Happy Earth Day, friends! Kermit said it’s not easy being green, but we’ll dare to disagree. Here’s an Edelweiss collection of Earth Day-friendly titles covering just about anything you can think of! Don’t miss our bestselling backlist titles, too: AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH by Al Gore HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED 2.0 by Thomas Friedman EAARTH by […]
Reviews and Publicity
Happy #BookBday (4/21/15 Edition)
Today we wish a happy #BookBday to: THE BLONDES by Emily Schultz Schultz’s pandemic novel about a rabies-like disease carried only by blonde women is one of Kirkus Reviews’ April’s Best Bets and has THREE starred reviews, including this one from Library Journal: “Funny, horrific, and frighteningly realistic, Schultz’s second novel is a must read.” […]
Pulitzer, LA Times Book Prize & Indies Choice Winners
So. Many. BOOKS! So. Many. AWARDS! 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners General Nonfiction THE SIXTH EXTINCTION by Elizabeth Kolbert (Winner) NO GOOD MEN AMONG THE LIVING by Anand Gopal (Finalist) AGE OF AMBITION by Evan Osnos (Finalist) History ENCOUNTERS AT THE HEART OF THE WORLD by Elizabeth A. Fenn (Winner) 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize […]
The Real Places of Three Pines
If you’re a fan of Louise Penny’s Inspector Armand Gamache series like we are, then you know that the village of Three Pines is fictional and can’t be found on a map. BUT it’s inspired by real places and Louise finally reveals where they are in a countdown leading up to the publication of […]
Thriller Thursday (4/9/15 Edition)
Today’s #ThrillerThursday picks star a couple of reporters, a bookseller-turned-sleuth and an officer forced to marry against his will! A SCOURGE OF VIPERS by Bruce DeSilva Two stars for Edgar-winner DeSilva’s excellent fourth Liam Mulligan novel, which finds the Providence, RI investigative journalist pursuing the truth behind a series of murders that appear linked to […]
Happy National Poetry Month!
Happy National Poetry Month! Some poems are short, some are long, All of them give a connection; To help make your readers’ advisory strong, Here’s an Edelweiss collection! Click here to view the Macmillan Poetry collection on Edelweiss. […]
New Per Petterson!!
Two new books were released yesterday from internationally bestselling author Per Petterson: ASHES IN MY MOUTH, SAND IN MY SHOES and I REFUSE. The two titles are true bookends, as ASHES IN MY MOUTH was Petterson’s debut in 1987 and his latest novel, I REFUSE, is a huge bestseller in his native Norway that has […]
Happy #BookBday (4/7/15 Edition)
Today we wish a happy #BookBday to MARTIN MARTEN by Brian Doyle, a brilliant coming-of-age story of a 14-year-old boy named Dave, and a marten named, well, Martin. “There are crises large and small a child lost in the woods, Martin’s surprise fight with that one-in-a-billion-stories-marten but this telling of at least some of Wy’east’s […]
Cartoons Make Everything Better
It’s true: cartoons make everything better! Saturday mornings, bubble gum, and now, philosophy. The latest volume of the celebrated Cartoon Introduction series, THE CARTOON INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY, is an indispensable primer to the fundamental questions about our existence from philosopher Michael F. Patton and talented illustrator Kevin Cannon. Following the wisecracking Greek Heraclitus as he […]
Stars & NYTBR for A HIGHER FORM OF KILLING
In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought by introducing three new weapons of mass destruction: the zeppelin, the torpedo, and poison gas. In A HIGHER FORM OF KILLING, celebrated historian Diana Preston links these events for the first time, revealing […]
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