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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:18:11 -0400

This May, Unbridled will release Masha Hamilton’s remarkable...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:18:00 -0400

This May, Unbridled will release Masha Hamilton’s remarkable fifth novel, What Changes Everything, about the impact of the war in Afghanistan on American and Afghan families. More than this, the novel is an extension of Hamilton’s ongoing exploration of the destructive reach that personal distance, misunderstanding, and the plague of violence continuously exert in the structures of our lives.

Many readers will remember that a few years ago Masha Hamilton, known for her good work, founded The Camel Book Drive, to serve remote and impoverished villages in Kenya. And in 2009, she founded the Afghan Women’s Writing Project (AWWP) to give an opportunity to women in Afghanistan to tell their stories to the world. The AWWP continues to offer that opportunity and to honor that work, Unbridled Books will publish the ebook of What Changes Everything on April 25, one month early, and for every ebook of What Changes Everything sold, Unbridled will donate $1 in support of the important work at the AWWP.

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Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:19:09 -0400

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“With this brilliant premise, Cuban-born Elizabeth Huergo...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:46:00 -0400

“With this brilliant premise, Cuban-born Elizabeth Huergo launches The Death of Fidel Pérez, a provocative debut novel that is simultaneously a requiem for the lives destroyed under both the Batista and Castro regimes and a poetic imagining of what the cusp of a true Cuban liberation might look like.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers

THE WEEKLY READ: “Several perfectly pitched Southern...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:32:00 -0400

THE WEEKLY READ:

“Several perfectly pitched Southern narratives weave together to form a strong song of love, loss, and human resilience. A gripping, intense read.” - Jodi Picoult, author of SING YOU HOME and HOUSE RULES

“A heartfelt and well-written novel, with a provocative...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:18:48 -0400

“A heartfelt and well-written novel, with a provocative premise.”
—Oscar Hijuelos HAPPY ON SALE DAY to Elizabeth Huergo!

Love the whimsy.

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:00:11 -0400

Love the whimsy.

Favorite First Lines: “I used to think about quitting all...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:42:47 -0400

Favorite First Lines:
“I used to think about quitting all the time. Then I quit, and now I still think about it.”

{Last week to grab the ebook for $3.99 in our Rain Check event…}

“I still use a manual typewriter (a 1953 Underwood...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:59:04 -0400

“I still use a manual typewriter (a 1953 Underwood portable, in a robin’s-egg blue) because the soft pip-pip-pip of the typing of keys on a computer keyboard doesn’t quite fit with my sense of what writing sounds like.”

Happy #NowWeAreSix to @WORDBrooklyn! We took up a collection and...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:50:24 -0400

Happy #NowWeAreSix to @WORDBrooklyn!
We took up a collection and got you these from all of us to you:
Nate the Great, Grandfather Buffalo, Clementine, The Magic Treehouse, But Not the Hippopatamus, My Father’s Dragon, the Who Is series and anything by Roald Dahl.

libbyjordan: “Three melons and a dwarf sat in the front seat of...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:18:36 -0400

libbyjordan:

“Three melons and a dwarf sat in the front seat of Marilee’s ‘72 Dodge, but the cop was not amused.”

The etymology of "rain check"

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:05:03 -0500

As we wrap up the first week of our Rain Check event, we wondered aloud at the etymology of the...

We hear this is one of readers’ favorite passages from Sometimes We’re Always Real...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:40:43 -0500

We hear this is one of readers’ favorite passages from Sometimes We’re Always Real...

I find myself reading aloud from this book even when...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:10:50 -0500

I find myself reading aloud from this book even when there’s nobody around to hear me. A couple of mismatched teenage boys in Alaska, complex family stuff, Eskimo Jesus tattoos and The Great Forgiveness Conspiracy.

You can download a sample here.

Our Favorite Kinds of Kisses #5: THE MAKE-UP KISS “Kiss...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:04:23 -0500

Our Favorite Kinds of Kisses #5: THE MAKE-UP KISS

“Kiss and make-up—but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.”

—Mae West

Our Favorite Kinds of Kisses #3: STOLEN KISSES “A legal...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:09:00 -0500

Our Favorite Kinds of Kisses #3: STOLEN KISSES

“A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.” —Guy de Maupassant

Favorite First Lines “Emerging whalelike out of the winter...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:08:41 -0500

Favorite First Lines

“Emerging whalelike out of the winter gloom, the white van with Happy Harley at the wheel finally came to a crunching stop on our gravel driveway.”
— George Rabasa in Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb.

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This week only… The Coffins of Little Hope is $3.99 on...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:35:50 -0500

This week only… The Coffins of Little Hope is $3.99 on the:

iPad

Kindle

Nook

"Geye has perfected the push and pull of tension that keeps readers glued to the page, and at times,..."

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:47:14 -0500

““Geye has perfected the push and pull of tension that keeps readers glued to the page,...

20 obsolete English words that should make a comeback

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:51:57 -0500

20 obsolete English words that should make a comeback: Compliments of...