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Temperatures this morning were in the 30s, and they popped into the 60s this afternoon. I am very ready to start seeing buds on trees, though I think I have to wait a tad longer for that!
I have had a crazy week as so much has been going on. To keep me relaxed, I have been lighting candles in my office. Most days have been three-candle days, meaning that I light three at a time. I rearranged part of my office a couple of weeks ago, and while doing this, I found a basket of candles that I have not used. So I have been enjoying the act of lighting them up and seeing those flickering lights. Ommmm...I can feel myself unwinding as they are visible on the table next to my desk.
Mercury has moved out of retrograde, which means that perhaps now things will move along a lot more smoothly. To those of you who are flying these days, may I recommend that you download an audiobook to listen to as you wait to get through TSA? My husband flew back from Austin on Wednesday, and even with all the documents he has that are supposed to speed up getting through security, he was on line for an hour and a half. Now that could have been the perfect time to listen to an audiobook.
My current listen is IT GIRL by Allison Pataki, which I am really enjoying. I know Allison is on the road now, so I'm hoping to set up an interview with her when she's back home. I confess to knowing nothing about Evelyn Nesbit, the inspiration for the book's main character, or the role that she played as a Gibson Girl during the Gilded Age and what happened to her in what was labeled “the Crime of the Century.” Allison has a way of bringing me into a story and making me feel like I was there.
Barrie Kreinik narrates the audiobook, as she did for the last two books that Allison wrote. I know that her narration is enhancing my experience.
As I mentioned last week, today I gave a presentation at The College Woman’s Club of Westfield. What a terrific audience they had! Instead of doing a book preview, I walked them through the life cycle of a book before publication, using IT GIRL as my subject.
It was a lot of fun to do, and from their comments afterwards, I felt like it was a huge success. They had some excellent --- and smart --- questions about book publishing, and it was wonderful to hear how the attendees engage with books and authors, as well as a couple of people who spoke to me afterwards about starting a book club within the club.
Thank you to Annmarie Puleio for suggesting me to the luncheon committee. Annmarie and I have attended so many events together, and I appreciate how she champions Bookreporter. Thanks also to Susan Kowalenko, the Club president, and Alyssa Welsch-Rovito, the Chairperson of this lovely event, for having me as the guest speaker. I am hoping that some of the club members join us at some of our virtual events and subscribe to this newsletter. Each place had one of our bookmarks at it!
I am reading DAUGHTERS OF THE SUN AND MOON, and once again Lisa See has written brilliantly on a topic that I know little about. I feel like I am in Los Angeles in the late 1870s when it was a dusty place, not at all like what we visualize now. I only am about 100 pages in, but already her three characters --- Dove, Petal and Moon --- have captivated me!
And yes, for those who are wondering, one of these women has bound feet, the idea of which had us all scrambling to see what that looked like when we read SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN. You will be hearing lots more about this book from me before it comes out on June 9th.
We hosted our “Bookaccino Live” Spring Preview event on Wednesday evening. I presented 52 books that are either out now or soon to be released this spring that we think you will enjoy reading. Included are fiction; historical fiction; thrillers and mysteries; and memoirs, biographies and other nonfiction.
Click here to watch the presentation and here to see a list of the titles that I talked about. Don’t miss our Summer Preview evening program on Wednesday, June 17th!
Join Us on Wednesday Evening for Our
Book Group Event with Patrick Ryan!
This is your last Weekly Update newsletter reminder to sign up for this month’s “Bookaccino Live” Book Group event, which will take place on Wednesday, March 25th at 8pm ET.
Our guest will be Patrick Ryan, and he will discuss his debut novel, BUCKEYE, a New York Times bestseller and a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick.
After I talk to Patrick, we will give readers the chance to share a question for him on screen. We have special sign-in directions for these attendees, and they will get to chat with Patrick in our “backstage green room” before the program starts. Then we will turn to questions that have been dropped into Zoom’s Q&A feature. Click here to register for the event.
If you would like to ask Patrick a question, please fill out this form by Wednesday at noon ET. Be sure to include your name, city, state, email address and phone number, as well as your question. And indicate if you would like to be on camera or off.
