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Rebecca Joines Schinsky

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Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the Chief of Staff for Riot New Media Group and a co-host of the Book Riot Podcast. She can be reached at rebecca@riotnewmedia.com.

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📚 Build your TBR with the week’s best new book releases.
🚫 An Iowa state senator has been telling schools to use tools created by Moms For Liberty to identify books to pull from libraries.

🔪 Meet the thriller writer who is outselling James Patterson and John Grisham.
🤎 These are 7 of the most exciting new books by BIPOC authors out this week.

🖊️ Hillary Rodham Clinton will release a new memoir this fall.
😱 These recent horror novels have BIPOC final girls.
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