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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

#waitingonwednesday: the river has roots by @tithenai.

COMING 3.4.25

Dear Readers,

Have you ever wanted to pick a fight with a song?

This book – like rivers, and roots – had a long, meandering path through the world, but its source and seed was a seventeenth century folk ballad that I loved and wanted to fix. “The Cruel Sister” – and its many variants – is a ballad type where an older sister murders her younger sister for the love of a man.

As an eldest child who loves her younger sister more than anything, I had opinions about this! Not least of which: I couldn’t countenance the idea that a man could court two sisters at the same time and not be the villain of the story.

The River Has Roots  is a love letter to ballads and the sisters who sing them together; to harp music and riddle songs; and to the landscape and history of Dartmoor, with its Stannary Towns and mysterious stone outcroppings that, whatever else they are, seem to mark a path into other worlds.

When  This Is How You Lose the Time War  came out in 2019, I couldn’t have been happier with its reception. I used to work in a bookstore, and felt so privileged to see  This Is How You Lose the Time War  on the receiving end of the kinds of passionate shelf-talkers and hand-selling that I used to do with Holly Black’s  Tithe,  Terri Windling’s  The Wood Wife,  and Hope Mirlees’  Lud-in-the-Mist.  But seeing booksellers embrace the wild, madcap wonder of Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood last summer and be such kind stewards of that renewed enthusiasm was its own tremendous gift. Bookstores and booksellers have repeatedly changed my life for the better, and I’m so thrilled and excited to commit  The River Has Roots  – my solo debut! – into your hands. If this twisty little book finds its audience, I know it will be because of your generous work.

Wishing you all the very best,

Amal El-Mohtar

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#BookReview: An Offer From a Gentleman (Bridgertons #3) by Julia Quinn

Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball—or that "Prince Charming" would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. But now, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she feels like royalty. Alas, she knows all enchantments must end when the clock strikes midnight.

Who was that extraordinary woman?  Ever since that magical night, a radiant vision in silver has blinded Benedict to the attractions of any other—except, perhaps, this alluring and oddly familiar beauty dressed in housemaid's garb whom he feels compelled to rescue from a most disagreeable situation. He has sworn to find and wed his mystery miss, but this breathtaking maid makes him weak with wanting her. Yet, if he offers her his heart, will Benedict sacrifice his only chance for a fairy tale love?

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