In BLOODLUST, the latest romantic suspense novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown, a detective seeks justice for his murdered wife with the help of a psychotherapist --- while fighting an undeniable attraction to her.
Pamela Kramer has our review and says, “Those who read BLOOD MOON will appreciate the parallelism in the two stories…. The gripping execution, nonstop action, impeccable timing and pitch-perfect dialogue are what we expect from Sandra Brown, all leading to a very satisfying ending.”
Through a letter cataloging the small objects she plans to leave behind, 92-year-old Flo Greene reflects on her life, reveals long-held secrets, and embarks on late-life adventures that unexpectedly transform both herself and the people around her in Elizabeth Berg’s new novel, LIFE: A LOVE STORY.
According to Norah Piehl in her review, “LIFE: A LOVE STORY, a wise and wonderful novel from beloved author Elizabeth Berg, is a good reminder that it's never too late to form new bonds and connections --- and that those connections are far more important than the things we leave behind.”
Other books we’re reviewing this week include:
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YOU WITH THE SAD EYES: Christina Applegate’s #1 New York Times bestselling memoir unveils a side of the Emmy Award-winning actress we’ve never seen. Applegate says that the book “won’t be some big violin scratching for my life. But it will be real. It will be filled with the ups and downs, the humor and grief of life.”
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KIDS, WAIT TILL YOU HEAR THIS!: Global icon Liza Minnelli shares her inspiring story: stepping out from the long shadow of a mega-star mother and legendary film director father, fighting a lifetime battle with Substance Abuse Disorder, and emerging from it all to become a once-in-a-lifetime artist.
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THIS STORY MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE: Best friends Benny and Joy like to say they’ve been saving each other’s lives since the moment they met. Until the day that Joy disappears and Benny is suspected of murder. Tiffany Crum’s much-buzzed-about debut novel is an instant New York Times bestseller.
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A DAY OF JUDGMENT: In this 25th installment of Charles Todd’s series, Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard travels to England’s windswept coastline to investigate a murder in a place where, several years after the end of WWI, the memory of the war still runs strong. It proves to be one of the most challenging cases of his career.
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EVERYONE IN THIS BANK IS A THIEF: Ten heists. Ten suspects. A murder mystery only Ernest Cunningham can solve in this twisty fourth installment of Benjamin Stevenson’s bestselling series. Who is stealing what? Are they willing to kill for it? Can Ernest solve the crime before the police comes to the rescue?
Spring Reading Contest Update
In this week’s Spring Reading contest, we gave away FINLAY DONOVAN CROSSES THE LINE by Elle Cosimano. Next week’s prize will be THE FORTUNE TELLERS OF RUE DARU by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore. A fearless fortune teller in 1920s Paris must use her powers to divine who she can trust when an exiled Romanov princess and her brother come to her seeking answers about a decades-old mystery. The contest will be up at noon ET on the day of its release, Tuesday, March 24th.
Enter Our New Word of Mouth Contest
Let us know by Friday, April 3rd at noon ET what books you’ve read, and you’ll have a chance to win DAUGHTER OF EGYPT by Marie Benedict and THE KEEPER by Tana French in our latest Word of Mouth contest.
In DAUGHTER OF EGYPT, a young woman unearths the truth about a forgotten Pharaoh --- rewriting both of their legacies forever. THE KEEPER wraps up the Cal Hooper trilogy with a final visit to the rural Irish village of Ardnakelty --- and to another one of its unsettling deaths.
Vote in Our New Poll --- and Check Out Results from the Last Poll
The arrival of spring inspires our latest poll question: Do you give your books at home a “spring cleaning”? Let us know what you do by clicking here.
In our previous poll, we listed 35 fiction titles that are being published this month and asked which of them, if any, you are looking forward to reading. Below are your top five picks, and you can see all the results here.
News & Pop Culture
Reader Mail:
Joy wrote, “Thank you for the copy of THEO OF GOLDEN! I loved this book. The descriptive writing and the thoughtful way each character unfolds, especially Theo, pulled me into the story. By the end, I was deeply moved. I forget many stories after I read them, but this one will stay with me.” You can see Joy with her prize above.
