Our week is off to a good start because two Farrar, Straus & Giroux titles each have THREE STARRED REVIEWS! THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS by Dominic Smith “In this wonderfully engaging novel, centered on the paintings of fictional seventeenth-century Dutch artist Sara de Vos, Smith immerses the reader in three vibrant time […]
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The Must-Read Summer Thriller of 2016
Gone Girl. Luckiest Girl Alive. The Girl on the Train. It may not have “Girl” in the title, but Wendy Walker’s ALL IS NOT FORGOTTEN is destined to be Summer 2016’s blockbuster thriller. In fact, Reese Witherspoon already snapped up the film rights and is in talks to star. In the small, affluent town of […]
Thriller Thursday (3/3/16 Edition)
An incredible true crime story, a psychological thriller and two new entries in bestselling series are on the docket this #ThrillerThursday: MURDER OVER A GIRL: Justice, Gender, Junior High by Ken Corbett A psychologist’s gripping, troubling, and moving exploration of the brutal murder of a possibly transgender middle school student by an eighth grade classmate. […]
2015 Nebula Award nominees
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced their finalists for the 2015 Nebula Awards and we’re pleased to have three terrific nominees! Best Novel BARSK: The Elephants’ Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen UPDRAFT by Fran Wilde Best Novella BINTI by Nnedi Okarafor Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy UPDRAFT […]
Tor.com Spring/Summer 2016 Season
It’s the summer of cyberpunk and the season of spiders, spooks, and spells at Tor.com Publishing! RUNTIME by S.B. Divya On Sale: May 17 The cyborg’s Tour de France is her only chance at a better life for herself and her younger brothers, and she’s ready to risk it all. INFOMOCRACY by Malka Older On […]
Happy #BookBday (3/1/16 Edition)
Happy #BookBday to a terrific new work from a LibraryReads author and a powerful debut novel: THE LONELY CITY: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography told through the lives of iconic artists, Laing (author of the LibraryReads pick THE TRIP TO ECHO […]
LJ Editors’ Spring Picks 2016
The lovely editors at Library Journal can’t wait to get their hands on these four Spring 2016 books from Macmillan: “A witch-haunted small town, a teenager possessed by the devil, and a religious pilgrimage with a whiff of brimstone. No, these are not Halloween releases but several upcoming titles that captured my darker fancies. Tourists […]
2015 Agatha Award Nominees
#ThrillerThursday BONUS: Macmillan has five nominees for the 2015 Agatha Awards! Best Contemporary Novel: THE NATURE OF THE BEAST by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books) WHAT YOU SEE by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge Books) Best Historical Novel: THE MASQUE OF A MURDERER by Susanna Calkins (Minotaur Books) Best First Novel: DEATH OF A DISHONORABLE GENTLEMAN by […]
Thriller Thursday (2/25/16 Edition)
A physicist and a romantic crime-fighting duo are on the case this #ThrillerThursday: A MIDSUMMER’S EQUATION by Keigo Higashino Two stars for the LibraryReads author’s sequel to the international bestseller THE DEVOTION OF SUSPECT X, starring Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as “Detective Galileo.” “Filled with surprises and plot twists, this complex and riveting mystery will keep […]
THE FIRE LINE is a Spring 2016 B&N Discover Pick
Terrific news: THE FIRE LINE: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting by Fernanda Santos is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2016 selection! From the B&N Discover blog: “For most Americans, wildfires exist mainly as breathless news footage, either of planes dumping […]
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