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Persuasion Trailer Starring Dakota Johnson Shows New Take on Jane Austen Classic

Netflix’s new Persuasion trailer features Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot from Jane Austen’s 1817 novel Persuasion, but with a twist. The original novel follows Anne Elliot eight years after her family convinced her to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth. Now that Anne’s family is renting to Frederick’s sister and her husband, Anne and Frederick
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3 picture books capture the joys of life with pets

Every Dog in the Neighborhood Louis lives with his determined, free-spirited grandmother. When neither she nor City Hall can tell him how many dogs live in their neighborhood, Louis takes Grandma’s advice to heart: “Sometimes if you want something done you’ve just got to do it yourself.”  Louis decides to go door to door to
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Local Gone Missing

Nothing ever happens in Ebbing—until one horrific weekend. Local Gone Missing follows a variety of residents in the tiny English seaside town, from an inquisitive cleaning lady with a dark past to vacationers with a secret agenda. It all comes to a head during a chaotic musical festival, one that ends with dual overdoses, a
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Under the Skin

Linda Villarosa grew up in a high-achieving Black family in a mostly white suburb of Denver. When she began writing about Black women’s health for Essence in the mid-1980s, her articles were all about self-help and self-improvement, based on the assumption that poverty and poor education were the reasons for detrimental health conditions among Black
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The Divorce Colony

When rich women seeking a “migratory divorce” headed west by train to states with more lenient divorce laws in the 1890s—maids, lawyers and multiple wardrobe trunks in tow—they hardly looked like revolutionaries. Yet they started something. Historian April White’s exhaustive account, The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier,
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The World as We Knew It

Climate change is now ingrained in our daily lives. Newscasts almost always have a climate-related segment, whether it’s about a new science report on the status of the world’s temperatures or about natural disasters such as wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes and droughts. Most of today’s children will not know what life was like before the world
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The Kingdom of Sand

“There is no wealth but life,” wrote John Ruskin near the end of his 1860 book, Unto This Last. The unnamed narrator of Andrew Holleran’s doleful fourth novel, The Kingdom of Sand, cites Ruskin midway through, by which time readers know the reason this quotation is on his mind. A gay man in his 60s,
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 9, 2022

Today’s Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers for $3.99 A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn for $2.99 We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge for $1.99 Nimona by Noelle Stevenson for $1.99 Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala for $1.99 The Snow Child
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You Have a Friend in 10A

Every writer has to start somewhere. Maggie Shipstead’s bestselling 2021 novel, Great Circle, earned a place on the Booker Prize shortlist, but the road to such success is often long. In Shipstead’s case, as she explains in the acknowledgments of You Have a Friend in 10A, her path began with stories written while studying at
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day: June 7, 2022

Today’s Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole for $2.99 Hyperion by Dan Simmons for $1.99 Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert for $1.99 The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker for $2.99 Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam for $2.99
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If you love Hallmark movies, you have to read these books

A cozy small town. A quaint Main Street lined with quirky family-owned shops. Community events—farmers markets, pumpkin carving contests, Christmas tree lightings—attended by everyone. A plucky, adorable heroine finds love with the gorgeous guy who drove her crazy, right up until their nonstop sparring turned into love. We all know the formulas. Like receiving a
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Conservative Group Launches “Hide the Pride” to Remove Books From Library Pride Displays

CatholicVote, which calls itself “America’s top Catholic advocacy organization,” has launched a “parent-led movement” called Hide the Pride to “empty libraries of LGBTQ content aimed at kids.” It encourages members of the public to first collect signatures protesting library Pride displays containing children’s books, then to check out all of the books on display. They
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 4, 2022

Today’s Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez for $1.99 Do You Mind If I Cancel? by Gary Janetti for $2.99 Witches Steeped in Gold by Ciannon Smart for $2.99 The Hellion’s Waltz: Feminine Pursuits by Olivia Waite for $1.99 Felix Ever After by
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