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Liz Kellebrew Author Of The River People

From Liz's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Liz's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Liz Kellebrew Why Liz loves this book

Like getting a strong, warm hug at the end of the world. This book is moving, compelling, and quietly defiant.

By Leif Enger ,

Why should I read it?

6 authors picked I Cheerfully Refuse as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Barnes & Noble's April Book Club Pick
An Amazon Top 10 Editors' Pick
A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 from Literary Hub

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved musician taking to Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved bookselling wife. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. Amid the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humour, generous strangers and…


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The High House by James Stoddard,

The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.

The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.

Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…

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By Hwang Bo-Reum , Shanna Tan (translator) ,

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4 authors picked Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

**AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** WATERSTONES BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2023 PICK WOMAN & HOME NOVEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH iPaper TOP FICTION PICK 'An absolutely charming novel that all bookworms will adore' Red 'A balm for the soul and a glorious love letter to books and reading' iPaper There was only one thing on her mind. 'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens…


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