Subject: January Newsletter
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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 17:01:38 +0000

Alan Bradley, Miranda July, Jayne Ann Krentz, Yu Hua, and tons of new books! Find your next great read!

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Hi  Rob,

Here's our monthly newsletter from Goodreads - giving you the latest and greatest in our quest to help you find your next favorite book!

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS

Alan Bradley

Precocious preteen sleuth Flavia de Luce is groomed to join a secret society in As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, the latest caper from the beloved mystery writer.

https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1002.Alan_Bradley?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-01&utm_content=bradley

Yu Hua

The bestselling Chinese author talks about growing up during the Cultural Revolution, writing about the absurdities of Communism, and his new novel, The Seventh Day.

https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1001.Yu_Hua?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-01&utm_content=yuhua

BOOK LOOK

Darren Almond: Fullmoon

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DO GOOD WITH GOODREADS

Grab your latest book and charge your ereaders, bibliophiles. It's time for the first-ever National Readathon Day! On Saturday, January 24, join readers nationwide who will be reading in solidarity for literacy from noon to 4 p.m. Find out how you can help raise funds and find a readathon event near you!

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GOOD MINDS SUGGEST

Miranda July's Favorite Recent Books by Women in Which Women Have Sex
The filmmaker and artist celebrates the sex lives of women in these recs and her new novel, The First Bad Man.

https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1000.Miranda_July?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-01&utm_content=july
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Jayne Ann Krentz's Favorite Romantic Suspense
She serves up love affairs with a side of pulse-pounding danger in her new thriller, Trust No One, and in these steamy picks.

https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/999.Jayne_Ann_Krentz?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-01&utm_content=krentz
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BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH

https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/136-best-books-of-the-month---january-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-01&utm_content=botm

The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins (Goodreads Author)

During her daily London commute, an embittered divorcée makes up imaginary lives for a happy couple she sees regularly at a train stop. But when she witnesses something shocking, she soon becomes embroiled in an investigation.

https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/136-best-books-of-the-month---january-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-01&utm_content=botm1

Ghettoside: A Story of Murder in America
by Jill Leovy

This true-crime narrative scrutinizes the murder of a young black man shot in South Central Los Angeles in 2007 and the justice system's flawed approach to inner-city violence.

https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/136-best-books-of-the-month---january-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-01&utm_content=botm2

The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
by Christopher Scotton (Goodreads Author)

After the death of his little brother, 14-year-old Kevin spends a transformative summer with his grandfather in Kentucky, where the advent of mountaintop-removal coal mining is pushing the small town to drastic measures.

https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/136-best-books-of-the-month---january-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-01&utm_content=botm3

A Fifty-Year Silence
by Miranda Richmond Mouillot (Goodreads Author)

A granddaughter recounts the turbulent events that led to her grandparents' 50-year estrangement after World War II. Her memoir chronicles their escape from the Nazis, the Nuremberg Trials, and their doomed marriage.

https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/136-best-books-of-the-month---january-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-01&utm_content=botm4

The Same Sky
by Amanda Eyre Ward (Goodreads Author)

The lives of two survivors intersect in this literary novel: Alice, a  Texan businesswoman, struggling to become a mother after cancer, and 13-year-old Carla, who begins a perilous journey from Honduras to the American border.

https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/136-best-books-of-the-month---january-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-01&utm_content=botm5

All the Bright Places
by Jennifer Niven (Goodreads Author)

Odd couple Theodore and Violet meet on the ledge of the school bell tower. Both consider jumping, but instead they help each other down. This raw novel for teens tackles the headiness of first love and the darkness of depression.

https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/136-best-books-of-the-month---january-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-01&utm_content=botm6

DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT

Angelina Mirabella
Step into the ring with this author's debut novel, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21412267-the-sweetheart?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-01&utm_content=mirabellatitle" style="color: #5B6D2A !important; text-decoration: underline;">The Sweetheart</a>, set in the charismatic and colorful world of professional female wrestlers in the 1950s.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1003.Angelina_Mirabella?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-01&utm_content=mirabella

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 January winner!

The Fall
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by Jan Steckel (Goodreads Author)
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I don't want to be Joan of the Narrative Arc here,
wielding my flaming sword of story to drive you out
of my personal bleeding-heart-liberal paradise,
but here's a prompt: write a poem using the words
grant, bell, garner, brown, ford, and rice.
Employ a light touch, no sing-song or doggerel.
No sentimentality, please. No rants.
Attention to form but not formality.
Invoke all the senses. Let me see, hear, feel
what the twelve-year-old saw, heard, felt
waving that BB gun around the park.
The gold and orange leaves of Cleveland.
The smell of them rotting in rainwater.
The black-and-white pulling to the curb.
The crack. The pavement rushing up.

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