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Book Mail

Book Mail

Thank you so much Harper Perennial for these gifted books.

Many years ago the very first publishing house to send me a book to review was HarperCollins. Since then, I have been blessed to work with @harperperennial and cannot even begin to describe how so many of the books they published have impacted my life and sent me on such an emotional journey.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ก๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜ ๐—ช๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—˜๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต

Pulitzer Prize winner: based on the extraordinary life of the authorโ€™s grandfather, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota to Washington, D.C.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐——๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—›๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—”๐—ป๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜

Pulitzer Prize finalist: Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire at the end of WWIl, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. He buys Dutch House, a lavish estate. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves.

๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜€: ๐—” ๐—•๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ณ ๐—›๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—›๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ต ๐—”๐—ป๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—˜๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—ฌ๐˜‚๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ก๐—ผ๐—ฎ๐—ต ๐—›๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ถ

A #1 international bestseller: from a renowned historian, a groundbreaking narrative of humanityโ€™s creation and evolution. Exploring how biology and history have defined our understanding of being โ€œhuman.โ€ One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one-homo sapiens. What happened to the others?

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ช.๐—˜.๐—•. ๐——๐˜‚ ๐—•๐—ผ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—›๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ ๐—™๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ

Jeffers National Book Award nominee: Ailey spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her motherโ€™s family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in bondage. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging -made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma and a maternal line reaching back two centuries-that urge Ailey to succeed in their stead.

Famous Last Words

Famous Last Words