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“[A] fascinatingly intimate study of India‘s progressive new generation.”—Vogue

The Heart Is a Shifting Sea by Elizabeth Flock, a reporter for PBS NewsHour, is an enthralling look at how love and marriage connect us all.
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#theheartisashiftingsea #amreading #love #marriage #india #mumbai

AbhisekBasu Check out the scariest book you'll read this year. Link in bio! ☠️ 5y
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“Readers who enjoyed Lilac Girls will appreciate this glimpse into the beliefs and attitudes that shaped America during World War II.”—Library Journal

Out this week, The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard tells the story of the real women who unknowingly helped to build the Manhattan Project. Based on her grandmother‘s own experience in Oak Ridge, TN, Beard has brought to life another fascinating piece of WWII history.
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This Will Be My Undoing is the highly anticipated collection of essays from Morgan Jerkins—a compelling new voice on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism.
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#thiswillbemyundoing #morganjerkins #feminism #blackhistory #blackfemaleauthor

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Peculiar Ground | Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett makes her literary fiction debut with Peculiar Ground, an epic English country house novel that spans three centuries and explores how the past and present are inextricably linked by stories, legends, and history.
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#lucyhugheshallett #peculiarground #fiction #amreading #britishfiction

Melissa_J You had me at English country house! 6y
BookwormM Sounds great 6y
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“Incandescent… Pochoda keeps you guessing while bringing these lost souls wonderfully, intensely alive.”—People, Book of the Week

Acclaimed author Ivy Pochoda returns with Wonder Valley, an unforgettable new novel set in contemporary Los Angeles.
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#wondervalley #ivypochoda #amreading

kamoorephoto This is on my TBR list!! Looking forward to it!! 6y
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✨Looking for something magical (rather than scary) to read this Halloween? The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor is based on the true story of two English girls who in 1917 convinced the world that fairies were real.✨
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#TheCottingleySecret #historicalfiction #autumnreads #cottingleyfairies #fairies #england

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Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder is celebrating her 150th birthday this year. Now you can experience the Ingalls family journey to the Great Plains with Ma Ingalls. On sale now, Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah Miller is a historical novel for adults that revisits the Little House world.
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#Caroline #LittleHouse #LittleHouseonthePrairie #LauraIngallsWilder #amreading

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Next year marks the 150th publishing of Louisa May Alcott‘s Little Women. Start celebrating now with The Other Alcott, Elise Hooper's new novel about May Alcott—Louisa‘s youngest sister and an artist in her own right.
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#TheOtherAlcott #historicalfiction #littlewomen #mayalcott #louisamayalcott

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Looking for a new page-turner? Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows is a lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women‘s lives at all ages.
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#summerreads #EroticStoriesForPunjabiWidows #BalliKaurJaswal

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The Good Daughter: A Novel | Karin Slaughter
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"The Good Daughter is like 'Law and Order' meets 'The Good Wife.'"—theSkimm on Karin Slaughter's spellbinding new thriller.
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#karinslaughter #bookish #amreading

morgan_krahn I'm looking forward to starting this one, I've heard so many good things about it! I've never read any of her work so that makes it extra exciting for me :) 7y
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If you love historical fiction, you‘ll want to read The Alice Network, the enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn. A one-line synopsis: Two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.

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Dragon Teeth: A Novel | Michael Crichton
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Calling all Jurassic Park fans… Dragon Teeth—Michael Crichton‘s posthumous novel, on sale now—is a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting. USA Today says “Crichton has come roaring back with an engaging, bookmark-biting historical thriller about one of his favorite subjects—dinosaurs.”
#dragonteeth #amreading #dinosaurs #paleontology

Fantasyfan I glanced at this and thought it was Jurassic Park today. Now I'm kicking myself for not getting it. I will have to go back and pick it up! 7y
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"What kind of maniac travels in time?"

The first line of The Jane Austen Project, a time-traveling novel you'll fall in love with—guaranteed.

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Sarong Party Girls: A Novel | Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
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A book that literally feels good (the cover is so soft!) is Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan's bestseller, Sarong Party Girls—now available in paperback.

Looking for a #weekendread? This irresistible novel is about a young woman‘s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with modern materialism. #amreading #mustread

balletbookworm Such a fun read for last fall's Readathon - Vanity Fair's Becky Sharp gets an update to 21st century Singapore 👍🏻 7y
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Fallout by Sara Paretsky is on sale now! Lee Child calls Paretsky "a genius." Harlan Coben raves it's her “finest novel to date.” Don't miss this thrilling and provocative new mystery. #amreading #bookish #thrillerbooks #mysterybooks

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No One Is Coming to Save Us | Stephanie Powell Watts
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Stephanie Powell Watts' No One Is Coming to Save Us is a powerful new novel with echoes of The Great Gatsby. #mustread #nooneiscomingtosaveus

Graciouswarriorprincess I saw her a week and she is wonderful! I have this in my TBR pile. 7y
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"An engrossing read for Hemingway buffs as well as casual readers, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy adds more fascinating details to a life that remains continually fascinating."
—Minneapolis Star Tribune

Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy is the untold story of Ernest Hemingway‘s secret life as a spy. Dive in. #amreading

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Have you read The Fortunate Ones by Ellen Umansky yet?

