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Sarah Pinborough, author of Cross Her Heart

Lisa lives for her daughter Ava, her job and her best friend Marilyn. But when a handsome client shows an interest in her, Lisa starts daydreaming about sharing her life with him, too. Maybe she’s ready now. Maybe it's time to let her terrifying secret past go. However, when her daughter rescues a boy from drowning and their pictures are all over the news, Lisa's world explodes. As she finds everything she has built threatened, and not knowing who she can trust, it's up to Lisa to face her past in order to save what she holds dear. But someone has been pulling all their strings and is determined to see Lisa and Ava suffer. Because long ago Lisa broke a promise. And some promises aren't meant to be broken.

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Blaise Pascal

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

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Blaise Pascal

January 7, 2020

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of January 6th and January 13th 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 Sounding Off on Audio contest for January. This month's prizes are the audio versions of Liz Moore's LONG BRIGHT RIVER, read by Allyson Ryan, and Joseph Finder's HOUSE ON FIRE, read by Holter Graham. Submit your comments about the audiobooks you've listened to by Monday, February 3rd at noon ET, and you'll be in the running to win both these audio titles.

Also, we have updated our Books on Screen feature for this month. January's roundup includes the feature films Just Mercy, The Informer, The Turning and The Rhythm Section; the series premieres of “Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector” on NBC and "The Outsider" on HBO, along with the first season of "The Stranger" on Netflix, the season five premiere of "The Magicians" on Syfy, and the season one finale of "Truth Be Told" on Apple TV+; and the DVD releases of Britt-Marie Was Here, Motherless Brooklyn, Joker and The Addams Family.

Finally, we are giving you a preview of Susan Mallery’s upcoming novel, SISTERS BY CHOICE, which releases on February 11th. This fourth entry in her Blackberry Island series is a heartfelt tale of love, family and the friendships that see us through.

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Most Requested Guides of 2019

We took a look at all of the guides that you accessed in 2019, and from there we pulled together a list of the top 30 titles, which you can see below. We love finding out which books resonated the most with you and your group!

Top 30 Most Requested Guides

 

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Favorite Monthly Lists & Picks for 2019

DECEMBER 2019

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James Laver

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something. 

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James Laver

John O'Connell, author of Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life

Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities. In 100 short essays, music journalist John O’Connell studies each book on Bowie’s list and contextualizes it in the artist’s life and work. How did the power imbued in a single suit of armor in THE ILIAD impact a man who loved costumes, shifting identity and the siren song of the alter-ego? How did the poems of T.S. Eliot and Frank O’Hara, the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov and Anthony Burgess, and the groundbreaking politics of James Baldwin influence Bowie’s lyrics, sound and artistic outlook? How did the 100 books on this list influence one of the most influential artists of a generation?

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January 6, 2020 - February 3, 2020

Here are audiobook recommendations with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars for the contest period of January 6th - February 3rd.

Antonya Nelson

The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical.

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Antonya Nelson

Week of January 27, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of January 27th include Claire Adam's GOLDEN CHILD, a deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty and love; STALKER by Lars Kepler, a terrifying thriller in which Detective Joona Linna --- recently returned from compassionate leave --- reunites with hypnotist Erik Maria Bark to search for a seemingly unassailable sadistic killer; BLESSING IN DISGUISE, a remarkable novel from Danielle Steel, whose protagonist comes to terms with unfinished business and long-buried truths as the mother of three very different daughters with three singular fathers; and INHERITANCE, Dani Shapiro's memoir about the staggering family secret uncovered by a genealogy test --- an exploration of the urgent ethical questions surrounding fertility treatments and DNA testing, and a profound inquiry of paternity, identity and love.

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