Circe by Madeline Miller

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Circe, Madeline Miller's second novel, was released on April 10, 2018. The book is a modern reimagining told from the perspective of Circe, an enchantress in Greek mythology who is featured in Homer's Odyssey. 

Circe was the winner of the 2019 Indie Choice Award. 

Shortlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction.

Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by NPR, New York Times, The Washington Post, Buzzfeed, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, The A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor, Southern Living, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Thrillist, NYPL, Goodreads Boston Globe, Electric Literature, BookPage, The Guardian, Business Insider, and Refinery 29.

"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story, this bestseller is both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right". --Alexandra Alter, The New York Times

In the house of Helios, the god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals of companionship, she discovers that she does possess the power--the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and animals.

Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedulus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and of course, willy Odysseus. 

But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. 

With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love, and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. 

About the Author

Madeline Miller was born on July 24, 1978, in Boston, grew up in New York City and Philadelphia. This American novelist is the author of The Song of Achilles (2011) and Circe (2018). The Song of Achilles novel tells the story of the love between the mythological figures Achilles and Patroclus. It won the Orange Prize for Fiction, making miller the fourth debut novelist to win the prize. She is a 2019 recipient of the Alex Awards. It has been translated into twenty-five languages.

Miller attended Brown University, where she earned her BA and MA in Classics. She has also studied at the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought, and also, at Yale School of Drama in the Department of Dramaturgy, where she focused on the adaptation of classical texts to modern forms. She worked as a Latin, Greek, and Shakespeare teacher in high school while writing her first novel. 

She lives in Narbeth, PA with her husband and two children. 

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Rating: 4.6/5

Author: Madeline Miller

Publisher: Little Brown and Company (First edition)

Publishing Date: April 10, 2018

Edition Language: English

Genre: Ancient History Fiction, Mythology & Folk Tales, Family Saga Fiction

ISBN-10: 0316556343

ISBN-13: 978-0316556347

Pages: 400 (Hardcover)

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Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (December 1884) is a novel by Mark Twain, It first published in the United Kingdom and then in the United States (February 1885). The work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. Huckleberry 'Huck' Finn is the narrator of this novel along with two other Twain's novels i.e. Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective where he plays the role of Tom Sawyer's friend. This novel is a direct sequel to The Adventure of Tom Sawyer.

The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist over 20 years before the work was published. Adventure of Huckleberry Finn is an often withering satire on ingrained attitudes, particularly racism. 

Adventure of Huckleberry Finn has been popular with readers and it has also been the continued object of study by literary critics since its publication. The book was widely criticized upon release because of its extensive use of coarse and racial stereotypes language. Throughout the 20th century, and despite arguments that the protagonist and the tenor of the book are anti-racist, criticism of the book continued due to its frequent use of the racial slur 'nigger'. 

The novel lingers around its main protagonist Tom Sawyer, best friend and peer of the narrator Huckleberry Finn. He is the leader of the town boys in adventures. He is the best fighter and the smartest kid in the town. Huck was placed under the guardianship of widow Douglas who tries to teach him religion and make him civilized. But Huck finds it confining. Huck and Tom each have considerable money as a result of their earlier adventures. When Huck's dad suddenly reappears, he knows that his drunken and cruel dad will spend all the money on alcohol. To get away from his dad, he runs away with the help of Tom and his gang. He fakes his own death and lives in the woods. Soon, he meets Jim, a runaway slave of Ms. Watson, and both of them set off on a dangerous journey down the Mississippi River, in search of freedom.

Adaptation

Film

Huck and Tom (1918 silent), Huckleberry Finn (1920), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1955)(1960), Hopelessly Lost (1973, a Soviet film), Huckleberry Finn (1974, a musical film), The Adventure of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1985, an ABC movie), Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue (2008, a Veggie Tales parody), The Adventures of Huck Finn (2012, a German film), Band of Robbers (2015, an American crime comedy), and many more.