In The Fortunate Ones, a lost work of art—a painting by the renowned artist Chaim Soutine—connects the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart. The storyline in this transporting debut novel moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles, resulting in an unexpected friendship and eventually revealing long-held secrets….

#amreading #thefortunateones

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Lissa Evans, author of Crooked Heart, returns with Their Finest—a smart and funny tale set in WWII London, and soon to be a major motion picture.

#amreading #fiction

Laura317 WW2,London and funny. You had me at WW2. 7y
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Patricia Bosworth's "ridiculously memoir-able" The Men in My Life gets Highbrow/Brilliant status on New York magazine's Approval Matrix.

We're loving this chronicle of acclaimed biographer Bosworth's life in the 1950s.

#memoir #currentlyreading

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Dragon Springs Road by Janie Chang is a vividly imagined and haunting new novel set in Shanghai at the turn of the 20th century—a story of friendship, heartbreak, and history that follows a young Eurasian orphan‘s search for her long-lost mother. #amreading #bookstagram #weekendreads

BookishTrish Striking cover! (edited) 7y
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This winter, get cozy with The Little Book of Hygge (pronounced hoo-ga), the definitive guide to the Danish philosophy of comfort, togetherness, and well-being. It‘s a feel-good read with advice and ideas on living well. Here's to a happy 2017! #hygge

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Essential Reading: A timely, poignant, and graceful collection of stories from the late African American artist and filmmaker Kathleen Collins. This is a book to share.

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Moonglow | Michael Chabon
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Recommended Read—New York Times Books on Michael Chabon's Moonglow:

“Our critic Michiko Kakutani says that Chabon “writes with both lovely lyricism and highly caffeinated fervor,” in a novel that uses storytelling as a tool connecting the dots of a family‘s life.”

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Looking for something new to read this weekend? May we suggest Not Just Jane—Shelley DeWees' utterly delightful and engaging tribute to some of England's fascinating, yet mostly forgotten, women writers. #bookrecommendation #notjustjane

Litlady Started it this week!! Loving it so far‼️ 👍💜😍 7y
HijackMe Always glad to see people diving into forgotten history and make it accessible to more of us. Totally getting this. 👌🏻 7y
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Dear Amy | Helen Callaghan
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“The most exciting and terrifying thing I have read in a very long time.”
—Elizabeth Haynes, New York Times bestselling author of Into the Darkest Corner

You won't want to miss this chilling new suspense novel. Dear Amy by Helen Callaghan, on sale now.

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Start spreading the news! Paulette Jiles's News of the World—longlisted for the National Book Award—is at long last, on sale today. With graceful, sweeping prose, Jiles chronicles the journey of a Civil War veteran across 1870s Texas to return a young girl captured by the Kiowa to her relatives in San Antonio. It‘s your must-read for fall.

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Commonwealth | Ann Patchett
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“Patchett‘s storytelling has never seemed more effortlessly graceful. This is minimalism that magically speaks volumes…”—The Washington Post

At long last, Commonwealth is on sale. Ann Patchett fans are in for a real treat. 🍊

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Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery | Agatha Christie, Sophie Hannah
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For all the Hercule Poirot fans out there: Closed Casket by bestselling author Sophie Hannah is soaked in period atmosphere and loaded with clues, suspense, and danger. #agathachristie #herculepoirot #mystery #bookrecommendation

WilliamMorrowBooks This book is fab! 8y
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Another Brooklyn: A Novel | Jacqueline Woodson
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"Another Brooklyn is another name for poetry.”—Washington Post

This review sums up how we feel about Jacqueline Woodson's beautifully written and moving novel.

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"I imposed black; it's still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around."—Coco Chanel, born on this date in 1883.

Justine Picardie's Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life is essential reading for anyone who adores the double C.

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Secrets of Flight | Maggie Leffler
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Don't let summer end without reading this captivating novel by Maggie Leffler.

The Secrets of Flight brings readers from the skies of World War II to the present day, where a woman is prepared to tell her secrets at last.

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The Garden Party | Katherine Mansfield
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Book recommendation! In fifteen funny, colorful, poignant, and mysterious stories, the irreverent modernist Katherine Mansfield, a friend and contemporary of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, examines a range of themes integral to the human experience, from marriage, family, and death to duty, disillusionment, and regret in this commanding collection.

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"Staring at Alevia was pointless, but men always did."

The opening line to this gem of a book.

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