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Bolu Babalola’s romantic vision

Few words related to identity convey a more precise meaning than the ones Bolu Babalola uses to describe her identity: “I’m a Nigerian child, eldest daughter.” If you’re familiar with immigrant parents, you know the drill: Education is the key to securing your future, with a reliable profession (doctor, lawyer, engineer) followed by a judicious
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for July 12, 2022

Today’s Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden for $1.99 The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi  for $4.99 Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel for $2.99 Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell for $2.99 Motherest by Kristen Iskandrian for $2.99 Hamnet by Maggie
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The Poet’s House

Definitions differ, but many people eventually discover the value in approaching life’s challenges with at least a modicum of grace. Grace and its manifestations are at the heart of The Poet’s House, Jean Thompson’s charming novel about a young California woman with a learning disability who figures out her place in life with the help
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Picasso’s War

By the mid-20th century, Pablo Picasso’s paintings and sculptures were turning heads in France and Germany, ushering in cubism, a new artistic style that challenged older styles. At this same moment, American art was dominated by a devotion to realism and the old masters, and therefore resistant to and repulsed by the “modern art” of
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for July 9, 2022

Today’s Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals American Duchess by Karen Harper for $1.99 Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix for $2.99 Dread Nation by Justina Ireland for $1.99 The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam for $1.99 We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix for $2.99 Empire of Gold by S.
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for July 8, 2022

Today’s Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen for $1.99 Sisters of the Snake by Sirena & Sasha Nanua for $1.99 Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett for $5.99 The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson for $2.99 My Killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey for
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for July 7, 2022

Today’s Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge for $2.99 Goldilocks by Laura Lam for $4.99 Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed for $2.99 The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King for $1.99 Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams for $1.99 Fingersmith
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HarperCollins Union Has Voted To Strike

The HarperCollins union represents over 250 employees in various divisions of the company, from legal to design to editorial and sales. They have been in negotiations since December of 2021, and the process was made more complicated by HarperCollins recently acquiring the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt trade division. The union says HarperCollins will not allow the
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for July 4, 2022

Today’s Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto for $2.99 Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai for $2.99 Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett for $1.99 Love in Catalina Cove by Brenda Jackson for $1.99 The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune for $2.99 The Luminaries by
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for July 3, 2022

Today’s Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende for $2.99 Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai for $2.99 Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett for $1.99 Love in Catalina Cove by Brenda Jackson for $1.99 The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune for $2.99
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6 thrilling international mysteries

In Julie Mayhew’s Greek island-set thriller, Little Nothings, little cuts do lasting damage and friendships are as intense and heartbreaking as romantic relationships. Thanks to her friendless childhood and dysfunctional family, Liv Travers never felt like she belonged. Even getting married to her husband, Pete, and giving birth to a daughter, Ivy, didn’t fundamentally change
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 30, 2022

Today’s Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson for $1.99 Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw for $2.99 The Cactus by Sarah Haywood for $2.99 Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump for $1.99 Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 29, 2022

Today’s Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore for $2.99 Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan for $2.99 Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston for $2.99 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak for $2.99 The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley
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The 35 best memoirs of 2022 (so far)

A talented new crop of memoirists explore the friction between their queer identities and their cultural and geographical surroundings. Asylum Edafe Okporo’s aptly titled memoir, Asylum: A Memoir and a Manifesto, recounts his experience growing up gay in Nigeria, a place known for having harsh laws against “known homosexuals.” Okporo writes with sensitivity about the
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