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Coloring queen Johanna Basford has revealed the cover for her next book, IVY AND THE INKY BUTTERFLY! This time, the US edition gets deluxe gold and teal foil, printed on ivory paper. Read more about the book here!

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M. L. Longworth's beloved Verlaque & Bonnet Mystery series takes readers on a wine-soaked journey through the south of France as an on-again-off-again couple solves mysteries and murders (in between decadent French meals, of course). The latest installment, The Curse of La Fontaine, hits shelves tomorrow! These books are as delicious as dinner in Provence, and perfect for Francophiles and mystery-lovers alike. 🇫🇷🍷💀🌷🗡 (at Aix-en-Provence, France)

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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in style with green books and good drinks. ☘📗🍸 We recommend The Waldorf Astoria Bar Book, which was just nominated for a James Beard Award in the Beverage category!

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Activism & Awareness: A Reading List For The Holidays

It’s been a tough year, and many of us are trying to figure out where to go next. But education is essential before we take informed action, so do a deep dive into some of the issues we face in America with these books.

Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Jackson, 1964, And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America by Calvin Trillin

Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World by Kevin Bales

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse by Mohamed A. El-Erian

American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good by Colin Woodard

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Happy NaNoWriMo! We’ve been collecting writing advice from tons of our talented writers. Browse through them here! 

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Pour, spill, drip, spit, fling your coffee here page in my Wreck This Journal.

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Lois Lowry’s foreword to our new Deluxe Edition of Lord of the Flies (out 11/15) is excerpted in this week’s issue of The New York Times Book Review. In the foreword, which is also available online, the beloved author of The Giver discusses how the harsh themes of bullying and savagery in Golding’s classic deeply affected her as a young girl, and still resonate with her just as strongly sixty years later.

Side note: how awesome is the cover by Adams Carvalho?

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Congratulations to Ottessa Moshfegh, whose novel “Eileen” is a PEN/Hemingway Award winner and now a Man Booker Prize finalist--winners are announced in two weeks, and we’re keeping our fingers crossed!

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Kate Winslet Strikes a Pose in The Dressmaker

Author Rosalie Ham’s bestselling book makes the jump to silver screen in this highly-anticipated Amazon Original Movie.

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Book mail courtesy of riverheadbooks & vikingbooks! Thank you again! <3

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History of publisher logos courtesy of World Book Night!  Can you guess which one we’re partial to? 

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“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”—Oscar Wilde

Celebrate the start of Banned Books Week today by reading about famous banned and censored poetry and poets, including Baudelaire, Brooks, Chaucer, Ginsberg, Ovid & more, on Poets.org.

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Browse through some of our most celebrated banned books here. 

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Got plans tonight? The Dressmaker is a “visually stunning, dizzyingly genre-defying adaptation” (Slate) of Rosalie Ham’s darkly funny novel about a 1950s couturier out for revenge in a small Australian town—and it’s in theaters today! Don’t forget the popcorn. 🍿

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😍 #ModernRomance @azizansari (at Penguin Paperbacks)

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“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.” ― George Orwell, Animal Farm