year. The memoir will be about “the funny and sometimes dark events of the Australian comedian’s life leading up to her realization that she had to quit comedy as she knew it.”

Dopesick coming to television! Dopesick, journalist Beth Macy’s book about the American opioid crisis, has been optioned for television. There aren’t many details yet, but I think this could be a pretty impressive piece of prestige television in the right hands.

More Just Mercy casting news! In the best news in awhile, Brie Larson has been cast in the upcoming adaptation of Just Mercy by civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, but there’s no word yet on her role. The film adaptation stars Michael B. Jordan (swoon) as Stevenson and Jamie Foxx as Walter McMillian, a man who waited on death row for six years after being falsely convicted. Production is set to being this month!

Ebook deals and steals! Looking for some inexpensive biographies or memoirs? I’ve got you covered. Here are three Kindle deals to check out:

Don’t forget! You can win 16 awesome books featured on the Recommended podcast! Enter here by August 31. You can find me on Twitter @kimthedork, and co-hosting the For Real podcast here at Book Riot. Happy reading!

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The Kids Are All Right

Illustrator Videos on Facebook’s New York Times Books

Hi Kid Lit friends!

I wanted to share with you a really cool thing that the New York Times does with children’s illustrators on Facebook. Every couple of weeks, they have live videos featuring illustrators and authors with live drawing demonstrations. It’s generally a thirty-minute conversation, demo, and sometimes studio tour with the children’s book creator and Maria Russo, the New York Times children’s book editor. I love watching the creative process, and viewers are invited to type in questions for the creators to answer on the show.

Sponsored by Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic.

Sometimes making (or creating) a friend is a lot easier than keeping one!

Sixth grade was SO much easier for Danny. Now that she’s in seventh grade, she’s in a new middle school, her friends are in different classes and new cliques, and she is totally lost. What Danny really needs is a new best friend! So when she inherits a magic sketchbook in which anything she sketches in it comes to life, she draws Madison, the perfect best friend ever. But even when you create a best friend, there’s no guarantee they’ll always be your best friend.

Here are some of my favorite videos:

Michael Ian Black and Debbie Ridpath Ohi talk about their picture books, I’m Sad and I’m Bored. I particularly enjoyed hearing Debbie talk about how she came up with her illustration of the potato. Also, Michael Ian reveals the two other titles of his upcoming book collaborations with Debbie. Here is the link to the video, or you can click the image below.

Everyone feels sad sometimes—even flamingos. Sigh. When Flamingo announces he’s feeling down, the little girl and Potato try to cheer him up, but nothing seems to work. Not even dirt! (Which usually works for Potato.) Flamingo learns that he will not always feel this way. And his friends learn that sometimes being a friend means you don’t have to cheer someone up. You just have to stick by your pal no matter how they feel. Even if they’re a potato.

Just when a little girl thinks she couldn’t possibly be more bored, she stumbles upon a potato who turns the tables on her by declaring that children are boring. But this girl isn’t going to let a vegetable tell her what’s what, so she sets out to show the unimpressed potato all the amazing things kids can do. Too bad the potato is anything but interested….

Yuyi Morales talks about her upcoming picture book, Dreamers (Neal Porter Books, 9/4). Yuyi talks about how she did not begin drawing until she was an adult, and she demonstrates the ways she uses multimedia in her illustrations. Here is the link to the video, or you can click the image below.

In 1994, Yuyi Morales left her home in Xalapa, Mexico and came to the US with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but she didn’t come empty-handed. She brought her strength, her work, her passion, her hopes and dreams…and her stories. Caldecott Honor artist and five-time Pura Belpré winner Yuyi Morales’s gorgeous new picture book Dreamers is about making a home in a new place. Yuyi and her son Kelly’s passage was not easy, and Yuyi spoke no English whatsoever at the time. But together, they found an unexpected, unbelievable place: the public library. There, book by book, they untangled the language of this strange new land, and learned to make their home within it.

Victoria Jamieson talks about All’s Faire in Middle School, a middle grade graphic novel set at at Renaissance Faire.  I loved hearing about how Victoria found her drawing style in art school and how she transitioned from writing and illustrating picture books to graphic novels. Check out the video to hear about all the different types of strange jobs Victoria had. Here is the link to the video, or you can click the image below.

Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown up with two parents working at the Renaissance Faire, and she’s eager to begin her own training as a squire. First, though, she’ll need to prove her bravery. Luckily Impy has just the quest in mind—she’ll go to public school after a life of being homeschooled! But it’s not easy to act like a noble knight-in-training in middle school. Impy falls in with a group of girls who seem really nice (until they don’t) and starts to be embarrassed of her thrift shop apparel, her family’s unusual lifestyle, and their small, messy apartment. Impy has always thought of herself as a heroic knight, but when she does something really mean in order to fit in, she begins to wonder whether she might be more of a dragon after all.