Cheri wrote, “Good morning and TGIF! Thank you, once again, for two great 'Bookaccino Live' events. I use these lists to help me choose my book club books for the next few months. This season seems to be packed with some of my favorite authors. I received an advance reading copy of DAUGHTERS OF THE SUN AND MOON by Lisa See, and I totally agree with you. This is a great book and will make book club discussions lively. Keep up the good work, and keep on reading!!!”
Ann wrote, “In answer to your question about book clubs and sharing in between get-togethers, my group is constantly doing that. 'Have you heard about so-and-so's new book? I read the best book! Here's a book, I think you'll love it.' In my group, we all get excited about new books and old ones we have just come upon, and some of us enjoy surprising another with the gift of a book.
“I am 89 and have so many books on my piles. I imagine I'll never get to read them all, but they are there, and I love finishing a book and having the opportunity to pick the next one from those waiting to be held. Yes, I am spoiled. I love my usual authors and their books (some great series), and I truly enjoy meeting a new author. And I enjoy giving the books away to family, friends, retirement centers, nursing homes, etc. It seems older folks continue to be avid readers and not so much on phones, etc. Grateful to you and your staff for keeping us all updated and so much MORE!”
Lorraine wrote, “I think the problem of feeling like you’ll never read all the books you want to read, which I fear, has intensified as SO many really good books have come out in 2026 alone. Then you realize, as I have, that you missed so many of the authors’ earlier works. By the way, I loved LAST CALL AT THE SAVOY. Two other spirited books like it: THE LAST SPIRITS OF MANHATTAN and ANTIQUE. Many thanks for what you and your team do.”
I heard this week that Jane Fonda is set to star in the Lionsgate film adaptation of THE CORRESPONDENT by Virginia Evans, and a TV adaptation of Elle Cosimano’s FINLAY DONOVAN IS KILLING IT is headed to Peacock with Lang Fisher and Tina Fey adapting it. I love when books inspire movies and TV shows!
A quiet weekend is ahead. I have paperwork scattered everywhere that I am determined to clean up. It’s filing time. I have these great binders here with glassine folders in them, and I am buckling down to get them all taken care of. If the weather cooperates, I want to get to some of the garden cleanup that never happened last fall. It's time to figure out which hydrangeas to prune and which to leave alone. Hello, YouTube videos!
Read on, and have a great week.
Carol Fitzgerald (Carol@bookreporter.com)
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Featured Review: BLOODLUST by Sandra Brown
BLOODLUST by Sandra Brown (Romantic Suspense)
Audiobook available, read by Kyf Brewer
Two years ago, Detective Mitch Haskell lost his wife to a vicious act of retribution, and he has since attributed her murder to two men. Roland Malone is a ruthless executioner and drug dealer who fronts as a restaurant owner. He performs his handiwork at the biddings of Oz, the faceless kingpin of a drug trafficking operation whose name alone evokes terror. Detective John Bowie has forced Mitch to get therapy to sort himself out. Dr. Dylan Reede is immediately empathetic to the pain she senses beneath Mitch’s cavalier attitude and wisecracking. But from the moment he breezes into her office, Dylan finds it a struggle to maintain the professional and personal boundaries that keep her own tragic past at a safe distance. As Mitch begins to close in on Oz and Malone’s operation, they’re prepared to stop him by any means necessary. Reviewed by Pamela Kramer.
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Featured Review: LIFE: A LOVE STORY by Elizabeth Berg
LIFE: A LOVE STORY by Elizabeth Berg (Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by Elizabeth Berg
As 92-year-old Florence "Flo" Greene nears the end of her life, she writes a letter to Ruthie, the woman who grew up next door to her, describing the items Flo is leaving Ruthie in her will. But as it goes on, telling surprising stories about those “little” things Flo will leave behind, an unforgettable portrait of the life she has lived emerges. The letter starts off as an autobiography in things, but it turns out to do much more than that: ultimately, it will transform Flo and those around her. In the time she has left, Flo decides to take herself up on tiny dares. As these adventures lead her to make new friends, Flo helps them find the fulfillment that living a full life has led her to understand. Reviewed by Norah Piehl.
