HUGE NEWS!! THE WEIGHT OF FEATHERS by Anna-Marie McLemore is a finalist for the 2016 Morris Award! The William C. Morris Award honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature. The winner will be announced at the ALA Midwinter 2016 conference in […]
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Sneak Peek: January 2016 Indie Next List
The January 2016 Indie Next list includes 3 Macmillan titles! ROSALIE LIGHTNING by Tom Hart Eisner-nominated cartoonist Hart’s beautiful and touching graphic memoir about the untimely death of his young daughter, Rosalie, is also a Winter 2016 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and has THREE starred reviews. “ROSALIE LIGHTNING is a masterpiece—and […]
B&N Winter 2016 Discover Picks
Barnes & Noble’s Winter 2016 Discover Great New Writers program includes five Macmillan titles! CITY OF THORNS by Ben Rawlence What Katherine Boo’s BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS did for the slums of Mumbai, India, CITY OF THORNS does for a massive refugee camp in Kenya, near the border with Somalia. This important new work has already […]
Thriller Thursday (12/3/15 Edition)
Follow a super sleuth in each of these mysteries on shelves now: HARBOUR STREET by Ann Cleeves Two stars for Cleeves’s latest entry in her D.I. Vera Stanhope series. “The fatal stabbing of 70-year-old Margaret Krukowski on a train car filled with Christmas shoppers propels British author Cleeves’s excellent sixth mystery featuring Northumbrian Det. Insp. […]
Happy #BookBday (11/24/15 Edition)
THE RESTORATION OF OTTO LAIRD by Nigel Packer A funny, moving, and heartwarming novel about a retired architect’s attempt to reclaim the past. “Densely layered, Packer’s novel explores the importance of introspection, the durability of memory, and the conflict between man-made order and natural chaos. Readers who enjoy the work of Francine Prose and Charles […]
A Book That “Will Change Minds and Open Hearts”
Lovely librarian friends, we are ecstatic that the e-galley is finally available for Flatiron Books’s very first YA title: IF I WAS YOUR GIRL by Meredith Russo. This big-hearted novel about Amanda Hardy, a transgender girl at a new school, is both about being seen for who you really are and a love story that […]
For Your Consideration: February 2016 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles for the February 2016* LibraryReads list! Nominations are due December 20! Click here for the full list of 2016 deadlines. THE HEART by Maylis De Kerangal Two starred reviews for this audacious novel about the twenty-four hours surrounding a heart transplant told in multiple perspectives. “…the writing is […]
Rock Music + Time Travel + Romance = Every Anxious Wave
Friends, we’re absolutely obsessed with Mo Daviau’s debut novel, EVERY ANXIOUS WAVE. The concept had us hooked, then we found out the author is a former librarian. AND she wrote a sweet letter to y’all: Hello Librarian! I used to be a librarian and archivist (I’m University of Texas School of Information Class of ’02). […]
Sneak Peek: December 2015 Indie Next List
The December 2015 Indie Next list includes 5 Macmillan titles! A WILD SWAN by Michael Cunningham, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu A November 2015 LibraryReads pick! Classic fairy tales are reimagined for our times by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE HOURS and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. “The original tales are timeless for good reasons, […]
Stars for FALLEN LAND
We’ve come out of our candy comas, shaken off the cobwebs, and are ready to tell you about our favorite Winter 2016 debut: FALLEN LAND by Taylor Brown. It’s a January 2016 Indie Next pick and has received THREE starred reviews and comparisons to Charles Frazier’s COLD MOUNTAIN: “This bleak, harrowing account of a young couple’s […]
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