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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.

The week's bestselling books, Sept. 1

Woman's World

There’s nothing like getting lost in a long book. No matter the genre, from historical fiction to fantasy, romance and more, a book over 500 pages gives you the chance to immerse yourself in stories with richly drawn characters, intriguing plots, detailed settings and more. These novels may seem intimidating because of their high page ...

10 Long Books That Will Keep You Entertained for Hours (or Days!): Our Title Recommendations

A wargame with warships, super weapons, and high-speed drones is afoot in this lightning-fast, high-powered thriller from Mike Maden, who continues to breathe new life into Clive Cussler’s #1 New York Times bestselling Oregon Files series with his strongest outing to date. Opening in 1945, readers meet an American...

A Book Spy Review: ‘Clive Cussler Ghost Solider’ by Mike Maden

Retired math teacher Grace Winters is shocked when she inherits a run-down house on a Mediterranean island from a long-lost friend. With a one-way ticket in hand, Grace arrives in Ibiza and searches for answers on how her friend lived and died. But what Grace uncovers seems impossible, forcing her to confront her own past in another touching novel from the author of The Midnight Library.

Best Books of Fall 2024

This week’s most read books on Goodreads have some familiar author names — in fact, they’re all titles that have been on the most read list many times before. The order is shuffled a bit from last week, but to add a more variety, I’ve included the top five most read books on Goodreads last week in three countries around the world. This time: Denmark, Malaysia, and Portugal. Denmark’s and Portugal’s most read titles this week are both not (yet?) available in English.

The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week

Good fiction often stands out thanks to the humanity it captures within the pages of a book, and nothing will drive that so powerfully home as a deep sense of camaraderie between characters. It’s time to dig into a few examples of great works of fiction with a focus on...

10 greatest books about friendship we’ve ever read

Europa Europa showcases a Jewish boy's survival by posing as an Aryan during WWII. The film, based on a true story, delves into the internal struggle of personal identity and the emotional toll of burying one's true self. Europa Europa is a faithful adaptation of an incredible true story, shedding...

The True Story Behind This WWII Drama Is As Harrowing as It Is Horrifying

Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky, Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, and Moon Unit Zapa’s Earth to Moon all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home...

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

WEKU

Turns out Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka lived in Prague at the same time and had the same circle of friends. In a new graphic novel, Ken Krimstein puts us in the room with two 20th century geniuses.

This is genius: A new graphic novel imagines conversations between Einstein and Kafka

As the last days of summer approach, we’re getting some great summer reading recaps. Most recently, three Bookshop.org members have rounded up their three favorite or recommended reads for summer. It’s a good mix of new, relatively new, and older releases. There are brilliant biographies, sobering sci-fi tales, and ravishing romances.

The 9 Best Books of the Summer, According to Bookshop.org

And just like that, after a summer that felt like it was entirely made up of heat waves and tropical storms, we are preparing for fall. I’m going to be real and say that, at first, I was scoffing a bit at the fall book lists I started seeing about a week ago. Weather forecasts still had a lot of us firmly in the 80s and 90s, temperature-wise, and outside was giving more iced tea than pumpkin spice.

The Biggest Book Club Books Coming Out This Fall

On October 26, 1881, the most famous Wild West battle took place, and it only lasted 30 seconds. This is thanks to Doc Holliday, a dentist, deputy, and outlaw. His story has inspired many books, music, TV shows, and movies. But how many of these fictional Doc Holliday stories are true?

Hollywood Westerns Lied To Us – Here’s The Truth About Doc Holliday (The Photos Are Chilling)

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Herbie J Pilato

Actor Van Johnson, who died in 2007, was one of Hollywood's ideal films idols. In the 1940s, the charming screen icon was box office gold, and remained a popular presence on TV in shows like Murder, She Wrote (which starred his good friend Angela Lansbury).

The Secret Gay Life & Horrific Car Accident of Actor Van Johnson: 16 Years After His Tragic Death

DNA analysis of two skeletons from unmarked graves in a Jamestown church uncovered both men were related to Thomas West, the colony’s first governor, a study found.