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- Click here to read an excerpt.
Click here to read our review.
Featured Review:
YOU WITH THE SAD EYES by Christina Applegate
YOU WITH THE SAD EYES: A Memoir by Christina Applegate (Memoir)
Audiobook available, read by Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate came of age on sets and stages. What started as a financial necessity soon became an emotional escape from a tumultuous home life. She rocketed to stardom on the sitcom “Married...with Children” and went on to captivate audiences in classics like Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Anchorman and Dead to Me. Then it all stopped. A multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 2021 confined her to a king-sized bed and the company of memories she’d rather forget: memories of the self-doubt and body dysmorphia that stalked her meteoric rise, of her mother’s fight against addiction and abuse after her father left, and of the tax life had taken on her body and mind that was suddenly coming due. Now, at her most intimate and vulnerable, she unveils a story not even those closest to her fully know. Reviewed by Jana Siciliano.
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Featured Review: KIDS, WAIT TILL YOU HEAR THIS!
by Liza Minnelli, as told to Michael Feinstein
KIDS, WAIT TILL YOU HEAR THIS!: My Memoir by Liza Minnelli, as told to Michael Feinstein (Memoir)
Audiobook available, read by Liza Minnelli
KIDS, WAIT TILL YOU HEAR THIS! is the autobiography of EGOT icon Liza Minnelli. This fascinating, untold story reveals the intimate truth of the only child born to Hollywood legends Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland. For the first time, here is Liza up close. Liza decided at the age of 16 that “sympathy is my mother’s business. I give people joy.” That veil of joy, however, masks a lifelong struggle with Substance Use Disorder, boundless love to give and an equal need to receive it, broken marriages, multiple miscarriages and hospitalizations. Despite every challenge, Liza’s is a life wrapped in laughter and her tremendous capacity to give and receive love. Today at nearly 80, she opens her heart, mind and memories, sharing secrets we never knew. Reviewed by Jana Siciliano.
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Featured Review: THIS STORY MIGHT
SAVE YOUR LIFE by Tiffany Crum
THIS STORY MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE by Tiffany Crum (Domestic Thriller/Mystery)
Audiobook available, read by Julia Whelan and Sean Patrick Hopkins
Benny Abbott and Joy Moore host one of the most beloved podcasts in the world. Each week, they delight listeners with a different “against all odds” survival story, gleefully finding the weird, life-affirming humor in near-death experiences. Since their first episode on Joy’s experience with severe narcolepsy, they’ve been the best friends everyone wants to befriend --- and thanks to the meticulous management of Joy’s husband, Xander, they’ve built a lucrative empire. When Benny arrives at Joy and Xander’s one morning to record, he finds shattered glass and an empty house. The one clue shedding light on the couple’s disappearance is the incomplete, previously unseen first draft of Joy’s memoir. Benny is desperate to find them, even when the police soon zero in on him as their prime suspect. Reviewed by Norah Piehl.
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Featured Review: A DAY OF JUDGMENT by Charles Todd
A DAY OF JUDGMENT: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery by Charles Todd (Historical Mystery)
Audiobook available, read by Simon Vance
July, 1921: England is suffering a heatwave, and the coast of Northumberland, just across the border from Scotland, is filled with holiday-makers bird watching and enjoying the beaches. Pilgrims also come to visit the home of Saints Cuthbert and Aiden --- the founders of Christianity in England --- located on the “Holy Island” of Lindisfarne, accessible by a causeway at low tide. When the murdered body of a local man washes ashore just south of Lindisfarne, the government and the Church of England are concerned about protecting both the reputation of the Church and the sacred sites that are a destination for hundreds of pilgrims at this time of year. With his ability to move in the highest social and political circles, Inspector Ian Rutledge is sent by Scotland Yard to solve this crime and dispel any association with the Church. Reviewed by Ray Palen.
