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01/08/2021

2020 Archewell Audio Holiday Special - Archewell Audio

Matt Haig, author of THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY, NOTES ON A NERVOUS PLANET and REASONS TO STAY ALIVE appeared on the first episode of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's new podcast! Listen to the episode now 🎧:

As we come to the end of the year, Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, present a special collection of inspiration, reflection, and perspective from guests around the world, including: Stacey Abrams, Christina Adane, José Andrés, Brené Brown, Rachel Cargle, Deepak...

01/08/2021

The 10 most-read book reviews of 2020

THE GIVER OF STARS by Jojo Moyes made Washington Post's list of The 10 most-read book reviews of 2020 ✨

Bestsellers, celebrities and Trump satires were of particular interest this year.

01/08/2021

Nothing Like a Mother's Love in the Chilling Thriller "The Push"

Can't get enough of THE PUSH by Ashley Audrain? The author spoke with BookTrib for an inside look at her inspiration, the writing process, and the long road to publication. Check out the full interview here ⬇️

“One day you’ll understand, Blythe. The women in this family…we’re different.” The woman talking in Ashley Audrain’s scorching novel The Push (Pamela Dorman Books) is Blythe Connor’s mother, Cecilia. Cecilia’s mother, Etta, hung herself at the age of thirty-two. Cecilia herself

01/08/2021

By the Book: In ‘The Searcher’ French finally offers a somewhat happy ending

"As always, French’s prose is spellbinding and lyrical . . . The beautiful imagery combined with the dialect of the earthly, witty characters creates an appealing atmosphere that engages the reader."
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Check out the full Austin American-Statesman review of THE SEARCHER by Tana French 📖

Tana French’s main character in “The Searcher” is less tortured and less troubled than any of the detectives in her Dublin Murder Squad series.

01/08/2021

Amazon Book Review

THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig is one of Jodi Picoult's favorite books of the year! Read on to find out why she calls it a "perfect pick."

Jodi Picoult has touched thousands of readers through her emotionally charged novels that plumb complex questions about identity, family, belonging, and breaking free. Her most recent novel, The Book of Two Ways, asks whether we would go back and change the path our lives have taken, if we could.

01/07/2021

The 20 Best Books PureWow Staffers Read in 2020

"The writing itself is engaging...I haven't been able to read as much as I would like to this year and I wanted an interesting book that I could read fairly quickly - this one delivered.”
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THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig made the PureWow staff's list of best books of 2020 ✨

From novels that made us homesick for our hometowns to nonfiction tomes about the benefits of therapy, here are 20 of the best books PureWow staffers read this year

01/07/2021

We asked for your favorite new books in 2020. You answered.

Readers have spoken 🎉 THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig was one of Boston.com readers' favorite books of 2020!

Dozens and dozens of titles were submitted as the top of the year.

01/07/2021

Top 5 Books of 2020

“Matt Haig's newest book is magical in so many ways…Truly heartbreaking at times while uplifting at others, Haig has created a masterpiece in The Midnight Library.”
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Looks like Erie Reader loves THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig as much as we do!

No shortage of escapes in a year stuck at home

01/06/2021

The Paris Review Staff’s Favorite Books of 2020 - The Paris Review

“Lily King’s Writers and Lovers and Kate Reed Petty’s True Story were able to remind me of the pleasure of reading when I was certain I had lost it forever. Both are that surprisingly hard-to-find gem, books I will stay up all night for, books that will make me forget where I am, and yet the sentences are also nice, and the mind behind them very sharp.”
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The Paris Review listed TRUE STORY by Kate Reed Petty as one of their favorite books of 2020!
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Check out the full list here: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/12/18/the-paris-review-staffs-favorite-books-of-2020/

01/06/2021

The best new books to read: Top releases, updated weekly

THE PUSH by Ashley Audrain made New York Post's list of best new books to read 🥳 Check out the full list below and get your copy today:

The Post regularly compiles the best books released in the past month. In the meantime, take a look at our favorite titles released in the last year. This week’s best new books Bloodline…

01/06/2021

2020 Book Concierge: Books For Horror Junkies

"French beautifully and slowly unspools the story, all the while carrying tension in every sentence and scene."
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THE SEARCHER by Tana French was recommended on NPR Book Concierge as a great book for horror junkies 🔪

Some people like a good fright anytime of year. For them, NPR's Book Concierge has four recommendations for scary, wintertime reads.

01/06/2021

20 Books Coming Out in 2021 You Won't Want to Miss

"Fans of psychological thrillers, crack open this one about the relationship between mothers and daughters.”
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THE PUSH by Ashley Audrain is one of Good Housekeeping's favorite books of 2021 ✨📚

Add these to your reading list right now!

