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Bookaccino Event on September 16th

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September 2020

September's Books on Screen roundup includes the Netflix releases of The Devil All the Time, I'm Thinking of Ending Things and Enola Holmes; the biographical film The Glorias on Amazon Prime Video; the premieres of "A Wilderness of Error" on FX and "The Comey Rule" on Showtime; the continuation of HBO's "Lovecraft Country"; and the DVD release of First Cow.

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Robert Jones Burdette

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.

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Robert Jones Burdette

Harvey Mackay

Find something you love to do, and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

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Harvey Mackay

James Iredell

A photograph gives relief to the banished and absent lover.

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James Iredell

George F. Will

Pessimism is as American as apple pie --- frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

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George F. Will

Week of September 28, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of September 28th include KISS THE GIRLS AND MAKE THEM CRY, a thriller from Mary Higgins Clark that revolves around allegations of sexual misconduct at a high-profile television news network --- and the ensuing deaths of two of the accusers; FURIOUS HOURS, in which Casey Cep masterfully brings together the tales of a serial killer in 1970s Alabama and of Harper Lee, the beloved author of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, who tried to write his story; Preston & Child's CROOKED RIVER, which finds Agent Pendergast facing the most inexplicable challenge of his career as he races to uncover the mystery of several severed feet found floating in the Gulf of Mexico; and THE TOPEKA SCHOOL by Ben Lerner, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century --- a tale of adolescence, transgression and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the New Right.

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Week of September 21, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of September 21st include Thomas Harris' CARI MORA, a pulse-pounding thriller from the author of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS in which a resilient young woman must outwit a sadistic psychopath; FRANKISSSTEIN by Jeanette Winterson, an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence and queer love; Julia Kelly's latest historical novel, THE WHISPERS OF WAR, which follows three friends who struggle to remain loyal as one of them is threatened with internment by the British government at the start of World War II; and CLEAR MY NAME by Paula Daly, a page-turning work of psychological suspense about an investigator who, in order to free her client, must confront secrets she has struggled a lifetime to hide.

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Week of September 14, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of September 14th include WHAT HAPPENS IN PARADISE, the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Elin Hilderbrand's WINTER IN PARADISE, in which secret lives and new loves emerge under the bright Caribbean sky; THE ROAD HOME, the dramatic conclusion to Richard Paul Evans' riveting Broken Road trilogy --- a powerful redemption story about finding happiness on a pilgrimage across iconic Route 66; Benjamin Moser's Pulitzer Prize winner SONTAG, the definitive portrait of one of the American century’s most towering intellectuals --- her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face; and CHASING THE BEAR by Lars Anderson, a dual biography of two coaching legends --- Bear Bryant and Nick Saban --- who built the Alabama Crimson Tide into a true football dynasty.

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