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#FRIDAYREADS: GROUNDSKEEPING

March 3, 2022 Written by Liz Camfiord

Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to an audiobook clip. ‘Read with Jenna’ pick for March is ‘Groundskeeping’ by Lee Cole For readers of This Boy’s Life, Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Ben Lerner, Chad Harbach, and Lily King In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to […]

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#FridayReads: Love & Saffron

February 25, 2022March 2, 2022 Written by Liz Camfiord

Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Click for a Book Club Kit. Listen to an audiobook clip. In the vein of the classic 84, Charing Cross Road, this witty and tender novel follows two women in 1960s America as they discover that food really does connect us all, and that friendship and laughter are the best […]

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#FridayReads: Black Cake

February 18, 2022February 18, 2022 Written by Liz Camfiord

Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Click for a Book Club Kit. Listen to an audiobook clip. We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, […]

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#FridayReads: What the Fireflies Knew

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022 Written by Liz Camfiord

Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Click for a Book Club Kit. Listen to an audiobook clip read by Zenzi Williams. A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of eleven-year-old KB, as she and her sister try, over the course of a summer, to make sense of their new life with their estranged grandfather […]

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#FridayReads: The Violin Conspiracy

February 4, 2022February 4, 2022 Written by Liz Camfiord

Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Click for a Readers Guide. Listen to an audiobook clip read by JD Jackson. A riveting page-turner about a Black classical musician’s desperate quest to recover his lost violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world      Growing up Black in rural North […]

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#FridayReads: Joan is Okay

January 28, 2022January 28, 2022 Written by Liz Camfiord

Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Click for a Book Club Kit. A sly, powerful, deeply moving novel about a female doctor forced by crisis to reckon with a life optimized for work, from the award-winning author of Chemistry.      Joan is a thirtysomething ICU physician at a […]

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#FridayReads: Small World

January 21, 2022January 21, 2022 Written by Liz Camfiord

Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Click for a Book Club Kit. A career’s work from a beloved author, Small World is a historic epic set in multiple time periods, in which the characters interconnect in the most intriguing and meaningful ways.      Set in alternating scenes between the […]

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#FridayReads: The Maid

January 14, 2022January 14, 2022 Written by Liz Camfiord

Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Click for a Reading Guide. A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. […]

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