Brian Pinkney talks about illustrating two picture books, In Your Hands written by Carole Boston Weatherford, and Martin Rising: A Requiem for a King written by Andrea Davis Pinkney. I loved hearing how he was inspired to illustrate In Your Hands. Here is the link to the video, or you can click the image below.

A black mother expresses the many hopes and dreams she has for her child in this powerful picture book masterpiece that’s perfect for gift-giving.

When you are a newborn,
I hold your hand and study your face.
I cradle you as you drift to sleep.
But I know that I will not always
hold your hand;
not the older you get.
Then, I will hold you in my heart
And hope that God holds you in his hands.

In a rich embroidery of visions, musical cadence, and deep emotion, Andrea and Brian Pinkney convey the final months of Martin Luther King’s life — and of his assassination — through metaphor, spirituality, and multilayers of meaning. Andrea’s stunning poetic requiem, illustrated with Brian’s lyrical and colorful artwork, brings a fresh perspective to Martin Luther King, the Gandhi-like, peace-loving activist whose dream of equality — and whose courage to make it happen — changed the course of American history. And even in his death, he continues to transform and inspire all of us who share his dream.

Brian Selznick talks about Baby Monkey, Private Eye, a new young reader. I particularly loved hearing about how Brian made a rubber Baby Monkey as well as a model of the detective agency room so he could move the elements inside the agency around. He also gives a tour of his studio, which is also fascinating. Here is the link to the video, or you can click the image below.

He is a baby.
He is a monkey.
He has a job.
He is Baby Monkey, Private Eye!
Lost jewels?
Missing pizza?
Stolen spaceship?
Baby Monkey can help…
if he can put on his pants!

Baby Monkey’s adventures come to life in an exciting blend of picture book, beginning reader, and graphic novel. Hooray for Baby Monkey!

 

There are so many videos up on the New York Times Book Facebook page, including talks with illustrators like Vashti Harrison, Corinna Luyken, Tim Miller, Bryan Collier, and many, many more! Check them out and let me know what you think.

The next live session is on Monday, August 27 at 3:30 pm EST. David Ezra Stein will be talking about his new book, Interrupting Chicken. Tune in and ask him a question!

 

Lucky Luna by Diana López (Scholastic, 8/28) is a middle grade book about mischievous Luna who gets in trouble when she locks her know-it-all cousin in the bathroom at her cousin’s quinceanera. This is a sweet, funny book about family and friendship.

I adored Good Night, Mr. Panda by Steve Antony (Scholastic, 9/28), a super sweet bedtime story about a panda and his friends. The sparse text and adorable illustrations really made this a winner of a picture book for me.

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier (Amulet Books, 9/25) is about eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow, the best climber in all of London. She was taught by her father how to clean chimneys until he mysteriously disappeared and she had to find work with a notorious chimney sweep. This is a beautifully written middle grade novel with both mystery and magic.

 

New Giveaway Alert!

Hey, we have a new giveaway for August! Get 16 awesome books featured on the Recommended podcast. Enter here by August 31!

 

I’d love to know what you are reading this week! Find me on Twitter at @KarinaYanGlaser, on Instagram at @KarinaIsReadingAndWriting, or email me at karina@bookriot.com.

Until next time!
Karina


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Cooking With Snoop Dogg: Today in Books

This edition of Today in Books is sponsored by Penguin Random House Library Marketing.

“It’s Blazin’ Up In My Kitchen”

Get ready to cook with Snoop. Snoop Dogg will publish From Crook to Cook, with recipes ranging from lobster thermidor to gin and juice. Rioters want to know: will another green garnish replace parsley? Now go watch Martha and Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party, and pick up his cookbook in October.

3 New Harry Potter Books Incoming

We’re getting three new Harry Potter books. These will not (thankfully) be new stories to expand upon the canon. The three books are Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Guide to Hogwarts, sure to be a fave, out October 23; Harry Potter: Creatures: A Paper Scene Book, out October 2; and, Harry Potter: Imagining Hogwarts: A Beginner’s Guide to Moviemaking, out October 16. Can you tell it’s almost gift-giving season?

New Details From The Scary Stories Adaptation

We got new details about Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The live-action film will reportedly follow a young girl haunted by her mother’s disappearance. She and her friends pull a Halloween prank that goes wrong, which might be the work of a vengeful spirit out to get the teens through her scary stories. :Ready to be creeped out:

 

And don’t forget, we’re giving away a stack of books from Season 2 of Recommended, in honor of the upcoming third season of the podcast! Click here to enter.

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Swords and Spaceships

Swords and Spaceships Aug 24

Happy Friday, geekfriends and nerdpals! We made it; good job all around. Today I’m reviewing Trail of Lightning by newly minted Hugo Award-winner Rebecca Roanhorse, and talking about V.E. Schwab’s Tolkien lecture, a forthcoming Moroccan-inspired fantasy, fantasy and food, robots of history, and much more.

