Subject: July Newsletter
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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 23:40:17 +0000

Candace Bushnell, Ernest Cline, Tatiana de Rosnay, Nadia Hashimi, Layne Mosler, 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

Ernest Cline
A hotshot gamer must save the Earth from extraterrestrials in Armada, the latest science fiction romp from the bestselling geek who gave us Ready Player One.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1045.Ernest_Cline?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-07&utm_content=cline_text

Candace Bushnell
Grab your stilettos--the Sex and the City author is back with Killing Monica, a new screwball comedy about a successful writer who wants to kill off a beloved character.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1044.Candace_Bushnell?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-07&utm_content=bushnell_text

GOOD MINDS SUGGEST

Tatiana de Rosnay's Favorite Books About Forbidden Love
Don't worry, it's not cheating just to read these books about infidelity, the subject of her new story collection, A Paris Affair.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1043.Tatiana_de_Rosnay?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-07&utm_content=derosnay_text

Nadia Hashimi's Favorite Books About New Beginnings
It's never too late to start over in these recs from the author of When the Moon Is Low, a new novel about a refugee family.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1042.Nadia_Hashimi?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-07&utm_content=hashimi_text

Layne Mosler's Favorite Travel Memoirs
The fearless foodie picks five globe-trotting books in honor of her new memoir, Driving Hungry, full of wanderlust and good eating.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1041.Layne_Mosler?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-07&utm_content=mosler_text

DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT

Benjamin Johncock
The historical novel The Last Pilot follows a daredevil airman through two decades of the Space Race, from 1947 onward, joining the likes of Chuck Yeager, Jim Lovell, and more.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1046.Benjamin_Johncock?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-07&utm_content=johncock_text

BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH

Maybe in Another Life
by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Goodreads Author)
Two possible lifetimes are told in parallel after Hannah Martin, floundering at age 29, bumps into an ex-boyfriend in a Los Angeles bar. Can one tiny decision change your life and ultimately your fate?
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/198-best-books-of-the-month-july-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-07&utm_content=botm1_text

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime
by Val McDermid
The bestselling crime novelist dives deep into the grisly science of forensics. She describes real-life cases and explores what is and isn't possible with evidence such as DNA, blood splatter, ballistics, and maggots.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/198-best-books-of-the-month-july-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-07&utm_content=botm2_text

Bull Mountain
by Brian Panowich (Goodreads Author)
It's brother versus brother in this brutal Appalachian drama. The black sheep of his family, Clayton became a sheriff instead of joining his brother's meth trade. But his loyalties are tested when a federal agent comes to town.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/198-best-books-of-the-month-july-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-07&utm_content=botm3_text
 	
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
by William Finnegan
In chase of the perfect wave, lifetime surfer and New Yorker writer Finnegan spent years circumnavigating the globe. He writes lovingly of the ocean in this adventurous memoir set against the backdrop of the 1960s and '70s.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/198-best-books-of-the-month-july-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-07&utm_content=botm4_text
 	
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
by Natasha Pulley
London, 1884: When a humble telegraph clerk finds a peculiar watch, a timepiece that soon saves him from a bomb explosion at Scotland Yard, he seeks out the brilliant Japanese watchmaker in this whimsical Sherlockian novel.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/198-best-books-of-the-month-july-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-07&utm_content=botm5_text
 	
Paperweight
by Meg Haston (Goodreads Author)
Stuck in a treatment center for eating disorders, 17-year-old Stevie refuses to eat and plots suicide as she counts down 27 days to the anniversary of her brother's death in this unflinching novel for teens.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/198-best-books-of-the-month-july-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-07&utm_content=botm6_text

DO GOOD WITH GOODREADS

Books Abroad
From Mongolia to Nepal, Zanzibar to the Gambia, and Albania to Grenada, this nonprofit sends books to children and adults wherever there is the need.
https://www.goodreads.com/book_news_posts/171-books-abroad?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-07&utm_content=dogood_text

GOODREADS POETRY CONTEST
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/233._POETRY_?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-07&utm_content=poetry_text

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 this month's winner!

Fathers' Hands
by David Sloan (Goodreads Author)

Carving a bow for my son, who wants 
a weapon to terrorize squirrels 
and deliver the world, I snag the blade, 
fumble the whittle stroke and slice my finger. 
The cut oozes. My hand is sturdy, 
scarred, nothing like my father's--
unmarked, maple-colored. 

His hands stitched gashes without a flinch. 
They mortared rock walls to hold a hillside up. 
On the violin, his fingers flew like wingtips. 
Once as a child I saw sparks spray 
from that smoking bow. He tried to teach 
my hands how to drive a nail straight, 
which spans would bear a load 
and which would snap, how to follow 
the grain of things, how to hear notes first, 
then pluck them as if out of a peach tree. 

A single feather in his hair, my son stalks 
the squirrel, holds the bow steady, 
draws back the shaft, aims, lets fly. 
Target and archer are unruffled by the miss. 
He bounds over to the arrow, takes it 
in his nimble fingers, so like his father's
father's, and nocks the end, 
eager to aim, miss and aim again.

With love,
The Goodreads Editorial Team

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