Category: Harper Books
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Blog Tour: A WOMAN IS NO MAN by Etaf Rum
Special thank you to Harper Books for this amazing opportunity. Description: Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. There Isra struggles to…
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Blog Tour & Review: PUTNEY by Sofka Zinovieff
Thank you so much to Harper Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “A slow-motion hunt so gradual that the prey didn’t even realize it was being pursued, and would eventually just lie down to be mauled.” Description: A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s,…
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Review: THE WORD IS MURDER by Anthony Horowitz
Thank you so very much to Harper Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor – enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead,…
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Review: HOW TO BE FAMOUS by Caitlin Moran
Thank you so much to Harper Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Johanna Morrigan (aka Dolly Wilde) has it all: she is nineteen, lives in her own flat in London, and writes for the coolest music magazine in Britain. Her star is rising, just not quickly enough for…
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Review: WHAT SHOULD BE WILD by Julia Fine
Thank you so much Harper Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Cursed. Maisie Cothay has never known the feel of human flesh: born with the power to kill or resurrect at her slightest touch, she has spent her childhood sequestered in her family’s manor at the edge of a…
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Review: ANOTHER SIDE OF PARADISE by Sally Koslow
Many thanks to Harper Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: In 1937 Hollywood, gossip columnist Sheilah Graham’s star is on the rise, while literary wonder boy F. Scott Fitzgerald’s career is slowly drowning in booze. But the once-famous author, desperate to make money penning scripts for the silver…
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Review: THE PERFECT MOTHER by Aimee Molloy
Thank you so much to Harper Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: They call themselves the May Mothers—a group of new moms whose babies were born in the same month. Twice a week, they get together in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park for some much-needed adult time. When the women…
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Review: BARRACOON by Zora Neale Hurston
Thank you so much to Harper Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the…
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Book Review: PROPERTY: STORIES BETWEEN TWO NOVELLAS by Lionel Shriver
Thank you so much Harper Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much…
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Book Mail: WHAT SHOULD BE WILD by Julia Fine
Thank you so much to Harper Books for sending me this gorgeous advance copy! Synopsis: In this darkly funny, striking debut, a highly unusual young woman must venture into the woods at the edge of her home to remove a curse that has plagued the women in her family for millennia—an utterly original novel with…