TGIF! Our #FridayReads picks are two new titles from Flatiron Books: IRRITABLE HEARTS by Mac McClelland This fearless memoir by an award-winning journalist exploring her struggle with PTSD, its troubled history and treatment, and the ways she pushed herself beyond trauma to fall in love, is receiving terrific press from the New York Times Book […]
Reviews and Publicity
Four Stars for EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES!
If you’ve been lucky enough to meet her, you know why we looooove Lisa Scottoline. She’s HILARIOUS, yet incredibly down-to-earth, and super talented writer. Just how talented? Her latest standalone novel, EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES has FOUR STARRED rave pre-publication reviews! “In a nail-biting stand-alone with two heart-pounding climaxes and several pulse-racing twists, Scottoline grabs her […]
Thriller Thursday (2/26/15 Edition)
We’ve got a LibraryReads pick and two psychological thrillers this #ThrillerThursday: A MURDER OF MAGPIES by Judith Flanders A February 2015 LibraryReads pick! “Social historian Flanders makes her fiction debut with an amusing mystery set in the eccentric world of British book publishing… The array of delightful and believable characters, as well as a neat turn […]
2014 Nebula Award nominees
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America revealed their finalists for the 2014 Nebula Awards and we’re pleased to have four outstanding nominees! Best Novel THE GOBLIN EMPEROR by Katherine Addison THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM by Cixin Liu ANNIHILATION by Jeff VanderMeer Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy DIRTY WINGS by […]
Happy #BookBday (2/24/14 Edition)
Oh what a lovely day for a #BookBday! Today we celebrate: A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC by V.E. Schwab A February 2015 LibraryReads pick! “Schwab creates an ingenious set of nesting alternate Londons in this imaginative, well-crafted fantasy… Confident prose and marvelous touches-a chameleon coat, a scarlet river of magic, a piratical antiheroine-bring exuberant life […]
2015 Audie Awards Finalists
Terrific news: our friends at Macmillan Audio have 22 finalists in the 2015 Audie Awards! Business/Educational TALK LIKE TED by Carmine Gallo, read by Carmine Gallo Classic THE ODYSSEY by Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, read by Dan Stevens Fantasy WORDS OF RADIANCE by Brandon Sanderson, read by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading History/Biography ENDURING […]
Thriller Thursday Bonus: THE WHITES
The secret about THE WHITES‘ Harry Brandt is out—he’s Richard Price, aka the most incredible writer of realistic NYC-based cop novels. And it’s no secret that THE WHITES is freakin’ AMAZING! It’s a USA Today “New & Noteworthy” pick, a Publishers Weekly Book of the Week (2/16/15), and one of Kirkus Reviews‘ New Books You Shouldn’t […]
Thriller Thursday (2/19/15 Edition)
We’ve got great news to start this #ThrillerThursday: Catherine Aird won the Crime Writers Association’s Diamond Dagger award! She’s the author of the Detective Chief Inspector C.D. Sloan series, the most recent of which was DEAD HEADING. The Diamond Dagger award recognizes an author whose career is “marked by sustained excellence” and who has “made […]
It’s Black History Month!
In honor of Black History Month, we’ve put together a huge Edelweiss collection of titles (History! Biography! Fiction! Culture! Plus many more!) that we hope will help you with collection development. Click here to view the Black History Month Edelweiss collection. […]
Happy Belated #BookBday (2/18/15 Edition)
D’oh! We were so excited about our YA titles yesterday we forgot to wish happy #BookBday to these shiny, new books: THE REBELLION OF MISS LUCY ANN LOBDELL by William Klaber Journalist Klaber’s fictionalized memoir of the nineteenth-century woman known as both Lucy Ann and Joseph Israel Lobdell has two fabulous starred reviews: “Covering the […]