This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Thursday, April 22nd at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE BREAK-UP BOOK CLUB by Wendy Wax, which releases on May 18th. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of April 19th and April 26th 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 "What's Your Book Group Reading This Month?" contest on ReadingGroupGuides.com, where three book groups will win 12 copies of Chris Whitaker's new novel, WE BEGIN AT THE END. This instant New York Times bestseller and Bookreporter.com Bets On pick has been one of the standout releases of the year thus far and already is in the works to be adapted into a television series. The deadline for your entries is Wednesday, May 5th at noon ET.

Carol had so much fun catching up with Lisa Scottoline, whose first work of historical fiction, ETERNAL, is a New York Times bestseller and a Bets On selection. Lisa talked about her inspiration for the book, which was four decades in the making. The seeds of it were sown during a class she took at the University of Pennsylvania that was taught by Philip Roth, and the fictional works of Primo Levi were part of the curriculum. She was drawn to write about the rise of Fascism and Mussolini in Italy and how the invasion of the Nazis put the lives of Italian Jews in jeopardy. Lisa also discussed her research for the novel, including a trip to Italy where she created the videos that she has shared with readers on her website. Click here to watch the interview and here to listen to the podcast.

This is your last newsletter reminder to sign up for our third “Bookaccino Live” Book Group event, which will take place this Thursday, April 22nd at 8pm ET. Kim Michele Richardson will be our special guest, and Carol will talk to her about THE BOOK WOMAN OF TROUBLESOME CREEK, which has been a book club favorite for the past two years. She also will be answering questions from those in attendance, including a select few who will join us “on stage.” Click here to register.

Next month's "Bookaccino Live" afternoon event will take place on Wednesday, May 12th at 2pm ET. Carol will present titles releasing between May 11th and June 1st, along with a few from July, that she thinks will be of interest to our readers. Click here to sign up. Those attending the live event will be asked to answer a survey about the books from the presentation that they are most interested in reading and will be eligible to win prizes.

If you missed our April 14th event, where Carol talked about 29 titles coming out from April 13th to May 4th, along with seven June releases, you can watch it here and see a list of the featured titles here.

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Wednesday, April 21st at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of UNDER THE SOUTHERN SKY by Kristy Woodson Harvey, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Tuesday, April 20th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of RUBY FALLS by Deborah Goodrich Royce, which releases on May 4th. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

I had a week where if typing was a sport, I would have won a medal. A gold one! I was juggling multiple projects, and the most exercise I got was when I moved my desk from a sitting to a standing position. I attended a couple of publisher previews and came up with a great idea. When watching those, I should ride the exercise bike in my office, but instead I was taking notes on one computer while watching on another. If only words typed equaled steps.

There have been a lot of projects that had been shuffled to the backburner that simmered and got done this week. Austin created a really fabulous new opener for the “Bookreporter Talks To” series. He had started doing a “cold open” on these a couple of months ago, where he would pull a really salient part of the interview before the opening theme. Now he has created a gem of an opener that follows the cold open. And he also put together a new outro that you can see on the latest “Bookaccino Live” video. We spent a day shooting the books for that segment back in January and just got time to edit it now. I love the way both of them came together. I hope you like them too.