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TODAY ONLY: Share a selfie with your copy of Shantaram using #ShantaramSelfie, and we'll send you a link to buy the sequel at 30% off!

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7 Horrifying Recommendations from 'Broken Monsters' Author Lauren Beukes

You know The Shining’s Room 237 like the back of your hand, and you’ve visited Hill Housemore times than you can count. If you’re looking for new thrills this Halloween, Lauren Beukesknows just where to start. We recommended her dark and unputdownable crime novel Broken Monsters in our Fall preview, and now she has a few recommendations of her own for readers looking to be spooked this Halloween. More

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Slightly Spooky: Halloween Classics Paired With Kid-Friendly Substitutes

Maybe you like curling up with The Shining every year on All Hallow’s Eve or perhaps you venture out to Sleepy Hollow after rereading Irving’s classic spooky tale. But what about the kids? If your little ones are too young for some of horror’s greatest legends, we’ve got the solution. Here, we've paired some of your grown-up favorites with books that the littlest of ghouls and ghosts can enjoy (from first-time readers to middle schoolers). These not-quite-creepy reads will have them rushing home from trick-or-treating! Welll… not really. Nothing is better than free candy, but these books come pretty close. More

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Room For One More: Sarah Smiley Picks 10 Literary Guests to Have Over for Dinner

In her memoir Dinner with the Smileys, Navy wife and writer Sarah Smileyshares her family’s experiences after a year of filling her husband’s empty seat with new and interesting people. Here, she names the fictional characters she wishes she could have over, too.

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Six LGBT Authors on the Books That Inspired Them to Come Out

Saturday October 11th was National Coming Out Day and to mark the occasion we asked some of our favorite Open Road LGBT writers to share books that were meaningful to them when they were coming out.

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Five Westerns That Inspired Malcolm Brooks

Malcolm Brooks’s Painted Horses, set in 1950s Montana, is an undisputed ode to the American West. Archaeologist Catherine Lemay finds herself in Montana where she encounters John H., who has been living as a fugitive in the canyon where she is conducting her dig. The two connect in unexpected ways amidst a broader narrative about life in the West in the 1950s, providing insight into a way of life that has all but evaporated. Here, author Malcolm Brooks chats about his five favorite influential Westerns. Read more...

http://www.bookish.com/articles/five-westerns-that-inspired-malcolm-brooks

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Banned Book covers by Morgan Sobel. 

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Big things are happening at Zola Books

Next month, Zola will be coming out of beta with the launch of a completely new site – one that is focused almost entirely on mobile-friendly retailing. At the same time, our reading apps for iPad/iPhone and Android will also be coming out of beta. And Zola will be offering books from Penguin Random House, the biggest publisher in the world – meaning that for the first time, our catalog of available titles will be largely complete. Read the rest on Zola

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Gillian Flynn and the Power of a Strong Female Character

Complete and total spoilers ahead for both the book and film adaptation of Gone Girl. Continue at your own risk.

If you’re anything like me, you’ve been counting down the days until today’s release of Gone Girl—director David Fincher’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s 2012 thriller. When I read the book it hit me hard, and in the best of ways, as anyone who read my GIF review will know. It opens with the day Amy Dunne goes missing and builds a steady and convincing case against her husband Nick. Read the rest on Bookish

#gone girl #review #gillian flynn #rosamund pike #amy dunne #strong female character

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Conflict in Literature

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We’re saddened by the passing of our friend Maya Angelou. Thank you for all you’ve done, and for all the hugs.

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"Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have."

—Maya Angelou

via BrainPickings.org

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Zola Books is offering 30% off all Hachette Book Group titles because of the ongoing struggle between Hachette and Amazon - check it out and pick up some great deals on ebooks!

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