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35 Best Book Deals for 6/16/20: Black Leopard, Red Wolf; Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts); Naturally Tan; and more

Book Deals
As of this posting, all of these deals are active, but I don’t know for how long!
Less than $1
Iphigenia Murphy by Sara Hosey The Impossible Girl by Lydia Kang
Less than $2
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart The Iron Flower by Laurie Forest More Than Words by Jill Santopolo Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams Ghosted by Rosie Walsh My First New York: Early Adventures in the Big City by New York Magazine Grace and Fury by Tracy Banghart Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender Rule by Ellen Goodlett Coraline by Neil Gaiman All Out by Saundra Mitchell Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) by L.C. Rosen The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
Less than $3
When the Moon was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore Cinder by Marissa Meyer This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen Dread Nation by Justina Ireland You Know Me Well by David Levithan & Nina LaCour The Traitor’s Kiss by Erin Beaty Nice Try, Jane Sinner by Lianne Oelke Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann The A.I. Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta Edinburgh by Alexander Chee How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake Incendiary by Zoraida Cordova Talon by Julie Kagawa Naturally Tan by Tan France
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24 Best Book Deals for 3/12/20: Fates and Furies, Anansi Boys, Recursion, and more

Book Deals

As of this posting, all of these deals are active, but I don’t know for how long!
Less than $2

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Damsel by Elana K Arnold

The Light Over London by Julia Kelly

The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo

The Beauty That Remains by Ashley Woodfolk

Soul of the Sword by Julie Kagawa

Fear the Drowning Deep by Sarah Glenn Marsh

The Traitor’s Game by Jennifer A Nielsen

Internment by Samira Ahmed

We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee by Wayne Flynt

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

Dollbaby by Laura Lane McNeal

Regretting You by Colleen Hoover

Girl on the Block by Jessica Wragg

Less than $3

The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner

Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal

The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso

Sanditon by Jane Austen & Kate Riordan

Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby

Dragonfly by Leila Meacham

Recursion by Blake Crouch

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My Favorite Books from 2019

Favorite Reads from 2019

The Witchlands series by Susan Dennard – Really enjoyed this series much more than I thought I would #thehypeisreal. Can’t wait for the next installment!
Reviews: Truthwitch, Windwitch, Bloodwitch

The Library Book by Susan Orlean – This was an amazing read! A must for every book lover.
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill – A middle grade I read for book club and LOVED. It’s definitely middle grade, but I feel like I never would have understood its depths as a kid.
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Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley – Sometimes graphic, but a REAL portrayal of conception, pregnancy, labor, and what it’s like to face impending parenthood.

Shades of Magic trilogy by V.E. Schwab – Blown away by this series and can’t believe I didn’t start it sooner.
Reviews: ADSoM, AGoS, ACoL

Vicious/Vengeful by V.E. Schwab – I’m very impressed by V.E. Schwab at this point. This is the best depiction of an antihero that I’ve ever read.
Reviews: Vicious, Vengeful

The Big Year by Mark Obmascik – I read this after rewatching the movie. Just as delightful.
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak – I’d been meaning to read this book forever and I finally did it. Amazing. I understand why it has the reputation it does. Zusak is a masterful author.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (reread) – For some reason I started doubting whether this book was as good as I remembered it being. After an audio book reread, I can confirm that it is for sure.

You’d Be Mine by Erin Hahn – I didn’t expect much from this book, but was hit hard with unexpected emotion and characters with a surprising amount of depth.
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Don’t Date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno – THIS IS WHAT HISPANIC CULTURE IS. The timing of when I read this book could not have been more perfect.
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First & Then by Emma Mills – I love the relationship between the main character and her cousin and that it doesn’t take a backseat to the romance.
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22 Best Book Deals for 11/21/19: The Bone Witch, The Knife of Never Letting Go, Attachments, and more

Book Deals

As of this posting, all of these deals are active, but I don’t know for how long!
Less than $1

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

Pemberly: Mr Darcy’s Dragon by Maria Grace

Less than $2

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker

Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in the Digital World by Maryanne Wolf

The Heart Forger by Rin Chupeco

Ivory and Bone by Julie Eshbaugh

The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Can’t Escape Love by Alyssa Cole

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton

Black Water Rising by Attica Locke

Navigating the Stars by Maria V Snyder

Beauty by Robin McKinley

The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman

The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden

Less than $3

Comics Will Break Your Heart by Faith Erin Hicks

The Prey by Tom Isbell

The Short Novels of John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick

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Provo Library’s Best Books of 2018 | YA Non-Fiction, Fiction, & Graphic Novels

Every year my local library puts on a “Best Books of…” event and I love it! A lot of the books I’ve already heard of, but I always come away with new books on my TBR! Even though I do work here, I wasn’t part of putting on the event or choosing the books–I was able to just attend as a patron, so that was super fun as well. I made my book club come with me too, so hopefully some of these books will make it into our discussions! Here’s a link for anyone who missed my post on the Adult non-fiction and fiction list.

Provo Library Best Books YA

Bolded books are ones that are on my TBR. Italics are ones I’ve read.

Non-Fiction
Fiction
Comics & Graphic Novels
Have you read any of these? What young adult books would you add to the list?

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Provo Library’s Best Books of 2018 | Adult Non-Fiction & Fiction

Every year my local library puts on a “Best Books of…” event and I love it! A lot of the books I’ve already heard of, but I always come away with new books on my TBR! Even though I do work here, I wasn’t part of putting on the event or choosing the books–I was able to just attend as a patron, so that was super fun as well. I made my book club come with me too, so hopefully some of these books will make it into our discussions! Keep an eye out for the Young Adult list–I’ll be posting that in a few days as well.

