Historical fiction author @putnambooks THE LIGHT OF LUNA PARK (2021), THE WAR LIBRARIAN (2022) https://teapawt.net/t.co/O6VXHjrMpq Agent @mad2034 at @skagency (she/hers)
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The reviews are in! Thanks to @PublishersWkly for a review that really captures what I hoped THE WAR LIBRARIAN would help illuminate.
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May Reads馃摎
THE GIRLS IN THE STILT HOUSE by @KellyMustian
THE NURSE'S SECRET by Amanda Skenadore
THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS by @jessaminechan
THINGS WE NEVER GOT OVER by Lucy Score
HOW THE PENGUINS SAVED VERONICA by @HazelPriorBooks
THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES by @AmyTan
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Moving to NYC means downsizing, and downsizing means giving away my extra copies of THE LIGHT OF LUNA PARK!
Here's the deal: If you preorder THE WAR LIBRARIAN and message me confirmation, I'll mail you a free signed copy of THE LIGHT OF LUNA PARK.
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It's even more remarkable knowing Dr. Martin Couney wasn't a doctor at all. His medical training was fabricated; the nurses were the experts. Couney's wife May, daughter Hildegarde, & friend Louise Recht worked tirelessly to save 6,500 babies who wouldn't have survived otherwise.
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Visitors would pay to come ogle at the babies in their incubators, and Couney would use their admission fees to pay for the infants' care. It was a strange, jarring environment, but it boasted a remarkable success rate.
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If you've read THE LIGHT OF LUNA PARK, you know about the bizarre history of the premature infants displayed @ Coney Island. From 1903-1943, a man named Martin Couney took in the infants who would have been left to die at hospitals and treated them in his freak show at Luna Park.
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How gorgeous is the full cover for THE WAR LIBRARIAN?! So grateful to the Putnam team who created it: Sarah Oberrender (mechanical designer), Christopher Lin (art director), and Hannah Dragone (production manager).
Pre-order now for your own copy of this stunning paperback!
But the books were also meant to boost morale, curtail loneliness, and even help win the war - to remind soldiers that Germany was not fighting against any individual country but against America's very "ideals and principles."
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On the practical side, it gave soldiers a way to pass their time without falling into "vice," helped soldiers learn technical trades so they could find work after the war, and taught illiterate soldiers or multilingual soldiers to read in English.
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During WWI, the American Library Association (ALA) worked with the War Department to send millions of books to soldiers. The campaign was both practical and idealistic in nature.
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March reads: @miamckenzie's touching & laugh-out-loud SKYE FALLING, @whittyauthor's WE BEGIN AT THE END w/ a prickly 13 yo narrator you have to root for, @emilygiffin's THE LIES THAT BIND, @ElleCosimano's FINLAY DONOVAN KNOCKS 'EM DEAD, & @popscribblings' DAVA SHASTRI'S LAST DAY
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Had a blast talking to Rayna last night at @BlueCypressBook!
Watch it here: youtu.be/vx_fyWxGxtE
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In March 1946, Vassar's alumnae magazine announced that the college would temporarily enroll male students for the first time since the school's founding in 1861. 1/4
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February reads! 馃摎
THE CHARM OFFENSIVE, Alison Cochrun
THEN SHE WAS GONE, Lisa Jewell
ALL YOUR PERFECTS + VERITY, Colleen Hoover
THE UNVEILING OF POLLY FORREST, Charlotte Whitney
THE FIRE NEXT TIME, James Baldwin
SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW, David Bell
MOST WANTED, Lisa Scottoline
