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bookriot.com | Courtney Rodgers
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For the average reader, nothing is more satisfying than opening up a book and disappearing into another time and place. For the adventure seeker, historical nonfiction offers the satisfaction in dissecting the details of a real time, place, and event of history.
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1 day agoPowerful Silicon Valley leaders are prioritizing their utopian vision of the future over the concerns of people in the present. Technologists currently wield a level of political influence that was recently considered unthinkable. While Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency slashes public …
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1 month ago | 
bookriot.com | Courtney Rodgers
Brought to you by Sourcebooks LandmarkOregon, 1888. Amid the subterranean labyrinth of Portland’s Shanghai Tunnels, a woman awakens disoriented in an underground cell. Though no stranger to upholding a façade, being half Chinese yet passing as white, she’s perplexed by the male disguise she's wearing. Of more pressing concern, however, are the dangers she faces as a crimped, or “Shanghaied,” sea bound to work as forced labor.
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21 hours agoThe 16 Most Anticipated Books of the SummerWhether you’re planning to spend this summer jet-setting (or even “set-jetting”) or just planning to stay put, chill out with a good read.
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2 months ago | 
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Penguin TeenJune is the star pitcher of her elite club baseball team—with an ego to match—and she's a shoo-in to be recruited at the college level. That is, if she can play through an overuse injury that has recently gone from bad to worse. Ivy isn't just reffing to pay off her athletic fees or make some extra cash on the side. She wants to someday officiate at the professional level, even if her parents would rather she go to college instead.
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Mar 17, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | Courtney Rodgers
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Quick! What day is it? If you’re stuck in a time loop, it might be Sunday again and again and again and again…but what exactly is a time loop? Unlike time travel, a time loop does not move forward or backward in time.
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Mar 12, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | Courtney Rodgers
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Historical fiction’s popularity has remained solid since the 19th century, when Romanticism inspired writers to look to the past. Exploring the human condition, historical fiction allows readers and writers to step into another place in time.
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Mar 12, 2025 | 
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7 hours agoTen years ago, Sir Terry Pratchett died aged 66, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. His friend and lifelong agent Colin Smythe recalls his memories of the renowned fantasy author. A 20-year-old Terry Pratchett first walked into the office of the man who would become his …
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | Courtney Rodgers
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Being a foodie is more than just enjoying food; it’s being interested in food and food fads as a hobby. What does this mean for romances? Food-centric romances are evergreen in popularity because food is such an integral part of socializing.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | Courtney Rodgers
I first became acquainted with Rufi Thorpe’s writing with The Knockout Queen, a queer coming-of-age friendship novel. When Thorpe’s Margo’s Got Money Troubles released last June, I eagerly began the audiobook without much prior knowledge of the plot. This was probably for the best. In it, single mom Margo is teetering on the edge of hopelessness after losing her job and quitting college. After irresponsibly signing a contract involving her son, Bodhi, Margo has to figure out a way to make ends meet.
