Editorial Content for This Time Next Year
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Their lives began together, but their worlds couldn't be more different. After 30 years of missed connections, they're about to meet again.
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Their lives began together, but their worlds couldn't be more different. After 30 years of missed connections, they're about to meet again.
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Their lives began together, but their worlds couldn't be more different. After 30 years of missed connections, they're about to meet again.
Minnie Cooper knows two things with certainty: that her New Year's birthday is unlucky, and that it's all because of Quinn Hamilton, a man she's never met. Their mothers gave birth to them at the same hospital just after midnight on New Year's Day, but Quinn was given the cash prize for being the first baby born in London in 1990 --- and the name Minnie was meant to have, as well. With luck like that, it's no wonder each of her birthdays has been more of a disaster than the one before.
When Minnie unexpectedly runs into Quinn at a New Year's party on their mutual 30th birthday, she sees only more evidence that fortune has continued to favor him. The gorgeous, charming business owner truly seems to have it all --- while Minnie is on the brink of losing her pie-making company and her home. But if Quinn and Minnie are from different worlds, why do they keep bumping into each other? And why is it that each fraught encounter leaves them both wanting more?
A moving, joyful love story, THIS TIME NEXT YEAR explores the way fate leads us to the people we least expect --- no matter what the odds.
We are kicking off this year’s Holiday Author Blog series with award-winning, internationally acclaimed author Patricia Engel, whose new novel, INFINITE COUNTRY, releases on March 2nd and is about a Colombian family fractured by deportation. Patricia, the daughter of Colombian immigrants, reflects on her family’s celebration of Nochebuena (Christmas Eve), which would culminate in her grandfather dressed as Santa Claus entering the house with a bag of gifts. She and her cousins would act as his elves and deliver all these goodies to the relatives and friends who had gathered for this very special occasion. Considering her eventual career path, it should come as no surprise what Patricia often received as presents.
Charles Baudelaire
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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Charles Baudelaire
December 9, 2020
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this holiday season. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Contest by Thursday, December 10th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of LITTLE SISTER: A Memoir by Patricia Walsh Chadwick, which was recently featured on "CBS This Morning." Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
Anna Quindlen
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
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Anna Quindlen
December 8, 2020
In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of December 7th and December 14th 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 End-of-the-Year contest featuring Carol Fitzgerald’s Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2020. One Grand Prize winner will be awarded all 42 books, while 14 other readers will receive a selection of three of these titles. The deadline for your entries is Monday, January 4th at noon ET.
Also, we are sharing Carol's latest "Bookreporter Talks To" interview with Elizabeth Berg, whose new book, I’LL BE SEEING YOU, is a beautiful memoir about her parents in their final years. When Elizabeth's father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, her parents had to leave their home and move into a facility that could offer them help. It was then up to Elizabeth and her siblings to care for them in ways they never could have expected. Carol talked to Elizabeth about why she decided to write a memoir and how writing it was so different from the many novels and short stories she has penned throughout her prolific career. She also explained her care in delving into the difficult topics in her family's relationships during this time, and the effect it had on her and her siblings. Click here to watch the video and here to listen to the podcast.
Finally, we are spotlighting COURTING MISFORTUNE, the first book in Regina Jennings' new historical romance series, The Joplin Chronicles, which is now available. Assigned to find the kidnapped daughter of a mob boss, Pinkerton operative Calista York is sent to a rowdy mining town in Missouri. But she faces the obstacle of missionary Matthew Cook. He is as determined to stop a local baby raffle as he is the reckless Miss York, whose bad judgment consistently seems to be putting her in harm's way.
December 8, 2020
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this holiday season. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Contest by Wednesday, December 9th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE ARRANGEMENT by Robyn Harding, which is now available in paperback. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
Harper Lee
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
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Harper Lee, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
