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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · Jun 25

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Please join us in sending birthday wishes to Yann Martel, born 6-25-1963, winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Life of Pi -- amzn.to/4kVOwuB -- a modern classic of adventure, survival, and the power of storytelling.

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Life of Pi: A Novel

Amazon.com: Life of Pi: A Novel eBook : Martel, Yann: Kindle Store

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · May 27

Brand New Today: a feat of storytelling only Stephen King could pull off...

Never Flinch: an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines—one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · May 27

Check out today's New Release from #1 NYT-bestselling author Nora Roberts: A novel about an injured cop who must fight to bring down a pair of twisted killers…

Hidden Nature
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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · May 27

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Join us today in toasting the amazingly prolific and long-lived author of The Caine Mutiny and dozens more bestsellers, Herman Wouk (b. 5/27/1915, d. 5/17/2019) on the 110th anniversary of his birth.

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · May 27

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · May 27

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · May 24

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Please join us in sending birthday well wishes to Bob Dylan, born 5-24-1941 and still performing almost daily, including this afternoon at the Cascades Amphitheater in
Ridgefield, WA. Hope you'll enjoy this live performance of one of our favorites.

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Bob Dylan - Just Like A Woman [LIVE FOOTAGE / HQ AUDIO] (Dublin, 1966)

YouTube video by Swingin’ Pig

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · May 23

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"Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere...."

Let’s remember Margaret Wise Brown, author of one of the most beloved children’s books of all time, on today's anniversary of her birth.

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · May 23

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The game is afoot....

Let's remember the creator of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (b. 5/22/1859, d. 1930), on yesterday’s 166th anniversary of his birth.

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · May 20

This book club has been reading the same book for 12 years. “We’re only reading one page at a time,” said Peter Quadrino of the Finnegans Wake Reading Group of Austin, TX.

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This Austin book club has been reading the same book for 12 years. They’re not even close to done.

The Finnegans Wake Reading Group of Austin, TX reads one page every other week.

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · May 17

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She left her hometown following a scandal—but family loyalty is dragging her back....

"A sharply plotted, emotionally intense novel of family secrets" —Jayne Ann Krentz

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · May 15

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Join us in sending birthday greetings to non-fiction author Lauren Hillenbrand (b. 5/15/1967), who has given us Seabiscuit and Unbroken, among others.

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · May 14

Readers RESIST! Don't miss today's amazing Bookshop ebook deals from your favorite authors at bit.ly/3F9UyIy!

Kingsolver, Atwood, Viola Davis, Poitier, Coelho, Reid, Quinn, Plath, Martel, Lehane + many more! All under $4, most under $2, and you help INDIE booksellers when you shop!

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · May 14

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Join us this week in remembering the creator of the Wizard of Oz books, L. Frank Baum (b. 5/15/1856, d. 1919) on the 169th anniversary of his birth.

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · May 13

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Join us in remembering the late beloved novelist Daphne Du Maurier (b. 5/13/1907, d. 1989) on the 118th anniversary of her birth.

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Rebecca

Check out Rebecca - The classic Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier -- winner of the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century -- is now a Netflix film starring Lily James and Armie Hammer...

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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · Apr 16

We're excited to announce the theme for #BannedBooksWeek 2025 - “Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” Join us Oct. 5 – 11, 2025! bannedbooksweek.org/banned-books... #CensorshipIsSo1984

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your Rights. Oct. 5-11, 2025. BannedBooksWeek.org

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · Apr 29

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Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Langston Hughes, Charles Dickens, Sun Tzu and more?

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · Apr 28

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Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job....

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Mort: A Discworld Novel
by Terry Pratchett

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Mort: A Discworld Novel

A Discworld Novel

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · Apr 27

Alas, no longer free as of Sunday April 27.

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · Apr 27

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Get this classic FREE Today with bookshop.org/a/109593/111...

Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

One of Jane Austen’s most enduring novels, having been widely adapted to stage, screen, and other media since its publication in 1813.

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Pride and Prejudice

Check out Pride and Prejudice - Pride and Prejudice may today be one of Jane Austen’s most enduring novels, having been widely adapted to stage, screen, and other media since its publication in 181...

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · Apr 27

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Today's Must-Read Banned Book leads to tomorrow's birthday wishes:

To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee, b. 4-28-1926 d. 2016

A gripping, heart-wrenching, wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Check out To Kill a Mockingbird - Look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces ...

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · Apr 26

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · Apr 26

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Get it FREE to celebrate Indie Bookstore Day!

How to Resist Amazon & Why:
The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores and a People-Powered Future!
by Danny Caine

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · Apr 25

BookGorilla is glad to be part of this community of booksellers and friends! Every time you shop bookshop.org/shop/bookgor... you'll be supporting indie booksellers, and we're happy to note that you and your fellow readers have raised $37.8 million for indie bookshops so far! Let's keep it up!

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bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com · Apr 24

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RIP Pope Francis, 1936-2025

His memoir is a must read for all generations in a world yearning for hope and change....

Life: My Story Through History
by Pope Francis

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