Television

The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968, children's live-action and animation series), Huckleberry no Bōken (1976, a Japanese anime), Huckleberry Finn and His Friends (1979, series), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1985, a PBS TV series), Huckleberry Finn Monogatari (1994, Japanese anime), The Simpsons (2001, based on scenes from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

Other

Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1985, Broadway Musical), Manga Classics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (2017)

Literature

Finn: A Novel (2007, a novel about Huck's father Pap Finn), Huck Out West (2017), The Further Adventure of Huckleberry Finn (1983), My Jim (2005, largely narrated by Sadie, Jim's enslaved wife)

Music

Mississippi Suite (1926), Huckleberry Finn EP (2009, comprising five songs)

About the Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), widely known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He liked to be called by other pen names as such Josh and Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass. 

His most prominent novels Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn earned him the title of the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," the latter often called The Great American Novel. Twain enjoyed immense popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him admiration from both critics and peers. American author Willian Faulkner called him "the father of American literature".

Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would go out with it' as well. He died the day after the comet made its closest approach to the Earth. 

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Rating: 4.6/5

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Benediction Classics (Illustrated edition)

Publishing Date: June 23, 2020

Edition Language: English

Genre: Teen &Young Adult Fiction about being a Teen, Teen and Young Adult Action & Adventure, United States Civil War Period History

ISBN-10: 178943114X

ISBN-13: 978-1789431148

Pages: 340 (Hardcover)

The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman

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The Orphan Collector: A Heroic Novel of Survival During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic is a work of an internationally bestselling author Ellen Marie Wiseman. This book was an instant New York Times Bestseller. This heroic novel is a gripping and powerful tale of upheaval--a heartbreaking saga of resilience and hope--set in Philadelphia during the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak--the deadly pandemic that went on to infect one-third of the world's population.

In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded slums and the anti-immigrant sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the US Army. But as her city celebrates the end of the war, and even more urgent threat arrives: the Spanish Flu. Funeral crepe and quarantine signs appear on doors as victims drop dead in the streets and desperate survivors wear white masks to ward off illness.  When food runs out in the cramped tenement she calls home, Pia must venture alone into the quarantined city in search of supplies, leaving her baby brothers behind.

Bernie Grove has become lost in grief and bitterness since her baby died from the Spanish flu. She makes a shocking, life-altering decision when she sees Pia leaving her brothers alone. It becomes her sinister mission to tear families apart when they are at their most vulnerable, planning to transform the city's orphans and immigrant children into what she feels are 'true Americans'.

Waking in a makeshift hospital days after collapsing in the street, Pia is frantic to return home. Instead, she is taken to St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum - the first step in a long and arduous journey. As Bernice plots to keep the truth hidden at any cost in the months and years that follow, Pia must confront her won shame and fear, risking everything to see justice - and love -triumph at last. Powerful, harrowing, and ultimately exultant, The Orphan Collector is a story of love resilience, and the lengths we will go to protect those who need us most.

"Readers will not be able to help making comparisons to the COVID-19 pandemic, and he little has changed since 1918. Wiseman has written a touching tale of loss, survival, and perseverance with some light fantastical elements. Highly recommended."-- Booklist

"An immersive historical tale with chilling twists and turns. Beautifully told and richly imagined."-- Stephanie Dray, New York Times bestselling author of America's First Daughter

About the Author

Ellen Marie Wiseman is a first-generation German-American who was born and raised in Three Mile Bay, a tiny hamlet in Northern New York. She is the New York Times bestselling author of highly acclaimed historical fiction novels: The Orphan Collector, What She Left Behind, The Plum Tree, Coal River, and The Life She Was Given. Her novels have been translated into nearly 20 languages. They have been a boon part of many prestigious reading groups such as Women's National Book Association and National Reading Group Month. 

Her debut novel 'The Plum Tree' is loosely based on her childhood memories when she visited her mother's hometown in Germany. She fell in love with the country's culture and tradition and learned the heartrending details of her family's struggle to survive the poverty and chaos of WWII.

She is a mother of two and lives on the shores of Lake Ontario with her husband and dogs. When she is not busy meeting her deadlines, she would be spending her time with her children and grandchildren, cooking, swimming, and boating. She can be found @ EllenMarieWiseman.com

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Rating: 4.6/5

Author: Ellen Marie Wiseman

Publisher: Kensington

Publishing Date: August 4, 2020

Edition Language: English

Genre: World War II Historical Fiction, Coming of Age Fiction, Literary Fiction

ISBN-10: 1496715861

ISBN-13: 978-1496715869

Pages: 304 (Paperback)

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Broken Field by Jeff Hull

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Broken Field (2018) is an American author Jeff Hull's sports fiction novel that is told from the perspective of a high school girl and a football coach. It reveals the tensions that tear at the fabric of a small town when a high school hazing incident escalates and threatens a championship season.

