Subject: June Newsletter
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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 02:10:48 +0000

Justin Cronin, Elin Hilderbrand, Lionel Shriver, Matt Fraction, and tons of new books!

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Hi Rob,

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS

Justin Cronin
A decade in the making, Justin Cronin's postapocalyptic Passage trilogy is finally concluding with The City of Mirrors. Find out how the epic series is really all about love.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1133.Justin_Cronin?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-06&utm_content=cronin_text

Elin Hilderbrand
A bad boy celebrity chef—and his untimely death—anchors Here's to Us, Hilderbrand's Nantucket-set novel about love, loss, and the fluffiest Champagne cake imaginable.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1134.Elin_Hilderbrand?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-06&utm_content=hilderbrand_text

GOOD MINDS SUGGEST

Matt Fraction's Favorite Surprising Books About Sex
Feeling frisky? Enjoy these bawdy recs handpicked by the writer of the comic Sex Criminals, Vol. 3: Three the Hard Way.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1135.Matt_Fraction?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-06&utm_content=fraction_text

Lionel Shriver's Favorite Books About Money
Greed is good—and bad—in these picks from the author of the near-futuristic family saga The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1137.Lionel_Shriver?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-06&utm_content=shriver_text

Steve Hely's Favorite Books to Take on Vacation
Pack your bags! The Wonder Trail author knows the five hilarious and heartfelt books you need to bring on your next trip.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1138.Steve_Hely?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-06&utm_content=hely_text

DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT

Yea Gyasi
The starting point for Homegoing is 18th-century Ghana. This sweeping novel examines seven generations shaped by the slave trade in Africa and the United States.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1139.Yaa_Gyasi?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-06&utm_content=gyasi_text

BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH

The Girls
by Emma Cline
This powerful debut novel, set in late '60s California and inspired by the Manson murders, climbs inside the mind of Evie, an insecure teen whose seduction by members of a free-living cult takes her on a terrifying journey.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/340-best-books-of-the-month-june-2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-06&utm_content=botm1_text

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author)
The popular science author trains her sights on the weird and wonderful techniques used to keep soldiers safe, sane, and healthy. Topics include medical maggots, caffeinated meat, and the threat diarrhea can pose to national security.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/340-best-books-of-the-month-june-2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-06&utm_content=botm2_text

Lily and the Octopus
by Steven Rowley (Goodreads Author)
With humor and elements of magic realism, this semi-autobiographical novel describes the bond between Ted and his best friend, aging dachshund Lily. Ted discovers the unthinkable and must brace for an overwhelming loss.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/340-best-books-of-the-month-june-2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-06&utm_content=botm3_text

Chancers: Addiction, Prison, Recovery, Love: One Couple's Memoir
by Susan Stellin & Graham MacIndoe (Goodreads Authors)
A heartrending dual memoir told from the perspectives of a reporter and photographer whose love story is cut short by heroin addiction, only to be given a second chance when one of them is jailed on Rikers Island.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/340-best-books-of-the-month-june-2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-06&utm_content=botm4_text

Before the Fall
by Noah Hawley (Goodreads Author)
A private jet crashes off Martha's Vineyard. The only survivors are a young boy and the struggling artist who saves him. As a frenzied media demands answers, the mystery deepens in this gripping thriller.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/340-best-books-of-the-month-june-2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-06&utm_content=botm5_text

My Lady Jane
by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows (Goodreads Authors)
Three popular young adult authors play fast and loose with history in this fantastical, comic retelling of the story of Lady Jane Grey and King Edward VI involving magic, shapeshifting, and many a nod to The Princess Bride.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/340-best-books-of-the-month-june-2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-06&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!

Ode to Dogs
by Michael Meyerhofer (Goodreads Author)

I am tired of hearing about dogs
used as metaphors for the uncivilized.
Imagine a world in which humans

possessed at least twenty times
as many olfactory receptors,
able to distinguish the tang of cancer

rising musk-like from the bedsheets
next to a smoldering ash tray,
able to detect that one drop of blood

in every five quarts of water,
to know what you did last night
no matter how many times

you soap-scrubbed the evidence.
It does not take savagery
but more love than we can muster

to lick the hand you've sniffed,
to love despite the perfume of sins
we wear each day like a halo.

With love,
The Goodreads Editorial Team

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