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✨❤️ Hello friends!! Today I wanted to tell you about the sequel to Empress of A Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza, BLOOD OF A THOUSAND STARS!! I love this series, and this sequel was truly stunning. I’m all for an epic sci-if adventure, and this delivers wondrously. Full of lush descriptions and in a world of peril, I am hooked by these vivid characters and their story. Here’s a bit about the book:
War tears the galaxy apart, power tests the limits of family, and violence gives way to freedom in this exhilarating sequel to Empress of a Thousand Skies.
✨Empress ✨
With a revolution brewing, Rhee is faced with a choice: make a deal with her enemy, Nero, or denounce him and risk losing her crown.
✨Fugitive✨
Framed assassin Alyosha has one goal in mind: kill Nero. But to get his revenge, Aly may have to travel back to the very place he thought he’d left forever–home.
✨Princess✨
Kara knows that a single piece of technology located on the uninhabitable planet Wraeta may be the key to remembering–and erasing–the princess she once was.
✨Madman✨
Villainous media star Nero is out for blood, and he’ll use means necessary to control the galaxy.
✨Vicious politics and high-stakes action culminate in an epic showdown that will determine the fate of the universe.
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About the author: Rhoda Belleza was raised in Los Angeles, where she grew up writing X-Files fanfiction and stuffing her face with avocados. She’s a children’s editor at a publishing house and writes from a sunny Brooklyn apartment stuffed with far too many bikes and far too many shoes. When she’s not writing, Rhoda obsesses over nail art tutorials, watches kung fu movies, and sews together crooked things that pass for clothes. Empress of a Thousand Skies is her debut novel.
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Have you started this series??
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@eviebookish pillowcase from the January @fairyloot, @aunjuliart booksleeve from the December @fairyloot !!
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Just read Ana of California by Andi Teran in one day. I could NOT put it down. I will definitely be adding this to the Book of the Month list for my students. #anaofcalifornia #anditeran #teenlit #reading #books #penguinbooks #yaliterature #anneofgreengables
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For my next read this month I’m finally getting back into reading George Eliot. Daniel Deronda has been sitting on my shelf for far too long!

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A small little book haul of some of my favourite editions. I had to buy a second copy of the Moonstone as the font is WAY too small in the Penguin black spine edition Does anyone else do this when that happens? I just find tiny font so hard to focus on!

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A #sundayshelfie of part of my new shelves. I’m so happy to be rid of the cubes. My new shelves in my new apartment make me so happy!

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My arms were sore from carrying all of these but I left Toronto with quite a lovely haul ☺️

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Proud to Announce that “ Edward Gets Messy “ written by the super talented Rita Meade and illustrated by yours truly is the winner of the first ever Anna Dewdney read together award 2017 (Penguin Books / Childrens book council ) !! 

read about it more at 

http://www.cbcbooks.org/2017-anna-dewdney-read-together-award-winner-announced/#.WQE2QtLyuUk

A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR

A letter from David Orr, author of The Road Not Taken

When I think about libraries, I think about my mother, who grew up an only child in Greenville, South Carolina. Her parents were the practical-minded offspring of hardscrabble farmers: the stories they knew turned on the hard lessons of Job, not the nimble ironies of Austen. But their daughter was a reader. She started with books from the neighborhood bookmobile, since her parents didn’t know much about libraries, and couldn’t have transported her to one even if they had. She read the same books over and over. Her middle school had a modest library – that’s probably overstating it – and she quickly read all of its books, and then started over again with them as well.

It was in high school that she first encountered something approximating a real library. A librarian noticed how many books she was checking out, and began making suggestions: Stephen Vincent Benet, Flaubert, Dickens. Within a couple of years, Mom had read all of Hardy. It was, she tells me, the great transformative experience of her life, as “the world just opened and opened.” By the end of high school she had a knowledge of classic American and European fiction that would have served her well in college, had there been money for that.  

School taught me to read. But when I was a boy, my mother taught me to be a reader – and by extension a writer. I expect everyone reading this newsletter understands that distinction intimately. 

