Articles tagged "THE GUEST BOOK"
Congrats to Our 2020 Carnegie Award Longlist Titles

The longlist for the ninth annual Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction has just been announced, and Macmillan has seven titles in the running!
Nonfiction
LOSING EARTH: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich
ELDERHOOD: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Louise Aronson
IN THE DREAM HOUSE: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
Fiction
DOMINICANA by Angie Cruz
THE GRAMMARIANS by Cathleen Schine
THE GUEST BOOK by Sarah Blake
LANNY by Max Porter
The six-title shortist will be announced on November 4, and winners revealed during the ALA Midwinter conference on January 26.
August 2019 Bestsellers and Recent Releases
Check out our updated Edelweiss collection of this month’s bestsellers and recently released titles, perfect for collection development!
Here are this month’s top picks:
THE BITTERROOTS by C.J. Box
THE BRITISH ARE COMING: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
THE GUEST BOOK by Sarah Blake
THE MOMENT OF LIFT: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
THE MURDER LIST by Hank Phillippi Ryan
RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE by Casey McQuiston
THE WHISPER MAN by Alex North
Happy #PubDay! (5/7/19)
Happy #bookbirthday to an Indie Next Pick, a LibraryReads Hall-of-Famer, and a Library Journal Best Debut!
THE GUEST BOOK by Sarah Blake
#1 May Indie Next Pick + Two starred reviews!
“This novel sets out to be more than a juicy family saga—it aims to depict the moral evolution of a part of American society. Its convincing characters and muscular narrative succeed on both counts.”–Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“Blake deftly interrogates the many shades of prejudice and ‘the ordinary, everyday wickedness of turning away.’ Blake’s brilliant and ravishing novel promises to hit big.”–Booklist, starred review
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Holy starred reviews, Batman! Check out these forthcoming titles that earned two starred reviews!
THE GUEST BOOK by Sarah Blake

“This novel sets out to be more than a juicy family saga—it aims to depict the moral evolution of a part of American society. Its convincing characters and muscular narrative succeed on both counts.”–Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“Blake deftly interrogates the many shades of prejudice and ‘the ordinary, everyday wickedness of turning away.’ Blake’s brilliant and ravishing novel promises to hit big”–Booklist, starred review
LOTHARINGIA: A Personal History of Europe’s Lost Country by Simon Winder
“Winder highlights the contrasts between readers’ modern perspectives and those of the Lotharingians and their peers with a deft combination of personal observation, historical anecdotes, and humorously straightforward summaries of complex military, dynastic, and ideological conflicts. This work is highly recommended for fans of European and world history.”–Booklist, starred review
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Yesterday’s featured Maximum Shelf Awareness pick was the long-awaited and hotly-anticipated THE GUEST BOOK.

THE GUEST BOOK follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family that “used to run the world.” And when the novel begins in 1935, they still do. Kitty and Ogden Milton appear to have everything—perfect children, good looks, a love everyone envies. But after a tragedy befalls them, Ogden tries to bring Kitty back to life by purchasing an island in Maine. That island, and its house, come to define and burnish the Milton family, year after year after year. And it is there that Kitty issues a refusal that will haunt her till the day she dies.
In 1959 a young Jewish man, Len Levy, will get a job in Ogden’s bank and earn the admiration of Ogden and one of his daughters, but the scorn of everyone else. Len’s best friend, Reg Pauling, has always been the only black man in the room—at Harvard, at work, and finally at the Miltons’ island in Maine. An island that, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, this last generation doesn’t have the money to keep. When Kitty’s granddaughter hears that she and her cousins might be forced to sell it, and when her husband brings back disturbing evidence about her grandfather’s past, she realizes she is on the verge of finally understanding the silences that seemed to hover just below the surface of her family all her life.
“With THE GUEST BOOK, Blake gives readers a modern-day classic that shows how our personal and collective histories are inscribed upon our lives every single day. And once we recognize that, it is up to us to do right by that knowledge, as our actions become our legacy.”–Shelf Awareness
See the full summary, review and interview with Sarah Blake on Shelf-Awareness.com. And enter to win an ARC!
ALA Midwinter 2019 Adult Book Buzz Titles
We hope you enjoyed our Booze + Book Buzz at ALA Midwinter! For those who were #alaleftbehind, here’s everything we buzzed about:
THE MOMENT OF LIFT: How Empowering Women Changes the World | Melinda Gates | April 23, 2019 | 9781250313577
MIRACLE CREEK | Angie Kim | April 16, 2019 | 9780374156022
THE NIGHT TIGER | Yangsze Choo | February 12, 2019 | 9781250175458
SHE WOULD BE KING | Wayétu Moore | 9781555978174
WICKED SAINTS | Emily A. Duncan | April 2, 2019 | 9781250195661
THE DYSASTERS | P.C. + Kristin Cast | February 26, 2019 | 9781250141040
YOU’D BE MINE | Erin Hahn | April 2, 2019 | 9781250192882
THIS IS NOT A LOVE SCENE | S. C. Megale | May 7, 2019 | 9781250190499
RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE | Casey McQuiston | May 14, 2019 | 9781250316776
IN ANOTHER LIFE | C. C. Hunter | March 26, 2019 | 9781250312273
BIRTHDAY | Meredith Russo | May 21, 2019 | 9781250129833
FINALE: A Caraval Novel | Stephanie Garber | May 7, 2019 | 9781250157669
ENCHANTÉE | Gita Trelease | February 5, 2019 | 9781250295521
THE SILENT PATIENT | Alex Michaelides | February 5, 2019 | 9781250301697
CAPE MAY | Chip Cheek | April 30, 2019| 9781250297150
A NEARLY NORMAL FAMILY | M.T. Edvardsson | June 25, 2019 | 9781250204431
THE WHISPER MAN | Alex North | August 20, 2019 | 9781250317995
THE GUEST BOOK | Sarah Blake | May 7, 2019 | 9781250110251
THE DAUGHTERS OF TEMPERANCE HOBBS | Katherine Howe | June 25, 2019 | 9781250304865
THINGS YOU SAVE IN A FIRE | Katherine Center | August 13, 2019 | 9781250047328
TRUST EXERCISE | Susan Choi | April 9, 2019 | 9781250309884
THE TIME COLLECTOR | Gwendolyn Womack | April 16, 2019 | 9781250169235
LOSING EARTH: A Recent History | Nathaniel Rich | April 9, 2019 | 9780374191337
STAY SEXY & DON’T GET MURDERED: The Definitive How-To Guide | Karen Kilgariff + Georgia Hardstark | May 28, 2019 | 9781250178954
MAGIC FOR LIARS | Sarah Gailey | June 4, 2019 | 9781250174611
MIDDLEGAME | Seanan McGuire | May 7, 2019 | 9781250195524
BLOOD OF AN EXILE | Brian Naslund | August 6, 2019 | 9781250309648
THE BURNING CHAMBERS | Kate Mosse | June 18, 2019 | 9781250202161
LIKE LIONS | Brian Panowich | April 30, 2019 | 9781250206947
STONE MOTHERS | Erin Kelly | April 23, 2019 | 9781250113719
THE NIGHT BEFORE | Wendy Walker | May 14, 2019 | 9781250198679
THE ESCAPE ROOM | Megan Goldin | August 6, 2019 | 9781250219657