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2 months ago | 
csmonitor.com | Jack Wang |Amanda Peters |Tom Lamont |Allegra Goodman
The Riveter, by Jack WangJack Wang’s debut novel about a Chinese Canadian man serving his country during World War II offers a fresh perspective on an oft-covered conflict. Logger Josiah Chang leaves the backwoods to work in Vancouver’s shipyards. Driven by a love affair and the hope of citizenship, he enlists. Whether he’s in training or in battle, Josiah’s principled decency powers the absorbing tale.
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2 months ago | 
lithub.com | Jane Ciabattari |Amanda Peters
Amanda Peters has a gift for tracing the boundaries of time, place, and generations. Her marvel of a first novel, The Berry Pickers, was inspired by her father’s stories of summers spent traveling with his family from Nova Scotia to harvest blueberries in Maine.
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2 months ago | 
barnesandnoble.com | Amanda Peters |Isabelle McConville
Practicing My Craft: A Guest Post by Amanda Peters Our 2023 Discover Prize winner is back, and we couldn’t be more thrilled. Taking you from the past to the present featuring characters young and old, Waiting for the Long Night Moon is a remarkable collection of love, grief, trauma and hope. Read on for an exclusive essay from Amanda Peters on writing Waiting for the Long Night Moon.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
enterprisenation.com | Amanda Peters
Congratulations to our Advisers of the Month for December, the Enterprise Nation Adviser Awards 2024 winners. Now in its eighth year, the awards, in association with Constant Contact, celebrates the unsung heroes whose professional advice behind the scenes has helped shape the future of some of the UK's most successful small businesses, helping them with everything from strategy to overseas trade.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Amanda Peters |Isabelle McConville
Dreams Can Come True: A Guest Post by Amanda Peters It’s been one year since Amanda Peters’ debut The Berry Pickers was announced as our 2023 Discover Prize winner, and it’s only fitting for her to round out our final Monthly Picks of the year with her paperback release. We couldn’t wait to catch up with Amanda — read on for her exclusive guest post on what the past year of her life has looked like and discover what she’d like to say to her devoted readers.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Joy Harjo |Morgan Talty |Amanda Peters
Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter That line, History will always find you, comes from the poem, “Break My Heart”, by former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, and it’s included in the collection An American Sunrise. If you’re new to poetry — or coming back to it — Harjo’s wonderful work is a great place to start, along with collections by Layli Long Soldier and Natalie Diaz.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Amanda Peters |Garrett Graff |Ann Napolitano
New in Paperback November and December 2024Our days are getting shorter with each passing week, which means hibernation season is fast approaching. What better way to hunker down for the cold than with a few fresh paperbacks? Along with long nights, heavy coats and crackling fireplaces, November and December bring back some of our favorite stories from last year and brand-new trade paper originals to keep us company this holiday season. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
booklistonline.com | Amanda Peters
Feb. 2025. 256p. Catapult, $27 (9781646222599); e-book (9781646222605).
REVIEW.
First published October 15, 2024 (Booklist).
Peters shares in her acknowledgments to this short-story collection that she wrote it before her Andrew Carnegie Medal–winning debut novel, The Berry Pickers (2023). She includes a content warning near the start of this book, noting that many of its stories address painful topics. Readers who engage will be well rewarded with a meaningful collection centering Indigenous people.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Amanda Peters
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Cathryn Conroy
A Chilling Psychological Study of Two Lives Forever Changed in a Heartbeat and a Love That Never Ends
It is July 1962. Joe is six years old. Ruthie is four.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
billwolfe.substack.com | Amanda Peters |Bill Wolfe
The Berry PickersBy Amanda PetersCatapult, 320 pages, $27.00 There are so many good books being published that it’s impossible to read them all (although my TBR bookcase, stack, and list suggest that I’m deluded enough to try). The Berry Pickers received a lot of attention when it was published last fall. I picked it up and considered reading it two or three times but always concluded that I had so many other books I wanted to read. So back it went onto the shelf. That was a mistake.