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Featured Review: EVERYONE IN THIS BANK
IS A THIEF by Benjamin Stevenson
EVERYONE IN THIS BANK IS A THIEF by Benjamin Stevenson (Mystery)
Audiobook available, read by Barton Welch
I’ve spent the last few years solving murders. But a bank heist is a new one, even for me. I’ve never been a hostage before. The doors are chained shut. No one in or out. Which means that when someone in the bank is murdered, everyone is a suspect. The bank robber. The manager. The security guard. The kid. The film producer. The priest. The receptionist. The patient. The caregiver. Me. It turns out that more than one person planned to rob the bank today. You can steal more from a bank than just money. Who is stealing what? Are they willing to kill for it? And can I solve the crime before the police kick down the door and rescue us? Reviewed by Kate Ayers.
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Bookreporter.com’s 15th Annual
Spring Reading Contests and Feature
Spring is in the air! We’ve caught the fever --- and it’s being fueled by some wonderful new and upcoming releases.
Bookreporter.com's 15th annual Spring Reading Contests and Feature spotlights many of these picks, which we know people will be talking about over the next few months. We are hosting a series of 24-hour contests for these titles on select days through mid-April. You will need to check the site to see the featured book and enter to win.
We also are sending a special newsletter to announce each title, which you can sign up for here.
Our next contest will be up on Tuesday, March 24th at noon ET. The prize book will be THE FORTUNE TELLERS OF RUE DARU by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore. A fearless fortune teller in 1920s Paris must use her powers to divine who she can trust when an exiled Romanov princess and her brother come to her seeking answers about a decades-old mystery.
This year's featured titles are:
Click here to read all the contest details
and learn more about our featured titles.
WANT TO KNOW A SECRET? by Freida McFadden (Psychological Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by Alyson Krawchuk
Influencer and baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she'd rather you didn't know. Where did her son go when he snuck out late at night? What was she doing with the local soccer coach behind fogged windows? And what's buried in her backyard? April's secrets are enough to destroy her. I'll make sure of that. Reviewed by Ray Palen.
STAY ALIVE: Berlin, 1939-1945 by Ian Buruma (History)
Audiobook available, read by Ian Buruma
In 1939, when Ian Buruma’s epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war broke out with Poland in September, what was most striking at first was how little changed. Unless you were Jewish. Then life, already hard, was soon to get unfathomably worse. Buruma gives tender attention to the Jewish experience in Berlin during the war, weaving its thread into the broader fabric of this marvelously rich and vivid mosaic of urban life. The distillation of a broad-gauged reckoning with a vast trove of primary sources, including a surprising number of interviews with living survivors, STAY ALIVE is a study in extremes --- depravity and resilience, moral blindness and moral courage, pious bigotry and unchecked hedonism. Reviewed by Lorraine W. Shanley.
STRANGERS IN THE VILLA by Robyn Harding (Psychological Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by Katherine Littrell
Sydney Lowe’s life in New York is shattered when her husband, Curtis, admits to a meaningless affair with a client. Begging for forgiveness and vowing to prove his devotion, Curtis suggests the couple retreat to a remote hilltop house in Spain to repair their marriage. High above the Mediterranean, Sydney and Curtis are working on the isolated property and their relationship when a pair of Australian travelers turns up at their door in dire need of help. Lonely for companionship and desperate for free labor, Sydney and Curtis invite the attractive young couple to stay. But as the days pass, dark secrets come to light, the Lowes’ bond is tested, and not everyone will leave the villa alive. Reviewed by Rebecca Munro.
THE SISTERS OF BOOK ROW by Shelley Noble (Historical Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by Caroline Hewitt
1915: Manhattan’s Book Row, an eclectic jumble of 40 bookshops along Fourth Avenue, is the mecca for rare book buyers from around the world, and the haunt of locals looking for a bargain. It is also the target of the most vicious censor in American history --- Anthony Comstock --- and home to three sisters who vow to stop him. For the three Applebaum sisters, the Arcadia Rare Bookshop is the only home they’ve ever known. Unbeknownst to her older sisters, Celia has joined a group of young people who secretly print and distribute articles on women’s health by hiding them within the pages of ordinary cookbooks, household hints and sewing patterns. Meanwhile, the Comstock Laws threaten anybody who owns or circulates “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” publications. Secrets and a mysterious stranger mean that the fate of the famed Book Row is anything but secure. Reviewed by L. Dean Murphy.