Set on the high prairies of Montana, in small towns scattered across vast landscapes, the distances in Broken Field are both insurmountable and deeply internalized. Life is dusty and hard, and men are judged by their labor. Women have to be tougher yet. That's what sixteen-year-old Josie Frehse learns as she struggles to meet the expectations of her community while fumbling with her own desires. Tom Warner coaches the Dumont Wolfpack, an eight-man football team, typical for such small towns. Warner is stumbling through life, numbed by the death of his own young son and the dissolution of his marriage. But he's jolted into taking sides when his star players are accused of a hazing incident that happened right under his nose.

The scandal divides and ignites the town and in Broken Field, Jeff Hull brilliantly gives breadth and depth to both sides of this shattered community, where the roots of bullying reach deep, secrets and buried, and in a school obsessed with the winning, everyone loses.

"Rural America, quite vividly, plays out its enthusiasms--sports and love affairs--in this dead-on-the-money drama. Jeff Hull has given us a winner."--William Kittredge, author of Hole in the Sky

About the Author

Jeff Hull is the author of the novel Pale Morning Done and the essay collection Streams of Consciousness. Broken Field is his second novel. It was named a Finalist for the WWA 2019 Awards for Best Western Contemporary Novel. Hull's articles have appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Atlantic, Fortune, FastCompany, Outside, Men's Journal, and many other national magazines. He has worked as a fishing guide in Montana and Tahiti and as a copywriter at major advertising agencies in New York and San Francisco. He lives in Montana and New York City.

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Rating: 4.9/5

Author: Jeff Hull

Publisher: Arcade

Publishing Date: October 16, 2018

Edition Language: English

Genre: Native American Literature, Sports Fiction, Small Town and Rural Fiction

ISBN-10: 1628729783

ISBN-13: 978-1628729788

Pages: 360 (Hardcover)

The Survivors by Jane Harper

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The Survivors (2020), Jane Harper's fourth murder mystery, is set in Tasmania, Australia. The murder of a young woman in a Tasmanian coastal town turns out to be connected to the events during a storm 12 years earlier when two men drowned and a girl disappeared.

Highly anticipated yet a stand-alone mystery The Survivors was published in September 2020 in Australia and New Zealand. It went straight to No.1 on the national bestseller list (Nielsen BookScan) after a massive debut week. It was released in the United Kingdom on January 21 and the United States on February 2. 

Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets...

Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home.

Kieran's parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between them all is his absent brother, Finn.

When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge. A sunken wreck, a missing girl, and questions that have never washed away...

The plot revolved around family, friendship, town mentality, rumors, superstition, illness, the growth and maturity that occurs between teenage and adulthood, and how major life-altering events can shape people for the better. The story interweaves major social issues of toxic masculinity, peer pressure, the downside of social media, sexism, narcissism, the damaging effects of hook up culture. 

The Survivors --The novel is a tribute to the lives lost over a century ago when the SS Mary Minerva sank. Three imposing, iron, life-size figures erected on the furthered rocks out to sea. they stand guard overlooking the site of the shipwreck. The locals and tourists of the beachside Tasmanian town, Evelyn Bay, recall the dreadful date the storm hit. Rumored to be the worst weather in eighty years is caused widespread destruction and anguish, and worst of all it claimed three lives.

"As always, Harper skillfully evokes the landscape as she weaves a complicated, elegant web, full of long-buried secrets ready to come to light."-- The New York Times

"Jane Harper creates an impressive landscape that serves to illustrate how the experience of place inevitably shapes the lives of those who live there."-- Sydney Morning Herald

About the Author

Jane Harper is the author of the international bestseller The Dry, Force of Nature, and The Lost Man. Her books are published in 40 territories worldwide. Jane has won numerous top awards including:

•  CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel
•  British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year
•  Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year
• Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year. 