This newsletter is sponsored by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

In this heart-pounding finale of Elly Blake’s gorgeously written and action-packed Frostblood Saga, the fate of Frostbloods, Firebloods, and all of humanity is at stake.

This is a week or so old at this point, but if you haven’t yet read V.E. Schwab’s Tolkien lecture about “doors” into reading, it’s great — not least because it starts off with her admitting she’s never read Tolkien! It’s a long-ish read, but one well worth your time, especially if you find yourself talking about and recommending SF/F on the regular.

When don’t we need more book recs about witches, I ask you? Here are 25 witchy reads from the YA side of the aisle.

Fantasy talk for your earholes: author Somaiya Daud did an audio-interview about her forthcoming debut novel, Mirage, which is high on my anticipated list! She talks about Moroccan history, the cultural importance of poetry, the interplay between science and religion, feminism, and a lot more in under 17 minutes!

Got a hankering for Kingkiller Chronicles read-alikes? We’ve got a list for that! Priya takes a lot of different angles here, so whatever your favorite part of Rothfuss’s epic is, she’s probably got a rec for you.

Nom nom nom: I love this round-up of readers’ thoughts on what fantasy foods like klah, roast beast, metheglin, subtraction stew, and more might taste like. (I now desperately need to make klah.)

Related! Here are nine food-focused fantasy books, to make you even hungrier.

If you want to spice up your weekend in one of the most morbid ways possible, here’s the list of necromancer romances that you didn’t know you needed.

And for my fellow lovers of a good “deep dive,” here’s a look at the history of robots in both science and fiction!

Are you ready to hear about a book that I keep re-classifying and re-comp’ing every time I talk about it? Here we go!

Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World) by Rebecca Roanhorse

Trigger warning: harm to children

cover image: a young native american woman in a leather jacket holding a sword standing on top of a pickup truck with a young man inside and lightning in the sky behindRebecca Roanhorse picked up two awards earlier this week: a Hugo for Best Short Story, and related but not-a-Hugo John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. On Tuesday we talked about the winning story, “Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience (TM),” and now it’s time to talk about her debut novel Trail of Lightning. On Get Booked this week Amanda and I compared it to Mad Max and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I stand by both. Roanhorse has brought Navajo legends to life in a post-apocalyptic world with a monster-slaying, kick-ass heroine, and it is one of my favorite debuts — and favorite post-apocalyptic fantasies — of the year.

Maggie Hoskie is our gruff, broken, outcast main character. A brutal attack during her adolescence awoke dark powers in her, and she was apprenticed to an immortal monsterslayer just long enough to fall in love with him and then be abandoned by him. Quite understandably she’s been holed up in her trailer in a depressive funk, but then she’s summoned by a family to track down a small girl kidnapped by a supernatural creature of insane strength. This mission sends her headlong into a tangled web of evil-doing, betrayal, and violence — but it also might hold a way forward for her own mangled life. Along for the ride is the very suave Kai Arviso, a medicine man with his own secrets and powers, and the Trickster himself, Coyote.

Now let’s talk about the setting, because that’s as intricate and original as the plot! Huge coastal floods have reconfigured the geography of the United States, and the Navajo have physically and magically walled off their land from the rest of the country. The story takes our characters around Dinétah, and we get to meet several amazing supporting characters as well as see the geography unfold. I’ve been calling it a post-apocalypse, but it also has the feel of a Western as well as an urban fantasy; frontier cities, small villages, isolated dive bars, abandoned mines, we get them all.

I raced through this book, and already feel like I need to reread it. While it’s the first in a series, the main plot wraps up nicely, with just enough of a tease to get me psyched for the next book. If you like your fantasy dark, uncanny, and inclusive, get this book ASAP.

And that’s a wrap! You can find all of the books recommended in this newsletter on a handy Goodreads shelf. If you’re interested in more science fiction and fantasy talk, you can catch me and my co-host Sharifah on the SFF Yeah! podcast. For many many more book recommendations you can find me on the Get Booked podcast with the inimitable Amanda.

Your fellow booknerd,
Jenn

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The Goods

$20 Tees

Fill your closet with bookish looks for back-to-school (or whatever)! Shop $20 tees, and get a free market tote with any purchase of $60 or more.

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Win a Copy CROSS HER HEART by Sarah Pinborough!

 

We have 250 digital audiobook downloads of Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough to give away to 250 Riot readers!

Here is what it is all about:

“Sarah Pinborough is about to become your new obsession.” — Harlan Coben

Their lies won’t protect them . . . from each other.

In Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough — on sale 9/4 in audio, hardcover, and ebook formats — the New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes returns with a twisty, hair-raising psychological thriller about a single mom, her daughter, and her best friend, the secrets they hide, and the danger they can’t escape. Can you keep a secret? Cross Her Heart has the biggest twist after #WTFthatending.

Audiobook performed by Antonia Beamish.

Go here to enter for a chance to win, or just click the cover image below. Good luck!