RUBY FALLS by Gin Phillips (Historical Mystery)
Audiobook available, read by Cassandra Campbell and Jacques Roy
In 1928, a Chattanooga man disappears down a hole in the ground and discovers a 150-foot waterfall in the middle of a mountain that he names after his wife: Ruby Falls. Within months, visitors can buy tickets to see the falls for themselves. Ada Smith has been sneaking into the caves at night, entranced by the natural wonders around her. As the country flounders in the Great Depression, a shrewd public relations ploy seems like the only way to save Ruby Falls. A famous mind reader and mystic agrees to launch himself into the Ruby Falls caverns where he will attempt to locate a hidden hatpin using only his psychic abilities. Ada and another guide, Quinton, have been asked to follow the mind reader’s party at a distance, staying out of sight. One of them will be dead before the end of the day. Reviewed by Norah Piehl.
THE SHADOW CARVER: An Inspector Anjelica Henley Thriller by Nadine Matheson (Mystery/Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by Debra Michaels
When a string of grisly murders begins painting the city in terror, DI Anjelica Henley soon realizes that a vigilante killer is scalping their victims before leaving them for dead. Henley is thrust into a web of secrets, unraveling connections between the victims while battling demons from her own past. As the killer raises the stakes, the line between predator and prey begins to blur. With time slipping away and her own life in jeopardy, Henley must outwit a psychopath who views murder as an art form. Can she hunt them down before the final stroke of the scalpel closes the case forever? Reviewed by Ray Palen.
IF A FACE COULD KILL: A Brigid Quinn Thriller by Becky Masterman (Domestic Thriller)
Former FBI agent Brigid Quinn hasn’t forgiven herself for the testimony that led to young mother Nicole Gleason being convicted for the manslaughter of her abusive husband. Now out of jail early on parole, Nicole is living in a group home for felons in Brigid’s Arizona neighborhood. But while Brigid hopes to make amends with Nicole, not everyone in the community is happy to have criminals on their doorstep. When outspoken local resident Dorita Gordino is grotesquely murdered, suspicion soon falls on Nicole. Brigid is determined to catch Dorita’s killer and prove Nicole’s innocence --- even if it means one of her own darkest secrets comes to light. Reviewed by Ray Palen.
THE ABNORMAL GUMSHOE by Tamar Anolic (Mystery)
Chloe Weaver is the oldest daughter in a conservative Christian family of Fayetteville, Arkansas. As she turns 30 and remains unmarried, Chloe begins to wonder if she’ll ever have the happy marriage and many kids she has been led to believe constitutes the perfect life. When her parents allow her to court Barnabas Anderson, Chloe knows she should be ecstatic. Instead, she is uncomfortable with the 12-year age gap between her and Barnabas. Besides, Barnabas has always been a little...weird. When Barnabas’ brother visits the Weavers, bringing tales of Barnabas’ previous wife and her untimely death, Chloe realizes how little she knows about Barnabas. As she prepares for a prayer assembly in San Francisco, where Barnabas used to live, Chloe decides to investigate his past and his wife’s death. Reviewed by Barbara Bamberger Scott.
Next Week’s Notables:
Noteworthy Books Releasing on March 24th
Below are some notable titles releasing on March 24th that we would like to make you aware of. We will have more on many of these books in the weeks to come. For a list of additional hardcovers and paperbacks available the week of March 23rd, see our “On Sale This Week” newsletter here.
DAUGHTER OF EGYPT by Marie Benedict (Historical Fiction)
New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict returns with a sweeping tale of a young woman who unearths the truth about a forgotten Pharaoh --- rewriting both of their legacies forever.
ENEMY OF MY ENEMY: A Daredevil Marvel Crime Novel by Alex Segura (Thriller)
Matt Murdock defends the Punisher in the trial of the century --- the murder of the Kingpin --- while by night Daredevil staves off a war of succession for the throne of the criminal underworld.
THE FORTUNE TELLERS OF RUE DARU by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore (Gothic Horror/Historical Mystery)
A fearless fortune teller in 1920s Paris must use her powers to divine who she can trust when an exiled Romanov princess and her brother come to her seeking answers about a decades-old mystery.