The major motion picture adaptation of The Dry, starring Eric Bana as Aaron Falk has taken more than $16 million at the Australian box office since its release on New Year's Day.

Jane was born in Manchester in the UK and moved to Australia with her family at age of eight. After spending six years in Victoria, she moved back to the UK with her family and lived in Hampshire before studying English and History at the University of Kent in Canterbury. On graduating, she completed a journalism entry qualification and got her first job as a trainee on the Darlington, Stockton Times in County Durham. In 2008 she moved back to Australia.

Jane worked as a print journalist for 13 years. In 2014, she submitted a short story which was one of 12 chosen for the Big issue's annual Fiction Edition. That inspired her to pursue creative writing more seriously, breaking through with The Dry at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards in 2015.

Jane lives in bayside Melbourne with her husband and their two children.

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Rating: 4.2/5

Author: Jane Harper

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Publishing Date: September 22, 2020

Edition Language: English

Genre: International Mystery and Crime, Small Town and Rural Fiction, Murder Mystery, Thriller

ISBN-10: 1408711990

ISBN-13: 978-1408711996

Pages: 384 (Hardcover)

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

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The Nightingale (2015) is a novel by the American author Kristin Hannah. The book tells the story of two sisters in France during World War II, and their struggle to survive and resist the German occupation of France. The novel was inspired by the story of a Belgian woman, Andrée de Jongh, who helped downed Allied pilots to escape Nazi territory. 

France (1939), In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France... but they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne's home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.

Vianne's sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can... completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life to save others.

With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion, and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France--a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. it is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, Goodreads Best Historical Novel of the Year, People's Choice Favorite Fiction Winner, #1 Indie Next Selection, A Buzzfeed, and The Week Best Book of the Year, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. The novel was published in 43 languages and has sold over 2 million copies. It was optioned for a screen adaptation by TriStar Pictures in March 2015. An upcoming American drama film 'The Nightingale' directed by Mélanie Laurent, starring the Fanning sisters Dakota and Elle. It is scheduled to be released on December 22, 2021, by Sony Pictures Releasing.

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Kristin Hannah (born September 25, 1960, in California) is an American bestselling author. She is a former lawyer turned writer. She graduated with a degree in Communication from the University of Washington and worked at an advertising agency in Seattle. She graduated from the University of Puget Sound Law School and practiced law in Seattle before becoming a full-time writer. Hannah wrote her first novel with her mother, who was dying of cancer at the time; the book was never published.

Kristin is an award-winning author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, which was named Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People's Choice award for best fiction in the same year. Additionally, it was named Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, The Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week. Hannah's this bestselling novel sold over two million copies and published in 43 languages.

Her first novel published in the UK, Night Road, was one of eight books selected for the UK's 2011 TV Book Club Summer Read. Her other work, The Great Alone, was published by St. Martin's Press in 2018 and became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller. It has been also voted the Best Historical Novel of the year 2018 by Goodreads readers. Her latest novel is The Four Winds which was published on February 2, 2021.

Three of Hannah's novels have been optioned for films: Home Front, The Nightingale, and The Great Alone. Her book Firefly Lane was turned into a Netflix original series, starring Sarah Chalke and Katherine Heigl which premiered on February 3rd, 2021.

She lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and sometimes Hawaii with her husband and their son.

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Rating: 4.8/5

Author: Kristin Hannah

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Publishing Date: February 3, 2015 (First edition)

Edition Language: English

Genre: World War II Historical Fiction, Sisters Fiction, Mother and Children Fiction

ISBN-10: 0312577222

ISBN-13: 978-0312577223

Pages: 440 (Hardcover)

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The Four Winds by Kristine Hannah

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From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, the millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them.

"My land tells its story if you listen. The story of our family."

Texas, 1921. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But In a time when marriage is the only option for women, Elsa Wolcott considered too old to get married. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows.

By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and livelihoods as crops fail, water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa's tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive.

In this limbo and treacherous time, Elsa--like her neighbors--must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family.

The Four Winds is a rich, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it--the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity. The novel is an indelible portrait of America and the American dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.

