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2026

17 January JOHN SAYLES, Crucible

3 March CHRISTINA APPLEGATE, You with the Sad Eyes

21 March MELISSA AUF DER MAUR, Even the Good Girls Will Cry

23 April JAY MCINERNEY, See You on the Other Side

23 May PATRICIA CORNWELL, True Crime

30 May DAVID SEDARIS, The Land and Its People


2025

17 May LINWOOD BARCLAY, Whistle

24 May STEPHEN KING, Never Flinch

28 June LAURA LIPPMAN, Murder Takes a Vacation

26 July E JEAN CARROLL, Not My Type

4 October KEN FOLLETT, Circle of Days

25 October SUSAN ORLEAN, Joyride

8 November JOHN IRVING, Queen Esther


2024

13 February KATE QUINN & JANIE CHANG, The Phoenix Crown

30 March LISA SCOTTOLINE, The Truth About the Devlins

22 June HART HANSON, The Seminarian

29 June MARIANNE MILLER, We Were the Bullfighters

10 August KATHY REICHS, Fire and Bones


2023

7 March OWEN KING, The Curator

3 June FRIEDA HUGHES, George:A Magpie Memoir

31 July ANN PATCHETT, Tom Lake

29 August EMMA DONOGUE, Learned by Heart

14 September CHARLOTTE GRAY, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons

5 December ROBERTA RICH, The Jazz Club Spy


2022

12 March HEATHER MARSHALL, Looking for Jane

26 March RACHEL MCMILLAN, The Mozart Code

22 June PATRICK HEMINGWAY, Dear Papa

About Janet

Janet Somerville Janet Somerville taught literature for twenty years in Toronto. She spent the past three years wholly immersed in Martha Gellhorn’s life and words. more

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elliottblackwe3 Into The Forest Dark @elliottblackwe3 ·
June 25, 2026

The truth of this

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queenie4rmnola Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola ·
June 26, 2026

"Nobody's free until everybody's free"

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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amberwoods100 Amber Woods @amberwoods100 ·
June 26, 2026

Good morning to everyone still calling for the full release of the Epstein Files. ✊🏼

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sketchesbyboze Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @sketchesbyboze ·
June 26, 2026

In 1947, a Fellow at Magdalen College wrote in a letter that he had recently attempted writing a story for children, but that it was so bad, he had destroyed it. Not long after, he began what would become The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe. Never, ever give up.

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nathanfrancis__ Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis__ ·
June 26, 2026

"Backward I look upon my life,
And see one waste of storm and strife,
One wrack of sorrows, hopes, and pain,
Vanishing to arise again!"

✒ #BranwellBrontë, English painter and poet, was #BOTD 26 June 1817. #Art #Painting #Poetry

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cmdr_hadfield Chris Hadfield @cmdr_hadfield ·
June 26, 2026

Planet Venus, peeking from behind the Moon through the clouds.
Great shot by Debra Ceravolo last week in the South Okanagan, BC.
https://app.astrobin.com/u/debraceravolo

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sandibachom Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom ·
June 25, 2026

Many don’t know @KatiePhang is an accomplished lawyer in her own right.

Let’s all cheer her on her case against Todd Blanche 👏👏👏👏👏👏

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