Last week’s Maximum Shelf Awareness feature was on one of our favorite debut novels coming this summer: EVERYBODY RISE by New York Times reporter Stephanie Clifford. A Bonfire of the Vanities for the 21st century mixed with Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep and Amor Towles’s Rules of Civility, EVERYBODY RISE follows the rise and ultimate fall of […]
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Happy #BookBday (3/3/14 Edition)
Cupcakes for everyone! It’s time for another #BookBday! Today we celebrate: GWENDOLEN by Diana Souhami The titular heroine of George Eliot’s DANIEL DERONDA takes center stage in Souhami’s first novel. “Even George Eliot purists will find something satisfying in the imagining of a much improved future for one of literature’s most troubled heroines.” — Booklist […]
For Your Consideration: May 2015 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles now for the May 2015* LibraryReads list! *Nominations are due March 20! Click here to view for the full list of 2015 deadlines. THIN AIR by Ann Cleeves In the sixth book in the Shetland series, Detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves investigate the death of a woman […]
PW’s Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2015
Publishers Weekly recently announced their Spring 2015 TBR pile (including debuts) and 10 Macmillan titles made the cut! FICTION THE WHITES by Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt On Sale: February 17 “Price (LUSH LIFE) is one whale of a storyteller by any name, as evinced by the debut of his new brand—okay, Brandt—a gripping, […]
Friday Reads: Debuts
TGIF!! We’re looking forward to the weekend and dipping into these great debut novels: DISGRUNTLED by Asali Solomon A coming-of-age tale, a portrait of Philadelphia in the late eighties and early nineties, and an examination of the impossible double-binds of race seen through the eyes of eight-year-old Kenya Curtis. “A deft, knowing, bold, and witty […]
Happy #Bookbday! (01/27/15)
It’s time to celebrate! Happy #bookbday to: The Almost Nearly Perfect People by Michael Booth “If, like many, you may never make it to Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland, or Sweden, this is your book, and Booth is your guide. He is congenial, game, funny, and observant. And he tells it like it was (Who forgot […]
Minotaur Books Dominates with 7 Edgar Nominations!
The Edgar Award nominations were announced today and Minotaur Books had 6 titles nominated in 2 categories! GO BEAST GO! Best First Novel Invisible City by Julia Dahl Bad Country by C.B. McKenzie Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver Mary Higgins Clark A Dark and Twisted Tide by Sharon Bolton The Stranger You Know […]
Happy #Bookbday! (01/21/15)
Happy #Bookbday to: FIRST FROST by Sarah Addison Allen A February 2015 LibraryReads & Indie Next selection! “You can go home again, and in returning to the Waverley household, the winsomely wise Allen demonstrates that sometimes it’s necessary to embrace the magic to find out what’s real in life and in one’s own heart.”–Booklist […]
Teen Talk Tuesday! (01/20/15)
Get ready for Winter with new titles from Griffin Teen! **A super-cool “Books for Teens 2015: It’s All the Rage” poster is now available – please e-mail library@macmillanusa.com with your full name and mailing address for a complimentary copy.** FROSTFIRE by Amanda Hocking “Returning to the troll world of her Trylle trilogy, Hocking explores another […]
For Your Consideration: April 2015 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles now for the April 2015* LibraryReads list! *Nominations are due February 20! Click here for the full list of 2015 deadlines. Academy Street by Mary Costello Short-listed for the 2014 Costa First Novel Award “In this gemlike first novel, Costello shows her Irish roots; the imagery-light-filled absences, wells, […]