01/05/2021

Tana French on Agatha Christie, Stanley Tucci, and the Book That Kept Her Up at Night

Need a book rec? 🧐📚 Check out this ELLE Magazine (US) Shelf Life column for all of Tana French's recommendations.

The famed mystery writer takes our literary survey.

01/05/2021

What to read in 2021 based on what you loved in 2020

"Audrain’s debut is a tense, chilling dip into the dark side of motherhood."
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Washington Post recommends THE PUSH by Ashley Audrain, especially if you loved LITTLE DISASTERS by Sarah Vaughan ✨

Here are 14 books, from a variety of genres, to consider based on recent favorites.

01/05/2021

.Gabrielle Glaser's AMERICAN BABY delivers an illuminating story that will both enlighten and move you ✨. Learn more here, out 1/26 📚: https://bit.ly/34DaP41 Barbara Demick

01/05/2021

5 books not to miss: Feminist Western 'Outlawed,' Robert Jones Jr.'s 'The Prophets'

USA TODAY included THE PUSH by Ashley Audrain on their list of “5 books not to miss this week” ✨ Get your copy today

Robert Jones Jr. tells the powerful story of a forbidden love in the antebellum South in "The Prophets," while Anna North reinvents the Western.

01/05/2021

The Push by Ashley Audrain: 9781984881663 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Introducing Good Morning America's January book club pick: THE PUSH by Ashley Audrain 🎉🥳✨ You won't want to miss this intense psychological drama about family, trauma, and loss that will keep readers talking long after they turn the last page: https://bit.ly/2ECe2Gf

"Starkly original and compulsively readable, The Push is a deep dive into the darkest nooks and crannies of motherhood." --Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author A tense, page-turning psychological...

01/05/2021

When the Hand That Rocks the Cradle Is Suspicious of the Baby Inside

.The New York Times calls THE PUSH by Ashley Audrain a "taut, chilling debut...Audrain has a gift for capturing the seemingly small moments that speak volumes about relationships."

Ashley Audrain’s dark family drama, “The Push,” explores trauma across generations.

01/05/2021

THE PUSH - GMA announcement

We are so thrilled THE PUSH by Ashley Audrain is a Good Morning America Book Club Pick for January! Read along with us all month, starting with an excerpt here: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/push-gma-january-2021-book-club-pick-read-74772231

01/04/2021

The New Leadership Books to Launch 2021

"I wrote this book to explore the science of rethinking our own opinions, opening other people’s minds, and building cultures that prize humility, curiosity, and mental flexibility over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don’t know is wisdom." —Adam Grant on his upcoming book THINK AGAIN.
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Check out this article he wrote for LinkedIn about leadership books coming out in 2021 you should read 📚

Looking back on 2020, I wish I’d spent half my doomscrolling time reading books instead. And by half, I mean pretty much all.

01/04/2021

The 10 best California books of 2020

“Solnit begins this book of personal and cultural explorations with the memory of looking in a mirror and seeing herself disappear. It’s a fitting metaphor for a narrative that is as much a social history as it is a memoir, engaging questions of invisibility and silence and the way patriarchal forces seek to render women small.”
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Los Angeles Times included RECOLLECTIONS OF MY NONEXISTENCE by Rebecca Solnit in their list of best California books of 2020 📚☀️

Immigrant memoirs and essays, twisty historical novels by C Pam Zhang and Rishi Reddi, celebrations of Octavia Butler and "The Last Great Road Bum."

01/04/2021

Favorite Books of 2020

"Recollections of My Nonexistence [is] her splendid memoir of longings and determinations, of resistances and revolutions, personal and political, illuminating the kiln in which one of the boldest, most original minds of our time was annealed.”
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Brain Pickings included RECOLLECTIONS OF MY NONEXISTENCE by Rebecca Solnit in their list of Favorite Books of 2020 📖

Audre Lorde, Keith Haring, Bruce Lee, chance, love, black holes, constraint as a catalyst of creativity, and a whisper of Whitman.

01/04/2021

Mystery/Thriller Book Review: Northern Spy by Flynn Berry. Viking, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7352-2499-5

"[A] moving contemporary thriller... It’s a measure of the author’s skill that she never loses sight of the humanity of her characters. Berry remains a writer to watch. " Publishers Weekly reviews Flynn Berry's riveting new novel, NORTHERN SPY (on sale 3/2)!

Belfast BBC political news producer Tessa Daly, the protagonist of this moving contemporary thriller from Edgar winner Berry (A Double Life), is struggling to juggle her job with caring for h

01/04/2021

What to read in 2021 based on what you loved in 2020

"If you enjoyed “Little Disasters,” by Sarah Vaughan, read “The Push,” by Ashley Audrain.

Audrain’s debut is a tense, chilling dip into the dark side of motherhood, narrated by Blythe, whose own upbringing raises the question: Can one inherit an inability to parent? “The Push” is uncomfortable and provocative, like a train wreck that demands your gaze."
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Washington Post recommends THE PUSH by Ashley Audrain, out tomorrow.

