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Incredible Reader Response to Secrets of Eden

We’ve been blown away by the growth of Read It Forward over the last several months. For example, we received over 20,000 requests for Chris Bohjalian’s Secrets of Eden! Wow. That’s a lot of hungry readers out there. We wish we could send books to everyone who enters for the chance to get one, but alas, it’s impossible. We send as many as we can every month.

We want everyone to have the pleasure of dipping in to Secrets of Eden, so we’re providing an excerpt for everyone to download for free (see the link below). Secrets of Eden really is an extraordinary literary thriller, a page-turning read with characters who will haunt you long after you finish reading.

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Meet the Author
Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian

Chris Bohjalian loves visiting with book groups! He’s excited to speak with your group about Secrets of Eden.

- Check to see if Chris will be in your town while he’s on tour: Chris Bohjalian Events
- Contact Chris to arrange an email or speakerphone chat when he returns from tour: Reading Group Center
- Read one of Chris’s blog posts about why he celebrates book groups: Some Thoughts on Reading Groups

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ENTER TO WIN a Celebration Collection from Artisanal Cheese valued at $185. Ten lucky runners-up will win a signed copy of Mastering Cheese from Max McCalman.

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A Journal for Jordan by Dana Canedy

Praised by reviewers as “a gift,” “hauntingly beautiful, gripping, important,” “heartfelt,” “gut-wrenching,” and “powerful,” this inspiring story is now in paperback and perfect for your book group.

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Angels of Destruction by Keith Donohue

“Beautiful and wrenching…finds the miraculous in the everyday by exploring the fissures that grief leaves.”
Washington Post

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True Confections True Confections

“As clever as Lorrie Moore, as unpredictable as Richard Powers, as metafictional as Paul Auster, as obsessed with literary history as J. M. Coetzee.”

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Prima Donna Prima Donna

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