Provo Library Best Books Adult

Bolded books are ones that are on my TBR. Italics are ones I’ve read.

Have you read any of these? What adult books would you add to the list?

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Best YA Books of 2017 | Provo Library Event

Every year the Provo Library puts on a “Best of…” event where they go over the best YA, Adult, and Children’s books from the previous year. Most years I just go for the YA session and I’ve usually already heard of most of the books that they mention. But every once in a while they talk about a book that I haven’t heard of and I’m intrigued. So I thought I’d mention a few of the books that caught my eye here.

Bull by David Elliott – This is a book written in verse that also has some visual elements. It’s a retelling of the myth of the Minotaur. I have always loved mythology in general and I’m intrigued by this premise.

Damsels by Leah Moore – More retellings! This one is a graphic novel and brings together many of our favorite fairy tale heroines. This is not your typical “damsel in distress” book.

Vincent and Theo by Deborah Heiligman – I think somewhere in the back of my mind I knew that Vincent Van Gogh had a brother, but I wouldn’t have been able to come up with his name. This book sounds really interesting in exploring their relationship and how it may have influenced Vincent’s art. Also, this is from the same author who gave us Charles and Emma.

The Hidden Memory of Objects by Danielle Mages Amato – This book was very intriguing to me. It’s set in D.C. and I think has an American History element to it with maybe some magical realism?

Spill Zone by Scott Westerfeld – I have loved Scott Westerfeld ever since I read the “Uglies” series back when they were coming out when I was in junior high. This is a graphic novel and was described as being horror-ish. I’d like to read more graphic novels so I’m definitely interested in this one.

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds – Okay, so I think this is another book that’s written in verse. It’s about a boy whose brother got shot and so now he’s trying to take out the guy who he thinks was the shooter. He’s on this elevator and on each floor a ghost gets on to talk to him? It sounds kind of trippy but also just really fascinating.

Have you guys heard of these books? What were some of your favorite reads from 2017? Let me know in the comments!

Under My Radar | Provo City Library Best Books of 2016

My local library does a fun thing every year where they go over the best books that came out the previous year. A lot of the books that they talked about I’d already read (like Crooked Kingdom and The Lie Tree), some I’d just heard a ton about (like The Sun is Also a Star and The Crown’s Game), but then there were some that had totally slipped under my radar! So here are a few that I thought sounded really good, that I hadn’t really looked into before tonight (covers link to Goodreads).

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Wanderlost by Jen Malone – European cities and old people. I seriously love a good secondary cast of the elderly.

Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum – I’ve seen this cover EVERYWHERE but I’d honestly never really looked into it. It was described as a “You’ve Got Mail” type story.

My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier – I don’t think I’ve seen anyone talking about this one, but it sounds amazingly creepy. A boy moves from Australia to New York and is in charge of watching his 10-year-old sister who he suspects is a psychopath. (o.O)

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This is the Story of You by Beth Kephart – There’s a super storm and so now this girl has to survive with some other people and the few supplies that she has. The writing was described as being punchy and lyrical.

Scythe by Neal Shusterman – This is another book where I’ve seen the cover floating around everywhere, but I hadn’t really looked into at all.

The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock – This is a book about teens in contemporary Alaska. That’s pretty much all I know, but the cover’s really pretty.

At the end of the evening they had four drawings for some of the books that they talked about during the presentation. There were five of us in the room. Guess who was the only one to leave without a book? That’s right, it was me. It’s alright though, I’M NOT BITTER. 😉

Have you guys heard of any of these or did they slip under your radar as well? If you have read some of them, what did you think? Which ones should move to the top of my TBR?

Top Ten Tuesday: Best books of 2015

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week there is a new topic and this week’s topic is: Top Ten Best Books I Read In 2015

I’m going to narrow the field to the top ten books that I read that were published in 2015. Links are to my reviews

1) Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin

“These were the names she whispered in the dark.
These were the pieces she brought back into place.
These were the wolves she rode to war.”

2) Things We Know by Heart by Jessi Kirby

“But it’s terrifying to realise how much of your world is wrapped up in loving another person”

3) Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

“Life is a gift. Don’t forget to live it.”

4) Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig

“Believe me, I have looked this up, and the roots of fate and faith are not the same. Nonetheless, I picked up my wicker suitcase to follow Herman the German into the Old Faithful Inn.”

5) Whippoorwill by Joseph Monninger

“What we find in a dog is what we bring to a dog.”

6) Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone

“I didn’t go there looking for you. I went looking for me.” My voice is soft, low, and shaky. “But now, here you are, and somehow, in finding you, I think I’ve found myself.”

7) Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen

“In any moment, there were so many chances for paths to cross and people to clash, come together, or do any number of things in between. It was amazing we could live at all, knowing all that could occur purely by chance.”

8) A Cold Legacy by Megan Shepherd

“To make the right decision you must understand both paths before you,” he said quietly. “You must know your demons before you know whether to follow them.”

9) A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

“I do fear him,” I said, which was close to the truth. “I fear him as I fear the desert sun and poisonous snakes. They are all part of the life I live. But the sun gives light, and snakes will feed a caravan if they are caught and cooked.”

10) The Heart of Betrayal by Mary E Pearson

“Three more days. That’s what Sven always told me. When you think you’re at the end of your rope, give it three more days. And then another three. Sometimes you’ll find the rope is longer than you thought.”