Subject: December Newsletter
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Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 09:04:13 +0000

Anthony Doerr, Liane Moriarty, E. Lockhart, David Lebovitz, and tons of new books! Find your next great read!

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Hi  Rob,

This month we look back at some of the year's best books, including our Goodreads Choice Awards winners and finalists!
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2014?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2014-12&utm_content=gca

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS

Anthony Doerr

The Goodreads Choice Winner for Best Historical Fiction talks about his World War II tale, All the Light We Cannot See, which took ten years to write.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2014-12&utm_content=doerrtitle

Liane Moriarty

Death, secrets, and schoolyard power play are in the mix in her suspenseful sixth novel, Big Little Lies, a Goodreads Choice Finalist for Best Fiction.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19486412-big-little-lies?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2014-12&utm_content=moriartytitle

Pierce Brown

At just 26, this Goodreads Choice Winner for Best Debut Author has struck gold with Red Rising, the first installment of a dystopian trilogy set on Mars.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15839976-red-rising?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2014-12&utm_content=browntitle

BEST BOOKS OF 2014

Announcing the 2014 Winners!

The readers have spoken - with a record 3.3 million votes cast in the 6th annual Goodreads Choice Awards! Check out the winners in 20 categories, and don't forget to stuff your to-read list with the best books of the year. You can view the full results to see all the champions and runners-up for Best Fiction, Mystery, Humor, Young Adult Fantasy, Romance, Nonfiction, and more.

See the Winners!

https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2014?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2014-12&utm_content=gca

BOOK LOOK

Melting Away: A Ten-Year Journey Through Our Endangered Polar Regions

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https://www.goodreads.com/book_news_posts/155-melting-away-a-ten-year-journey-through-our-endangered-polar-regions?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2014-12&utm_content=booklook

GOOD MINDS SUGGEST

E. Lockhart's Favorite YA Novels for Readers of All Ages
Not just for teens! Try these recs from the author of We Were Liars, the Choice Winner for Young Adult Fiction.

https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/996.E_Lockhart?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2014-12&utm_content=lockhart

David Lebovitz's Favorite Cookbooks
The author of My Paris Kitchen, a Choice Finalist for Best Food & Cookbooks, offers some mouth-watering picks.

https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/997.David_Lebovitz?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2014-12&utm_content=lebovitz

BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH

https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/134-best-books-of-the-month---december-2014?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2014-12&utm_content=botm

How to Be Both
by Ali Smith

Two interconnected narratives - one the story of a modern-day teenager, the other of an Italian Renaissance painter - combine in this inventive novel to create a consuming consideration of life, art, time, truth, and fiction.

https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/134-best-books-of-the-month---december-2014?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2014-12&utm_content=botm1

Pioneer Girl
by Laura Ingalls Wilder, edited by Pamela Smith Hill

A treasure trove of new details about the life and experiences of Little House on the Prairie creator Laura Ingalls Wilder and her pioneer family is offered in this book, edited by an award-winning Wilder biographer.

https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/134-best-books-of-the-month---december-2014?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2014-12&utm_content=botm2

Moriarty
by Anthony Horowitz

The second volume by the British author to reanimate the world of Sherlock Holmes created by Arthur Conan Doyle, this new mystery takes up after Holmes's fateful struggle with nemesis Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls.

https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/134-best-books-of-the-month---december-2014?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2014-12&utm_content=botm3

Countdown to Zero Day
by Kim Zetter

An in-depth and suspenseful examination of how Stuxnet, the world's first digital weapon, was created, launched, and ultimately exposed after sabotaging Iran's nuclear program four years ago.

https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/134-best-books-of-the-month---december-2014?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2014-12&utm_content=botm4

The Boston Girl
by Anita Diamant

An 85-year-old relates her life story to her granddaughter in this coming-of-age story: growing up in early-20th-century Boston as the daughter of Jewish immigrants, seeking love and adventure in a rapidly evolving world.

https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/134-best-books-of-the-month---december-2014?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2014-12&utm_content=botm5

No Place to Fall
by Jaye Robin Brown

Amber Vaughn, 16, is a gifted singer living in a small town with her dysfunctional family in this vibrant, music-filled debut for teens. She dreams of escaping and embarks on a journey of unsettling discoveries to find her voice.

https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/134-best-books-of-the-month---december-2014?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2014-12&utm_content=botm6

DO GOOD

Book Aid International

Help this nonprofit send 1 million books to libraries in schools, hospitals, prisons, refugee camps, slums, and isolated communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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GOODREADS POETRY CONTEST
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Want your words to reach millions of people? Goodreads and the POETRY! group have partnered to host an ongoing poetry contest. Join the POETRY! group and vote each month to pick a winner from among the finalists.You can also submit a poem for consideration. Here is our December winner!

The Shiny Deathtrap
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by Anthony Watkins (Goodreads Author)
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The shiny deathtrap
that is tomorrow
rattles by and wakes me from the gentle sleep
that is now

Go on glowing machine
of the coming day
take the future with you

I will sit here and listen to lullabies and nursery rhymes
and listen to nursery rhymes
jackandjill
littleboyblue how are you
go away tomorrow

and send me a wolf
to eat everything up
we shall soup together
lamb soup, with chops on the side

chop, chop
said the wolf
he took a bite out of me
but I am crime
and mcgruff sent him
I am sure
go away tomorrow

merrily, merrily, merrily
I lie here on the sweet mattress of now
with a wolf who can blue a slow sleepy saxophone
and I dream I am awake in old new orleans

if I had traveled more,
maybe I could dream of paris
but I am a poor boy from Alabama
and I cant seem to dream past the French quarter

if they had a French dime
I could dream that twice
with money left to tip the horn player
we chase it down the street, biting at its tires
go away tomorrow

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