Post Book World Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Solito: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Memoir
Javier ZamoraPost Book World"Solito: A Memoir" by @jzsalvipoet is about a migrant child’s long journey to "Gringolandia" @HogarthBooks https://t.co/peqLcMUXJG
Paperback, 2023
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
Farah StockmanPost Book WorldTODAY Tue 10/19 EDT 5PM @fstockman discusses "American Made" with @ConnieSchultz @PoliticsProse 7PM @amortowles discusses "The Lincoln Highway" with @KenBurns @MidtownScholar https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/events/cal?category=263
Hardcover, 2021
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Plot
Jean Hanff KorelitzPost Book WorldThe new novel "The Plot" by @JeanHanffKoreli, the author behind “The Undoing,” is a sharp and twisty tale of literary paranoia @CeladonBooks @MaureenCorrigan https://t.co/3fcH1pijsr
Paperback, 2022
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders Are Made
David GergenPost Book WorldWith "Hearts Touched With Fire: How Great Leaders Are Made," @David_Gergen has written a book on leadership that offers real leaders, not abstract theories @simonschuster @SimonBooks @JeremiSuri https://t.co/dkOoZC7kML
Paperback, 2023
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
12 Bytes: How AI Will Change the Way We Live and Love
Jeanette WintersonPost Book WorldTODAY Fri 10/15 EDT 6PM @Wintersonworld discusses "12 Bytes" 8PM Sesali Bowen discusses "Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist" with Morgan Harding @BadFatBlackGirl @PoliticsProse https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/events/cal?category=263
Paperback, 2023
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lessons
Ian McEwanPost Book WorldSexual abuse casts a long shadow in Ian McEwan’s ‘Lessons’ @knopf @RonCharles https://t.co/oAqu82NWSO
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
Ben MacIntyrePost Book World.@BenMacintyre1's "Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape From Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison" is a tale of WWII derring-do that reveals the humanity of its heroes @PenguinBooks @andreapitzer https://t.co/nRuhpOStMS
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Reliable Wife
Robert GoolrickPost Book WorldRobert Goolrick, whose books explored tragedy and endurance, dies at 73 -- He vaulted to literary prominence with a lacerating childhood memoir of abuse and wrote best-selling novels such as "A Reliable Wife.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/05/13/robert-goolrick-author-dead/
Paperback, 2010
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
Fiona HillPost Book WorldTODAY Fri 10/8 EDT 6PM Fiona Hill discusses "There Is Nothing for You Here" with @sbg1 @PoliticsProse 7PM @KeishaBlain discusses "Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America" with @DamonYoungVSB @MidtownScholar #hbgbookfest https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/events/cal?category=263
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Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club): How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Susan CainPost Book WorldIn a relentlessly positive culture, a defense of melancholy from the author of "Quiet," @susancain, in "Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole" @CrownPublishing @bqilal https://t.co/2hhyYFwHGp
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book