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Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Chronicle Books, publisher of Bibliophile: Diverse Spines. The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh for $2.99 Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi for $2.99 What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera for $1.99 Luster by Raven Leilani for $2.99 The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins for $2.99 Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia for $2.99 The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi for $4....

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Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group. Ten Caesars by Barry Strauss for $3.99 Warcross by Marie Lu for $1.99 What They Meant for Evil by Rebecca Deng for $2.99 I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan for $1.99 The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso for $2.99 The Widow by Fiona Barton for $1.99 Five Midnights by Ann Davila Cardinal for $2....

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From Friday, October 1 until Sunday night, October 3, Book Riot will be matching donations to Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, up to $2,500 USD. To participate, upload a picture of your receipt for your donation in the form below. You can redact personal information. Check back next week, and we will upload our receipt to show how much we’ve raised together! For more ways to help and information on why we’ve chosen to support this campaign, keep reading....

Library historian Dr. Weigand (2016) defends the social and emotional benefits of reading stories, stating: “History of reading scholars have clearly demonstrated the capacity of commonplace stories to stimulate reader imagination, construct community through shared meaning, and demonstrate moral achievement…Readers move into and out of the text, and thus appropriate meaning relevant to their own lives…The act of reading stories becomes dependably pleasurable, empowering, intellectually stimulating, and socially bonding.” I think Dr....

There’s no shortage of reading material about running. There’s very technical stuff (which can be very useful) and for that, I find it useful to buy the occasional issue of a good running magazine and go from there. The books I want to talk about, though, aren’t how to run guides, not precisely, but are more memoirs about running. They explore the territory without necessarily stopping to give you precise mechanics about anything (the mechanics are easily to learn....

Last week, my sister-in-law sent me a picture of the cover of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth, asking me if I had read it. It was the last book she got before the pandemic reached us. I replied that I hadn’t, but that I liked everything I had read by Lahiri. There was something about that text message that felt different from the tone of recent conversations. Perhaps a trace of simplicity that is rare lately: a book that reminded someone of someone else, nothing to do with health, nothing to do with fear or worry, no memes about the virus....

Bridgerton is back, y’all! I mean, let’s face it, it never really left. The Netflix series was just the balm we needed in late 2020. Now, it’s 2022, and Bridgerton has returned with an all-new romance for us to follow. To celebrate, I’ve picked out ten Bridgerton must-haves from Etsy. Every one of these items makes the perfect gift for that friend who just won’t shut up about Anthony and Kate — even if that person is you....