Here are 14 books, from a variety of genres, to consider based on recent favorites.

01/04/2021

Here Are the 10 New Books You Should Read in January

TIME recommends Gabrielle Glaser’s AMERICAN BABY to read this January, on sale 1/26! 📖

Joan Didion's essay collection, Angie Thomas' new young adult novel and more

01/03/2021

The Push by Ashley Audrain: 9781984881663 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

“An intense psychological drama that will be embraced by…fans of Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin.” —Kristin Hannah
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“A poetic, propulsive read that set my nerves jangling.” —Lisa Jewell
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These #1 bestselling authors are raving about THE PUSH by Ashley Audrain, out in just 2 days! Read an excerpt now: https://bit.ly/2ECe2Gf

"Starkly original and compulsively readable, The Push is a deep dive into the darkest nooks and crannies of motherhood." --Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author A tense, page-turning psychological...

01/02/2021

In that post-holiday slump? THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig made Washington Post's list of "Feel Good Books Guaranteed to Lift Your Spirits" ✨ Check it out: https://bit.ly/2QvdhkN

12/29/2020

One Decision by Mike Bayer: 9780593296011 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Happy publication day for ONE DECISION by Coach Mike Bayer! 🎉📚
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It is estimated that we make 35,000 decisions every day. Right now, at least one decision we make will have a powerful ripple effect across all aspects of our life. But One Decision isn't about taking one overwhelming big step; it's about starting with a single, important choice we can make every day: the decision to be authentic. Drawing on twenty years of experience helping individuals from all walks of life make real and lasting change, Coach Mike has a refreshing approach for motivating you to take a risk, be bold, and take real action toward a better life.

From Dr. Phil show regular and author of the New York Times bestselling Best Self: Be You, Only Better, a plan for taking immediate steps to improving your life Foreword by Dr. Phil McGraw It is estimated...

12/29/2020

The Push by Ashley Audrain: 9781984881663 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Mark your calendars 📅 Only 1 week until THE PUSH by Ashley Audrain is out! Already listed as a most anticipated book of 2021 by Marie Claire, AARP, and Entertainment Weekly. Pre-order your copy today: https://bit.ly/2ECe2Gf

"Starkly original and compulsively readable, The Push is a deep dive into the darkest nooks and crannies of motherhood." --Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author A tense, page-turning psychological...

12/28/2020

The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett: 9780525954989 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

"[A] richly told, complex story" (Kirkus Reviews) and an "absorbing and lengthy saga of life" (Booklist).
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If you can't travel this year then we suggest THE EVENING AND THE MORNING by Ken Follett (official), the prequel to The Pillars of the Earth--set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle Ages. An epic journey that will have you hooked from page 1.

#1 New York Times Bestseller An Amazon Best Book of 2020 A thrilling and addictive new novel--a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth--set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle Ages "Just as...

12/27/2020

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig: 9780525559474 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig is a The New York Times bestseller, a winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction, and a Good Morning America Book Club Pick! If you need any more convincing just check the link ⬇️ to read an excerpt and get your copy today!

A WASHINGTON POST “FEEL-GOOD BOOK GUARANTEED TO LIFT YOUR SPIRITS” An instant New York Times bestseller One of Amazon's Best Books of the Year A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club...

12/26/2020

The Best Psychological Thrillers of 2020

PRETTY AS A PICTURE by Elizabeth Little made CrimeReads list of the best psychological thrillers of 2020 🎉

Readers, it’s been a rough year to recommend thrillers. Given what we have been living through, I had moments when I thought, “Am I helping here? Do people really want to visit worlds full of gasli…

12/23/2020

The Searcher by Tana French: 9780735224650 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Some people like watching holiday movies this time of year, and some of us like reading thrillers by the fire 🤷‍♀️ THE SEARCHER by Tana French is "eerie and nuanced and spellbinding" (NPR Fresh Air) and "Taut, chiseled and propulsive" (Vogue). Check it out now: https://bit.ly/31xN4s2

A New York Times Bestseller "This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best one yet...its own kind of masterpiece." --Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post A "taut, chiseled...

12/22/2020

The Push by Ashley Audrain: 9781984881663 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Only 2 weeks until THE PUSH by Ashley Audrain is out! Read the book that Lisa Jewell calls "a poetic, propulsive read" and Kristin Hannah says is "starkly original and compulsively readable." Pre-order your copy today: https://bit.ly/2ECe2Gf

"Starkly original and compulsively readable, The Push is a deep dive into the darkest nooks and crannies of motherhood." --Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author A tense, page-turning psychological...

12/21/2020

If you liked WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN or LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE then you're going to ✨love✨ THE PUSH by Ashley Audrain . Learn more: https://bit.ly/2ECe2Gf