"Powerful and compelling, I loved it. Through one woman's survival during the harsh and haunting Dust Bowl, master storyteller, Kristin Hannah, reminds us that the human heart and our Earth are as tough, yet as fragile, as a change in the wind."--Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing

"The Four Winds seems eerily prescient in 2021... Its message is galvanizing and hopeful: We are a nation of scrappy survivors. We've been in dire straits before; we will be again. Hold your people close."--The New York Times

About the Author

Kristin Hannah (born September 25, 1960, California) is an American bestselling author. She is a former lawyer turned writer. She graduated with a degree in Communication from the University of Washington and worked at an advertising agency in Seattle. She graduated from the University of Puget Sound law school and practiced law in Seattle before becoming a full-time writer. Hannah wrote her first novel with her mother, who was dying of cancer at the time; the book was never published.

Kristin Hannah is an award-winning author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, which was named Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People's Choice award for best fiction in the same year. Additionally, it was named Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week. Hannah's this bestselling novel sold over two million copies and published in 43 languages.

Her first novel published in the UK, Night Road, was one of eight books selected for the UK's 2011 TV Book Club Summer Read. Her other work, The Great Alone, was published by St. Martin's Press in 2018 and became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller. It has been also voted the Best Historical Novel of the year 2018 by Goodreads readers. Her latest novel is The Four Winds which was published on February 2, 2021.

Three of Hannah's novels have been optioned for films: Home Front, The Nightingale, and The Great Alone. Her book Firefly Lane was turned into a Netflix original series, starring Sarah Chalke and Katherine Heigl which premiered on February 3rd, 2021.

She lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and sometimes Hawaii with her husband and their son.

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Rating: 4.6/5

Author: Kristine Hannah

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Publishing Date: February 2, 2021

Edition Language: English

Genre: Mothers and Children Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction

ISBN-10: 1250178606

ISBN-13: 978-1250178602

Pages: 464 (Hardcover)

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Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby

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Wow, No Thank You (2020) is a comic essay collection by American essayist Samantha Irby. We all need some humor, well definitely during this time. This book is hilarious, sometimes painful, and showcases the gross truth. Through those truths, she instead proves that she is resilient, raunchy, pertinent, and insightful. 

Ever since the publication of Meaty in 2013, Irby's essays have been required reading on the millennial condition. In her latest collection, the writer -- now is forty and living a Pinterest-modified version of the American dream in a small Midwestern town -- turns addictively bummed-out wit to topics like 'lesbian bed death' and the difficulty of making adult friendships

This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in LA taking meetings with 'tv executives/amateur astrologers' while being a "cheesy fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person". 

The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life. The new life contains aging, marriage, settling down with step-children in white, small-town America. In it, Irby is at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable attitude.

"Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny... irresistible as a snack tray, as intimately pleasurable as an Irish goodbye." -- Jia Tolentino

"If you've never heard or read anything by Irby, do yourself a favor and head straight to Google...Her essays are so relatable, they're healing."-- Washington Independent Review of Books, *Most Anticipated Books of 2020*

About the Author

Samantha McKiver Irby ( born February 13, 1980) is an American comedian, author, and blogger. She runs the blog Bitches Gotta Eat, where she writes posts about her personal life and events.

A list of her books and collection of essays: We Are Never Meeting in Real Life (2017) and Wow, No Thank Your: Essays (2020) had given her a recognizable place in the literature world. Her other works like Meaty (2013), New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions- Absolutely Did Not Keep (2017), 'Country Crock' in Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America (2017) are also popular among readers.

Irby also co-hosted the live lit show Guts and Glory in Chicago with Keith Ecker until 2015, where the show ended its run. In 2016 FX announced that they had purchased the television rights to Irby's 2013 memoir Meaty and her blog, with the intent to adapt them into a series. 

Irby married Kristen Jennings in 2016 and resides in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic and published successful books and has been friend-zoned by Hollywood and famous writers like Roxane Gay and Lindy West. 

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Rating: 4.3/5

Author: Samantha Irby

Publisher: Vintage

Publishing Date: March 31, 2020

Edition Language: English

Genre: Humor, Biography, Autobiography, Essay, Memoir 

ISBN-10: 0525563482

ISBN-13: 978-0525563488

Pages: 336 (Paperback)