Subject: May Newsletter
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Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 23:24:09 +0000

Joe Hill, Louise Erdrich, Rick Riordan, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Mary Kay Andrews, and tons of new books!

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Hi Rob,

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS

Joe Hill
Joe Hill says the world will end in fire, and we should listen! In his apocalyptic new thriller, The Fireman, those infected by a contagious plague are bursting into flames.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1125.Joe_Hill?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-05&utm_content=hill_text

Louise Erdrich
A hunting accident changes the lives of two families in LaRose, a poetic new novel from the National Book Award-winning author, set in a small North Dakota reservation town.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1124.Louise_Erdrich?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-05&utm_content=erdrich_text

GOOD MINDS SUGGEST

Rick Riordan's Favorite Mythology Books
Mount Olympus can't contain all the gods in these recs from the mythology lover whose new series begins with The Hidden Oracle.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1129.Rick_Riordan?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-05&utm_content=riordan_text

Mary Kay Andrews's Favorite Books to Devour in a Weekend
Weekend priorities: rest, relaxation, and reading! Try these page-turners handpicked by the hilarious author of The Weekenders.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1128.Mary_Kay_Andrews?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-05&utm_content=andrews_text

Siddhartha Mukherjee's Favorite Books About Genetics
The acclaimed physician offers five picks about life's building blocks, the subject of his new book, The Gene: An Intimate History.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1127.Siddhartha_Mukherjee?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-05&utm_content=mukherjee_text

DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT

Stephanie Danler
A Midwestern girl learns about delicious wine, food, and life as a backwaiter at a Manhattan restaurant in the sharp-edged coming-of-age tale, Sweetbitter.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1126.Stephanie_Danler?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-05&utm_content=danler_text

BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH

The Mirror Thief
by Martin Seay (Goodreads Author)
This historical adventure traces a mystery through three centuries and three characters—a war vet at the Venetian casino in modern-day Las Vegas, a grifter in 1950s Venice Beach, and a 16th-century smuggler in Venice, Italy.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/327-best-books-of-the-month-may-2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-05&utm_content=botm1_text

Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride
by Lucy Knisley (Goodreads Author)
The comic artist documents her relationship odyssey from single girl to wife in this graphic memoir, detailing her very handmade and do-it-yourself wedding as well as her conflicting feelings about getting hitched.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/327-best-books-of-the-month-may-2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-05&utm_content=botm2_text

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
by Phaedra Patrick (Goodreads Author)
In this humorous, quirky novel, 69-year-old Arthur Pepper finds his deceased wife's charm bracelet, a talisman from her life before marriage. He begins a globe-trotting journey to uncover his beloved's secret past.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/327-best-books-of-the-month-may-2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-05&utm_content=botm3_text

Morgue: A Life in Death
by Vincent DiMaio & Ron Franscell (Goodreads Author)
Forensic pathologist DiMaio, famous for his autopsy of Trayvon Martin and exhumation of Lee Harvey Oswald, offers readers an in-depth look at his 40-year career, with macabre stories that will captivate true crime fans.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/327-best-books-of-the-month-may-2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-05&utm_content=botm4_text

The Defense
by Steve Cavanagh (Goodreads Author)
Con artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn thought he was retired. But when a New York mobster on trial for murder kidnaps Flynn's daughter, he has no choice but to take on the case in this courtroom thriller.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/327-best-books-of-the-month-may-2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-05&utm_content=botm5_text

The Crown's Game
by Evelyn Skye (Goodreads Author)
There can only be one Imperial Enchanter. Star-crossed magicians Vika and Nikolai must duel to the death to win the Russian czar's favor, as threats from the Ottoman Empire escalate in this epic fantasy for teens.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/327-best-books-of-the-month-may-2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-05&utm_content=botm6_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!

Child of Prometheus
by Elizabeth Huerta

I float down the wall like a rain drop slides
down cool glass;
an aching thump onto the floor,
scratch of material against scalp,
the small hairs tugged;

the sudden looseness in my knees
shocks me
as they give
out
beneath the column of my spine,
cold intake of air;

he tells me that you won't live into your second hour;

he whispers it, speaks in tiny,
short
words,
like
he's attempting to ease the meaning;

I crash
begging for the embrace of the wall behind me,
inhaling and exhaling
falling
breaking
closing off
turning away
no

the emptiness in my belly
throbs,
your heavy presence gone
every small finger
every
faint hair

gone

with only
a small, flickering memory
a candle
a wavering pulse
of where you used to be,

plucked out again and again and again.

With love,
The Goodreads Editorial Team

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