Subject: February Newsletter
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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 04:30:53 +0000

Nick Hornby, Kristin Hannah, Issa Rae, Elizabeth Bear, Kelly Link, 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

Nick Hornby
A Lucille Ball-obsessed actress seeks TV stardom in 1960s London in Funny Girl, the first new novel in five years from the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1010.Nick_Hornby?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-02&utm_content=hornby

Kristin Hannah
The bestselling author's latest is the World War II epic The Nightingale, inspired by the true story of a heroic young woman who led Allied soldiers out of occupied France.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1009.Kristin_Hannah?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-02&utm_content=hannah

GOOD MINDS SUGGEST
Elizabeth Bear's Favorite Steampunk
Visit the steam-powered Wild West in Karen Memory, the latest from the speculative fiction author who offers her top five.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1007.Elizabeth_Bear?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-02&utm_content=bear

Books that Influenced Congressman John Lewis
An icon of the civil rights movement, the author of the graphic memoir March shares a personal book list.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1006.John_Robert_Lewis?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-02&utm_content=lewis

Kelly Link's Favorite Magic Realism
The short fiction writer recommends "books of the uncanny and the strange," not unlike her new story collection, Get in Trouble.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1005.Kelly_Link?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-02&utm_content=klink

DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT
Issa Rae
The writer, actress, and YouTube sensation tells cringe-worthy, poignant, and always hilarious stories in her memoir, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1008.Issa_Rae?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-02&utm_content=irae

BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH
The Marauders
by Tom Cooper
With the Louisiana shrimping biz wiped out by the BP oil spill, one-armed treasure hunter Gus Lindquist hunts for pirate Jean Lafitte's long-lost booty. But alligators, drug lords, and criminals all stand in his way in this noir thriller.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/139-best-books-of-the-month---february-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-02&utm_content=botm1

The Bird Market of Paris
by Nikki Moustaki (Goodreads Author)
Exotic bird breeder Moustaki got her love of birds from her grandpa, who released a dove every year for her birthday. Her memoir recounts her fight with alcoholism and the promise to her "Poppy" that saved her life.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/139-best-books-of-the-month---february-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-02&utm_content=botm2

A Darker Shade of Magic
by V.E. Schwab (Goodreads Author)
Royal messenger Kell can travel between worlds: magic-filled Red London, magic-scarce White London, and magic-less Grey London. He smuggles a forbidden artifact and kicks off a power struggle in this epic adventure.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/139-best-books-of-the-month---february-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-02&utm_content=botm3

A Kim Jong-Il Production
by Paul Fischer
This bizarre true story details how in 1978 future "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-Il kidnapped a South Korean movie star and her film producer ex-husband, forcing the high-profile pair to remarry and make movies in Pyongyang.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/139-best-books-of-the-month---february-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-02&utm_content=botm4

Rodin's Lover
by Heather Webb (Goodreads Author)
An ambitious sculptor in her own right, Camille Claudel was also a rival, muse, and lover to August Rodin. This historical novel tells of their  affair and how the tenacious Claudel defied the societal norms of 19th-century France.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/139-best-books-of-the-month---february-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-02&utm_content=botm5

My Heart and Other Black Holes
by Jasmine Warga (Goodreads Author)
In this poignant novel for teens, 16-year-old Aysel, the daughter of a murderer, is afraid she'll one day go crazy like her dad. She makes a suicide pact with an online friend but begins to have second thoughts.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/139-best-books-of-the-month---february-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-02&utm_content=botm6

DO GOOD WITH GOODREADS
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No one should have to live in a book desert. Find out how you can help place mini libraries in your hometown and in cities worldwide. Take a book, return a book!
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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 February winner!

Et Tu
by Megan Joy
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The lavender, I like.
Its scent is a halo
and you don't seem pressed thin anymore.
Months ago in sterile rooms we pondered
what could sever the linings.
Rows of velvety red vials
and diagrams of your veins mapped a distant path.
But, back to the lavender.
It trails behind tear streaks
and recalls a warm wind, a light step, a brush of skin,
a golden sun setting above you.
We thought it nice and old-fashioned,
like sipping sweet tea on the old porch swing.
Is it the lavender?
The halo shines a little too low.
It washes out the curves in your cheeks
where color used to pool.
The lavender left an impression
but beneath your shoulders the shadows carry
the weight of a tangible end
where even lavender cannot follow.

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