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 […]
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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 […]
The 2015 ITW Thriller Award Finalists
This week the International Thriller Writers announced their 2015 ThrillerFest Award finalists and they include three Macmillan titles! Best Hardcover Novel: THAT NIGHT by Chevy Stevens Best First Novel: INVISIBLE CITY by Julia Dahl Best Young Adult Novel: WICKED LITTLE SECRETS by Kara Taylor The winners will be announced at the Gala Awards Banquet at […]
Thriller Thursday (4/2/15 Edition)
We’ve got a couple of cozies for you this #ThrillerThursday: THE FIGARO MURDERS by Laura Lebow Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart’s librettist, must either find a killer or take the fall himself, and spend the opening night of The Marriage of Figaro dangling from an executioner’s noose. “A brisk tempo, a sympathetic hero and a plot […]
FURIOUSLY HAPPY Cover Reveal
If you don’t know Jenny Lawson, better known as “The Bloggess,” you should. She’s hilarious, whip-smart, and incredibly honest. Especially about her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, which she discusses in her funny (yes, we promise!) forthcoming memoir, FURIOUSLY HAPPY. Today Jenny revealed the cover on her blog in […]
Happy #BookBday (3/31/15 Edition)
Today we wish Happy #BookBday to two new books destined for the bestseller list: THE PATRIOT THREAT by Steve Berry Minotaur’s first novel from renowned New York Times bestseller Berry continues the riveting, history-based Cotton Malone series with a dangerous question: What if the federal income tax is illegal? The Associated Press calls THE PATRIOT […]
Friday Reads: Stars Edition
TGIF! We’ve got a couple novels with starred reviews to add to your TBR pile this weekend! THE BLONDES by Emily Schultz An epidemic of a rabies-like disease is carried only by blonde women, who all must go to great lengths to conceal their blondness. “A nail-biter that is equal parts suspense, science fiction, and […]
Thriller Thursday – Minotaur Stars Edition
Today’s #ThrillerThursday picks are two forthcoming Minotaur mysteries that are raking in the starred pre-publication reviews! THE DEVIL’S MAKING by Seán Haldane Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award, an historical mystery in which an alienist is found murdered near an Indian camp and a British constable must navigate the conflicting cultures to discover why. “Poet, […]
Stars for DO NO HARM
“I often have to cut into the brain and it is something I hate doing.” So begins neurosurgeon Henry Marsh‘s internationally bestselling memoir, DO NO HARM, revealing the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon’s life. A […]
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