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Roger’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Roger’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Roger DeBlanck
Goodreads Author
Born
in Las Vegas, NV, The United States
March 19
Website
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Genre
Influences
Member Since
January 2012
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The Sky Buries All Sorrow
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2013
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5 editions
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The Ramos Brothers Trust Castro and Kennedy
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2011
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7 editions
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The Destruction of Silence
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2016
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5 editions
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Prayers from the Far Quarter
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2020
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5 editions
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The Peacemaker Overcomes the Hatemaker
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2022
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5 editions
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Empire of the Mind
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2014
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2 editions
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The Hummingbird Diary
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The Hummingbird Diary
My new book The Hummingbird Diary has arrived:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9SP2KX8
As I've done with my previous books, I'll again be donating half the sales to charity. For this particular book, I've be giving to St. Jude Children's Hospital, so I hope you'll support the book for a good cause.
Here's the book's official description:
In his most revealing work yet, Roger DeBlanck offers a thought-pr Read more of this blog post »
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9SP2KX8
As I've done with my previous books, I'll again be donating half the sales to charity. For this particular book, I've be giving to St. Jude Children's Hospital, so I hope you'll support the book for a good cause.
Here's the book's official description:
In his most revealing work yet, Roger DeBlanck offers a thought-pr Read more of this blog post »
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| Diaz’s incredible debut novel In the Distance mesmerized me with his unforgettable hero and his breathtaking descriptions of natural landscapes. Indeed, Diaz’s profound and engaging prose in his debut was enough to keep me enchanted. I hoped for more ...more | |
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| Taken in and raised by their aunt Nonie, Lark and Termite have never known their mother. Since his birth Termite suffers from severe brain incapacities, which necessitate he have constant supervision. By the time she’s seventeen, Lark has taken over ...more | |
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| The genocide in Gaza which started in 2024 has horrified anyone with a conscience. Mosab Abu Toha, a scholar and a librarian, survived the horror and used his poetry to record in real time how it felt and what it will forever feel like for him and hi ...more | |
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| For over thirty years Ha Jin has been using his voice through literature to expose the inhumanity of the Chinese Communist Party. His most recent novel Looking for Tank Man (2025) is a memorable academic thriller that confronts China’s systematic att ...more | |
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| Adam Johnson skyrocketed to literary fame when his thrilling novel The Orphan Master’s Son was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize. Two years later, he landed a National Book Award for his compelling collection of stories Fortune Smiles. Now after a deca ...more | |
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| Grantland magazine hired Whitehead in 2011 to write an article about the World Series of Poker in Vegas. The editorial team spotted him $10K to enter the famous tournament and experience its rigors firsthand. If somehow the universe’s forces of luck ...more | |
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| After a pandemic devastates the world and leaves those uninfected trying to survive those infected, Whitehead envisions a macabre New York City overrun by zombies. His apocalyptic novel may be slim on plot, but it offers a clinic on robust prose gone ...more | |
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| Leonard’s stories offer up plenty of grit and toughness to capture the terrain and atmosphere of the early frontier of the American West. His writing can be spare and decisive, making for anticipatory page-turners, but at times the lack of depth in h ...more | |
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| A posthumous collection of poems and snippet writings, some of these pieces are really good and spark reflection, but many seem like touches Giovanni put down while passing the time. What the sketches compiled in The New Book amount to are a sort of ...more | |
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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Hi Roger,Thanks for the add! Nice to make your virtual acquaintance.
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