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James Lane Allen

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

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James Lane Allen

March 15, 2022

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of March 14th and March 21st 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 special contest for Julie Clark’s upcoming thriller, THE LIES I TELL. Many of you know Julie as the author of THE LAST FLIGHT, which was a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick and one of Carol's favorite books of 2020. We are awarding 25 lucky readers an advance copy of THE LIES I TELL, which will be in stores on June 21st. The deadline for your entries is Friday, March 25th at noon ET.

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Robertson Davies

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

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Robertson Davies

March 14, 2022

One of my favorite parts of doing our “Bookreporter Talks To” interviews is thinking of questions that book clubs may want answered from authors whose books they may be discussing. While we are sure not to talk spoilers, I love sharing the backstory on where the germ of the idea for their book originated, as well as the research they did to enhance their storytelling.

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Jules Feiffer

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

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Jules Feiffer

Louis Vermeil

The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.

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Louis Vermeil

Kimberly Belle, author of My Darling Husband

Jade and Cam Lasky are by all accounts a happily married couple with two adorable kids, a spacious home and a rapidly growing restaurant business. But their world is tipped upside down when Jade is confronted by a masked home invader. As Cam scrambles to gather the ransom money, Jade starts to wonder if they’re as financially secure as their lifestyle suggests, and what other secrets her husband is keeping from her. Cam may be a good father, a celebrity chef and a darling husband, but there’s another side he’s kept hidden from Jade that has put their family in danger. Unbeknownst to Cam and Jade, the home invader has been watching them and is about to turn their family secrets into a public scandal.

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Karen Joy Fowler, author of Booth

In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some 30 miles northeast of Baltimore and bears 10 children over the course of the next 16 years. Junius Booth is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive, as year by year the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. As the tenor of the world shifts, the Booths emerge from their hidden lives to cement their place as one of the country’s leading theatrical families. But multiple scandals, family triumphs and criminal disasters begin to take their toll, and the solemn siblings of John Wilkes Booth are left to reckon with the truth behind the destructively specious promise of an early prophecy.

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C. J. Box, author of Shadows Reel: A Joe Pickett Novel

A day before the three Pickett girls come home for Thanksgiving, Joe is called out for a moose poaching incident that turns out to be something much more sinister: a local fishing guide has been brutally tortured and murdered. At the same time, Marybeth opens an unmarked package at the library where she works and finds a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi official. Who left it there? And why? When a close neighbor is murdered, Joe and Marybeth face new questions: Who is after the book? And how will they solve its mystery before someone hurts them…or their girls? Meanwhile, Nate Romanowski is on the hunt for the man who stole his falcons and attacked his wife.

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John Lithgow

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

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John Lithgow