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By Beth Clark • August 17, 2018

The Great American Read is a PBS series that explores and celebrates the power of reading as the core of an ambitious digital, educational, and community outreach campaign designed to get the country reading and passionately talking about books. One hundred books, to be exact, so as promised, here are books 61–80 on the list!

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By Beth Clark • August 13, 2018

Celebrate #NationalProseccoDay with a glass of sparkling Italian wine and enjoy its refreshing notes of apple, pear, honey-flowers, and lemon as summer winds down with the dog days of August. Also, prepare to be fascinated by the history of your chilled, effervescent beverage!

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By Beth Clark • August 10, 2018

The Great American Read is a PBS series that explores and celebrates the power of reading as the core of an ambitious digital, educational, and community outreach campaign designed to get the country reading and passionately talking about books. One hundred books, to be exact, so as promised, here are novels 41–60 on the list!

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By Beth Clark • August 08, 2018

If the cat found buried with a human on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus is any indicator, humans have been fascinated by, obsessed with, and affectionately herding cats as pets for 9500 years. Cats started showing up in cave art around 1950 BC, so it's safe to say that humans and felines go way, waaay back.

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By Beth Clark • August 03, 2018

The Great American Read is a PBS series that explores and celebrates the power of reading as the core of an ambitious digital, educational, and community outreach campaign designed to get the country reading and passionately talking about books. One hundred books, to be exact, so as promised, here are the next 20!

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By Beth Clark • August 01, 2018

The six book adaptations being released on the big screen this month are crazy rich with humor, suspense, intrigue, characters you feel like you know (or want to!), and things that make your heart happy. Naturally, you'll want to read the books if you haven't before! (Or re-read them if you have, but it's been a while.)

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By Beth Clark • July 30, 2018

The world can be a divided and challenging place, but with the help of friends (a lot of help some days), it's brighter and we're stronger, no matter how chaotic things get. And hey, the United Nations recognized that the bonds between humans are essential enough to life that they created International Day of Friendship to honor and strengthen the ties between us. So, as soon as you finish reading this blog (ahem, and place your next ThriftBooks order), Insta, Snap, Tweet, message, write, or call your friends and CELEBRATE!

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By Beth Clark • July 27, 2018

The Great American Read is an eight-part PBS series that explores and celebrates the power of reading as the heart of an ambitious digital, educational, and community outreach campaign designed to get the country reading and passionately talking about books. One hundred books, to be precise, at least to begin with, so here are the first 20!

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By Beth Clark • July 23, 2018

Sharp Objects is a bestselling novel that’s hard to put down and HBO’s newest blockbuster that's hard to look away from...even though you'll want to when the story gets intense.

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By Beth Clark • July 20, 2018

"A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea." "That's only three." Alvis finished his wine. "You have to do disappointment twice." - Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

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By Beth Clark • July 16, 2018

Happy National Get Out of the Doghouse Day! Being in the doghouse is never fun, but getting out of it is rarely impossible, which is why there's an entire day devoted to it. So, regardless of what you did to get there, if you are now or have ever been in the doghouse, today is about how to get out (and stay out) of it.

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