Subject: August Newsletter
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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 23:42:36 +0000

Louis de Bernieres, Paula McLain, Felicia Day, N.K. Jemisin, Jonathan Kellerman, 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

Louis de Bernières
In The Dust That Falls from Dreams, the latest novel from the author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, a British family with four daughters weathers World War I.
http://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/1-author-interviews?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-08&utm_content=bernieres_text

N.K. Jemisin
A woman with the power to summon earthquakes searches for her daughter in the barren postapocalyptic world of The Fifth Season, first in a new fantasy series.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1052.N_K_Jemisin?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-08&utm_content=jemisin_text

GOOD MINDS SUGGEST

Paula McLain's Favorite Books About Flight
The historical novelist offers five high-flying recs in honor of Beryl Markham, the aviator chronicled in her new book, Circling the Sun.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1050.Paula_McLain?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-08&utm_content=mclain_text

Felicia Day's Favorite Books About Embracing Your Weirdness
Proudly wave your freak flag with the author of You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), who offers a unique top five.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1051.Felicia_Day?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-08&utm_content=fday_text

Jonathan Kellerman's Favorite Adrenaline-Rush Books
Need a reading lift? Try these five books recommended by the thrills expert behind the new mystery, The Murderer's Daughter.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1049.Jonathan_Kellerman?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-08&utm_content=kellerman_text

DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT

Rajia Hassib
When their eldest son commits a terrible crime, an Egyptian American family is ostracized by their New Jersey community in the debut novel In the Language of Miracles.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1053.Rajia_Hassib?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-08&utm_content=hassib_text

BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH

Kitchens of the Great Midwest
by J. Ryan Stradal (Goodreads Author)
The life story of a cult chef, from her bumpy childhood to the wild success of her pop-up supper club, is told through the eyes of those who know her. Each chapter in this quirky novel is full of food (including recipes) and family.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/215-best-books-of-the-month-august-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-08&utm_content=botm1_text

Rising Strong
by Brené Brown (Goodreads Author)
When you fall flat, how do you get back up? The noted expert on vulnerability and the author of The Gifts of Imperfection returns with a new book about failing wholeheartedly and finding ways to be brave.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/215-best-books-of-the-month-august-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-08&utm_content=botm2_text

Black-Eyed Susans
by Julia Heaberlin (Goodreads Author)
Almost 20 years after surviving a serial killer attack, single mom Tessa Cartwright begins to doubt that the man on death row, soon to be executed, is the true culprit. She tries to retrieve long-buried memories in this suspenseful tale.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/215-best-books-of-the-month-august-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-08&utm_content=botm3_text
 	
Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink
by Juliana Barbassa (Goodreads Author)
A Brazilian journalist paints an intricate portrait of Rio de Janeiro in this nonfiction work. From Rio's favelas and gang wars to top-dollar prep for the 2016 Olympics, she canvasses the city's vibrant culture and corrupt politics.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/215-best-books-of-the-month-august-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-08&utm_content=botm4_text
 	
Orphan #8
by Kim van Alkemade (Goodreads Author)
In 1954, a hospice nurse recognizes one of her patients as the doctor who subjected her to unethical radiation treatments at the orphanage where she grew up. Will she seek revenge in this historical novel based on true events?
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/215-best-books-of-the-month-august-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-08&utm_content=botm5_text
 	
Legacy of Kings
by Eleanor Herman (Goodreads Author)
Fantasy and history mix in this action adventure for teens that tells the story of Alexander the Great, beginning in 340 B.C. when he is 16. Macedonian conspiracies and power struggles are reset in a world full of sorcery.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/215-best-books-of-the-month-august-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-08&utm_content=botm6_text

DO GOOD WITH GOODREADS

WaterBridge Outreach: Books + Water
Believing that both health and education are essential, this nonprofit funds clean water projects while also donating books to communities in need on multiple continents.
https://www.goodreads.com/book_news_posts/173-waterbridge-outreach?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-08&utm_content=dogood_text

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 this month's winner!

Last Night in the Apartment
by Meg Hurtado Bloom

Now you are young; but give it a minute.
Accumulation is the easiest art. 

Borne over the sea, the avenue, the intervening oleanders, 
the blue-blushing goddess Departure wants a word.

Clouds gather in the corners of what used to be 
your room. Only Love is recognizable. Lost suits

and sandals, testaments and stains, all these
have surrendered. The proper aperture for loss

is very small. The fact of the matter is, dear: there will be others. 

With love,
The Goodreads Editorial Team

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