Jonathan Ball Publishers Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood
This scintillating new novel from the author of the TikTok sensation The Love Hypothesis serves up more sassy fun in the lab, as a scientist has to collaborate with her handsome arch-enemy. Read more: https://t.co/uZinsyYQQa https://t.co/A5QRHrqxxi
Paperback, 2021
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s. Pre-order now: http://ow.ly/WTHJ50Gevdy https://t.co/DiI6fyMb9R
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tenth of December: Stories
George Saunders
Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of December. Read more: https://t.co/dhoH2vTjOA https://t.co/VvkZHZRe19
Paperback, 2014
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fairy Tale
Stephen King
Welcome to the dark side of Happily Ever After. We are delighted to reveal the bewitching cover for Fairy Tale, the spellbinding new novel from Stephen King, coming later this year. https://t.co/917lr9WtME
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Jane Austen Remedy: It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged That a Book Can Change a Life
Ruth Wilson
A beautiful, life-affirming memoir of love, self-acceptance and the curative power of reading. Published the year Ruth turns ninety, The Jane Austen Remedy is an inspirational account of the lessons learned from Jane Austen over nine decades. Read more: https://t.co/7mdgjEfAF2 https://t.co/0HJRmksoNN
Paperback, 2023
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)
Brit Bennett
Told from different points of view, this is an utterly compelling and deeply relatable novel. Fans of Girl, Woman, Other and The Vanishing Half will love this book about friendship, community, chosen family, and healing after trauma. Read more: https://t.co/JcI0APOj0m https://t.co/Rrfru0wYjr
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo
A Scatter of Light is a companion novel to the National Book Awards winner and New York Times bestseller Last Night at the Telegraph Club, and is about how the threads of family, inspiration, art, and identity are woven across generations. Read more: https://t.co/yDmQy7Uf0r https://t.co/F4G2GBxfar
Paperback, 2021
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey
STAFF PICK SUNDAY This week Publisher Annie Olivier recommends GREENLIGHTS by Matthew McConaughey. https://t.co/Hbk8PzLb8j
Paperback, 2024
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mad Honey: A GMA Book Club Pick
Jodi Picoult
If you loved the sweeping story of family, parenthood and gender identity in THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS, you should read MAD HONEY by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan, a soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind. https://t.co/N3rEwdJsbW
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others
Stephen M. R. Covey
In his new breakthrough leadership book Trust and Inspire, Stephen Covey shows that though our world has evolved, our style of leadership still has not—but it’s time to change that. Read more: https://t.co/7elQloBFEP https://t.co/4dTSYIxkhs
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book