Long-hidden family scandal in Jamestown colony revealed 400 years later by ancient DNA

Hawaii State

The Hawaiian archipelago consists of 137 islands with over seven hundred miles of coastline and eight main islands, seven of which are inhabited. Hawai’i has a long and storied history, from the earliest days of human settlement via Polynesia to its current status as the 50th U.S. state. Hawai’i is believed to have first been settled sometime around 1000 CE and independent chiefdoms on various islands developed over the next several centuries along with population growth and a spiritual, social, and economic culture centered around connections to the land, ocean, and heavens. The first documented contact with Europeans occurred in 1778 with the arrival of British explorer Captain James Cook, which started conflict between European nations and the United States over access to the islands. These interactions also brought new diseases, and by the mid-1800s, over half of the Native Hawaiian population had been wiped out.

10 Must-Read Historical Fiction Books Set in Hawai’i

Dorothy L. Sayers wrote The Five Red Herrings in 1930, at the height of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Yet the book novel (published at the start of the following year and originally known in the United States as Suspicious Characters) stands apart from her other mysteries featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. This is because she deliberately set out to write ‘a pure puzzle story’. Sayers admitted to her publisher, Victor Gollancz, that she’d been provoked ‘by a lot of reviewers’ of her previous novel, Strong Poison, ‘who observed the identity of the murderer was obvious from the start (as indeed it is also in Unnatural Death and The Documents in the Case)…but if people really want to play ‘spot the murderer’, I don’t mind obliging them – for once!’

On the Trail of The Five Red Herrings, A Sayers Novel That Stands Apart

GENRE: Cozy Mystery (Clean) From author Lena Gregory comes a delicious new mystery…. Things have been looking up for Danika Delany’s business—her uncle’s old fashioned malt shop on eastern Long Island. But for her love life? Not so much. After a disastrous date with Detective Jake Barlow, Danika lets her best friends, Gwen and Eli, talk her into a night out at the hottest new nightclub in town. Only, while there, Dani finds her sort-of boyfriend secreted in the shadows on the beach behind the club with crime boss Patrick Johansen’s wife, Angelique! An upset Dani leaves without giving Jake a chance to explain, but when he doesn’t get in touch the next day, she takes a long walk along the beach to reevaluate her love life. That’s where she suddenly stumbles across Angelique’s body buried in the dunes near where she last saw her with Jake. Sure that Jake is innocent—of murder at least—Danika and her friends set out to prove Jake had nothing to do with her murder and stop a killer…before they strike again!

Book Review (and a Giveaway!): Buried on a Sundae by Lena Gregory

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What makes today’s date special for your zodiac sign? Today, all zodiac signs are set to experience extraordinary cosmic shifts that would likely affect certain areas of their lives. For some signs, today’s cosmic boost will positively affect their finances. The planets have aligned to bring luck and good fortune their way. Hence, some individuals will feel a special wave of optimism and passion to lay a good foundation for financial abundance.

3 Lucky Zodiac Signs With Financial Abundance | August 22, 2024

ScienceAlert

A 400-year-old mystery around the identity of four men found buried in England's first permanent settlement in the Americas may have at last been solved, revealing not just their identity but their scandalous connection. Based on a DNA analysis and archaeological research by a team of scholars, it's now confirmed...

Jamestown: DNA Solves Mystery of First English Settlement in America

In America’s ongoing dialogue about freedom and censorship, books often find themselves on the front lines. What makes these banned books essential reading, and why have they been challenged?. 1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Banned for its themes of racism, alcoholism, and...

Censored: 18 Books Banned in America That Everyone Should Read

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The Real Book Spy’s September 2024 Reading Guide: Every New Mystery & Thriller

Goodbye summer, hello fall! As the season begins to change and most of the country starts to cool down, the mystery & thriller genre is staying...

The Real Book Spy’s September 2024 Reading Guide: Every New Mystery & Thriller

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