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Join us as we discuss, Pomegranate , by Helen Elaine Lee;  In Memoriam, by Alice Winn; Becoming Madam Secretary , by Stephanie Dray;  The Storm We Made , by Vanessa Chan; The Book of Doors, by Gareth Brown. To learn more about the books or to purchase through our bookstore affiliation with Bookshop.org - click below! Octopus Bookshop Visit us on our Instagram Page - Click below! https://www.instag...

Join us as we discuss, Still Born , by Guadalupe Nettel;  The Great Reclamation , by Rachel Heng; Lion City, by Jeevan Vasagar; Activities of Daily Living , by Lisa Hsiao Chen; The Maniac, by Benjamin Labatut. To learn more about the books or to purchase through our bookstore affiliation with Bookshop.org - click below! Octopus Bookshop Visit us on our Instagram Page - Click below! https://www.ins...

Join us as we discuss, Schrader's Chord , by Scott Leeds;  Dead Silence , by S.A. Barnes; The Shadow Cabinet , by Juno Dawson; Nestlings, by Nat Cassidy;  A Sliver of Darkness , by C.J. Tudor. To learn more about the books or to purchase through our bookstore affiliation with Bookshop.org - click below! Octopus Bookshop Visit us on our Instagram Page - Click below! https://www.instagram.com/y...

Join us as we discuss, T he Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi , by Shannon Chakraborty;  Ariadni , by Jennifer Saint; The Guest List, by Lucy Foley; The Guest Lecture , by Martin Riker;  Cobalt Red , by Siddharth Kara.   Also discussed are King Leopold's Ghost , by Adam Hochschild; The Song of Achilles and Circe by Madeline Miller;  Stone Blind, by Nathalie Haynes;  Clytemnestra, by Costanza Casa...

Join us as we discuss All the Bad Apples, by Moira Fowley-Doyle;   One of Us is Lying,  by Karen M. McManus; One of Us is Next,   by Karen M. McManus;  One of Us is Back,  By Karen M. McManus;    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, by Holly Jackson;  Good Girl, Bad Blood,  by Holly Jackson;  As Good as Dead, by Holly Jackson;  I Must Betray You, by Ruta Sepetys;  Salt to the Sea,  by Ruta Sepetys;...

Join us as we discuss   Independence, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni;   The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, by Shehan Karunatilaka;  Maame,   by Jessica George;    No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies, by Julian Aguon, and  Demon Copperhead , by Barbara Kingsolver.   We also discuss library and bookstore visits in the Hudson River Valley To learn more about the books or to purchase through our books...

Join us as we discuss   Between Two Kingdoms, by Suleika Jaouad;   American Notes, by Charles Dickens;  The Guncle,   by Steven Rowley;   The War of the Worlds , by H. G. Wells, and  A Place Called Home , by  David Ambroz.   We also discuss library and bookstore visits in Arizona. To learn more about the books or to purchase through our bookstore affiliation with Bookshop.org - click below! Octopu...

Join us as we discuss   Daisy Darker , by Alice Feeney;   The Fervor by Alma Katsu;  Our Crooked Hearts,   by Melissa Albert;    White Smoke, by Tiffany D. Jackson,  When the Reckoning Comes by  LaTanya McQueen, and Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson. To learn more about the books or to purchase through our bookstore affiliation with Bookshop.org - click below! Octopus Bookshop Visit us...

Join us as we discuss   The Year of Living Danishly , by Helen Russell;  True Biz , by Sara Novic;  How the Word is Passed,   by Clint Smith;  Kaikeyi, by Vaishnavi Patel, and Pilgrims Way, by Abdulrazak Gurnah. To learn more about the books or to purchase through our bookstore affiliation with Bookshop.org - click below! Octopus Bookshop Visit us on our Instagram Page - Click below! https://www.i...

Join us as we discuss   The Parade, by Dave Eggers;  Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus;  The Change,  by Kirsten Miller,  City of Orange, by David Yoon and The Women of Chateau Lafayette, by Stephanie Dray. To learn more about the books or to purchase through our bookstore affiliation with Bookshop.org - click below! Octopus Bookshop Visit us on our Instagram Page - Click below! https://www.i...

Join us as we discuss Life Among the Savages , and Raising Demons , by Shirley Jackson;  Tunneling to the Center of the Earth  and Nothing to See Here , by Kevin Wilson; and Thin Places: Essays from in Between, by Jordan Kisner To learn more about the books or to purchase through our bookstore affiliation with Bookshop.org - click below! Octopus Bookshop Visit us on our Instagram Page - Click belo...

