Take a deep dive into the history of Monet, women in WWII Paris, and the Mitford Sisters in these three enthralling nonfiction titles: MAD ENCHANTMENT: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King A BEA 2016 “Shout ‘n Share” pick with THREE starred reviews! “Best-selling King consummately meshes biography with art […]
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Stars for UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN
THE DEVOTION OF SUSPECT X hooked us on Japanese author Keigo Higashino, and librarians adored MALICE, making it an October 2014 LibraryReads pick. His newest book, UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN, is his most ambitious yet: a sweeping epic about a brutal crime and the two teenagers—Ryo, the son of the murdered man, and Yukiho, the […]
LOVE WARRIOR is an Oprah Book Club Pick!
Fantastic news: LOVE WARRIOR by Glennon Doyle Melton is the new Oprah Book Club pick! This astonishing memoir depicts Melton’s journey after she discovers her husband’s infidelity and uses her grief and anger as a path to her own redemption. LOVE WARRIOR captures the beauty that unfolds when one woman refuses to settle for good […]
Happy #BookBday (9/6/16 Edition)
It’s official — we’re in big book season! Happy #BookBday to: HERE I AM by Jonathan Safran Foer One of Publishers Weekly’s Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2016 & Buzzfeed’s 21 Incredible New Books You Need To Read This Fall with THREE starred reviews! Foer’s “intensely imagined and richly rewarding”* new novel focuses on the […]
LJ Editors’ Fall Picks 2016
Library Journal editors recently revealed their Fall 2016 picks, including these three Macmillan titles: “Mad Men fans meet Lillian Boxfish, once the highest paid female advertising copywriter in America. When Kathleen Rooney’s novel LILLIAN BOXFISH TAKES A WALK (St. Martin’s, Jan. 2017) opens, it’s New Year’s Eve in 1984 Manhattan, and 85-year-old Lillian is preparing to […]
Are You Ready for Some Football (Books)?!
Read your way off the sidelines and on the gridiron with these books about football: THE LEGEND OF JESSE SMOKE by Robert Bausch A Booklist Best Sports Fiction of 2016 pick! In this provocative and timely novel, Jesse Smoke is signed on as the first female quarterback of the Washington Redskins; yet her success is […]
Booklist’s Best Sports Books of 2016
Booklist recently unveiled their Top 10 Sports reading lists of 2016*, including these six Macmillan titles: Top 10 Sports Nonfiction (full list) HOPE: A School, a Team, a Dream by Bill Reynolds In spending a season following the Hope High School basketball team in Providence, Rhode Island, Reynolds not only digs deeply into the lives […]
We ♥ Sarah Glidden’s Graphic Novels
Sarah Glidden is many things: a progressive Jewish American twentysomething who is both vocal about and critical of Israeli politics in the Holy Land, a graduate of Boston University, and the author of an award-winning graphic memoir. That book, HOW TO UNDERSTAND ISRAEL IN 60 DAYS OR LESS, which was a 2012 YALSA Great Graphic […]
Happy #BookBday (8/30/16 Edition)
Happy #BookBday to an old favorite and a new talent: A GREAT RECKONING by Louise Penny The #1 August 2016 LibraryReads pick (read Barbara Hoffert’s Library Journal interview with Penny), a September 2016 Indie Next pick, a BEA 2016 “Shout ‘n Share” pick, and FOUR STARRED REVIEWS! “The lyrical 12th entry in bestseller Penny’s remarkable […]
Street Lit for Your Shelves
Drama, mystery, romance, and more abound in these new and forthcoming urban fiction titles: THE CARTEL 6: THE DEMISE by Ashley & JaQuavis The Cartel’s plan to open a casino will rake in cash, but comes with great sacrifice: a dead girl, a scorned wife, traitors, and one hole in the desert will launch a […]