My book The Road Not Taken: Finding American in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong is about being a reader – in this case, a reader of the most popular American poem and of its equally popular creator, Robert Frost. It’s a book about how our misreadings of both are inevitable because both hold multiple, sometimes contradictory possibilities in tension – much like the American culture they have come to represent. It’s a book about what it means to choose, and how our own choices can seem to depend on other choices of which we were unaware (for instance, the decision to take the advice of a kindly high school librarian). It’s a book about discovering who, or what, the choosing self is. 

I should add that the first real reader of my book was my mother (editors and spouses don’t count, I think, as they’re more allies than readers). She read it in one afternoon. And then she read it again. 

A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR
A letter from Barb Hendee, author of Witches with the Enemy

Oh, Librarians … where would I be without you? 

As a child, I was one of those types who did everything humanly possible NOT to be noticed, not to be seen. While looking for places to hide at school during recess, I found a magical place filled with books and endless shelves. The kind-hearted, bespectacled woman there told me her name was Mrs. Martin.  

Somehow, I found myself speaking back to her, and I told her that I loved horses. She handed me a copy of Anna’s Sewell’s Black Beauty. The joy and wonder that followed was indescribable. I became lost in the story, sorry a few days later when I finished it. When I went back to the library, she showed me how to look up books on my own, and I left with a copy of Felix Salten’s Bambi. The book has much greater depth and social commentary than the Disney film. These stories offered me an escape into places I’d never known. Mrs. Martin was always there with a warm word or a suggestion. I’m not sure I ever recovered from the day she sent me home with Wilson Rawls’ Where the Red Fern Grows. 

My world would have been so diminished without the endless rows of books and without Mrs. Martin to guide me. 

Later, in high school, I still found myself taking refuge in the library at times. 

Our librarian there, Miss Patterson, wore no glasses. She was a tall woman with short, dark hair and a serious countenance. She was not gentle and warm like Mrs. Martin, but she loved books, and she liked other people who loved books. She introduced me to Andrea Norton … Richard Adams … Frank Herbert. Later, she handed me a copy of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, and I went on a Dickens binge for a month, reading everything the library had in stock.  

I came to understand the value of writers who possessed the gift of allowing others to become lost inside of stories, and I knew what I would do when I grew up: I would write the types of stories where readers would become so immersed they would forget they were reading. 

I’ve now published over twenty novels, Witches with the Enemy as the most recent. None of this would have been possible without the kindness and dedication and strength of librarians.

Love,
Barb Hendee 

Was so excited to find three packages from #PenguinBooks in my PO box, and then I opened them and it was FOUR copies of the same book!!! Wtf Penguin?! I guess they really want me to read this book.

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✨*** GIVEAWAY: Penguin Bookends! *** ✨
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Macrolit Tumblr has given away over 750 books since 2015, and now — thanks to @knobcreekmetalarts — we’re hosting our first IG giveaway of these stunningly beautiful, metal Penguin Bookends!
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- The books shown in the giveaway posts and stories are not included.
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All of the covers I’ve had a pleasure to draw for Vita Sackville-Vest’ novels.
Vintage Books
Penguin Random House
Art Direction: CMYK Vintage Design
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Glad my books from the trip are beginning to fit on my shelves. Single-handedly keeping #PenguinBooks in business. #PenguinClassics

Glad my books from the trip are beginning to fit on my shelves. Single-handedly keeping #PenguinBooks in business. #PenguinClassics

When the Penguin offices look like my bedroom. #PenguinBooks #PenguinClassics (at Penguin Books)

Gorgeous Coralie Bickford-Smith clothbound designs. #JaneAusten #RudyardKipling #Ovid #PenguinBooks #PenguinClassics (at Hampstead Garden Suburb)

#JohnWyndham #PenguinBooks (at Hampstead Garden Suburb)

A few of favourite acquisitions from the trip. #GreatIdeas
#VirginiaWoolf #RalphWaldoEmerson #GeorgeEliot #GeorgeOrwell #FriedrichNietzsche #ChinuaAchebe #PenguinBooks #PenguinClassics (at Hampstead Garden Suburb)