IN THIS ISSUE
*New Fiction, Recipes, and Giveaways
*Pandemic Reading Survey
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The Jane Austen Society:
Blogger Recipes
*The Henna Artist
: Reese's Book Club
*Book Clubs Preview
*Got Puns?
*Yoga Blends for a Cause
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Ever tried a Kentucky Hot Brown sandwich? A Zombie cocktail? Recipes from the original
Moosewood Cookbook?
Authors of our June feature titles offer distinctive book-inspired fare. We look forward to sharing their book club menus with you throughout the month.
Has the Pandemic changed your reading habits? How has it affected your book club reading selections?
Take our quick survey!
We'll share the results in July.
Happy reading, cooking, and be safe!
Judy Gelman
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Book-inspired menus and giveaways featured on social media
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Book Club Buzz Feature Titles
Authors' insights, book-inspired recipes, menus, and giveaways
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THE SECOND HOME
Christina Clancy
(St. Martin's Press)
Fiction / Women's Fiction
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A novel about
second homes, second families, and second chances.
The Second Home
is the story of a family you'll quickly fall in love with and won't soon forget.
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WE CAME HERE TO SHINE
Susie Orman Schnall
(St. Martin's Griffin)
Historical Fiction
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Set during the iconic 1939 New York World's Fair, a journalist and an actress form an unlikely friendship as they pursue their personal and professional dreams.
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THE BLACK SWAN OF PARIS
Karen Robards
(Harlequin)
Historical Fiction
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For fans of
The Alice Network
comes a thrilling novel about a celebrated singer in World War II occupied France who joins the Resistance to save her estranged family from death in a German prison.
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Book Club Daily Feature Titles
Authors' book-inspired menu ideas and giveaways
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YOU CAN'T CATCH ME
Catherine McKenzie
(Lake Union Publishing)
Fiction /Thriller
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When the game is deception, nothing is as it seems in this novel of cunning psychological suspense by the author of
I’ll Never Tell.
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YOU CAN GO HOME NOW
Michael Elias
(HarperCollins)
Fiction /Thriller
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A New York City police officer goes undercover in a shelter for abused women to catch a killer.
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THE REQUEST
David Bell
(Berkley)
Fiction /Thriller
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When a man agrees to do a favor for a friend, he gets more than he bargained for as he becomes embroiled in a woman’s murder.
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YA Reads: June 9
AGNES AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Kelly McWilliams
(Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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Young Adult/ Teen Fiction
The Handmaid's Tal
e meets
Wilder Girls
in this genre-defying novel about a girl who escapes a terrifying cult only to discover that the world Outside has succumbed to a viral apocalypse.
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The Jane Austen Society Party
Bloggers serve up fictional fare
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Bloggers cooked up lemon cakes, a blueberry tart, eggs with crispy shallots, and baked apples for
#TheJaneAustenSocietyParty. They served these book-inspired dishes virtually to celebrate Natalie Jenner's new novel,
The Jane Austen Society.
Visit
The Jane Austen Society Party page for recipes and posts. Thanks to Culinary Adventures with Camilla, All Roads Lead to the Kitchen, Eliot's Eats, A Day in the Life on the Farm, and Kahakai Kitchen!
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Reese's Book Club: The Henna Artist
Recipe and Book Club Menu
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Congratulations, Alka Joshi! Her novel,
The Henna Artist, our winter Book Club Buzz feature, is the selection for Reese's Book Club.
The Henna Artist tells the
story of a woman living in India in the 1950s who finds herself raising a sister she never knew she had while balancing a secret side hustle, fighting her inner desires, and struggling to maintain her identity as a self-made woman.
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GalleyMatch Book Clubs Suggest
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ALICE BY HEART
by Steven Sater
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Click image below for video
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East Lawrence High School Book Club
of Trinity, Alabama
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WEIRD BUT NORMAL
by Mia Mercado
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K3 Book Club of Centennial, Colorado, Boston, Massachusetts, and Paris, France
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THE BOOK OF SECOND CHANCES
by Katherine Slee
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Jane Austen Book Club of Lexington, Kentucky
Wine & Book Babes of Folsom, California
Mom and I of Carmichaels, Pennsylvania
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Got Puns?
Name our 2020 Book, TV, and Song Blends!
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Got puns? Get punny!
Help us name the new Book Blends, Song Blends, and TV Blends— spices, herbs, and blends inspired by literature, music, and television. Current Blends include
Where The Crawdads Zing
,
Grain of Thrones,
and
Steak It to The Limit.
Brainstorm for title ideas with your family and friends, and
submit entries
by June 30,
2020.
Winners receive a set of Blends!
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Yoga Blends
Yoga-inspired spices benefit World Central Kitchen
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We're supporting
Rise Together, Sweat Together,
a virtual fitness fundraiser benefitting World Central Kitchen, an organization that provides fresh meals to communities in need.
Proceeds of our limited edition Yoga Blends— spices and seasonings inspired by yoga poses, including Chai-Turanga, Sa-Pasta-Na, and Nam-Satay— benefit Rise Together, Sweat Together.
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Enter to win these Book Club Buzz giveaways
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