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This month on Booked for Breakfast, our online mystery and thriller book club, we’ll be featuring a classic tale, a peculiar crime story, and a Swedish award-winner:

  • Louis L’Amour, author of
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  • Christopher Fowler, author of The Victoria Vanishes
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FEATURED TITLES
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A GOOD WOMAN
Danielle Steel

From the glittering ballrooms of Manhattan to the fires of World War I, Danielle Steel takes us on an unforgettable journey in her new novel—a spellbinding tale of war, loss, history, and one woman’s unbreakable spirit . . .

Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New. . . Read more >

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REMEMBER ME?
Sophie Kinsella

When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident—in a Mercedes no less—Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact . . .
Read more >

Read Chapter One here

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LIVING WITH THE DEAD
Kelley Armstrong

They’re smart, sexy, and supernatural. They’re the men and women of the Otherworld—a realm of witches, ghosts, and werewolves who live unseen among us. Only now a reckless killer has torn down the wall, trapping one very human woman in the supernatural cross fire.

Robyn Peltier moved to Los Angeles . . . Read more >

Read Chapter One here

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SANTA CLAWED
Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown

New York Times bestselling authors Rita Mae Brown and her feline partner, Sneaky Pie Brown, are back for the holidays in a new mystery featuring Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker. Can they save the season from a killjoy who’s decided to . . . Read more >

Read Chapter One here

BONUS! Listen to Rita Mae Brown’s podcast episode on November 24th.
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JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN
Dalton Trumbo

Look for the new motion picture in theaters this fall!

This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered—not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives . . . This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way . . . Read more >

Read Chapter One here

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Watch the video for Metallica’s “One” based on the original 1971 version of the film

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Dial Press Feature
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THE UNDOMESTIC GODDESS
Sophie Kinsella

Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She’s made a mistake so huge, it’ll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big . . . Read more >

Read Chapter One here

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For over ten years, The Dial Press has published a selective, yet wide-ranging roster of talented and award winning fiction and nonfiction writers, including Sophie Kinsella, Marie Arana, Elizabeth McCracken, Allegra Goodman, David Schickler, and Sting.

Visit the Dial Press site

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Discovery Feature
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GOOD LUCK
Whitney Gaskell

Lucy Parker wins the lottery on the worst day of her life. But can all the money in the world make up for a cheating boyfriend, a derailed career, and ending up in the middle of a media circus? Everyone wants a piece of Lucy . . . and all she wants is to escape . . . Read more >

Read Chapter One here

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Read the author interview here

Available in two formats!
Your choice: Trade Paperback | Mass Market

New voices. New choices. Once a month, Bantam Discovery will release simultaneous trade paperback and mass market editions of new novels featuring authors whose voices speak to today's engaged reader.

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Romance Feature
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FORBIDDEN FRUIT
Eden Bradley

One taste is never enough.

For university professor Mia Rose Curry, it was all academic: her course in alternative sexuality was a safe, socially acceptable way for her to talk about the things she desired most—but had never let herself experience. And while students crammed into her class to learn about fetishes . . . Read more >

Read Chapter One here

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Mystery Corner
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THE VICTORIA VANISHES
Christopher Fowler

It’s a case tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit. A lonely hearts killer is targeting middle-aged women at some of England’s most well-known pubs—including one torn down eighty years ago. What’s more, Arthur Bryant happened to see one of the victims only moments before her death at the pub that doesn’t . . . Read more >

Read Chapter One here

BONUS! Listen to Christopher Fowler’s podcast episode on November 3rd.
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Vital Lines
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HUSBANDRY: SEX, LOVE & DIRTY LAUNDRY—INSIDE THE MINDS OF MARRIED MEN
Stephen Fried

At last, one husband reveals the answers to some of mankind's greatest mysteries.

Why do men hog the remote? Refuse to stop and ask for directions? Have such a hard time sharing their emotions? Why can’t they drop their socks in the laundry basket instead of near it? What does a man mean . . . Read more >

Read Chapter One here

BONUS!
Watch a video interview with the author

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GOOD READS . . . FOR CELEBRATING FAMILY
WHAT MATTERS MOST
Luanne Rice
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With every New York Times bestseller, Luanne Rice illuminates yet another of the secret wonders of the heart. Her unforgettable evocations of family, friendship, and loves lost and won in such novels as The Edge of Winter, Sandcastles, and Summer of Roses give voice to our most powerful emotions. Now she . . . Read more >

Read Chapter One here

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LITTLE WOMEN
Louisa May Alcott
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Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have . . . Read more >

Read Chapter One here


THANK YOU FOR ALL THINGS
Sandra Kring
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At twelve, Lucy Marie McGowan already knows she’ll be a psychologist when she grows up. And her quirky and conflicted family provides plenty of opportunity for her to practice her calling. Now Lucy, her “profoundly gifted” twin brother, Milo, her commitment-phobic mother, and her New Age grandmother are leaving Chicago for . . . Read more >

Read Chapter One here

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LITTLE HEATHENS
Mildred Armstrong Kalish
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I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences, and partly for the sheer joy . . . Read more >

Read Chapter One here

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