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Mary Webber O'Malley and Pamela Klinger Horn - Fall 2024 Recommended Reads

Mary Webber O'Malley and Pamela Klinger Horn - Fall 2024 Recommended Reads

Mary Webbey O'Malley and Pamela Klinger-Horn join me to recommend their favorites reads of Fall 2024.

Mary's selections:

  1. Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
  2. Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
  3. Eden Undone by Abbott Kahler
  4. The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Loigman
  5. Remember You Will Die by Eden Robbins
  6. American Rapture by CJ Leede
  7. Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth
  8. Hate Follow by Erin Quinn-Kong
  9. Life's Short, Talk Fastbby Ann Hood 
  10. The Serviceberry by Robin Kimmermer
  11. The Hidden Life of Trees Illustrated by Peter Wohlleben
  12. What The Chicken Knows by Sy Montgomery


Pamela's selections:

  1. Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
  2. The Mesmerist by Caroline Woods
  3. Best Copy Available by Jay Baron Nicorvino
  4. The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel
  5. Where the Forest Meets The River by Shannon Bowring
  6. A Woman Among Wolves by Diane K. Boyd
  7. The Story of a Heart by Dr. Rachel Clarke
  8. Blood Test by Charles Baxter
  9. The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz
  10. The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins
  11. A Rosie Life in Italy by Rosie Meleady
  12. Pony Confidential by Christine Lynch


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Pamela Klinger-Horn

Event Coordinator - Valley Bookseller

Pamela Klinger-Horn has been a literary event planner since 2012. She has been on the Board of Directors of Rain Taxi Literary Review and the Excelsior Friends of the Library. Pamela has experience as a children’s Book Club facilitator at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic School and the Excelsior Public Library. Pamela enjoys attending and promoting literary events throughout the Twin Cities and beyond, and has been nicknamed the “Local Literary Fairy Godmother.” She is currently the literary event coordinator at Valley Bookseller in Stillwater, MN; and the creator and host of the monthly literary program Literature Lovers' Night Out™️ .

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Mary OMalley

Mary OMalley is the Free-Range Virtual Bookseller at Large for Skylark Bookshop; Author Liaison and Scheduling Producer for A Mighty Blaze; Mary is also a writer, grandmother, and chicken-wrangler. She lives outside of Chicago with her husband and menagerie of pets.