Happy #ThrillerThursday! Did you mystery junkies know about HitListReads.com? It’s a brand new website dedicated to thrillers, action, and suspense novels. On the site you’ll also find author interviews, free book contests, and read-alike recommendations. The current Author of the Month is Olen Steinhauer, whose fabulous new book ALL THE OLD KNIVES has four starred […]
Reviews and Publicity
Stars for KL!
Important, fascinating reading for WWII history buffs: KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann has received two starred reviews! “’The concentration camps embodied the spirit of Nazism like no other institution in the Third Reich,’ writes Wachsmann-at least 2.3 million people passed through them; at least 1.7 million died in them-and […]
Happy #BookBday (3/10/14 Edition)
Hey hey, it’s time for another #BookBday! Today we celebrate: BONES & ALL by Camille DeAngelis A haunting coming-of-age story about a young outcast as she sets out on a journey to find her long-lost father, who can tell her why she does the bad thing she does—literally consuming anyone who gets too close to […]
A Gem On Our Radar: GUTSHOT
What is a gem? A gem is a title that we hadn’t necessarily been tracking but the superlative praise rolling in is telling us to take a second look! Amelia Gray’s collected stories in GUTSHOT, which is receiving wonderful praise, is just that gem: “Strange, fable-like, and physical, Gray’s stories are driven by uncanny forces and […]
John Green & NYT Love THE LAST FLIGHT OF POXL WEST!
Oh boy, do we have a super #FridayReads pick today: THE LAST FLIGHT OF POXL WEST by Daniel Torday. The New York Times and some author named John Green (!) love Torday’s novel about a young man recounting the idolization of his Uncle Poxl, a Jewish, former-RAF pilot. “It’s Mr. Torday’s ability to shift gears […]
2014 LA Times Book Prize Nominees
The Los Angeles Times announced their 2014 Book Prize nominees yesterday and we’ve got ten terrific nominees from Macmillan: Current Interest BEING MORTAL by Atul Gawande DEEP DOWN DARK by Hector Tobar Fiction THE EMERALD LIGHT IN THE AIR by Donald Antrim The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction WOLF IN WHITE VAN by John […]
Thriller Thursday (3/5/15 Edition)
Stuck at home on a snow day (or wishing you were)? Macmillan’s got the mysteries to give you more chills than that foot of powder outside! THE EDGE OF DREAMS by Rhys Bowen A near-fatal train accident leaves Molly Murphy sleuthing from the sidelines while her police captain husband has been receiving cryptic notes after […]
2014 Lambda Award Finalists
The 27th annual Lambda Literary Award finalists were announced today and we have eight terrific nominees from Macmillan! Gay General Fiction BITTER EDEN by Tatamkhulu Afrika Gay Memoir/Biography INSIDE A PEARL: My Years in Paris by Edmund White Lesbian General Fiction NEW YORK 1, TEL AVIV 0 by Shelly Oria Lesbian Mystery THE OLD DEEP […]
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 […]
Fabulous FIND ME!
The praise for Laura van den Berg’s FIND ME is an embarrassment of riches—we simply HAVE to share it with you: “Pleasingly strange… impressively original… [van den Berg’s] dark sensibilities call to mind the great Joy Williams, a master at portraying life on the margins… FIND ME has a funny way of resonating beyond its […]
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