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Which of the following fiction titles releasing in March are you planning to read? Please check all that apply.

March 1, 2024, 725 voters

March 1, 2024 - March 15, 2024

Here are reading recommendations with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars for the contest period of March 1 - March 15.

Spring Preview Evening Program Signup

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Shelby Van Pelt Book Group Event

Links to https://tbrnetwork.com/podcasts/bookreporter-talks-to/bookaccino-live-book-group-with-shelby-van-pelt/.

Shelby Van Pelt Book Group Event

Links to https://tbrnetwork.com/podcasts/bookreporter-talks-to/bookaccino-live-book-group-with-shelby-van-pelt/.

February 29, 2024

I love to see how clever people are with the refreshments that are served at book groups. For our last meeting, where we discussed THE BERRY PICKERS by Amanda Peters, Julia, who feels like our book group’s honorary baker, made a berry torte, which was terrific. I brought out blue and white striped plates to go with it. For humor, we often use plates that are left over from the birthday party of someone’s child in the group. They always make me smile and remember the themed parties that I did with my boys.

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Interview: C. J. Box, author of Three-Inch Teeth: A Joe Pickett Novel

Feb 29, 2024

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts --- one animal, one human --- in THREE-INCH TEETH, the riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box. In this interview conducted by Michael Barson, a former publicist at G.P. Putnam’s Sons who worked with Box and is now the Senior Publicity Executive at Melville House, Box talks about the challenges he faced writing the first two entries in this series, his portrayal of the bureaucrats in Wyoming that serves as comic relief in his books, and the characters he’d like to focus on more in future installments.

Spring Preview 2024

The arrival of spring signals the end of our Spring Preview contests. Many thanks to all who entered --- and a big congratulations to our winners! Below are the books that we believe you will be talking about over the next few months.

» Click here to see the winners of this year's Spring Preview contests.

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The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers that the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to improve the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. The king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen --- and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain his favor. As Luzia's notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath.

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Chantha Nguon, author of Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

In SLOW NOODLES, Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodian refugee who loses everything and everyone --- her home, her family, her country --- all but the remembered tastes and aromas of her mother’s kitchen. She summons the quiet rhythms of 1960s Battambang, her provincial hometown, before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart and killed more than a million Cambodians, many of them ethnic Vietnamese like Nguon and her family. Then, as an immigrant in Saigon, Nguon loses her mother, brothers and sister and eventually flees to a refugee camp in Thailand. For two decades in exile, she survives by cooking in a brothel, serving drinks in a nightclub, making and selling street food, becoming a suture nurse and weaving silk.

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