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March 2, 2021

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, March 3rd at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of WE BEGIN AT THE END by Chris Whitaker, this month's Barnes & Noble Book Club selection, a #1 Indie Next pick and an upcoming Bookreporter.com Bets On title. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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Dr. Seuss

They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

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Dr. Seuss

Special Preview: Bookreporter.com's Spring Preview 2021

This Bookreporter.com SPECIAL PREVIEW Newsletter brings you a sneak peek at the titles that are included in our Spring Preview feature. 

Each title below will be featured in a contest where you will have a 24-hour window of opportunity to enter for your chance to win a copy of the book being featured that day. You will need to act quickly! Learn more about the feature here.

We encourage you to scroll down and click on each image to read more about that book on our site.

If you have friends who you think may be interested in these 24-hour contests, please forward this newsletter to them so they can sign up for it. 

Our first feature and contest kicks off tomorrow, Tuesday, March 2nd at noon ET. Best of luck to you, and Happy Spring Reading!

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Indra Nooyi

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different.

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Indra Nooyi

Week of March 1, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of March 1st include BECOMING, the deeply personal memoir by the former First Lady of the United States, featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a five-question Q&A; HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD, Robert Kolker's fascinating account of a midcentury American family with 12 children, six of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease; Therese Anne Fowler's A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD, which asks big questions about life in America today as it explores the effects of class, race and heartrending love in a story that’s as provocative as it is powerful; and IN FIVE YEARS by Rebecca Serle, a striking and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever.

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Arthur Ashe

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

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Arthur Ashe

John Lancaster Spalding

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

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John Lancaster Spalding

February 26, 2021

Ah, my virtual life. I had a very busy --- and fun --- weekend at the events for the Morristown Festival of Books. I enjoyed interviewing Kristin Hannah and Nadia Owusu, and then attending the programs with David Michaelis being interviewed by Bill Goldstein and V.E. Schwab in conversation with Dhionelle Clayton. I heard from many of our readers who attended the programs, which I got such a kick out of. The virtues of virtual is that you can be anywhere and attend. I really love this!

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Susan Meissner, author of The Nature of Fragile Things

Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant who answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a San Francisco widower named Martin Hocking, a man she knows nothing about. She quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, but Martin's odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right. Then one early-spring evening, a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events. The fates of Sophie and two other women intertwine on the eve of the devastating earthquake of 1906, thrusting them onto a perilous journey that will test their resiliency and resolve and, ultimately, their belief that love can overcome fear.

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Jennifer Ryan, author of The Kitchen Front

Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses: The Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio program called “The Kitchen Front” is holding a cooking contest --- and the grand prize is a job as the program’s first-ever female co-host. For four very different women, winning the competition would present a crucial chance to change their lives. They are giving it their all --- even if that sometimes means bending the rules. But with so much at stake, will the contest that aims to bring the community together only serve to break it apart?

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