THE MOONLIGHT RUNNER by Karen Robards (Historical Fiction)
In the wake of the Great War, a young woman joins the Irish rebellion and risks everything for her country in this sweeping story of love, bravery and the relentless pursuit of freedom from New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards.
THE NIGHT WE MET by Abby Jimenez (Romantic Comedy)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of SAY YOU'LL REMEMBER ME comes a beautiful, compelling novel that revels in laughter, friendship and the messy choices life can throw our way.
PYTHON'S KISS: Stories written by Louise Erdrich, with illustrations by Aza Erdrich Abe (Fiction/Short Stories)
Accompanied by specially commissioned artwork by Aza Erdrich Abe --- an intimate and revelatory creative collaboration between mother and daughter --- these stories offer an opportunity to celebrate the wisdom and brilliant, wide-ranging imagination of one of America’s most important writers.
Click here to see the latest “On Sale This Week” newsletter.
From left to right: Patrick Ryan, Louise Erdrich
Upcoming Virtual Book and Author Events
Here are three upcoming virtual book and author events that you may be interested in attending. Click on the links for more info and to register.
Wednesday, March 25th at 7pm ET: Barnes & Noble: Barnes & Noble welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louise Erdrich for a live virtual discussion of her new book, PYTHON'S KISS. Louise will be in conversation with bestselling author Angeline Boulley, with a guest appearance by Louise's daughter, Aza Erdrich Abe, who contributed illustrations for the book.
Wednesday, March 25th at 7pm ET: “Friends & Fiction”: Join “Friends & Fiction” for a conversation with Virginia Evans and Allen Levi about their debut novels, which were two of the most talked-about books of 2025: Virginia's THE CORRESPONDENT and Allen's THEO OF GOLDEN.
Wednesday, March 25th at 8pm ET: “Bookaccino Live” Book Group: Carol Fitzgerald will talk to Patrick Ryan about his debut novel, BUCKEYE, a New York Times bestseller and a Bookreporter.com Bets On selection. Patrick also will answer questions from guests who will be “on stage,” as well as from other members of the audience.
"Bookreporter Talks To" Videos & Podcasts
“Bookreporter Talks To” is a video and podcast series that delivers long-form, in-depth author interviews. For years, Carol has moderated book festivals and author events around the country. But we know that readers often do not live where they can attend an author event. Our goal is to bring these author interviews to readers, wherever they may be. Watch on video, or listen as a podcast. (The podcasts include audio excerpts.)
Here is our latest interview:
Other authors we've interviewed recently include:
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"Bookreporter Talks To" videos and podcasts.
Our Latest Poll:
Giving Your Book Collection a Spring Cleaning
Do you ever give your book collection at home a "spring cleaning"? Please check all that apply.
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I reorganize my books according to whether or not I have read them.
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I reorganize my books alphabetically by title.
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I reorganize my books alphabetically by author.
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I reorganize my books by genre.
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I reorganize my books by format (hardcover, paperback, physical audiobooks).
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I reorganize my books by publication date.
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I reorganize my books by size.
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I give away some of my books to friends or family.
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I sell some of my books to used bookstores.
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I donate some of my books to libraries.
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I donate some of my books to used bookstores.
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I donate some of my books to thrift stores.
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I donate some of my books to schools.
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I donate some of my books to our community center.
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I only read digital audiobooks.
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I only read e-books.
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I only read books from the library.
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No
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No, but this is a good idea.
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Other (Please specify)
Click here to vote in the poll by Friday, April 3rd at noon ET.
Word of Mouth Contest: Tell Us What
You've Read --- and You Can Win Two Books!
Tell us about the books you’ve read with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars. During the contest period from March 20th to April 3rd at noon ET, three lucky readers each will be randomly chosen to win a copy of DAUGHTER OF EGYPT by Marie Benedict and THE KEEPER by Tana French.
To make sure other readers will be able to find the books you write about, please include the full title and correct author names (your entry must include these to be eligible to win). For rules and guidelines, click here.
- To see reader comments from previous contest periods, click here.
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