Join us as we discuss Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller , by Nadia Wassef;  Black Cake, by Charmaine Wilkerson;  The Island of Missing Trees , by Elif Shafak;  Honor , by Thrity Umrigar; and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk To learn more about the books or to purchase through our bookstore affiliation with Bookshop.org - click below! Octopus Bookshop Visit u...

Join us as we discuss What Strange Paradise , by Omar El Akkad;  The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel;  by Kati Marton;  The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear,  by Kate Moore,  The Door,  by Magda Szabo and Finlay Donovan Knocks 'em Dead,  by Elle Cosimano. To learn more about the books or...

Join us as we discuss Still Life , by Sarah Winman;  Radiant Fugitives, by Nawaaz Ahmed;  The Twilight Zone , by Nona Fernandez;  Assembly , by Natasha Brown; and Certain Dark Things , by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. To learn more about the books or to purchase through our bookstore affiliation with Bookshop.org - click below! Octopus Bookshop Visit us on our Instagram Page - Click below! https://www.ins...

Join us as we discuss Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead , by Emily R. Austin; A Pair of Wings: A Novel Inspired by Pioneer Aviatrix Bessie Coleman , by Carole Hopson;  The Apocalypse Seven , by Gene Doucette;  Bullet Train , by Kotaro Isaka;  and Whereabouts , by Jhumpa Lahiri.   We also discuss our visit to the Barcelona bookstore La Central del Raval, The Fiction Center in Brooklyn, NY...

Join us as we discuss Crying in H Mart , by Michelle Zauner;  Finding Freedom , by Erin French; The Kitchen Front , by Jennifer Ryan;  A Dead Djinn in Cairo , by P. Djeli Clark; The Haunting of Tram Car 015 , by P. Djeli Clark;  A Master of Djinn , by P. Djeli Clark;  The Midnight Library , by Matt Haig, and a special look at the Boston Public Library. To learn more about the books or to purchase...

Join us as we discuss Plain Bad Heroines, by Emily M. Danforth;  The Salt Path , by Raynor Winn;  What Unites Us, by Dan Rather;  Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson; The Warmth of Other Suns:  The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson; Finlay Donovan is Killing It,  by Elle Cosimano. To learn more about the books or to purchase through our bookst...

Episode 6:   Let's talk YA (Young Adult) fiction and a book of poetry with our niece, Sydney.  We discuss:  Spy School Revolution , by Stuart Gibbs;  The One and Only Bob , by Katherine Applegate;  Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series , by Tyler Knott Gregson;  Salt to the Sea , by Ruta Sepetys;  The Cousins , by Karen McManus;  One of Us Is Lying , by Karen McManus; One of...

Join us as we discuss Iceland's Christmas Eve tradition of exchanging books.   This holiday tradition is called Jolabokaflod. We also review the book, Miss Iceland , by Icelandic author Audur Ava Olafsdottir To purchase this book, click the link below to be routed to our bookshop page. To learn more about the books or to purchase through our bookstore affiliation with Bookshop.org - click bel...

Episode 4: We visit three bookstores in upstate New York and review the following books: The Warehouse, by Rob Hart;  Leave the World Behind, by Rumaan Alam; The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, by V.E. Schwab;  Baggage: Confessions of a Globe-Trotting Hypochondriac, by Jeremy Leon Hance;  Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club, by Megan Gail Coles. To learn more about the books or to purch...

Episode 3:  Join us as we discuss, "When No One is Watching," by Alyssa Cole, "Rules for Visiting," by Jessica Francis Kane, "The Pull of the Stars," by Emma Donoghue, "Tightrope," by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn, and "A Good Provider is One Who Leaves," by Jason DeParle. To learn more about the books or to purchase through our bookstore affi...

Join us as we discuss 'The Wages of Sin' by Kaite Welsh, 'Afterlife' by Julia Alvarez, 'Members Only' by Sameer Pandya, 'Convenience Store Woman' and 'Earthlings' by Sayaka Murata and 'The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle' and 'The Devil and the Dark Water' by Stuart Turton. Bonus: The value of first edition books hiding in you...

Join us as we discuss "Greenwood," by Michael Christie; "A Burning," by Megha Majumdar; the Sarah Gilchrist mysteries by Kaite Welsh; Luis Alberto Urrea's "The Devil's Highway" and "Wow, No Thank You," by Samantha Irby. To learn more about the books or to purchase through our bookstore affiliation with Bookshop.org - click below! Octopus Bookshop V...