Here are all the spine-tingling Macmillan mysteries that Anne “sweet teeth” Spieth presented at Booklist‘s “Crime Fiction to Quicken the Blood” collection development webinar today: ECHOES IN DEATH by J.D. Robb ONE PERFECT LIE by Lisa Scottoline THE LOST ORDER by Steve Berry BEHIND HER EYES by Sarah Pinborough THE NOWHERE MAN by Gregg Hurwitz […]
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Happy Early #BookBday (10/17/16 Edition)
We’re wishing these four new books a happy #BookBday one day early, because you can never start to party too soon! THE NEXT by Stephanie Gangi A November 2016 Indie Next pick, a Library Journal “Summer Promise Debut Novels” pick & BEA 2016 “Shout ‘n Share” selection! This haunting debut novel is narrated by the […]
Booklist’s Spotlight on First Novels, 2016
Booklist‘s recent Spotlight on First Novels revealed several favorite Macmillan debuts: Top 10 First Novels: 2016* (full list) HIDE by Matthew Griffin Griffin follows the relationship between two gay men living on the fringes of society, in constant fear of being found out, through the decades, recalling in flashbacks how they met and stayed together, […]
Sneak Peek: November 2016 Indie Next List
The November 2016 Indie Next list includes two Macmillan titles! THE NEXT by Stephanie Gangi A Library Journal “Summer Promise Debut Novels” pick & BEA 2016 “Shout ‘n Share” selection! This haunting debut novel is narrated by the ghost of Joanna DeAngelis, a woman who plots revenge on her much-younger ex-boyfriend. “THE NEXT is fast-paced […]
LJ’s Fall/Winter Debut Novel Picks
Library Journal recently announced the debut novels they’re most looking forward to this Fall 2016 and Winter 2017, including these four Macmillan titles: THE GUINEVERES by Sarah Domet All coincidentally named Guinevere, four young women bond tightly when they are abandoned by their various parents to be raised by nuns at the Sisters of the Supreme […]
Happy #BookBday (10/4/16 Edition)
We’ve got awards & acclaim for today’s #BookBday titles: WHEN THE MOON WAS OURS by Anna-Marie McLemore Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and three starred reviews! From Morris Award finalist Anna-Marie McLemore comes a second stunning novel tinged with magic, about a girl with roses that grow from her […]
For Your Consideration: January 2017 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and nominate your favorite December 2016 AND January 2017 titles for the January 2017* LibraryReads list! *Nominations are due November 20! Click here for the full list of 2017 deadlines. THE DRY by Jane Harper * A Library Journal “Summer Promise — Debut Novels” pick * * THREE starred reviews * “Luke lied. You lied. Be […]
Happy #BookBday (9/27/16 Edition)
Happy #BookBday to three whimsical, mythical reads: DON’T I KNOW YOU? by Marni Jackson This debut “whimsical collection of linked stories” (Kirkus Reviews) follows one woman’s life from age 16 to 60, and what happens when certain celebrities—Neil Young, Meryl Streep, John Updike, Taylor Swift, Karl Ove Knausgaard—start turning up in her private life, at […]
C.J. Box says, “THE DRY is the debut of the year.”
“Luke lied. You lied. Be at the funeral.” This is the note Federal Agent Aaron Falk receives after hearing that his childhood best friend Luke has been found dead after committing a terrible crime in Jane Harper’s first mystery, THE DRY. When Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown amid the worst drought in a century […]
Happy (Belated) #BookBday (9/21/16 Edition)
Happy belated #BookBday to: CANNIBALS IN LOVE by Mike Roberts “Roberts’ enthusiastic collection of linked stories follows Mike, whose muddled postcollege aspirations lead him to situations that test his manhood, artistic goals, and sense of place in the adult world. Unapologetically political and full of youthful whimsy, Roberts’ debut captures one man’s reluctant search for […]