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Coming to Mystery Lovers Bookshop on December 1st! Preorder the latest from graphic comic author, Dav Pilkey and receive 10% off. Pickup in store on 12/1 or we can ship your copy to the continental US. https://www.mysterylovers.com/book/9781338712766

Releasing next Tuesday, November 17th, 'A Promised Land' was recently reviewed in the New York Times Book Review. An excerpt from that review is below. Pre-order with us online before Tuesday for 10% off and pickup your copy in store on Tuesday. Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come. It is not merely that this book avoids being ponderous, as might be expected, even forgiven, of a hefty memoir, but that it is nearly always pleasurable to read, sentence by sentence,... the prose gorgeous in places, the detail granular and vivid. From Southeast Asia to a forgotten school in South Carolina, he evokes the sense of place with a light but sure hand. This is the first of two volumes, and it starts early in his life, charting his initial political campaigns, and ends with a meeting in Kentucky where he is introduced to the SEAL team involved in the Abbottabad raid that killed Osama bin Laden. His focus is more political than personal, but when he does write about his family it is with a beauty close to nostalgia. Wriggling Malia into her first ballet tights. Baby Sasha’s laugh as he nibbles her feet. Michelle’s breath slowing as she falls asleep against his shoulder. His mother sucking ice cubes, her glands destroyed by cancer. The narrative is rooted in a storytelling tradition, with the accompanying tropes, as with the depiction of a staffer in his campaign for the Illinois State Senate, taking a drag from her cigarette and blowing a thin plume of smoke to the ceiling. The dramatic tension in the story of his gate-crashing, with Hillary Clinton by his side, to force a meeting with China at a climate summit is as enjoyable as noir fiction; no wonder his personal aide Reggie Love tells him afterward that it was some gangster shit. His language is unafraid of its own imaginative richness. He is given a cross by a nun with a face as grooved as a peach pit. The White House groundskeepers are the quiet priests of a good and solemn order. He questions whether his is a blind ambition wrapped in the gauzy language of service. There is a romanticism, a current of almost-melancholy in his literary vision. In Oslo, he looks outside to see a crowd of people holding candles, the flames flickering in the dark night, and one senses that this moves him more than the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony itself. Pre-order with us online here: https://www.mysterylovers.com/book/9781524763169

We are so excited to reveal the cover of THE PHOTOGRAPHER by Mary Dixie Carter. The book will be released in May 2021 but you can head to our website to read an excerpt and pre-order! https://www.mysterylovers.com/book/9781250790330 Minotaur Books; Mary Dixie Carter

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